150 Things....

Someone posted a list on Two Peas of 150 things that some people have done in their lifetime. Now not all of these things on the list are good or are necessarily things I'd want to do, but it's an interesting list.

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3.Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you’ and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (Scotland, we danced the Aussie version of the highland fling!)
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites (Stonehenge!)
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children (or…raising children)
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds (cumulatively, if you count pregnancy! lol!)
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery (Gallbladder removal)
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes ... yum!
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

Some other cool things I've done - Been to Loch Ness, slept in a haunted castle, played hide and seek in the haunted castle, lived in a foreign country for 10 months on my own, been to the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building and been on the London Eye. There's probably others but I can't really think of them at the moment!

Let them eat cake!

I saw Marie Antoinette at the movies a couple of days ago. It stars Kirsten Dunst and I really enjoyed it. The plot's a bit thin but the amazing costumes and scenery and funky soundtrack totally make up for that itty bitty problem. Luckily they end the film before the royal family gets captured by the Revolutionists. I really didn't want her to die, I felt sorry for her.

Yesterday I bought some new clothes and also went to Borders to buy a new book and some magazines with the gift voucher I got for Christmas.

I started a scrapbook layout last night. Why is it that I only get in the scrapping zone late at night? I started it at about 9:30pm so naturally I didn't finish it but this morning I'm not really in the mood to finish it off. How frustrating!

I heart Sales!

So this morning I went to Photo Continental with my gift voucher I got for Christmas. They were having a sale so I ended up purchasing $73 worth of stuff for about $37 or so. Not bad! I got two transparent overlays - one with a lovely picture of Big Ben and one with a picture of Pont Neuf (a bridge in Paris). I also got a new blade for my Carl trimmer, some Basic Grey chipboard alphas - the chipboard mini monos, the chipboard block alphas and the chipboard monograms (please ignore the fact that I have only used 2 letters from my other box of monograms!) and I got a box of beeeautiful silver K & Co Twinkle Type alphas. I wanted red as well but thought that was going overboard a bit.

So then I came home and bought some more stuff online. One of my favourite online scrapbook stores has 25% off everything so I got Basic Grey Pewter square bookplates, a Microfine glitter set with 12 different glitter colours, Lil Davis Tinsel Town Paint in strawberry, mint and silver and glitter glaze paint in rose and a mega alpha letter R (for Robbie!!!).

Apparently I'm going though some sort of glitter sparkly quarter life crisis.

I have no idea where I'm going to put all this stuff, my scrap area looks like a bomb hit it, there's flowers and ribbon all over the place.

Happy Boxing Day!

I had a nice Christmas, very low key but thats how I like it. I got some nice presents, including books, money, gift vouchers, an ipod alarm clock radio thing and a vegetable peeler! :)

Today Mum and I saw The Holiday at the movies. I really enjoyed it. It was funny and I got to perve on Jude Law for 2 hours...what more could a girl ask for? I wouldn't mind seeing it again. I'm hoping to see a few more movies within the next couple of weeks. I plan on seeing Marie Antoinette in the next day or two.

I bought several cheap DVD movies while I was out today. I got two Doris Day movies, two Bing Crosby movies, Alfie (Starring Jude Law!!) and Sliding Doors, all for under $40!

Tomorrow I am going to Photo Continental to spend a gift voucher I got for Christmas and I think on Thursday we are going to IKEA as they have moved into a much larger location and I'm hoping to pick up some cheap household items. IKEA is such a fun place to wander about.

Isn't he adorable? :)

Woohoo!

I'm on holidays! For 3 weeks! No more having to get up at 5:15 to do the 7:30 shift...for three blissful weeks!

And to start off my holidays I woke up at 4am this morning! Well done me. I went down to the Gold Coast with my mum. We did some shopping, both Christmas shopping and shopping for us (as you do!). Still haven't done all our Christmas shopping yet though.

I had a FABULOUS time at the Robbie Williams concert on Wednesday night. I was absolutely shattered on Thursday as I only had 5 and a half hours sleep. I got lots of great photos and some rubbish ones! My friend and I spent most of the concert on our feet dancing!

This is what he looks like normally:

And these are a few concert pics:

Yes, he has his hand down his pants. And I got a photo of it!! :) He also smoked in a non-smoking venue, cheeky bugger!

Robbie Eve Eve!

