Saturday, December 23, 2006
4 years after we originally wrote our lists of 50 things to do before we died, i finally updated mine... at the moment it's up to 94... i know there's stuff i'm forgetting, but i'm sleepy and can't remember them right now... if you can think of one i missed, let me know 
granted, in all actuality, there's no possible way for me to do *everything* on here.. especially the conflicting professions... but it doesn't hurt to dream.. (and everybody wonders why i tend to be slightly schitzo at times...) 
the high-lighted ones (if it shows up) are the ones i'm counting done, at least at the moment...
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granted, in all actuality, there's no possible way for me to do *everything* on here.. especially the conflicting professions... but it doesn't hurt to dream.. (and everybody wonders why i tend to be slightly schitzo at times...) the high-lighted ones (if it shows up) are the ones i'm counting done, at least at the moment...
50 Things I want to do Before I Die
- see the Phantom of the Opera
- have a white Christmas
- get married
- have kids
- be a grandmother
- go on a sleigh ride with a horse with jingle bells on their harnesses
- graduate from college
- get a good job
- retire
- have enough courage to sing in front of people I don?t know ? professionally?
- have a best friend
- be loved
- be like the Proverbs 31 lady
- write a book
- learn to play the piano
- learn to fence
- learn to dance
- design and build my own house
- finish my
- see my grandparents saved
- get the shirt that says ?As a matte of fact, I AM a rocket scientist.?
- go skiing without being put on oxygen
- explore the pyramids
- go to
- be a well-loved and interesting teacher
- be on the Supreme Court
- be a spy- the fun kind that get to sneak around with disguises, not the ones in danger (not really but it?d be fun!)
- see
- get the posters in Mrs. Bardwell?s room to stay on the wall
- see Nessie or Champ
- get all the 40 million rolls of film in my closet developed
- find Spaz
- see my Dad saved
- live a godly life
- find 1 other person who likes all the ?Road to..? movies
- watch Nicole on Broadway
- see LaToya perform professionally
- find a dress like the one at the Carousel Club on White Christmas
- learn to spell
- beat Mrs. Sparks at poker
- write a speech on time, that?s funny, and interesting, and sad, and sweet, and thought provoking, and me
- get enough courage to fly in a plane ? so I don?t die a coward
- have a library in my house for all my 30 million books
- have a hollow book
- finish writing the story I started for Coach Dyess? English project our freshman year
- build a sandcastle at the ocean
- see the
- find out what really happened to Anastasia
- never run out of challenges
- put a large chunk of sodium in the water tower
- own a giant light blue feather fan!!
- learn to pick locks
- have a fireplace
(preferably in a library) - find my missing half of a horse
- learn to cook (something other than dessert)
- learn to actually swim.. correctly..
- go back to Destin
- go back to
- learn to make cheeseball
- get the Pretender on DVD (so it?s a shallow goal? but a good show!)
- be an interior decorator
- see the northern lights
- see the southern lights
- go to an observatory
- go star gazing out in the middle of nowhere, w/ no lights or trees or anything to block the view
- get involved in a band/orchestra again
- play music for movies, professionally
- learn to make bread
- do something to fix my teeth so i can smile for pictures?
- see the
- learn to shoot a gun (as well as my grandmother or my roommate.. whoever shoots best.. i?m not sure )
- learn to do stunt driving
- finish learning how to drive a stick
- take a long train ride?
- have a fountain pond/pool thing in my yard
- spend a day in front of a large window, looking out on snow, by a happy fireplace, w/ fuzzy socks, and a book? and maybe a purring cat.
- visit a real castle?
- have time to just do volunteer work all the time, like my mom did when I was little
- find a brownie recipe that memaw can eat
- to see a real waterfall, not just one from a small stream off in the woods (although it was really neat )
- have a snowball fight
- build a snowman that?s too big to fit in my freezer
- learn to ice-skate
- make the ulcers go away for good?
- make the pleurisy go away for good?
