Living on Tulsa Time

So we spontaneously decided to head to Tulsa this weekend! Josh's ring has been hanging out at the jewelry store for a few weeks & it's starting to wonder if we really care. We do little guy!

So while we are up here we are picking up a special secret gift for a special secret person's special secret birthday!! :)

Back to Norman tomorrow for studying & the 5th week of school. ::sigh::

My Cliché "What I want to do before I die" List

Recently I watched this episode of Momversation. Yes, I'm that weird childless person who watches and reads things about babies. Point, Laugh, Whatever. That past time of mine helped me land the BEST.JOB.EVER.
It got me to thinking, obviously, about my "bucket list."
What do I really want to do before I die? Is it that important to me to hurl myself off a tall building with only a rubber band to stop me?? Maybe. But what do I really want to do?
Here's my constantly changing list (in no particular order):
I'm not going to limit myself to a certain amount of items or a certain kind of item. I'm just looking to make my life a little more adventurous and a little more spontaneous. If I get the chance to do one of these things I am going to take it.

1. Become a parent (yes, I AM going to put this first). 
2. Live in another country for a year
3. Marry my best friend
4. Attend & graduate from law school
5. Have a successful law career
6. Be fluent in French
7. Do something of an activist nature -- participate in a protest or rally. 
8. Take a self-defense class
9. Procrastinate less
10. Swim with the bioluminescent plankton
11. See a Broadway Play
12. Travel with my sister
13. Marathon?
14. Raise awareness about People First Language
15. Learn ASL
16. Sleep in a hammock on a tropical island with the sound of waves lapping in the background
17. See the Northern Lights
18. Do something awesome to repay my parents for the wonderful life they have given me
19. Stay friends with J, G, S, & T for the rest of my life
20. Get another tattoo
21. Donate bone marrow
22. Swim with dolphins
23. Own a home ...
24. ...with a fully stocked library
25. ...with a window seat ... preferably the same house as the library
26. Do something drastic with my hair
27. Find a signature cocktail
28. Use a parasol
29. Learn how to properly use & wear makeup
30. Learn how to not be so emotional when I argue
31. Keep a list of every book I read from now on
32. Learn to only save/keep the things that really do have meaning
33. Visit France including Bordeaux, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand etc (to be updated)
34. Visit England - London, etc
35. Visit Greece - Athens!, Parthenon
36. Visit Italy - eat gelato at the fountains in Rome
37. Have professional pictures done
38. Sky dive
39. Pay for the person behind me (i.e. toll booth, coffee shop, restaurant, etc)
40. Write one handwritten card or letter per week for a year
41. Go skiing again
42. Learn how to water ski
43. Be able to do more push-ups than my dad
44. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport- take the first available flight
45. Get my passport
46. Achieve & maintain a healthy weight
47. Do 5 unassisted pull-ups
48. Scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef

Here's where I get all preachy and motivating: I challenge you to make your own list. Take charge of your life! Do what you want. /endcheesiness

Also, here are a few things I've already had the pleasure of doing that would be on my list:

1. Visit DC
2. Get a tattoo
3. VEGAS!
4. Pilot an airplane ... as in I actually took over and flew the plane!!!

****some of these things have been "stolen" from others' life lists....

Also, I've added a link to the sidebar, so that you have the pleasure of reviewing this anytime you want. You know, if you want to fund one of my pursuits ... ::hint-hint::

Also, Also, when I accomplish one of my pursuits I will make sure to update it on here :)

Random Excuse for a Blog

So I decided to clean, organize, and update my planner today. (It's a SNOW day!!! I ♥ them :))
That led to cleaning my purse. Ugh. It's like a black hole in there (those are massively interesting, btw).
Here's just a sampling of what I've accumulated since I last cleaned it out ... oh about the time the T-Rex was roaming .... also the last time I saw the bottom of my sink.

1. wallet - filled with who knows what and who knows how many receipts
2. 2 checkbooks - really? 2? yep 
3. 18 chapsticks ... ok not 18; 15. 
4. Shuffle that I never listen to, but had to have
5. mace - a present from my parents ;)
6. player's club card from VEGAS!
7. fan from Japan
8. list of names for Aria - none of which was "Aria"
9. Bible Scripture card from my Mom
10. empty ID card holder from VEGAS (gift from my brother :))
11. CPR cheat sheet - hey if you help save the day then why does it matter if you use a cheat sheet?
12. a sock. A SOCK! a Saturday Sock. It's blue and smelly
13. 3 thingys of hand sanitizer
14. visine
15. perfume bottle
16. planner & pouch of pencils/pens
17. pouch of makeup, hair ties, mirror, blush, brush, etc
18. blood sugar tester
19. jump drive
20. buffalo wild wings hand wipe - that says "Not Approved for Underarm Use" hehe
21. replacement buttons for Urza's new leather jacket (he looks HAWT in it ;))
22. peanut brittle
23. 2 pairs of earphones
24. scholarship papers
25. tampons of every size... about 88 of them - TMI? this is your warning. do not come back here if that was TMI!

yeah ... that's not all of it. I am slightly scared of what else is going to accumulate in my purse once I get around to fulfilling M2's dreams of being a grandmom.

I'm Baaaaaaaaaaack

So it's probably time to get back to this blogging thing, eh?

School has been ... well ... crazy busy and I was overwhelmed. So blogging took a backseat.
I will be back posting Project 52 & try to stay on it. (That's what she said. NO TIME!.. but she did... NO TIME!)

So I have a million things to do before we leave for VEGAS!!!!
Yippee!!

So here's what I am .... or should be doing:

• laundry
• cleaning ... including living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathrooms, etc, etc,
• packing
• carry on
• checked
• sleeping (WE LEAVE AT 4AM! on Sunday!)
• packing Aria ... she's going to stay with Nini!
• dropping off Christmas presents (for S & T!)
• baking muffins .... mmmmm
• and the list goes on
• and on
• and on

So ... I'm off to watch TV instead ... or work on catching up on blogging
:sigh:

Life is wonderful and amazing... but so overwhelming.

Project 52 - Week 5

Burnt Out.

This was pretty much my life this last week, and I burnt my toast too.




This will be my life this upcoming week too...

::sigh::

I am so looking forward to a break. A real break.
A VEGAS BREAK! :)

Parlez-vous français?

I've loved the French language for a long time. I guess I should have taken it as my foreign language in school, but I didn't ... and now I have a hankering to learn it.
I'd love to travel to France especially Bordeaux, Normandy, Brittany (the coastline!), and of course Paris :)
Oh! Honeymoon?!

So here's what I'm wondering ... Does Rosetta Stone actually work? Or would that just be a large waste of money?
I really want to learn the language and unfortunately I don't have the time left at school to do a few semesters...

so how am I going to go about learning French?!?

Places in a bucket

My Bucket List.. (of places I want to visit)

I'm sure you all know what a bucket list is right? Things you want to do before you die...

Well, this is a "places I want to visit" version

(and it'll probably be updated periodically as I learn of new places)


1. England
2. France
3. Greece
4. Italy
5. Alaska -- the NORTHERN LIGHTS!!!
6. Denmark
7. Australia
8. Ireland
9. New Zealand
10. Scotland (Isle of Skye)
11. Fiji
12. The Netherlands
13. Japan
14. Dubrovnik, Croatia
15. Morocco
16. The Azores
17. Antartica



and anywhere with CASTLES!!!

Weekend!

So I'll be out for a few days... doing something super fun! :)

I know you'll miss me, but you'll just have to get by somehow.