- 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
Category Archives: Links
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!
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
My Top Posts of All Time
My Top Ten Most Viewed Posts of All Time
- Famous People Whose Name Starts With X, Y, or Z (2012)
- Flowers With Difficult Names to Spell (2013)
- Acronyms I Will Be Teaching in the Lifeguard Course That Begins Tonight (2012)
- Animals That Start with the Letter I (2013)
- 19 Reasons to Celebrate My Son’s 19th Birthday Today (2012)
- Favorite Orange Flavored Things (2012)
- Best TV Shows of the 90s (2012)
- Presidents With the Letter Y in Their Names, More or Less (2012)
- Twenty One Reasons to Smile Today (2015)
- Favorite Types of Village Inn Pie, in Order of Preference (2012)
Things That Light Up
- Fireworks
- Sparklers
- Glo-sticks
- Reflectors
- Faces
- Skies
- Nightlights
- Christmas lights
- Glow in the dark stickers
- Shoe laces under black lights
- Strobe lights
- Lamps
- Bio-luminescent sea creatures
- Silvis Moonlight Parade
- Disney’s Electric Parade
- Fireflies
- Solar path lighting
- Tennis shoes
- Neon signs
- Planetariums
- Camera flashes
- Twinkling stars
Words I Can Never Spell Without Using SpellCheck
- occassion
- apoplexia
- hor dourves
- souveniers
- bouys
- resescitation
- sacreligious
This Weekend
- Date Night 🙂
- Lifeguard Class
- SuperHero 5K
- Editing for Alaskan Pioneer
- All-Staff Meeting
- Church
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
- Survivor seasons on DVD : CBS.com/survivor
- Triforce T-shirt: SixDollarTees
- Donations to Wendy’s Butterfly Garden: wendysbutterflygarden.com
- This outfit: Polyvore.com
- The Boston Rob RuleBook: amazon.com
- Any other books from my Amazon Wishlist
- The Big Daddy Pod Chair: Sofa Mart
- Cutco Knives: Cutco
- Soundtrack from TV Show Nashville: ABC.com/nashville
- Star Trek oven mitt: thinkgeek.com
- This wall decal (size 48 x 26.5, satin copper color): Trading Phrases