Saturday, February 18, 2012

Today is the official 1 year anniversary of starting the blog! That means 636 days left!
Here's an update on what I've accomplished so far:

1 paint the dining room chairs
2 refinish the dining room table
3 make chaz' wine
4 finish the chain painting
5 go camping
6 run a marathon (started training!)
7 skydive
8 make boxing video
9 update moodymoovies
10 travel to Europe
11 renovate my bathroom (in the middle of tiling!)
12 run with turkey at least once a week (Turkey is a half marathon runner! He's been training too :)
13 learn some of the magic tricks in my kit 
14 learn handwriting analysis 
15 document mjg & rents stories 
16 geocache in 5 new states/countries (3 out of 5)
17 hide 3 geocaches 
18 get new glasses 
19 make sign for camp bow wow to paint pet portraits 
20 print grid pictures/frame 
21 start practicing taking portraits of friends 
22 get into regular volunteering (coaching?, flower guild?, food bank?) 
23 glue table together for the love of Pete! 
24 go to Hawaii 
25 go geocaching with chelsea
26 mail letters to family members 2x a year 
27 go to San Fran 
28 take pictures with lex 
29 upload pics/music to cloud 

30 try to save small hard drive info 
31 fix button on jeans 
32 paint ceiling medallion
33 do a project with my spoons
34 send chaz & jenny a humidifier 
35 get mom and dad tstats and install (brought one to Phoenix, but ran out of time to install)
36 teach Turkey names of his toys 
37 teach Turkey to jump over Storm (this did happen once, but don't know if it will ever again, haha)
38 practice fushigi 
39 find out what's rattling in the trunk
40 shorten bathroom blind
41 make faceted mirror
42 say a prayer every night for 2 months 
43 take portraits of kyle's fam
44 go to civil rights museum
45 go to rock n soul museum
46 read stack of books on nightstand 
47 drive to watch 3 sunsets (2 out of 3)
48 watch 1 sunrise over water
49 make a new friend 
50 donate clothes I haven't worn in closet every spring (did for year 1)
51 do a painting right away next time inspiration strikes
52 do 3 more car wash shoots (2 out of 3)
53 try to find more roller rinks
54 buy fertilizer for house plants
55 start a new garden 
56 experiment with HDR
57 shoot water tower/yellow tower
58 clean dash/vacuum when get car washed 
59 buy 700
60 keep in touch/visit JnJ
61 sew turkey's bed 
62 fly kites 
63 post onesies on etsy shop 
64 make Indian fry bread 
65 make cinnamon bread 
66 make 3 dishes from thai book 
67 try chickpea spinach curry
68 throw 1 pizza party a year 
69 mini triathalon
70 take brian to gatlinburg 
71 send post cards to friends 
72 see Chandra dance (so close!)
73 do a backflip on a trampoline 
74 make wine bottle glasses 
75 make string/yarn baskets 
76 make Martha Stewart flower pots
77 redesign Memphis geocaching logo
78 glue PVC chair

79 stay on top of filing
80 join tennis league 
81 hike south mountain w/ mom
82 golf with dad 
83 visit mrs. anderson 
84 golf a really nice course 
85 make family country music vid 
86 learn flash/dreamweaver 
87 repair cracks in the ceiling 
88 invite jessica to dinner 
89 do yoga with brian 
90 update linked in profile 
91 update coroflot portfolio 
92 go to the shooting hole with dad 
93 recycle cans & glass (bought a second bin just for recyclables!)
94 make inspiration pin board (does Pinterest count? :)
95 do something with pictures in boxes in closet 
96 go to a geocaching event 
97 stay at an airbnb place 
98 make cd storage more organized/usable 
99 documentary parties 3x year (only did 1, oops)
100 check off all on my places to eat list (maybe half way through the list?)
101 blog this

geoALOHA

Here's the third of "geocache in 5 new states or countries" (#16). I hate to rub it in again that I went to Hawaii, but, well, i did! And you know one of my top priorities was dropping off a couple travel bugs. :]


Here's Mr. Springy.
He got put in a cache on a trail off of Tantalus road.
The winding drive took us to an amazing view of the south side of Oahu.

This picture was taken after our first Hawaiian find at a bridge.

Also, it was fun to formally introduce caching to Kate and Adam (and Lana :)



Saturday, February 4, 2012

aloha hawaii!

The past two years, Brian and I have wanted to go visit his friends in Honolulu. Free place to stay? In paradise? How could we not?! This year we finally made it happen. We needed to go to Phoenix to do some wedding planning, so we thought it would be perfect to go to Hawaii and then stop in AZ on the way back.


What an amazing place! I can't believe we waited so long to go!

Brian on a big 'ol lava rock

Taking it all in

Amazing scenery

Awesome food, too! Highlights were pork/pineapple tacos and mango shaved ice

Brian's friends, Kate and Adam. Excellent hosts!

Lana, their super cute puppy dog

Did I mention great scenery?

Happy Camper!

coaching hoop

Wow, it's been two months since I've last posted, that's bad! Chels reminded me yesterday that I need to get on the ball! I got into wedding planning mode and neglected the blog, sorry.

#22 was to get into some sort of regular volunteering. I kind of knew I wanted to try coaching, but I was scared of it at the same time. Well, the opportunity presented itself when I saw that my church, St. John's, was starting up some basketball leagues. I called the director to see if they needed any help, and it turns out that they did for the 11th and 12th grade girls' team! I would be co-coaching with a guy named Ray. Perfect! I could get my coaching feet wet, but have some pressure taken off by sharing the responsibility.

We started in mid-November and it's been fun! Only one practice a week on Wednesday and games on Saturday. It's really laid back, and pretty fundamental. These are the girls that didn't want to play on their high school teams, but still wanted some exercise. We focus on the basics and get really excited when they make a free throw, sooo you imagine my delight when at one of our games last month every single girl scored!!



This also was our first win, so it was kind of a big deal. :] I can definitely see myself doing more of this in the future.