Its been awhile but don't worry I still haven't forgot about the list

Wow I just realized it has been over two months since I've updated this blog but don't worry I haven't forgot the list. Though I still have quite a bit to go on the list.

I have crossed off 64 off the list:
64) Complete a song with Guitar on Expert on Guitar Hero/Rock Band

This one was kind of an accident. I've been only able to play Guitar Hero on medium. Moving on to hard has been rather difficult for me. Its hard to press on the orange button while doing the other four colors. Well a few weeks ago Matt and I were playing Rock Band Three. I played Bass mode on Guitar on expert. I was being ambitious. And playing bass is a little easier than playing guitar. I did an a White Stripe song "Hardest Button to press." It was an actually an easy song. I score 95 percent.

Another thing to cross off the list!

I've also crossed number 73 off the list:
Pay off my car loan before January 2011

I had a three year car loan on my car. I wanted to get it paid off early. Which I did I only had 98 bucks left to paid on it which I paid in the beginning of December. Now my car is all paid off. Yah!

So that is 22 things crossed off my list. I still have 83 things off my list to cross off! I have 774 days left to do those things. Hopefully I can get them done.

I can't believe 2010 is almost done with, starting this list back in May has definitely added some excitement to the year.It has kept me busy and has given me things to do.

Going out to Eat

I have change the background to my blog, I was getting tired of the orange. I wanted something different. So now the blog is pretty blue.

So today while I've been having a lazy Saturday, I realize that I have crossed number 37 off the list.

37)Go to 10 new restaurants

I pretty much did this one mainly from going on our trip to Vegas. I think the time we got home we were sick of eating out. So here are the 10 resaurants/eating places that we have went to in the last few months.

1) Le Deux-Troy, Ohio
2) Claim Jumper-Henderson, Nevada
3) Charly's Pub and Grill-Flagstaff Arizona
4) Chipoltle-Dayton, Ohio
5) Landmark Cafe- Galesburg, Illinois
6) Bright Angel Restaurant- Grand Canyon, Arizona
7) Noodles- Las Vegas, Nevada
8) Fat Burger- Henderson, Nevada
9) Pot Belly-Dayton, Ohio
10) Inoteca Otto Pizzeria-Las Vegas, Nevada

The best restaurant that I went to out of these ten I would say way the Claim Jumper. I loved their food. It taste very hearty and homemade. Though their portions were huge. I got the smaller portion and I still had leftovers. The restaurant that I probably liked the least out of the 10 was the pizza. It wasn't that great tasting.

I feel accomplished! I have been crossing a lot of things off my list lately. :)

List Updates!

So I just went through my list and surprisingly crossed things off from my list without realizing it! I have officially completed 19 things off my list out of the 101 things. I need to get busy and cross some more things off the list!

So in the last month I have:

21) Go to a haunted house
35) Finish Wedding Scrapbook
46) Ride in a limo
53) Go to 3 states that I have never been to.
93) Find a hat to wear, that I actually look good in.

21) Go to a haunted house.
I don't remember when I created the list if I met an actual haunted house or a haunted scary house that is man made, with monsters pop out of nowhere. So considering I don't really know of any actually haunted houses. I'm going to say it was the latter. So last week my brother Derrick and I went to two haunted houses. The first one was a LONG wait. We probably had to wait in line for a good 40 minutes. It was disappointing, though of course I screamed and got scared a few times. Those people running around with chain saws scares me every time. So we decide to go to this other haunted house about a few miles down the street from the other one. It was AWESOME, they had this neat vortex thing, that makes it look like the door is moving in circles. And there was this freaky part where we were barricaded and attacked my 3 guys with a chainsaw. It was pretty scary trying to find a way out. Not that the chainsaw actually had a chainsaw on it. But still scary. My brother of course complained after wards for spending a total of 24 dollars on the haunted houses. But I think the experience was worth it. I like having a good old scare.



Scary!


