Things you can accomplish in your lifetime

Things Accomplished list

So here's a list of 150 things that one can accomplish in their lifetime.

Saw this on another person's blog and thought I would give it a try....
let's see how I do

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink2. Swam with dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon....
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day....
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment.
39. Had two hard drives for your computer and a 300 gig external!
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs....yeah, but it never stays that way.
57. Pretended to be a superhero - what? i AM a superhero!!!!!
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day, yeah it's called SUNDAY!
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love!
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an expert
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music - does Great America Music studio count?????
87. Eaten shark
88. Eaten fugu (pufferfish)
89. Had a one-night stand
90. Gone to Thailand
91. Bought a house
92. Been in a combat zone
93. Buried one/both of your parents
94. Been on a cruise ship
95. Spoken more than one language fluently
96. Performed in Rocky Horror Picture Show
97. Raised children.....currently Raising
98. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge...drove but not walked!
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds (45.5 kilograms)
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Swam with a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Ridden a bike
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach .
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

not bad, I had 50 - how about you?????

New FAVORITE scrapbooking tool...

Okay so most of my layouts have somewhere on the page, a little dymo label. I love my dymo labeler with all my heart. I found a new labeler just like the dymo but PINK and TINY!!!! and........... it has a lowercase and uppercase wheel!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!! Plus they sell cute colors like pink, baby blue, lime green, purple.....

Just got it in the mail last week and have been using it ever since. It's super easy to use, and easy to change the wheels...oh and I hope they come out with different fonts like a cursive font for these, that would be just FABULOUS!!!!!!!

Here it is ladies - the Around The Block Label Writer Kit - run out and get yours!!!!

What to do when you're home sick.....

My whole family has been down with a cold for the past week. It's really not a fun thing to be sick. I would LOVE to just lie in bed all day and it would probably be good for me to do so, but I have a sick child home from school for the past 2 days. My hubby is at work sick, so I figured I should at least get up and get some things done. Worked on some paperwork for our business, and then worked on some of the layouts I'm suppossed to turn in, in a few days to my friend for her store.

One of my assignments was to do a baby boy page. Well my baby boy is 12 years old now. I have to admit when I first got the assignment it kinda made me sad and I wasn't really looking forward to working on anything baby. If you've been a reader of my blog for a while you'd know the problems I have had over the past few years of trying to get pregnant, getting pregnant, miscarrying, doing fertility treatments, etc.

I decided to do a page on my son when he was a baby and that quickly made me feel much better. I worked on a layout from when he was only 6 months old. It's one of my favorite pictures I have of him from when he was a baby.



It was fun working on this and has motivated me to break out my son's box of baby pictures and keep working on his baby book which I am WAY BEHIND ON!!!!!!

1st Crop at Suzy's!!!!! - and I was there!!!!! woo hoo!

Okay so I have been given a really hard time by Suzy and others that this was my 1st time at an official Bay Area Scrappers crop. I have been to them, just wasn't actually cropping, I was shopping!!!!! This time I actually got some work done.

I had a blast the entire day, started it off by meeting up with Laurie at the Scrapbook Expo in Pleasanton, hung out with her and Erin. had a yummy lunch at the fairgrounds - they ALWAYS have killer food. Went home, and started packing up stuff to take to the crop.

Got to hang out with Lizz, Laurie, Michelle and Erin at suzy's crop. And we got a visit by Michelle Hill from Lil Davis Designs which was a nice surprise. I love their products!!!!!!








Here are some layouts I did at the crop:






This one I just finished today - journaled, and added the bling - rhinestones around the title - kinda reminds me of when you go to get your ears pierced you get to choose from the little display of earrings!

There's Only One Way 2 Rock.....

I just loved this picture of my niece and nephew and their cousins rockin' out at a Sammy Hagar concert last summer. Couldn't resist doing a layout about it.....

I used some of my new goodies I picked up at Picture Me Perfect (suzy west's store) which just opened on Monday....oh I'm gonna do some damage in that store I can feel it!!!!!

What a weekend!!!!!

It's been a very busy weekend for me. Friday night took 20 people to the Golden State Warriors Game for my son's 12th birthday party....we had a blast, here are a few pics from our night.

Here is my son and the Warriors Mascot "Thunder" who came up to hang out with us for a little while during the game:





My son's birthday announcement on the jumbotron (last name edited out for safety reasons!)



Party lasted til 1am!!!!! The game ended late and we didn't get home til almost 11:15pm, then did cake and presents and the kids ended up playing video games on the wii and played basketball out front while the parents all chatted. It was a fun party but I was totally exhausted by the time everyone was picked up / dropped off.

Then we had to get up early the next morning for Opening Day Ceremonies at the baseball field. Had to be there at 8:30am!!!



Here's my son and his best friend Eric (they had to play against each other's teams yesterday - it was a close game):



After the game, I went to a Crab Feed at my friend's church. I don't have any pics to post yet because I was a dork and left my camera at home so I'm relying on my girlfriends to send me the pics they took. We actually got some good ones, the theme at the Crab Feed was Viva Las Vegas and we took pics while an Elvis impersonator was singing to us it was pretty funny!

Today I slept in a little (longer than I thought cause I forgot we moved the clocks forward!) - got up and started working on the kit I had to make for my friend's scrapbook store which is opening tomorrow!!!! If you're ever in the bay area, come check it out, it's THE BEST STORE around!!!! It's called Picture Me Perfect and is owned by Suzy West. Her website is: www.bayareascrappers.com

Anyways...I finished the kit which will be sold in Suzy's store, here are some pics:
(btw - the cute girl in the book is my niece Katie)


























I finished this kit late this afternoon (nothing like the last minute...but hey I work well under pressure!) - dropped it off at Suzy's, ate Olive Garden for dinner with my mom and my son, then went back to Suzy's to help them get ready for their opening tomorrow....can't wait to see the store when it's all finished and I can shop woo hoo!!!!

Okay well I'm off to bed now.....

Another layout

Here is the final assignment I turned in yesterday.....we had to pick a week in our life to document...this was mine:

Assignments...

Here are 2 of the 3 assignments I did for my friend Suzy's store (www.bayareascrappers.com)

How Lucky Am I??

Look what arrived in my mail today from my best friend Valerie:



Ever since she moved away last October, we've been sending each other care packages in the mail. It's so exciting to open your front door and have a box full of goodies there waiting for you to open! What a nice surprise!!! =0)
This was just the stuff she sent for me, there was other things in the box for my son's bday and a little something for DH from her DH and she even made a super cute dog collar for Miso!!!!