Sunday, January 3, 2010
#25 Become an Aerobics Instructor
I love aerobics almost as much as I love dancing. I'm starting my research into becoming an aerobics instructor by taking as many aerobics classes as I can. I've been to a Zumba class, a boot camp class, and a cardio kick-boxing class. I took 2 last week. I want to work up to one a day. Fun research!
#55 Live to See My 100th Birthday
This one is actually the most important to me; I don't know why I waited until 55 to write it. I guess I was concentrating on action oriented things. Originally, this was a blog about what I do to try to live to 100, but I like the variety of the bucket list better.
I've been trying to eat more vegetables to make it to 100. Last year, I piloted a health program in my school. One of the activities was to wear 5 bracelets and switch each bracelet to the other wrist when you ate a fruit or veggie. I'm going try this again and shoot for 5 to 7 each day. I will also look tacky wearing 7 bracelets at once.
I've been trying to eat more vegetables to make it to 100. Last year, I piloted a health program in my school. One of the activities was to wear 5 bracelets and switch each bracelet to the other wrist when you ate a fruit or veggie. I'm going try this again and shoot for 5 to 7 each day. I will also look tacky wearing 7 bracelets at once.
#24 Write 1,000 Letters
Letter 72 and 73: I wrote a letter to Selina the same time as Kathy, but I forgot to mention it. I also forgot to send it. This new letter was about what I did over the holidays and why I want to start a school reform. In fact, that school reform may transform into #6 Create and implement a service learning project, because it is very similar to service learning. We'll see...
Friday, January 1, 2010
Completed: #32 Gamble in Vegas
I won 100 bucks! Altogether, I probably won around 175, but everything else was 2, 5, or 10 at a time, and I just kept playing with that. I cashed out the $100 win right away. I played the slots exclusively. I know that, in the interest of experience, I should have tried a little of everything, but those slots always felt one pull away from BIG money. I heard that my best chances were on the Wheel of Fortune slots. Why throw my money at other games when this next spin could get me enough to pay off my debt (buy a house, quit my job and work on my list full time, etc.)?
As for my luck? Well, I think it has returned somewhat. After all, what kind of unlucky person finds half-pound hot dogs at the first restaurant in Vegas where she goes to eat?
As for my luck? Well, I think it has returned somewhat. After all, what kind of unlucky person finds half-pound hot dogs at the first restaurant in Vegas where she goes to eat?
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
#32 Gamble in Vegas
Here it comes: I am heading to Las Vegas in a few hours. I am so excited about this that I can't even attempt to be funny (not that I am ever funny). I'm in giddy-can't sleep-happy slappy mode. I tested my luck on a dollar scratch ticket tonight- and lost. This means I will not play the scratch tickets in Vegas. This also means my luck is not back yet.
I don't know when it happened, but at some point, probably a few months ago, I felt my luck leave me. I've always felt that really interesting opportunities come right to me. It's almost like a guardian angel that tries to make my life interesting rather than safe. Sometimes these things are all-around great, and sometimes they are just wacky twists that don't end too badly. For example, I am ALWAYS an audience volunteer in any show that involves volunteers embarrassing themselves. I dressed up in costume for a local 80's night one night without knowing that they had a $50 best costume prize. I don't ever remember losing at the game of Life (the Milton Bradley one).
Not much has happened lately that I'd call lucky or interesting, and my financial situation has been absolutely dismal for months due to unexpected bills and fees coming seemingly from nowhere (for example, I got last in Massachusetts and got a $50 ticket for getting stuck at the Tobin Bridge without enough for the toll). I feel like my guardian angel gave up on me- and left me to lead an average life.
So on the plane today, I will do what I can to bring luck back to me. I'll try earning some karma by being really nice to people, using the law of attraction by envisioning a montage of the Universe handing me awesome stuff, praying to every deity I know, counting the number of seat on the plane twelve times- whatever it takes to get my luck back. I once read an article that said luck is made up of an open personality with a small bit of randomness. Maybe I haven't been as open. I'll work on that too.
I don't know when it happened, but at some point, probably a few months ago, I felt my luck leave me. I've always felt that really interesting opportunities come right to me. It's almost like a guardian angel that tries to make my life interesting rather than safe. Sometimes these things are all-around great, and sometimes they are just wacky twists that don't end too badly. For example, I am ALWAYS an audience volunteer in any show that involves volunteers embarrassing themselves. I dressed up in costume for a local 80's night one night without knowing that they had a $50 best costume prize. I don't ever remember losing at the game of Life (the Milton Bradley one).
Not much has happened lately that I'd call lucky or interesting, and my financial situation has been absolutely dismal for months due to unexpected bills and fees coming seemingly from nowhere (for example, I got last in Massachusetts and got a $50 ticket for getting stuck at the Tobin Bridge without enough for the toll). I feel like my guardian angel gave up on me- and left me to lead an average life.
So on the plane today, I will do what I can to bring luck back to me. I'll try earning some karma by being really nice to people, using the law of attraction by envisioning a montage of the Universe handing me awesome stuff, praying to every deity I know, counting the number of seat on the plane twelve times- whatever it takes to get my luck back. I once read an article that said luck is made up of an open personality with a small bit of randomness. Maybe I haven't been as open. I'll work on that too.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
#62 Get and use a picnic basket
Righteous! I found a picnic basket at Goodwill yesterday! The place settings were still all wrapped in plastic and it was only 12 bucks. I looove the blue gingham lining. It makes me fantasize about sitting on a matching cloth in the park wearing a flowy white dress and laughing femininely. The dress and cloth part may happen, but the laugh will no doubt be just as obnoxious as usual.
#1 Knit a sweater for myself
Jumped ship. The more I worked on Sesame, the more I realized that it was looking huge and would not be flattering at all. As much as I love those dirty sweaters that you layer on around the house when you can't afford to turn the heat up, I just don't need any more of them. I started Owls on Sunday, and I am almost at the arms (knit from bottom-up).
One thing I really enjoy about knitting is that I can channel some of my tremendous energy when I have to sit still. I finally feel a sense of accomplishment in staff meetings.
One thing I really enjoy about knitting is that I can channel some of my tremendous energy when I have to sit still. I finally feel a sense of accomplishment in staff meetings.
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