35) Finish Wedding Scrapbook
So last year for a wedding present I got a wedding scrapbook kit. I started making it, but then quit. So I decided it was finally time to finish it. So I took all the wedding cards I got and cut them out and I put the pictures and things people wrote in them and glued them in the book. Also we had disposable cameras at the wedding so people could take pictures. Most of the pictures taken were horrible, though there were some great pictures taking. It is amazing what people capture and see at a wedding. I got a picture of Derrick picking his nose with a straw. Lovely. So anyways I took the pictures and put them in the scrapbook. I think the scrapbook turned out very nice.

Here are some pictures of the wedding scrapbook:








46) Ride in a limo
So surprisingly I have never rode in a limo for prom or our wedding, or in my entire life for that matter. Though when we were in Vegas, we had the opportunity to ride in a limo for free! It wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be, but it still made us feel special. I loved people in their cars staring at the limo and pointing at it as if they have never seen a limo. It was pretty fun and I'm glad I can finally say that I rode in a limo.


Matt sitting in the limo

53) Go to 3 states that I have never been to.
When we went on our Vacation we went to 3 states. New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona. Well we officially didn't spend more than an hour at New Mexico, though we were there for 45 minutes at as one of the stops on the train. So I can cross that off the list. I still need to visit more states. I really haven't expanded my horizons that much.

93) Find a hat to wear, that I actually look good in.
Ok so this one is very objective. But I decided that I officially looked good in the hat mainly because I spent 25 dollars for it. Yikes. I have never spent that much on a hat ever. When were we in Arizona, we realized that we should have probably brought hats with us, since we would be hiking in the canyons. And I get really bad sunburn on my head since I have really thin hair. So we went to this outdoor store, that was completely over priced. Matt paid 35 dollars for his hat and I paid 25 for mine. What is cool about my hat, is there is a pocket inside of the hat that I can store secret items like money. I don't know if I look that great in it, but probably the best out of all the other hats I have worn. I always look silly in hats. So here is the hat. You be the judge.



So that is it for now. I like to cross some more things off the list soon.

Vegas Baby!

We got back from our trip last Saturday. I have been very busy with getting settled back in from our trip that I finally have time to write about it. Our trip was great it went by so fast! I can officially cross off #6 off my list:

6) Go to Las Vegas

We done so much on our trip, we went to Red Rock Canyon, and drove down to Grand Canyon National Park we spent a night there. The Grand Canyon is absolutely amazing and breath taking!

Here is a picture of Matt and I at the Grand Canyon:



We then went to Henderson, NV (Which is about 15 minutes outside of Vegas)and spent two nights at Green Valley Ranch Resort, which was absolutely beautiful. What was nice is there was a casino in the hotel, so we got to gamble some. And the hotel was AMAZING, it was such a fancy hotel. Matt did a nice job picking the hotels. We also went to a bar at the hotel and watched this really fun cover band called "Super Vegas Band". They were so talented! It was the best five dollars that I have spent for a concert. They did Michael Jackson's "Billy Jean" and it sounded just like the really thing, the song was wonderful.

After two nights at the Green Valley Ranch we went to the Hoover Dam and took a tour:



I learned a lot of history about the dam. It took them only 4 years to make the hoover dam. The workers would get paid only 4 dollars a day. They our also in the process of making a bridge, the bridge is going to be open at the end of October, so traffic will run through this bridge instead of the Hoover dam.



After the Hoover Dam we finally went to Vegas, and stayed two night there. I would definitely love to go back there again to spend more time, because there is so much to do there. We went to the wax museum and saw tons of wax stars. Some of them looked so realistic, that I seriously thought I was standing right next to the real thing. I even got to stand right next to my celebrity twin Brittney Spears. Well I don't think I look like her, though I have had many people tell me I kind of resemble her. What do you think?



