Monthly Archives: December 2008

Snow Day!

Can you believe this snow?    I’m looking at a winter blizzard out my window right now, and I’m so glad I don’t have to be out driving in it (unlike my poor husband who is trying to get over the Snoqualmie Pass and over to Spokane in this crazy white stuff as I type).    I’m sure my daughter and I will go out later today and play in the snow, but for now I’m happy just watching it fall from the coziness of my warm office.    Here’s my fave two pics of Sunday’s snow day.

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One Hundred Things

This list of 100 Things is floating around in the land of blog.  The things I’ve done, I’ve highlighted and are in italics…..  Just a fun little list.  

1. Started your own blog
2. 
Slept under the stars 
3. Played in a band 
4. Visited Hawaii 
5. 
Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland 
8. Held a praying mantis 
9. Climbed a mountain (ok, part of one.)
10. 
Sang a solo (I was five at the time.)
11. Bungee jumped (three times as a matter of fact!)
12. 
Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. 
Taught yourself an art from scratch
15
. Adopted a child
16. 
Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. 
Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked (shhhh, don’t tell my mother.  I was young and stupid.)
23. 
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill 
24. Built a snow fort (it used to snow alot in Pennsylvania)
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a marathon
28. 
Ridden in a gondola in Venice 
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (both actually)
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (my family lives in the heart of Amish country)
36. 
Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. 
Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelos David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance 
47. Had your portrait painted
48.Gone deep sea fishing 
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. 
Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling 
52. Walked in the rain
53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class 
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. 
Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching 
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving 
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (it happens to everyone once I think)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. 
Saved a favorite childhood toy (I wish I had!)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial (its where my husband proposed)
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. 
Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published in a book (from my scrapbooking days)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible (not cover to cover)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating 
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life (all part of being a critical care nurse)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous 
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. 
Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day

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