7. Do something extra special for Alex’s 30th birthday. 15. Go to 5 new restaurants. 16. Try 5 new cocktails. 51. Visit a foreign or domestic city I’ve never been to before. As previously chronicled, I “surprised” Alex with a trip to Chicago for his 30th birthday (#7, #51) which conveniently fell on Labor Day [...]
In the last month, I’ve been crossing off 101s left and right. A brief overview: 4. Take my dad out to 5 different events Instead of buying my father unneeded polo shirts or yet another WWII book, I like giving him “event” gifts where we can spend time together. For Father’s Day, I purchased tickets [...]
3. Complete 5 projects/tasks for my mom. On an overcast, gloomy, non-beachy day, Alex and I decided to do something nice for my mom: cook dinner. Well, not just one dinner. 18 of them. So now, on a night when she doesn’t feel like cooking (she has been cooking family dinners since 1955 and deserves [...]
7. Do something extra special for Alex’s 30th birthday. Birthdays are awesome. It’s the day you come into being; it’s the day you changed two ordinary people from spouses into parents. It’s a day just about you. I love birthdays – mine, yours, everyone’s. Alex, on the other hand, is not so big on his [...]
4. Take my dad out to 5 different events. Last Monday, the supervisor of CNHS’s Junior Naval ROTC sent out an email inviting everyone to a free concert by the Rhode Island Sound, a Navy band. Figured this would be a perfect night for my dad. He’s a veteran of World War II (yes, you [...]
1. Buy/make Alex 5 random “because-you’re-awesome” gifts. Originally, I thought this task would be easy. I know my husband well, so buying/making him a gift would be easy. Problem is, when either Alex or I want something, we just go and get it. Doh. Earlier last week, I was out running errands; just getting cat [...]
So, yes. It is my 33rd birthday today. You know the me now. This is me then – cute and adorable – and the hot woman with me is my sister Barbara and our awesome dog Tramp: I’m enjoying the fact that as I get older, I make less and less a fuss about my [...]
Baby steps. That’s what I keep telling myself. Baby steps. I consider myself organized, efficient, and a Type A+ personality. So of course, I feel like I have to accomplish my 101 AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. I keep trying to remind myself that I have until September 2012 to complete all of my goals. [...]
Today, I was facing a bit of a conundrum: I’m still working on my 101 list and really haven’t accomplished any of my tasks yet, but I still wanted to start writing in this blog. Solution? Tell the stories behind the photos in my banner. July 2006. Here we are on our honeymoon in Puerto [...]
Believe it or not, I am quite impressionable. Perhaps “inspire-able” is a better word. So often I am inspired by the people and things going on around me, but rarely do I act on that inspiration. That changes now. Over the past year, I’ve been inspired here and there to perhaps start a blog. Over [...]