One thing I could not get over is how crowded Vegas is, even at the end of September, there are so many people there. I loved the people that would stand on the street and sell "Lucky" water for a dollar. What is also neat is a bunch of the hotels have outside shows, such as a fire show, and a fountain show. I wished we would have won some big money in Vegas so I could have went shopping in some of the stores. They had some big expensive designers in some of the shops. I didn't even walk in any of them, because I knew I probably would cry just looking at the price tag. We did walk into a Tiffany's jewelry store, and they have such amazing jewelery there, of course I think the cheapest thing there was 1,000 bucks

So we had a really good time in Vegas, and I'm glad to cross it off the list. I don't know if Vegas exceeded my expectations. I think watching movies about Vegas, made my standards very high. But I still had a great time there. We didn't win any money. We probably lost only about 100 bucks. I would only stick to the penny slots. I actually kind of won some money on them.

Here are some pictures of Vegas:







I also ended up crossing two other things off my list while we were on our trip in Vegas. It wasn't planned, but it just so happened to be the way. So it is always nice to cross some extra things off this list. I'll post more about that later. Now I'm off to clean our bathroom, because it is really sad looking about being away for over a week. I think mildew and other nasty things are festering up in it. Well bye for now!

Oh P.S.
One thing I forgot to mention, is Vegas was doing some weird things to my hair! As you notice the picture of me with the wax Brittney Spears, my hair is flat and striaght. Well I didn't even use a flat iron on that. Apparently due to lack of humidity and what not I didn't have curly hair. My curls kept falling out! So I guess if I didn't live in Ohio I wouldn't have naturally curly hair. I kind of liked my hair like that in Vegas. I complained the entire time and said I hated it, but when I came back here, I realize how awesome it was not to have such frizzy and crazy hair. Oh vegas, I heart you. :)

Riding a Train Across America

So yesterday I officially completed number 61 off the list!

61) Ride a train across America

This trip to Vegas has been in the works since last December. Though how we were going to get to Vegas was the million dollar question. We decided now to fly to Vegas, though it would have been the smartest and most logical way to travel. Since Matt and I have never flew EVER, we were kind of nervous about the idea. And plus Matt LOVES trains, he is a major train enthusiast. I was very apprehensive riding a train across America. It wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be. At least it seemed to go very fast, though I felt SO SICK and dizzy from the trip. We left from home on Thursday around 10:00 am. We drove to Galesburg, IL, had to kill about an hour of our time, and then we were off to depart around 6:00 pm, which would be 7:00 Ohio time. Here is the Am-Track we went on:



We then went on Coach for the first 4 hours, we pasted through a little part of Iowa, and then we had a 45 minute stop to Kanasas City Missouri, where we took all our crap and moved to a sleeper car. (It was cheaper to do it that way) I pretty much freaked out when we went to our sleeper car. It was not what I was expecting. It was so small. It looked like a small narrow closet. Literally there was a bed on the bottom and a bed on top and a foot of space from the bed to the door. I felt so claustrophobic, I couldn't breath. It took a while for me to get use to it. So we went to sleep probably around 11:00. (12:00 Ohio time) I'm surprised but I fell asleep right away, and pretty much slept the entire night. While we were sleeping we went through Kansas. I hope on the way back I'll get to see it. When we woke up it was 6o'clock. We gained another hour while we were sleeping, so technically it was 8:00 Ohio time. I hated trying to use the bathroom, get ready for the day, and eat meals. It is so hard to walk around on a train. Though it is neat to look out the window and get a scenic view. During the day we pasted a little bit of Colorado, and then pretty much the entire day we past through New Mexico.

Here are some pics of Colorado and New Mexico:













We gained another hour around 7:00 at night, so it was pitch black by 6:00 when we got into Arizona. Finally around 9:00pm which would have been 12:00 am Ohio time, we reached Flagstaff AZ. It was really chilly. I needed a jacket. We got a taxi to the hotel, and can I just say the three hour time change is throwing me off. I woke up 6:45 this morning. Not the normal time I wake up. hehehe.

So it wasn't terrible the trip. I just felt like I was getting terrible motion sickness. Matt and I are going get some stuff to help with motion sickness on the way back. Hopefully the trip on the way back won't be terrible. My favorite part when we ate lunch, and got to sit by this awesome older couple in their late sixties from England. They were so cool! They have traveled all around the world, and so adventurous for their age. They shared amazing stories of their travels.