2 sleeps til I get to see this gorgeous fella in the flesh. Unfortunately my mate who's going with me has a head cold but hopefully that will clear up a bit before Wednesday night.

Thanks to weight watchers I've lost 2 kilograms (4 pounds) this week and I'm very happy about that! Hopefully I'll be able to get through the concert and Friday's work Xmas party and not put on any weight!

Food n Stuff

I've done quite a bit of cooking today. I made some rubbish patty cakes - the recipe was healthy, so they didn't taste all that good. The icing was the nice part! I cooked Chicken Parmigiana for the first time ever and it turned out fabulously. I also chucked the left over chicken in the fry pan with some sweet & sour sauce and froze that for future dinners.

I've been sticking with my weight watchers plan and I've definitely lost weight. 1st weigh in is Monday morning.

This week is my last week at work and then we have 3 weeks off for Christmas/New Years. Don't know what I'll do with myself, hopefully lots of scrapping.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to see the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale. I've been looking forward to this for weeks!

4 sleeps til ROBBIE IN CONCERT!!!!

Cool t-shirts

I found this site on someone else's blog www.lazybonesfitness.com and it has really cool t-shirts on it like these. The first one says "I don't care about being big and strong. I just want to look good naked'

The second one reads 'Here to meet boys'. Cool hey! I was going to get one of them but the shirt cost $10 US and the postage was $26...um no I dont think so!

Think thin thoughts!

So it's 21 days til Christmas. The time of year when there's a lot of food and alcohol floating about...and what do I do? I go and join Weight Watchers. The online version. I'm such a bright spark aren't I? I joined up for 3 months (because it was cheaper in the long run).

I decided on online because I've tried the meetings version a bit over a year ago but I had to stop due to my work hours. I did it for 11 weeks...I lost 2kg (4 pounds) in the first week. It then took me another 9 weeks to lose 1 kg (2 pounds) and then it took me 1 week to gain back that 1kg. And then I gave up. Not that it mattered, because thanks to my fantastic friend the gallbladder I managed to mostly maintain my weight (as I couldn't eat anythingwith fat in it without being ill!).
I had my gall bladder & the two evil gall stones removed in April (best $3,000 I ever spent!) And have since then rapidly put on about 10kilos (20 pounds). I look awful, I feel like a whale and most of my clothes don't fit me. So from now on I'm on 21 points a day. I should be exercising too but at the moment I can't due to a foot injury.

Right so here's my plan & goals. They're fairly easy goals to reach but I dont want to set myself up for failure.

Goal -

1. To lose 3 kilos (6 pounds) by Christmas Day
2. To drink 5 glasses of water a day (especially on Saturdays & Sundays)
3. To at least eat 2 fruits a day

That's the plan for now. I'm just going to start small so that one day I will end up back here:

The date: 2 January 2003. The place: Movie World on the Gold Coast. Weight: 23.9 kilos lighter than I am now (that's about 50 pounds!!) Size: 12-14 (those pants are a size 12 AUS/8 US) and I still have them!

P.S Robin was a hottie!!!!

TGIF!

I am soooo glad it's Friday. I've had a pretty full on week at work and I'm so glad it's finally the weekend! I did about 3 and a half hours overtime in 24hours, which is something I'm not used to and it just about killed me.

Today's Two Peas Challenge is to blog about 5 things I enjoyed today. I'm going to list 5 things that made me happy today.

1. I got paid. This happens every Friday and it's just great!

2. I bought the new Beatles album - LOVE today. This is the soundtrack from the Cirque Du Soleil show in Vegas called LOVE, which I saw when I was there a few months ago. I really really enjoyed it, the costumes and interpretive dance stuff was amazing and the Beatles music was all re-arrange and re produced by George Martin and it just totally rocks. I'm listening to it at the moment. I am the Walrus - coo coo cachoo! The only disappointment with the show was they didn't play Yellow Submarine! It's my favourite Beatles song.

3. I also bought a book to read over the weekend and the DVD 'It's a Wonderful Life' (for $5!!).

4. The December Poppy Ink kit appeared on the Poppy Ink website. I subscribed back in August and my subscription starts with this kit! Looks good doesn't it!? Pity it's almost impossible to get the add-on kits for it in Australia. They rock.

And last but not least:

5. Um 12 SLEEPS TIL THE ROBBIE CONCERT!!!! yum. :)