- convince mom to learn calculus
- see Great Grandma Hays again before she dies (as of now, she?s 101)
- meet my half-sister
- meet my half-brother
- visit Ahdrhen in
- go star-gazing, but not out in the middle of the country? star-gaze on a beach, and listen to the water?
- find some huge library and spend a week doing nothing but sitting in there and reading
- ride in a gondola
- either find somebody that I can actually trust.. who won?t leave? or make myself get over the desire to want to trust?.
Friday, December 22, 2006
i think it's time for me to update my list of 50 things to do before i die... i can't make myself remove things though :-\ maybe just add some...
i always come up w/ other things i want to do, but then never write them down. but... i think i will.. although still not sure why.. i'll be 22 in a few months and then graduating, w/ absolutely no clue anymore where my life is going or what i even vaguely want out of it...
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i always come up w/ other things i want to do, but then never write them down. but... i think i will.. although still not sure why.. i'll be 22 in a few months and then graduating, w/ absolutely no clue anymore where my life is going or what i even vaguely want out of it...
Thursday, December 21, 2006
santa rides a motorcycle and other random observations
saturday i went to dallas for jOel & alta's wedding. on the way there, we almost died several times, and then on the way back, we saw santa... twice... on a motorcycle. aside from the ceremony, which was beautiful, there was a cake which is joining my list of favorite cakes. it looked like a giant basket. they even had fruit on the top of it. i had no clue that it was real. but it tasted good! lots of chocolate. so now we have their basket cake, pony's computer cake, and the armadillo cake from Steel Magnolias ...
i had an epiphany at work monday. i have now changed my entire philosophy on course evals. i used to get all bent out of shape at stupid people who can't fill out a scantron correctly. i have to go back and redo the ones in pen and fix them when they do checkmarks or draw straight lines down the page or change the question to a negative and answer in a postive. They would tell me that I didn't have to do that, but I an ocd perfectionist... I wanted to do it "right" which meant fixing everything. Besides, the professors were being evaluated with those. They deserved to have their evaluations. So every semester I get mad and frustrated and rant (considerably) about the stupidity of *college* students who can't figure out how to correctly fill out a SCANTRON. but anyway. I am no longer going to get mad about their stupidity (hypothetically). I'm no longer going to kill myself trying to fix their "mistakes", deliberate as though they were.
Now hear this: For those people out there who refuse to fill out their scantrons correctly, I no longer think that your opinion is important. There is no longer going to be someone going along behind you and redoing your course evaluations just so your opinion can be heard. From now on, if you do your course evaluation in pen or in some other incorrect way, you have NO room to complain if the professor remains awful the next year or if something else doesn't get fixed. You cannot complain about your classes, nor can you complain about your profs. If you truly believed that something needed to change, then you should've filled out the evaluation correctly. I don't care about you anymore. I refuse to continue getting angry. I'm tried of ulcers and being sick, and while this won't get rid of all of it, it will help somewhat. I still think those who do that are idiots, but regardless, it's their choice to be idiotic and to not have their opinions heard (although, it would make MUCH more sense, at least in lizard logic, to just not fill out the evaluation. if you don't care to do it correctly, then just don't do it at all.)
end rant about discontinuing ranting.
and now, i'm just sitting at home... bored... cause all the people left... watching entirely too much tv... and contemplating being slightly scroogish this Christmas... i don't really feel like putting a tree or anything up this year... :-\ but i feel guilty if i don't... sigh..
i other stuff i wanted to write about, but i do'nt really remember now... i stopped half way through writing this...
rain is happy :-)
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saturday i went to dallas for jOel & alta's wedding.
