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Coming This June

  • Yard Sale for Haiti
  • Condo HOA meeting
  • Felix Adler Fest at Children’s Discovery Center, Clinton, Iowa
  • Father’s Day
  • Graduations
  • Road Trip
  • Birthday parties
  • Multiple doctor’s appointments
  • Women’s Club luncheon at George Curtis Mansion
  • 149th Annual Chamber of Commerce meeting & awards, Clinton, Iowa
  • New washing machine
  • RAGBRAI meetings & route inspection
  • My sister’s birthday
  • My birthday
Our birthday – June 18, 1982

Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)

  • Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
  • Missions trip to Haiti
    • Three “airports” in one day
    • Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
    • Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
    • Ate goat for the first time
  • Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
  • Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
  • Started packing up to move again
  • Attended nephew’s high school graduation
  • Vacation to San Diego
    • Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
    • Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
  • Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
  • Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
  • Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
  • Read 29 books
  • Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
  • Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
  • Applied for 66 jobs
  • Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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Twenty Seven

  • This Etsy shop
  • The number of bones in your hand
  • Number of books in the New Testament
  • Number of letters in the Spanish alphabet
  • The atomic number of the element Cobalt
  • How many days it takes the moon to orbit the earth
  • How many identical coins you should keep in your home to ensure economic prosperity (according to the principal of Feng Shui)
  • The number of years in the cycle followed by Pennywise the clown
  • Kilometers in the circumference of the Large Hadron Collider
  • The age at which Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison died
  • This song, which alludes to the previous bullet point
  • How many piano concertos Mozart composed
  • This book called “Twenty Seven Hours of Will”
  • How many Outs are in a full game of baseball
  • A perfect cube (3 x 3 x 3)
  • The year in the 1900s in which Mickey Mouse was invented
  • Number of pieces in a Rubik’s Cube
  • How many days it takes for your skin cells to replace themselves
cobalt | Definition & Facts | Britannica

My Top Posts of All Time

Title Views
Flowers With Difficult Names to Spell More stats 4,593
Famous People Whose Names Start with X, Y, or Z More stats 4,480
Acronyms I Will Be Teaching in the Lifeguarding Course that Begins Tonight More stats 1,745
Animals That Start With the Letter I More stats 730
Favorite Orange Flavored Things More stats 409
19 Reasons to Celebrate My Son’s 19th Birthday Today More stats 212
*100,000 Words (aka Pix)* More stats 148
Best TV Shows of the 90s More stats 128

My Top Ten Most Viewed Posts of All Time

  1. Famous People Whose Name Starts With X, Y, or Z (2012)
  2. Flowers With Difficult Names to Spell (2013)
  3. Acronyms I Will Be Teaching in the Lifeguard Course That Begins Tonight (2012)
  4. Animals That Start with the Letter I (2013)
  5. 19 Reasons to Celebrate My Son’s 19th Birthday Today (2012)
  6. Favorite Orange Flavored Things (2012)
  7. Best TV Shows of the 90s (2012)
  8. Presidents With the Letter Y in Their Names, More or Less (2012)
  9. Twenty One Reasons to Smile Today (2015)
  10. Favorite Types of Village Inn Pie, in Order of Preference (2012)

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My Boards on Pinterest

  • Words to Live By
  • Wanderlust
  • Love You Forever
  • I Crack Myself Up
  • The Crashing of the Waves
  • It All Comes Down to This
  • Hear Me Roar
  • Ink I Like
  • My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
  • My Geek Credentials
  • Yummy Things to Look At
  • Architecture & Design
  • Everything Is Educational
  • Wendy’s Butterfly Garden
  • Blogs I Read
  • Survivor
  • Unimpressed Caleb
  • QCA- Quad Cities Awesomeness
  • Marketing & Graphic Design
  • Health & Fitness
  • Lifeguarding & Water Fitness
  • Closet Wishes
  • Crunchy Living
  • Back in the Day
  • Art I Like
  • Event Ideas
  • Home-type Stuff
  • Products I Love
  • Why Didn’t I Think of That?
  • Breaking News
  • Dogs That Crack Me Up
  • Holiday Festivities
  • Yummy Things to Eat
  • Thought You Might Want to See This
  • Ideas for My New Home

In Case You Want to Be Prepared For My Birthday Next Week on June 18th

  1. Survivor seasons on DVD :  CBS.com/survivor
  2. Triforce T-shirt:  SixDollarTees
  3. Donations to Wendy’s Butterfly Garden:  wendysbutterflygarden.com
  4. This outfit:  Polyvore.com
  5.  The Boston Rob RuleBook:  amazon.com
  6.  Any other books from my Amazon Wishlist
  7. The Big Daddy Pod Chair:  Sofa Mart
  8. Cutco Knives: Cutco
  9. Soundtrack from TV Show Nashville:  ABC.com/nashville
  10. Star Trek oven mitt:  thinkgeek.com
  11. This wall decal (size 48 x 26.5, satin copper color): Trading Phrases