And can I just say I felt so weird sleeping in a bed tonight that wasn't moving. I felt like I was still moving from the train ride, when we went to bed.

Well we are off to go to the Grand Canyon today, and then I think tomorrow we are going to Vegas, which will be another thing to cross off the list :)

Happy Labor Day and of course that doesn't stop me from laboring

So today on my day off, I only thought it would be fitting to do something productive today. So today I did number 87 off the list.

87) Clean, condense, and organize all my stuff in the basement

I have a bunch of crap in the basement, that is all mine. Matt still needs to put his stuff from his Mom and Dad's house into our basement. A lot of it is stuff left over from our wedding, and just unorganized junk thrown into containers. So after sitting in our basement for about a year, I thought I would finally condense some of the stuff in our basement and organize stuff. So all afternoon I worked on organizing stuff. I'm excited because I found some things I forgot I had. Such as a pocket knife. It was in one of my old purses. And I found a fun cd-rom game called Pandora's Box. It is a fun game with solving puzzles. I got it for Christmas one year when I was in high school. I still haven't beat the game, so I installed in on my laptop and now I am playing it again. I also found this interesting necklace, that I didn't even know I owned or where it came from:



It is kind of like a magic 8 ball, you ask a question and press the question mark and it randomly selects and answer, such as "maybe" or "not clear". So all day today I've been asking silly question like "Am I going to have a baby next year?" and pressing my necklace. Not that the necklace really is going to tell the future, I like having a little fun with stuff like this.

So here is what our basement looked like before the big cleanup. (Now note, I only organized and touched the big piles of boxes. Because those are the only things in the basement, that belongs to me. The only stuff is house stuff, Matt had in there for working on the house. I figured it would be a good idea not to mess with that stuff, because I know he gets mad when I move his stuff.)





I ended up having two big garbage cans filled with trash. My cleaning philosophy,is if I haven't missed the item in a year, then I'm never going to miss it, so might as well throw it away or donate it. It isn't worth collecting useless items that I will never use. What I'm really excited about is I organized my scrap-booking stuff and my beads for jewelry making. So I'll have to work on some of my projects soon, now that they are no longer just thrown in a random container. I ended up having about two boxes worth of stuff that I am going to donate to Goodwill. A lot of the stuff is glass centerpieces from our wedding. I don't really need them anymore, so might as well donate them. I have used a few of them for decor in my house, but I really don't need twenty of them for decor in my house.

Goodwill probably likes me, I'm always getting rid of stuff to donate to them:



After three and a half hours later, and after condensing my items and getting rid of about 3-4 boxes of stuff, here is the end result:





EDIT: I forgot to mention I also have an Ebay pile too. Matt is really good with selling stuff on Ebay, so I have a pile of stuff like old cds, my camera, etc, that I hope we can get a little money from.

So that crosses off 87 off the list. It feels so good to cross something off the list! I haven't done that in a while now. I feel so accomplished today. I think maybe tomorrow I'm going to start the no-cussing for three months. I've been have a terrible potty mouth. We'll see. I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend!

Mmm Pie

Today I made an apple pie! From an apple tree at my in-law's house. So this take one of the five pie that I have to make off my list.

69) Make a apple, cherry, pumpkin, pecan, and strawberry pie

The reason these pies are on my list, is because I have never made these kind before. I have made a rhubarb pie, a grape pie, and a pear pie.


This is the recipe that I used http://http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Apple-Pie-by-Grandma-Ople/Detail.aspx

It turned out really yummy! And it was pretty easy to make!

Here are some pics of the apple pie I made:

Can I just say I love the Pamper Chef corer,slicer, and peeler it makes it 100 times easier to slice up the apples!



This is how the pie turned out!


And here is the pie ready to eat, with a little ready whip on top. And it was delicious!




Now only 4 more pies to make.