Saturday, December 31, 2016

My To Do List

My To Do List
  1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
    1. Applied Internationally for jobs and didn't take any.
    2. Moved my kids to the East Coast - June 2018 Done
    Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
  2. Pay off my car (done  July 2016)
  3. Pay off my student loans
  4. Pay off all my credit cards
  5. Get my phd (t12/22 EdS - Leadership from Concordia Portland)
  6. Meet Ric O'Barry
  7. Write a children's book
  8. Teach a class for adults
  9. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
  10. Go to Schoonhoven
  11. Help save a whale or dolphin
  12. Visit Pearl Harbor
  13. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
  14. Ride a horse on the beach
  15. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
  16. See a former student graduate from High School
  17. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed For a year 
  18. Chase a tornado
  19.  Photograph a tornado
  20. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
  21. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
  22. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
  23. Take a drawing class
  24. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
  25. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
  26. See the Mona Lisa
  27. Take a pottery class
  28. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
  29. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
  30. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
  31. See the Northern Lights
  32. Watch Whales in Alaska
  33. Go to Dutch Harbor 
  34. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
  35. See my children graduate from college
  36. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
  37. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
  38. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
  39. Learn to Ski
  40. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
  41. Hop a plane last minute and head to Arizona and surprise Family at the holidays
  42. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
  43.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
  44. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
  45. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
  46.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
  47. Visit the tower of London
  48. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
  49. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
  50. Honeymoon in Belize
  51. Marry my ONE
  52. Camp at the beach
  53.  Visit each country in Europe
  54. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
  55. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
  56. Drive a race car
  57.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry - DONE July 2019
  58.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
  59. Visit Verona Italy
  60. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12 and again in 2018
    • Volunteer at an animal shelter
    • Go to Bali
    • See the Parthenon
    • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
    • Feel the heat of a volcano
    • Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
    • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
    • Go to the Valley of the Kings
    • Go to a luau
    • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
    • Crash a wedding
    • Try a bizarre food
    •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
    • Take cheese making lessons in another country
    • Brew my own beer
    • Throw my son a surprise party
    •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
    • Go on a Cruise
    • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
    • Learn how to make soap 2019
    • Learn to ride a motorcycle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
    • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
    • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
    • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
    • Visit Seattle
    • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
    • Try past life regression
    • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
    • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
    • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
    • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
    • Roast marshmallows on the beach
    • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
    • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
    • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
    • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
    • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
    • Feed a baby elephant  
    • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
    • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
    • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
    • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
    • Get my conceal carry permit
    • Shoot an AK 47
    • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
    • Tour the White House
    • Go to the civil rights museum in Memphis July 2021
    • Own a Jeep
    • Go to NY Comic Con

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    Saturday, November 12, 2016

    My To Do List

    My To Do List
    1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
      2. Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
      • Applied for a job with the Dept. Of Defense Education Overseas. What better way to support our troops than teaching their kids plus provide a fantastic cultural experience for my son and I. The DODEA has classified me as qualified. Now it is continue to  sit and wait for an interview etc. (Updated 3/30/11)
      • 4/9/11 TeachAway Inc. Update San Fran and China Blog. Update on Cyprus is in there too.
      •  7/15 - Contacted by DODEA. Waiting....... 
      • 8/11 - On the waiting list to interview for the UAE in January or for next school year
      • 4/12 - Was invited to interview for the UAE and had to turn it down because of the baby. Can't have a baby in a foreign country. Will apply again next year when the baby is a year old. 
      • 6/12 - Was invited again to interview for the UAE and turned an October start down again bc of Baby Grace.  
      • 6/12/12 - Accepted a job at a charter school  - left MPES after 6 years. Definitely out of my comfort zone!
      • 3/2014 - declined to interview for a position in Kuwait City and Abu Dhabi again. Need to wait until Grace is old enough to have full sentence conversations.  
      • 10/16  - Accepted invitation to international job fair in Feb 2017. Applied to 8 schools in 6 Countries.

