My To Do List

My To Do List

1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 



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
    
69. Volunteer at an animal shelter
70. Go to Bali
71. See the Parthenon
72. Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
73. Feel the heat of a volcano
74. Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
75. View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
76. Go to the Valley of the Kings
77. Go to a luau
78. Drive on the Autoban in Germany
79. Crash a wedding
80. Try a bizarre food
81.  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
82. Take cheese making lessons in another country
83. Brew my own beer
84. Throw my son a surprise party
85.  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
86. Go on a Cruise
87. Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
88. Learn how to make soap
89. Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
90. Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
91. Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
92. Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
93. Visit Seattle
94. Ghost hunt Gettysburg
95. Try past life regression
96. Go to a  FIFA soccer match
97. Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
98. Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
99. Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
100. Roast marshmallows on the beach
101. Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
102. Teach in another country
103. Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
104. Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
105. Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
106. Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
107. Feed a baby elephant  
108. Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
109. Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
110. Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
111. Go to Hogwarts in Fl
112. Get my conceal carry permit
113. Shoot an AK 47
114. Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
115. Teach in another Country (Started process...) 
116. Meet the President of the United States
     

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