Before I Die List

I have my things to do before I die list. The list itself is not completed. But, I was able to update a few things. (yes, it isn't quite in order - the things that are done were taken out of the list and put at the bottom.) Am I missing anything? I still have 11 more items to add to my list. As I add to it, I realize that I have duplicates. If you find any, please let me know. :)



100 Things I want to do before I die


02. Earn a Black Belt
03. Run (or walk) a marathon
04. See Great Wall of China
05. Volunteer in a Women's Shelter
06. Go to Australia
07. Start my own business.
08. Have a total net worth of $1M
10. Be my own boss.
11. Parasail
12. Write a book.
13. Plant a Garden
14. Plant an orange tree.
15. Learn basic Italian,
16. Be able to do 30 "real" pushups
17. See the egyptian pyramids.
18. Go Kayaking.
19. Scuba Dive
20. Ride a bike a significant distance
21. Hike Half-dome
22. Try to surf.
23. Witness a salmon spawning
24. Visit Every State in the US.
25. Ride in a hot air balloon.
26. Ride a Camel.
27. Have a girls-only weekend at a spa.
28. Join a bunco group.
29. Take tap dancing lessons.
30. Have at least one blog site ask me to be a contributing author.
31. Grow my hair long at least one more time.
32. Learn how to really use Photo Shop
33. Learn how to really use Pinnacle.
34. Host a fundraising event for the foundation for fighting blindness.
35. Make people more aware of food allergies.
36. Learn joomla.
37. Declutter, organize and redecorate my house.
38. Have my children grow up to be non-dependant adults
39. Learn to take better pictures.
40. Get my public notary certification
41. Become PMP certified.
42. Learn how to use a serger.
43. Sew something useful on a serger.
44. See the Grand Canyon.
45. Find 1000 geocaches.
46. See a TV comedyshow being taped live.
47. Host a dinner party
48. Create a picture scrapbook of both kids from birth to their current age.
49. Successfully grow bonsai trees.
51. See the aurora borealis.
54. Develop a production website for a business.
55. Complete my list of 100 things to do before I die.
56. Ride a motorcycle.
57. Exercise Regularly
58. Swim with the dolphins
59. Speak in front of 100 people or more
61. Learn to use Microsoft Expression
62. Change my own oil.
63. Learn how to tile (and tile bathroom)
64. Zipline
65. Ride in the St. Louis Arch with my kids.
66. Learn PHP and MySQL
67. Post on my blog for 365 days
68. Attend a professional baseball game with my family
69. Go wine tasting in Napa Valley
70. Visit every continent in the world.
71. Ride on a sailboat.
72. Catch a fish with my kids and eat it.
73. Volunteer at my kids school - and actually make a difference.
74. Go to Alaska
75. Dye a part of my hair pink or red or blue or orange
76. Paint a picture
77. Tell a manager to take this job and shove it.
78. Email 10 friends from high school that I have lost touch with
79. Do cartwheels in the rain
81. Teach my kids how to cook.
82. Ride and elephant
83. Swim with dolphins
85. Go to Yosemite.
86. DUPLICATE!! Visit Every State in the US.
87. Find a Geocache in every state in the US.
88. Run an entire 5K Race (extra points - do it with Prissy.)
89. "Touch" every ocean in the world - Pacific and Atlantic done.
DONE 01. Get a Masters Degree - DONE
DONE 09. Own a house with an in-ground pool. DONE
DONE 50. Go to Italy - DONE
DONE 52. Play in the rain with my kids. ON THE BEACH EVEN!!
DONE 53. Go camping with the family and tell stories around the camp fire. DONE
DONE 60. Make smores with my kids. DONE
DONE 80. Roast Marshmellows with my kids. DONE
DONE 84. Boogie Board. DONE

More Jasmine and Update

The Update part that not too many people care about - Prissy went to her new doctor today and had a physical. She's all healthy. Not too skinny, not too fat. She can stop taking some of her daily asthma meds because she never has an asthma attack. If she starts to have them, she'll go back on the daily asthma meds. Fortunately, she's never sick, so she never really has to go to the doctor. Unfortunately, this sort of means I've neglected her physicals (because kids ALWAYS GET sick when they go to the doctor), but more unfortunately, I've missed some of her immunizations. So, she had to get FOUR shots today. Yowza... She handled it like a champ though. The doctor is wonderful. And she is now fully immunized and can start public school next week. :D The coolest part? The doctor rocked. And it's so close to home. (the kids other doctor was an hour away.) Now, it's Bubba's turn. Fortunately - he's fully immunized.