    2. Pay off my car (  done  July 2016)
    3. Pay off my student loans
    4. Pay off all my credit cards
    5. Get my phd (ETA May 2018)
    6. Cosplay at ComicCon
    7. Ghost hunt in a castle
    8. Meet Ric O'Barry
    9. Meet Captain Paul Watson
    10. Write a children's book
    11. Teach a class for adults
    12. Learn how to play the Baritone from my son.
    13. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
    14. Go to Schoonhoven
    15. Help save a whale or dolphin
    16. Build a Huge sandcastle with my son
    17. Visit Pearl Harbor
    18. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
    19. Ride a horse on the beach
    20. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
    21. See a former student graduate from High School
    22. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed January 11, 2014
    23. Chase a tornado
    24.  Photograph a tornado
    25. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
    26. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
    27.  Have a snowball fight with my son
    28. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
    29. Take a drawing class
    30. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
    31. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
    32. See the Mona Lisa
    33. Take a pottery class
    34. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
    35. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
    36. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
    37. See the Northern Lights
    38. Watch Whales in Alaska
    39. Go to Dutch Harbor 
    40. Volunteer for the USO  
    41. Learn to Scuba Dive
    42. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
    43. See my children graduate from college
    44. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
    45. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
    46. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
    47. Learn to Ski
    48. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
    49. Hop a plane last minute and head to the East Coast and surprise Family at the holidays
    50. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
    51.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
    52. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
    53. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
    54. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
    55.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
    56. Visit the tower of London
    57. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
    58. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
    59. Visit all 50 states in the United States (not just a drive through). (13/50)
    60.  Visit each country in Europe
    61. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
    62. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
    63. Drive a race car
    64.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry
    65.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
    66. Visit Verona Italy
    67. See at least 10 of Chuly's installations on exhibit around the country/world (2/10)
    68. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12
      • Volunteer at an animal shelter
      • Go to Bali
      • See the Parthenon
      • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
      • Feel the heat of a volcano
      • Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
      • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
      • Go to the Valley of the Kings
      • Go to a luau
      • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
      • Crash a wedding
      • Try a bizarre food
      •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
      • Take cheese making lessons in another country
      • Brew my own beer
      • Throw my son a surprise party
      •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
      • Go on a Cruise
      • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
      • Learn how to make soap
      • Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
      • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
      • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
      • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
      • Visit Seattle
      • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
      • Try past life regression
      • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
      • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
      • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
      • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
      • Roast marshmallows on the beach
      • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
      • Teach in another country
      • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
      • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
      • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
      • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
      • Feed a baby elephant  
      • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
      • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
      • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
      • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
      • Get my conceal carry permit
      • Shoot an AK 47
      • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
      • Teach in another Country (Started process...) 
      • Meet the President of the United States

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      My To Do List

      My To Do List
      1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
        2. Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
        • Applied for a job with the Dept. Of Defense Education Overseas. What better way to support our troops than teaching their kids plus provide a fantastic cultural experience for my son and I. The DODEA has classified me as qualified. Now it is continue to  sit and wait for an interview etc. (Updated 3/30/11)
        • 4/9/11 TeachAway Inc. Update San Fran and China Blog. Update on Cyprus is in there too.
        •  7/15 - Contacted by DODEA. Waiting....... 
        • 8/11 - On the waiting list to interview for the UAE in January or for next school year
        • 4/12 - Was invited to interview for the UAE and had to turn it down because of the baby. Can't have a baby in a foreign country. Will apply again next year when the baby is a year old. 
        • 6/12 - Was invited again to interview for the UAE and turned an October start down again bc of Baby Grace.  
        • 6/12/12 - Accepted a job at a charter school  - left MPES after 6 years. Definitely out of my comfort zone!
        • 3/2014 - declined to interview for a position in Kuwait City and Abu Dhabi again. Need to wait until Grace is old enough to have full sentence conversations. 

