Updatey!

Completed this 2 weeks
Write 100 things I'm thankful for
Go Snorkeling or Scuba diving
Make a list of 50 places I'd like to see before I die.


Progress this 2 weeks
Have garb appropriate to 13th century Ukraine - bought a book on the topic
Complete a sudoku book

DITL November 23

Happy Midnight DITL. Here's the agenda for the day :p






Dog knows best - it's time to be sleeping.





I sold a book! Yay for getting money, and getting space on my bookshelf!





How exactly did this hour happen while I'm still awake?





Give the dog a treat.





Good Morning!





Find an article about Magna Faire - still debating whether I'm going.





Up and ready to go!





Sekrit Piktur - No cameras allowed inside!





This was SUCH a bad idea!





But look, we have food!











All natural, fantastic yummy juice!





And lunch :p











What our kitchen looked like





What our kitchen looked like when hubby got home.





All the dishes - forgot to take a before pic





Start listing chores that need to be done regulary so we can assign them





Before





After.





Quite possibly the stupidest episode of the Simpsons ever.





Dinner. Actually not so good. Threw out most of the broccoli. Hubby threw away all the veggies and ate a piece of chicken I had also cooked.





Tomorrow is Turkey Day, and for the first time I'm bringing something to the family dinner.





Sweet potatoes don't look too yummy yet!





Give up my usual midnight snack for some vodka and green stuff.





Make sure the calories check out





Souffle done! It doesn't look the way I remember it from childhood, but hubby says it looks right to him.





Relax for a bit





Take bath





Good night DITL!

Snorkeling

So part of today's aquarium experience was swimming with whale sharks and other fishies in the Ocean Voyager exhibit. I got there about an hour and a half early, so I wandered around looking at fish, and spent about a half an hour staring at the sea otters (my favorites!) Then I went for a swim test - which I failed, but I still got to do the swim with the gentle giants thing... so I was pretty nervous when I first put the regulator in my mouth, but by the time I got halfway around, I was used to it. Yes, I've used one before, but I'd forgotten what it feels like. And it is weird. So I put my face in the water, and there was this jack like right there in front of my face, and I jumped. But then I kinda calmed down and started looking around and it was seriously the most relaxing thing ever. we swam a figure 8 over the exhibit, and I actually bumped into a whale shark! And two of the manta rays came really close, too. 

Thankful

Just in time for Thanksgiving, I decided to do my list of 100 things that I am thankful for

1.     swimming with the fish

2.     being able to volunteer at the aquarium

3.     being able to stand long enough to volunteer

4.     Jack’s surgery

5.     Awesome level 4 and CTG girls

6.     Pregnant beluga

7.     Being in generally good health

8.     A car that hasn’t seriously broken down yet

9.     Henry’s help

10. Henry’s health

11. This house

12. Kevin’s job

13. My job

14. My school

15. I have a cool advisor

16. Mom’s surgery went well

17. Rogue knowing when I need cuddles

18. Friends in Statesboro

19. Sluggysquad

20. Tyke keeps not getting eaten

21. The SCA

22. VA medical care

23. Social Security

24. Getting VA checks

25. People who love me

26. Selling some books on amazon.com

27. Kelly’s job

28. Dad’s job

29. A loving husband

30. My GPS

31. appleTV

32. Netflix

33. A comfortable bed

34. Internet access

35. Living in a first world country

36. People willing to sacrifice for their ideals ie occupy

37. Dolphin swim

38. Jack’s love

39. Elizabeth and Nat

40. Victor’s help

41. Mark’s help

42. Knowledge

43. My summer job

44. Archery certification

45. My ipad

46. My iphone

47. My computer

48. Being able to fix my computer and rescue all data

49. We’ve always had enough to feed at least our pets

50. Alcohol

51. Staying strong enough to not smoke again

52. My hair

53. My health

54. Rabbi Steve

55. Vivienne

56. Weird Al tickets

57. Semester at sea

58. Russia

59. Guatemala and Argentina

60. Acceptance at the Temple

61. No one was hurt in David’s accident

62. No serious damage in Kevin’s accident

63. Puppy kisses

64. 100pounds2lose group

65. New clothes that fit

66. Dinner with mom

67. A safe cross country drive

68. Other people to cook for Thanksgiving

69. Sea otters being rescued

70. Sea turtles being returned to the wild

71. Living in relatively peaceful time

72. Refund from AT&T

73. Beluga interaction at Sea World

74. Awesome family

75. No accidents for me

76. A nice bathtub

77. Our military

78. We found Madelyn when I let her free

79. I haven’t lost all my teeth like I keep dreaming I will

80. All my senses work right

81. I get to talk into microphones

82. Good cholesterol numbers

83. My heart rate went down some

84. My friends

85. Figuring out anemia was causing my jaw problems

86. Quiet time

87. Finding my Quran

88. Finding my DVDs

89. Abilify

90. No major depressive episodes this year

91. No major manic episodes this year

92. Kevin at work amusing me

93. Youthful looks

94. Kevin’s car not breaking down

95. I’m not as crazy as I could be.

96. Hand/wrist pain seems to have gone away

97. Robert’s friendship

98. Having known Mr. Dalke

99. Kevin finding the jewelry

100.                Having lived another year.

DITL November 15

Good morning DITL.
















There is actually one of these shots in every single DITL I've ever done. Either I use a lot more gas than I thought or this is very strange.








I'm not even late, and I'm stuck on the 3rd floor. What's up with that?





The Penguins are off exhibit. Which makes Cold Water Quest not so much fun. Although I love the Sea Otters, you do get assigned where to stand, and the position of standing by the empty penguin exhibit and hearing people whine over and over isn't so much fun





This little fish was thought to be extinct until he was found in a river in Georgia. Yay Happy Endings!











TJ the sea turtle thinks he's hiding. Little does he know we can all see him!














The biologist shows up to feed the rays in the middle of my time at the ray pool :)














The Mezzanine - not an easy job now that the whale slide is open.





The absolute bane of my existence. I don't like to tell kids no, but they have to be smaller than this to play. Most kids are too big.

















Free food is the best food. And they gave me a coupon :)





And to school with me.








Livetext - the bane of my academic existence.











Relax with a puppy





get puppy attacked by another





ZZZZZ