On other notes - Jasmine our kitten is a bit of a water freak. She LOVES to play in the water. Every morning while I'm getting ready, I turn on the water for her so she can just play. This is what my mornings look like while I'm putting on makeup - what a pleasant way to get ready for work.

Pictures - I've Got Nothing to Say

I decided to post a few pictures of our camping trip. Just because I don't have a single interesting thing to say.

Rockband Kitteh (not a camping picture):


All the kids (ages 2, 4, 7, and 9)


Hubby must have eaten something bitter:


Roasting some marshmellows (take that one of my things to do before I die list):




Sitting on the log bench:


Cool tree and scary face (we told him to look scared and he looked scary instead):


On San Andreas Fault Line this fence used to be together in 1906:


BRRRR!!!! We decided not to stay here for our picnic:


Feeding the seagulls:


At the beach:




Brrr! Cold feet:


Beautiful View:


Playing in the sand:


Hanging out at the Pacific Ocean:


Tule Elk found on the side of the road:

Back From Camping

We had a good time camping. It had it's high times and low times.

Sucks Not

• The friends that we went with were a blast. They are good friends and experienced campers - they helped us to survive.
• Our kids and their kids played really really well together.
• The food was awesome. Big full breakfasts, wonderful tacos last night (I didn't even know you could DO tacos when you were camping.)
• We went up to the Earthquake Trail at Point Reyes and a little slick museum with all these stuffed animals - that was a nice little walk/hike which was really interesting right on the San Andres fault. I guess California actually WILL fall into the ocean in about 10 million years.
• Heard owls hooting and saw so many stars in the sky we could hardly see sky. (unfortunately, this was on the way to the bathroom at 4am. )
• We got to roast marshmellows and make smores with the kids (that was on my things to do before I die list. :))
• We had a really cool picnic at the ocean and the kids fed seagulls - man there were so many of them.
• The kids played on the beach for hours and stuck their toes in the Pacific Ocean.

But there were also some not so wonderful things

Sucks

• It was so FREAKING cold at night. I just couldn't warm up on Friday night. Absolutely miserable freezing all night long. Ugh...
• The first place we went for a picnic on Saturday was foggy and FREEZING, so we went to Drakes bay instead.
• I forgot towels and water shoes so we couldn't shower - we were pretty dirty and oily by today.
• I had to pee twice in the middle of the night, and remember how cold I said it was?
• Bubba got a nasty cough on Saturday after leaving the beach - he was so wheezy that we had to give him Albuterol. He didn't sleep well last night and by the time we got home today he had a temperature of 102. :(
• My car wouldn't start when we were trying to leave today - my battery had died. I have a pretty new battery, we must have just run it down by leaving the tailgate open for too long (at least that's my story.)

All in all, the sucks not outweighed the sucks by a lot. We had a good time. But, it's a lot of work. We're glad to be home. We couldn't have done another day there. We'll think about going back next year - however, I will bring MORE warm clothes and I'm thinking a cabin might be more fun than a tent.

Camping

View of campground.

Camping

I'm very much enjoying the people we are camping with. And we roasted
marshmellows last night which was fun.

However - it's so fracking cold. I was freezing all night long.
Miserably cold. And I forgot towels so we can't shower. Argh!!!

So good and bad times so far.

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Going camping

We are in our way camping. Pretty exciting. Except did you know the
sheer amount if STUFF you need?

We are on the road and there is a crazy amount of traffic. I guess
everyone is going camping. The 2 hour drive looks like it might take
4 or 5 hours. Bah!!

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