      2. Pay off my car ( will be done in July 2016)
      3. Pay off my student loans
      4. Pay off all my credit cards
      5. Get my phd
      6. Cosplay at ComicCon
      7. Ghost hunt in a castle
      8. Meet Ric O'Barry
      9. Meet Captain Paul Watson
      10. Write a children's book
      11. Teach a class for adults
      12. Learn how to play the Baritone from my son.
      13. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
      14. Go to Schoonhoven
      15. Help save a whale or dolphin
      16. Build a Huge sandcastle with my son
      17. Visit Pearl Harbor
      18. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
      19. Ride a horse on the beach
      20. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
      21. See a former student graduate from High School
      22. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed January 11, 2014
      23. Chase a tornado
      24.  Photograph a tornado
      25. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
      26. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
      27.  Have a snowball fight with my son
      28. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
      29. Take a drawing class
      30. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
      31. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
      32. See the Mona Lisa
      33. Take a pottery class
      34. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
      35. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
      36. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
      37. See the Northern Lights
      38. Watch Whales in Alaska
      39. Go to Dutch Harbor 
      40. Volunteer for the USO  
      41. Learn to Scuba Dive
      42. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
      43. See my children graduate from college
      44. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
      45. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
      46. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
      47. Learn to Ski
      48. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
      49. Hop a plane last minute and head to the East Coast and surprise Family at the holidays
      50. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
      51.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
      52. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
      53. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
      54. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
      55.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
      56. Visit the tower of London
      57. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
      58. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
      59. Visit all 50 states in the United States (not just a drive through). (13/50)
      60.  Visit each country in Europe
      61. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
      62. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
      63. Drive a race car
      64.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry
      65.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
      66. Visit Verona Italy
      67. See at least 10 of Chuly's installations on exhibit around the country/world (2/10)
      68. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12
        • Volunteer at an animal shelter
        • Go to Bali
        • See the Parthenon
        • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
        • Feel the heat of a volcano
        • Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.10
        • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
        • Go to the Valley of the Kings
        • Go to a luau
        • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
        • Crash a wedding
        • Try a bizarre food
        •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
        • Take cheese making lessons in another country
        • Brew my own beer
        • Throw my son a surprise party
        •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
        • Go on a Cruise
        • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
        • Learn how to make soap
        • Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
        • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
        • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
        • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
        • Visit Seattle
        • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
        • Try past life regression
        • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
        • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
        • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
        • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
        • Roast marshmallows on the beach
        • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
        • Teach in another country
        • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
        • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
        • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
        • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
        • Feed a baby elephant  
        • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
        • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
        • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
        • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
        • Get my conceal carry permit
        • Shoot an AK 47
        • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
        • Teach in another Country (Started process...) 
        • Meet the President of the United States

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        My To Do List

        My To Do List
        1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
          2. Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
          • Applied for a job with the Dept. Of Defense Education Overseas. What better way to support our troops than teaching their kids plus provide a fantastic cultural experience for my son and I. The DODEA has classified me as qualified. Now it is continue to  sit and wait for an interview etc. (Updated 3/30/11)
          • 4/9/11 TeachAway Inc. Update San Fran and China Blog. Update on Cyprus is in there too.
          •  7/15 - Contacted by DODEA. Waiting....... 
          • 8/11 - On the waiting list to interview for the UAE in January or for next school year
          • 4/12 - Was invited to interview for the UAE and had to turn it down because of the baby. Can't have a baby in a foreign country. Will apply again next year when the baby is a year old. 
          • 6/12 - Was invited again to interview for the UAE and turned an October start down again bc of Baby Grace.  
          • 6/12/12 - Accepted a job at a charter school  - left MPES after 6 years. Definitely out of my comfort zone!
          • 3/2014 - declined to interview for a position in Kuwait City and Abu Dhabi again. Need to wait until Grace is old enough to have full sentence conversations. 
          • 10/2016 - Invited to International Job Fair in San Fran. Applied to 8 schools in Europe, Cayman Islands and Abu Dhabi
        2. Pay off my car (Done July 2016)
        3. Pay off my student loans
        4. Pay off all my credit cards
        5. Get my phd (ETA May 2018)
        6. Cosplay at ComicCon
        7. Ghost hunt in a castle
        8. Meet Ric O'Barry
        9. Meet Captain Paul Watson
        10. Write a children's book
        11. Teach a class for adults
        12. Learn how to play the Baritone from my son.
        13. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
        14. Go to Schoonhoven
        15. Help save a whale or dolphin
        16. Build a Huge sandcastle with my son
        17. Visit Pearl Harbor
        18. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
        19. Ride a horse on the beach
        20. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
        21. See a former student graduate from High School
        22. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed January 11, 2014
        23. Chase a tornado
        24.  Photograph a tornado
        25. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
        26. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
        27.  Have a snowball fight with my son
        28. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
        29. Take a drawing class
        30. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
        31. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
        32. See the Mona Lisa
        33. Take a pottery class
        34. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
        35. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
        36. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
        37. See the Northern Lights
        38. Watch Whales in Alaska
        39. Go to Dutch Harbor 
        40. Volunteer for the USO  
        41. Learn to Scuba Dive
        42. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
        43. See my children graduate from college
        44. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
        45. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
        46. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
        47. Learn to Ski
        48. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
        49. Hop a plane last minute and head to the East Coast and surprise Family at the holidays
        50. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
        51.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
        52. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
        53. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
        54. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
        55.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
        56. Visit the tower of London
        57. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
        58. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
        59. Visit all 50 states in the United States (not just a drive through). (13/50)
        60.  Visit each country in Europe
        61. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
        62. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
        63. Drive a race car
        64.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry
        65.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
        66. Visit Verona Italy
        67. See at least 10 of Chuly's installations on exhibit around the country/world (2/10)
        68. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12
          • Volunteer at an animal shelter
          • Go to Bali
          • See the Parthenon
          • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
          • Feel the heat of a volcano
          • Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
          • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
          • Go to the Valley of the Kings
          • Go to a luau
          • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
          • Crash a wedding
          • Try a bizarre food (Various types of sushi count on this one)
          •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
          • Take cheese making lessons in another country
          • Brew my own beer
          • Throw my son a surprise party
          •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
          • Go on a Cruise
          • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
          • Learn how to make soap
          • Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
          • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
          • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
          • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
          • Visit Seattle
          • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
          • Try past life regression
          • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
          • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
          • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
          • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
          • Roast marshmallows on the beach
          • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
          • Teach in another country
          • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
          • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
          • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
          • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
          • Feed a baby elephant  
          • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
          • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
          • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
          • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
          • Get my conceal carry permit
          • Shoot an AK 47
          • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
          • Teach in another Country (Started process...) 
          • Meet the President of the United States

