99 things I ought to have done (aka learn more about me)

99 things I ought to have done (aka learn more about me)
I saw this on a blog recently and thought it was a fun way to share more random facts about myself. Feel free to steal it from me! Comment on this blog when you do, so I can read about you!

Instructions:

Copy the list, bold the ones you've done (with explanations if needed), share with friends.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars...
3. Played in a band (does rock band count) :)
4. Visited Hawaii Family and honeymoon
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo again in rock band :)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a thunder and lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (when I was like seven)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venic
29. Seen a total eclipse (on top of the mountain I have climbed) :)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted (DOES SEAWORLD COUNT??)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie (does a blink 182 music video count?)
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (from the ground up and still building!!)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (hate to say it)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar (love it!)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person (threw a plane window)
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (does the reader count)
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (a couple)
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo
94. Had a baby (two boys!!)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

if you want to know the background behind any of my answers, do ask and I'll tell!

Date Night!

It is amazing how much of the week, gets us in a rut. All the daily routines, and life issues. But how nice it is to go on a date with your spouse, and feel completely refreshed the next day! Speaks volume!! Enough said!

Secrets!

Why is it that so many of us have our "secrets" we keep?

A little bit about me, I have never been good at keeping secrets. I always want to give away what a present is and hear what a surprise for me might be. But those are not the type of secret keeping I am talking about. No these are the ones we want to hide because they may make us look bad to others. Again, about me, I have always been the one pointing out the elephant in the room that everyone is trying to ignore.I am definitely more so now, but I think even when I was little I was like this.

My friends would complain about something in there life that was going wrong and everyone would console them while I was pointing out the reasoning behind it. No I don't tell others personal secrets or am I harsh when I know someone is hurting.

On the "Biggest loser" Jillian Micheals is always breaking the contestants down (in a good way) to make them deal with the secret issues they have. You see keeping stuff inside makes us do thing like eat our feelings, or drink them away, or anger easily, or worse.

As I have been writing, I have been dealing with some of those issues of my own. But I am now realizing that my issues are a reprocations of someone else's issues they never dealt with and are still denying. I have no idea how to deal with that. No I am not putting blame on anyone else for my issues, I just can't break threw with this person and it is hurting me.

So I end on this note. The thing you are dealing with, that you may not want anyone to know, might not as bad as you think, and by talking about it, might just make you feel better, and move forward from it! Hopefully this is not going to deep. :)