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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. 



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

Bold = In progress

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. 
  
  
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
    
68. Volunteer at an animal shelter
69. Go to Bali
70. See the Parthenon
71. Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
72. Feel the heat of a volcano
73. Take a month off of Facebook
74. View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
75. Go to the Valley of the Kings
76. Go to a luau
77. Drive on the Autoban in Germany
78. Crash a wedding
79. Try a bizarre food
80.  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
81. Take cheese making lessons in another country
82. Brew my own beer
83. Throw my son a surprise party
84.  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
85. Go on a Cruise
86. Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
87. Learn how to make soap
88. Learn to ride a motorcyle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
89. Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
90. Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
91. Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
92. Visit Seattle
93. Ghost hunt Gettysburg
94. Try past life regression
95. Go to a  FIFA soccer match
96. Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
97. Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
98. Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
99. Roast marshmallows on the beach
100. Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
101. Teach in another country
102. Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
103. Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
104. Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
105. Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
106. Feed a baby elephant  
107. Consciously perform a random act of kindness daily for 365 days. 
108. Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
109. Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
110.  Go on The Tower of Terror 
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.  

Bold = In progress

Books Worth Reading.. Sometimes More than Once!

Some of my faves....

1. The Martian
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Fairest
4. Winter
5.  I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui, New York, 2010 (ISBN 978-0307589675)
6.  Juliet. Anne Fortier.
7. Catcher in the Rye (again).
8.  Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
9. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
10. The Secret (again)
11. The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd: Eighth Grade Bites  by Heather Brewer
12. The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd: Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer
13.  Hiroshima by John Hersey
14. Married Lovers by Jackie Collins
15. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod 11th Grade Burns by Heather Brewer
16.  Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
17.  Heaven is Real by Todd Burpo 
18.  Ask Your Guides: Connecting to Your Divine Support System by Sonia Choquette (Jun 1, 2007)
19.  The Power
20. 365 Ways to Live the Law of Attraction: Harness the power of positive thinking every day of the year 
21.  Thirst by Ava Delaney
22.  The Meditation Experience
23.  Charlane Harris's Dead  in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse)
24.  Forever by Maggie Steifvater
25. City of Ashes
26. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod 12th Grade by Heather Brewer
27. Grapes of Wrath
28. Nothing to Envy  Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
29. Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James
30. Fifty Shades Darker by EL James
31. Fifty Shades Freed by EL James
32. Hunger Games 
33. Mockingjay
34. American Sniper
35. Bared to You
36. Catching Fire
37. Fallen Angels
38. No Apology by Mitt Romney
39. The Midnight Garden
40. Sold
41. Gabriel's Inferno
42. Gabriel's Rapture 
43. Divergent
44. Allegient
45. Insurgent
46. World War Z
47. All 7 of the Shadow Children books by Margaret Peterson Haddix
48. The Magician's Nephew
49. Lion, Witch and Wardrobe
50. The Boy and His Horse
51.  Number the Stars
52. The Maze Runner
53. The Scorch Trials
54. Cinder
55. Scarlet
56. Cress
57. The Fault in Our Stars
58. If I Stay
59. Gone 
60. The Hunger
61. If I Stay
62. Where She went
63. Johnny Tremain
64. Sophia's War
65. The 21 Balloons
66. Island of the Blue Dolphins
67. 1776
68. American Sniper
69.  Fairest
70. Legend
71. Unwind
72. The Testing
73. Graduation Day
74. Prodigy
75. Champion

Being Grateful

Things I am Grateful For....

• My son and my daughter
• My family
• My pets
• having felt unconditional love
• a rewarding career
• the smell of rain
• The quiet and stillness of the Midnight Hour
•  Having been in love more than once in my life
• The Ocean
• Having been able to touch a dolphin and look in its eyes
• Seeing a humpback whale feeding in the wild
• wishing on shooting stars
• Watching my son's eyes light up after a Karate win
• Seeing my son's eyes light up when he discovers something new in the world
• hearing my son laugh when he thinks I am not listening
•  having a dog to snuggle up with
• sunlight on my face when I am down
• standing my ground
• being able to stand on my two feet
• speaking my mind when I have to
• for knowing my grandma and being her "pink and gold angel"
• for being so close to my mom
• for having two children whom I adore
• making snow angels in a foot of snow
• wishing on a shooting star
•  my mom teaching me how to cook
•  the smell of turkey in the oven
• eating crepes in Quebec
• seeing Hiroshima
• listening to my great grandma talk about how things were when she was a young girl
• for getting published in my college newspaper more than once
• friends - some I have known my entire life and we are still friends
• hot showers
• Santa Clause
• knowing there is more to life than what we can see
• meditating on the red rocks in Sedona
• having seen the Twin towers pre-9/11
• finding my grandma's family and piecing together the genealogy
• my education
• puppy kisses
• having put the bad memories of the past in the past and live with the great memories
• knowing when to forgive and when to just forget and move on
• cold beer with pizza
• listening to my son sing or do karate in the shower or in his room
• kitty purrs
• flowers
• my mom's uncontrollable laughing
•  the smell of an old book
• classic music
• Sinatra
• diet coke even though it is bad for me
• creativity
• for being able to name my baby girl after my Grandma Grace
• for having known and loved both sets of my grandparents and for having step-grandparents that were not "steps"
• the smell of a clean baby after a bath
• baby smiles when I am feeling blue
• the freedom to be able to vote
• french fries and ketchup
• the esp I have with my mom
•  laughing with my son until we have tears running down our faces
• power of prayer
• lost and found love
• being able to talk to friends I haven't seen in ages and feeling like we saw each other yesterday
• for having baggage because it has helped me grow as a person 
• wonderful childhood memories
• Vibram Fivefingers and Injini socks
• flip flops
• chocolate
• being brave enough to try new things
• baby snuggles and sighs
• watching my daughter explore her world
• having a very supportive admin at work and teachers that are so supportive as well
• knowing that a smile can change everything 
•  sushi
• having friends that I have known my entire life
• having new friends
• being able to  keep in touch with members of my ex's family
• gaming with my son
• cupcakes

Goal #21 Glass blowing

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