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          My To Do List

          My To Do List



          1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
            2. Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
            • Applied for a job with the Dept. Of Defense Education Overseas. What better way to support our troops than teaching their kids plus provide a fantastic cultural experience for my son and I. The DODEA has classified me as qualified. Now it is continue to  sit and wait for an interview etc. (Updated 3/30/11)
            • 4/9/11 TeachAway Inc. Update San Fran and China Blog. Update on Cyprus is in there too.
            •  7/15 - Contacted by DODEA. Waiting....... 
            • 8/11 - On the waiting list to interview for the UAE in January or for next school year
            • 4/12 - Was invited to interview for the UAE and had to turn it down because of the baby. Can't have a baby in a foreign country. Will apply again next year when the baby is a year old. 
            • 6/12 - Was invited again to interview for the UAE and turned an October start down again bc of Baby Grace.  
            • 6/12/12 - Accepted a job at a charter school  - left MPES after 6 years. Definitely out of my comfort zone!
            • 3/2014 - declined to interview for a position in Kuwait City and Abu Dhabi again. Need to wait until Grace is old enough to have full sentence conversations. 

          2. Pay off my car ( will be done in July 2016)
          3. Pay off my student loans
          4. Pay off all my credit cards
          5. Cosplay at ComicCon
          6. Ghost hunt in a castle
          7. Meet Ric O'Barry
          8. Meet Captain Paul Watson
          9. Write a children's book
          10. Teach a class for adults
          11. Learn how to play the Baritone from my son.
          12. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
          13. Go to Schoonhoven
          14. Help save a whale or dolphin
          15. Build a Huge sandcastle with my son
          16. Visit Pearl Harbor
          17. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
          18. Ride a horse on the beach
          19. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
          20. See a former student graduate from High School
          21. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed January 11, 2014
          22. Chase a tornado
          23.  Photograph a tornado
          24. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
          25. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
          26.  Have a snowball fight with my son
          27. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
          28. Take a drawing class
          29. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
          30. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
          31. See the Mona Lisa
          32. Take a pottery class
          33. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
          34. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
          35. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
          36. See the Northern Lights
          37. Watch Whales in Alaska
          38. Go to Dutch Harbor 
          39. Volunteer for the USO  
          40. Learn to Scuba Dive
          41. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
          42. See my children graduate from college
          43. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
          44. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
          45. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
          46. Learn to Ski
          47. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
          48. Hop a plane last minute and head to the East Coast and surprise Family at the holidays
          49. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
          50.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
          51. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
          52. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
          53. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
          54.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
          55. Visit the tower of London
          56. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
          57. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
          58. Visit all 50 states in the United States (not just a drive through). (13/50)
          59.  Visit each country in Europe
          60. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
          61. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
          62. Drive a race car
          63.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry
          64.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
          65. Visit Verona Italy
          66. See at least 10 of Chuly's installations on exhibit around the country/world (2/10)
          67. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12
            • Volunteer at an animal shelter
            • Go to Bali
            • See the Parthenon
            • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
            • Feel the heat of a volcano
            • Take a month off of Facebook
            • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
            • Go to the Valley of the Kings
            • Go to a luau
            • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
            • Crash a wedding
            • Try a bizarre food
            •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
            • Take cheese making lessons in another country
            • Brew my own beer
            • Throw my son a surprise party
            •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
            • Go on a Cruise
            • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
            • Learn how to make soap
            • Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
            • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
            • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
            • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
            • Visit Seattle
            • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
            • Try past life regression
            • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
            • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
            • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
            • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
            • Roast marshmallows on the beach
            • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
            • Teach in another country
            • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
            • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
            • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
            • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
            • Feed a baby elephant  
            • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
            • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
            • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
            •  Go on The Tower of Terror 
            • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
            • Get my conceal carry permit
            • Shoot an AK 47
            • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
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            My To Do List

