Monday, August 18, 2008

Hot Air Balloon (#20)


I got to go in a hot air balloon with Mom up in Aspen last week. It was GORGEOUS! And we also saw some bears, deer, and elk while we were flying around. Not nearly as cool as skydiving though. Haha...I guess I should have done those in reverse order.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Skydiving! (#2 on life list)




My first Tandem Skydiving Experience with Mile High Skydiving in Longmont, CO. It was AMAZING!! I fell at speeds up to 130 mph for a minute of freefall and then parachuted down for about 4-5 minutes. My skydiving instructor Brendan let me "steer" the parachute around too. Jeff and Kate made the jump with me....so awesome to have people to share the experience with. This was definitely one of the coolest things I've ever done. I feel like I can do anything now!






101 Things to do before I die

Written 1/1/2008

1 Backpack Europe

2 Skydive (June 29 2008)

3 Send a postcard to Postsecret

4 Walk the Great Wall of China

5 Ride a camel into the desert

6 Get to know my neighbors

7 Learn to ballroom dance

8 Say the words "I love you" to someone and truly mean it

9 Write a book

10 Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway across Asia

11 Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home

12 Work a night in a soup kitchen

13 Do the Sydney Harbor Bridge climb

14 Cook a fresh fish over a fire and eat it

15 Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring

16 Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want

17 Grow my own vegetables

18 Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty

19 Go on a safari

20 Go in a hot-air balloon (Aug 12 2008)

21 Give to a charity - anonymously

22 Make love on the kitchen floor

23 Create my own web site

24 Ski a black diamond well

25 Do a Half-Ironman triathlon

26 Learn to bartend

28 Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details

29 Be an extra in a film

30 Attend at least one major sports event, The Olympics, The World Cup, The US Open

31 Send a message in a bottle

32 Be a member of the audience in a TV show

33 Make love on the beach

34 Witness the birth of a baby

35 Be someone’s mentor

36 Paint a picture and have it framed

37 Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich

38 Go on a road trip with no particular destination

39 Line up for something for at least 24 hours

40 Spend New Years Eve in Times Square

41 Surf in Australia

42 Make someone cry of happiness

43 Accept myself unconditionally

44 Spend the whole day reading a great novel

45 Get my Chemical Engineering degree

46 Learn to pole dance

47 Go to a strip club

48 Gamble in Vegas

49 Ride around on a tandem bicycle

50 Live in a house with a secret passageway

51 Go on a treasure hunt

52 Give someone a lapdance/ striptease

53 Join/Start a book club

54 Go to a fortuneteller/ palm reader

55 Do a week long camping solo in the mountains

54 Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans

55 Get married in an exotic location

56 See the Aurorae/ Polar lights

57 Experience weightlessness

58 Go white water rafting through the Grand Canyon

59 Visit the NEW seven wonders

1. Machu Picchu, Peru

2. The Colisseum in Rome
3. Petra, Jordan
4. Christ Redeemer, Brazil
5. The Great Wall of China
6. Chichen Itza, Mexico
7. The Taj Mahal, India

60 Go on a cruise (March 2008- Bahamas)

61 Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away

62 Learn a really cool magic trick

63 Learn to draw

64 Donate blood

65 Check off every skill a woman should know on

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66 Shop at Harrods

67 Charter a yacht

68 Vacation at Martha’s Vineyard

69 Spend a week at a 5-star spa

70 Invent something

71 Create enough passive income so that I don’t have to work another day in my life

72 Watch 10 greatest American movies of all time (American Film Institute)

1. CITIZEN KANE
2.
CASABLANCA
3.
THE GODFATHER
4.
GONE WITH THE WIND
5.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
6.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
7.
THE GRADUATE
8.
ON THE WATERFRONT
9.
SCHINDLER'S LIST
10.
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

73 Watch every Oscar Best Picture since 1928

74 Read books on my “100 books I want to read list”

75 Start a blog and get it to the Technorati top 1000

76 Go whale-watching

77 Travel to the Moon with Virgin Galactic

78 Do something that absolutely terrifies (singing in front of an audience, Improv comedy in front of an audience, etc)

79 Ride a gondola through Venice

80 Learn to Kayak

81 Take a dance class

82 Swim with sharks

83 Climb a 14er

84 Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

85 See Stonehenge, UK

86 See St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Rome

87 Go to Disney World

88 Learn to play pool

89 Be on a game show

90 Become a wine connoisseur

91 Do something every day for a year

92 Go to a rave!

93 Go on a blind date

94 Street perform and make $100

95 Sleep in a haunted house

96 Get a tattoo

97 Jump off a cliff

98 Go hang-gliding

99 Get my dream body (3 months getting myself into optimum shape)

100 Become a candy engineer!

101 Look into my child’s eyes, see myself, and smile

Monday, April 28, 2008

Hypersomnia

So yesterday I laid down at 3 pm to take a nap...and woke up at 5: 30 the morning.

That can't be normal...?

haha...At least I woke up in time to go to work. Hmmmm