Brand Spankin' New

TA DA!!! I have a new blog. I decided that I needed to start from scratch because I was having such a hard time with my old blog. I don't know why but I started really disliking the old one. Everytime I would go to post something I just couldn't do it. Of course I could have just changed the name and look of the old blog and deleted everything but something feels very liberating about just starting fresh.

So here I am. I'll try to be better about updating this blog, using it as a journal. I can't guarantee that I'll post something every day because sometimes I just don't have anything to say.

The next several posts will be a breakdown of my trip with my sister Erin to the British Isles. It might take me a little while to get it all posted but I'll get it done eventually.

So the moral of the story is that everyone should watch out...because I'm blogging again. :)

The Big List (I wanna...)

This is an ever expanding and updating list of things I want to do or accomplish.

Things I've Accomplished 
Things I'm working on

1. Visit Ireland (April/May 2010)
2. Be Credit Card debt free
3. Pay off Student Loan
4. Lose 50 pounds (14 out of 50)
5. Buy a brand new car
6. Go on a Disney Cruise
7. Have fun at a waterpark wearing a bathing suit **gasp**
8. Visit England (April/May 2010)
9. Go on a tour of Anne of Green Gables locations in Canada
10. Go on a Pride and Prejudice tour in England
11. Kiss the Blarney stone (April/May 2010)
12. Get married
13. Have a child
14. Go on a hiking tour (all the way down and all the way back up) of the Grand Canyon
15. Have an 6 month emergency fund
16. Train my dogs to behave when people come over to the house
17. Visit New York City
18. Stay in a Bed and Breakfast
19. Visit a haunted location
20. Be able to play 5 church hymns on the piano
21. Be able to fluently sign 5 church hymns
22. Go cliff diving
23. Explore a ghost town (Fairbank: Feb 2011)
24. Learn to play the guitar
25. Project: Finish scanning all family photos
26. Project: Finish 2 jean blankets
27. Own a vacation home
28. Go on an African safari
29. Drive across country, site-seeing along the way
30. Go water skiing
31. Learn to snow ski
32. Learn to scuba dive
33. Take a creative writing course
34. Attend a live comedy show
35. Own a home
36. Own a home outright (no mortgage)
37. Run a half-marathon
38. Go to a three-ring circus
39. Take a Bikram Yoga class
40. Visit the Mall of America
41. Take a CPR class
42. Attend Comic-Con
43. Be an extra in a TV show
44. Go indoor sky-diving
45. Visit all 50 US States (not just drive through them)
46. Live in a house with a wrap around porch
47. Visit Chernobyl
48. Go on an extreme Zip Line
49. Spend Halloween at Dracula's Castle (Bran Castle) in Romania
50. Write a book