            My To Do List



            1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
              2. Goal #121 - Learn to Knit
              • Applied for a job with the Dept. Of Defense Education Overseas. What better way to support our troops than teaching their kids plus provide a fantastic cultural experience for my son and I. The DODEA has classified me as qualified. Now it is continue to  sit and wait for an interview etc. (Updated 3/30/11)
              • 4/9/11 TeachAway Inc. Update San Fran and China Blog. Update on Cyprus is in there too.
              •  7/15 - Contacted by DODEA. Waiting....... 
              • 8/11 - On the waiting list to interview for the UAE in January or for next school year
              • 4/12 - Was invited to interview for the UAE and had to turn it down because of the baby. Can't have a baby in a foreign country. Will apply again next year when the baby is a year old. 
              • 6/12 - Was invited again to interview for the UAE and turned an October start down again bc of Baby Grace.  
              • 6/12/12 - Accepted a job at a charter school  - left MPES after 6 years. Definitely out of my comfort zone!
              • 3/2014 - declined to interview for a position in Kuwait City and Abu Dhabi again. Need to wait until Grace is old enough to have full sentence conversations. 

            2. Pay off my car ( will be done in July 2016)
            3. Pay off my student loans
            4. Pay off all my credit cards
            5. Cosplay at ComicCon
            6. Ghost hunt in a castle
            7. Meet Ric O'Barry
            8. Meet Captain Paul Watson
            9. Write a children's book
            10. Teach a class for adults
            11. Learn how to play the Baritone from my son.
            12. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
            13. Go to Schoonhoven
            14. Help save a whale or dolphin
            15. Build a Huge sandcastle with my son
            16. Visit Pearl Harbor
            17. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
            18. Ride a horse on the beach
            19. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
            20. See a former student graduate from High School
            21. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed January 11, 2014
            22. Chase a tornado
            23.  Photograph a tornado
            24. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
            25. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
            26.  Have a snowball fight with my son
            27. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
            28. Take a drawing class
            29. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
            30. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
            31. See the Mona Lisa
            32. Take a pottery class
            33. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
            34. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
            35. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
            36. See the Northern Lights
            37. Watch Whales in Alaska
            38. Go to Dutch Harbor 
            39. Volunteer for the USO  
            40. Learn to Scuba Dive
            41. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
            42. See my children graduate from college
            43. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
            44. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
            45. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
            46. Learn to Ski
            47. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
            48. Hop a plane last minute and head to the East Coast and surprise Family at the holidays
            49. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
            50.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
            51. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
            52. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
            53. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
            54.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
            55. Visit the tower of London
            56. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
            57. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
            58. Visit all 50 states in the United States (not just a drive through). (13/50)
            59.  Visit each country in Europe
            60. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
            61. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
            62. Drive a race car
            63.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry
            64.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
            65. Visit Verona Italy
            66. See at least 10 of Chuly's installations on exhibit around the country/world (2/10)
            67. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12
              • Volunteer at an animal shelter
              • Go to Bali
              • See the Parthenon
              • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
              • Feel the heat of a volcano
              • Take a month off of Facebook
              • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
              • Go to the Valley of the Kings
              • Go to a luau
              • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
              • Crash a wedding
              • Try a bizarre food
              •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
              • Take cheese making lessons in another country
              • Brew my own beer
              • Throw my son a surprise party
              •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
              • Go on a Cruise
              • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
              • Learn how to make soap
              • Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
              • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
              • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
              • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
              • Visit Seattle
              • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
              • Try past life regression
              • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
              • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
              • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
              • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
              • Roast marshmallows on the beach
              • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
              • Teach in another country
              • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
              • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
              • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
              • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
              • Feed a baby elephant  
              • Consciously perform a random act of kindness daily for 365 days. 
              • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
              • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
              •  Go on The Tower of Terror 
              • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
              • Get my conceal carry permit
              • Shoot an AK 47
              • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
              •  

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