on the way there, we almost died several times, and then on the way back, we saw santa... twice... on a motorcycle. aside from the ceremony, which was beautiful, there was a cake which is joining my list of favorite cakes. it looked like a giant basket. they even had fruit on the top of it. i had no clue that it was real. but it tasted good! lots of chocolate. so now we have their basket cake, pony's computer cake, and the armadillo cake from Steel Magnolias ...i had an epiphany at work monday. i have now changed my entire philosophy on course evals. i used to get all bent out of shape at stupid people who can't fill out a scantron correctly. i have to go back and redo the ones in pen and fix them when they do checkmarks or draw straight lines down the page or change the question to a negative and answer in a postive. They would tell me that I didn't have to do that, but I an ocd perfectionist... I wanted to do it "right" which meant fixing everything. Besides, the professors were being evaluated with those. They deserved to have their evaluations. So every semester I get mad and frustrated and rant (considerably) about the stupidity of *college* students who can't figure out how to correctly fill out a SCANTRON. but anyway. I am no longer going to get mad about their stupidity (hypothetically). I'm no longer going to kill myself trying to fix their "mistakes", deliberate as though they were.
Now hear this: For those people out there who refuse to fill out their scantrons correctly, I no longer think that your opinion is important. There is no longer going to be someone going along behind you and redoing your course evaluations just so your opinion can be heard. From now on, if you do your course evaluation in pen or in some other incorrect way, you have NO room to complain if the professor remains awful the next year or if something else doesn't get fixed. You cannot complain about your classes, nor can you complain about your profs. If you truly believed that something needed to change, then you should've filled out the evaluation correctly. I don't care about you anymore. I refuse to continue getting angry. I'm tried of ulcers and being sick, and while this won't get rid of all of it, it will help somewhat. I still think those who do that are idiots, but regardless, it's their choice to be idiotic and to not have their opinions heard (although, it would make MUCH more sense, at least in lizard logic, to just not fill out the evaluation. if you don't care to do it correctly, then just don't do it at all.)
end rant about discontinuing ranting.
and now, i'm just sitting at home... bored... cause all the people left... watching entirely too much tv... and contemplating being slightly scroogish this Christmas... i don't really feel like putting a tree or anything up this year... :-\ but i feel guilty if i don't... sigh..
i other stuff i wanted to write about, but i do'nt really remember now... i stopped half way through writing this...
rain is happy :-)
Saturday, December 02, 2006
today, well it feels like it should be tomorrow, but it's after midnight, so whatever... anyway, today is my great grandmother's 101st birthday.
i was thinking about it... her family came to Texas in a covered wagon (although i'm not sure if she born yet or if it was just her older sister or something). she lived through the prohibition and the great depression, two world wars and so many other ones. she was a flapper (which is hillarious and neat to me at the same time), especially knowing her now. she saw the introduction of cars to men walking on the moon (as did my mom). she saw her town get its first party line telephone to the day when everybody and their dog has a cell phone. how much has the world changed because of technology since 1905? it used to be that life went decades, if not longer, w/o changing. but now it changes drastically in the blink of an eye. where's it going to be in 80 years when i'm a hundred and one? for that matter, where will it be when i'm 50? or even 30? it changes so rapidly. it doesn't seem like it can become any more advanced, yet it does.. can you picture the future? if you were born in 1905, would you have pictured anything remotely like what's happened in the past century? you couldn't... but where's it going now? and how much more will it change in her lifetime? that just boggles my mind... (granted, it doesn't take much to boggle my ever-inquisitive and ocd warped thinking, but still....)
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i was thinking about it... her family came to Texas in a covered wagon (although i'm not sure if she born yet or if it was just her older sister or something). she lived through the prohibition and the great depression, two world wars and so many other ones. she was a flapper (which is hillarious and neat to me at the same time), especially knowing her now. she saw the introduction of cars to men walking on the moon (as did my mom). she saw her town get its first party line telephone to the day when everybody and their dog has a cell phone. how much has the world changed because of technology since 1905? it used to be that life went decades, if not longer, w/o changing. but now it changes drastically in the blink of an eye. where's it going to be in 80 years when i'm a hundred and one? for that matter, where will it be when i'm 50? or even 30? it changes so rapidly. it doesn't seem like it can become any more advanced, yet it does.. can you picture the future? if you were born in 1905, would you have pictured anything remotely like what's happened in the past century? you couldn't... but where's it going now? and how much more will it change in her lifetime? that just boggles my mind... (granted, it doesn't take much to boggle my ever-inquisitive and ocd warped thinking, but still....)
