What makes you happy?

 

Got this great idea from Jane!  I'm going to tag ALL of you! (That blog that is.)

You have to write 10 things that make you happy. (And that picture? That is one of them. Love it.) 

So, here are mine: 

1. My parish
2. Time w/ my family. The four of us (Mel is in Chicago) had lunch at Mohawk in German Village after Mass today, and it was so fun. A perfect day so far. 
3. Hockey! Watching the gold medal game now. 
4. The snow is melting, and tomorrow is March 1! Spring nears.
5. beaches
6. Good books
7. Jane Austen movies (watched the new BBC Emma and Sense and Sensibility yesterday)
8. Babies (such a cutie in front of us at Mass!)
9. Yankee candles
10. Soft, warm blankets to snuggle under while watching hockey.

What makes you happy? Share in the combox!

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1001 Things

(stole this from Jane...well, most of it. Some ideas are mine, and I've eliminated things that don't apply to me at all. Like med school :)) Red are things I've done

January 1, 2010 – September 28, 2012

 1. Run a 5K (I've walked one) 

2. Run a 10K

 3. Run a ½ marathon 

4. Run a full marathon 

5. Lose 30 pounds 

6. Once a week, jot a note about something that makes me happy

 7. Leave a postcard inside a PS book

 8. Find a church I love 

9. Attend church 100 times 

10. Be credit card debt free 

11. Read the bible cover to cover (in the process...)

12. Grow fresh vegetables in my yard

 13. Fall hopelessly in love 

14. Donate 100 hours to charity each year

 15. Use my passport at least once 

16. Refresh my French to conversational ability 

17. Take a self defense class 

 20. Organize iTunes 

21. Organize old photos and get everything digitized 

22. Visit 6 new states 

23. Cut down a Christmas tree 

24. Cook a complete meal once a month 

25. Snail mail one card a week to various people

27. Clean out and organize garage 

28. Maintain garden 

29. Tip a server 100% 

 31. Find a mentor and work with him/her

 32. Get all A’s  (1st semester,sophomore year of college)

33. Ride in a hot air balloon

 35. Make bread from scratch

 37. Try yoga 

39. Watch 26 movies that each start with a different letter, A-Z that I have never seen before (this is way cool)

 40. Take 6 weekend trips to places I have never been before

45. Take a dance class 

48. Donate blood (can't, as we know my veins are AWFUL)

49. Build a headboard 

50. Purchase furniture I like

 51. Hang paintings I like  

53. Find out if I’m a CF carrier  (yes, I am. :-D)

54. End 1001 days with every article of clothing in my closet and drawers actually fitting

 55. Sleep under the stars 

56. Find out my blood type 

58. Pay for a random table’s meal 3x 

60. Go to Oktoberfest 

61. Vote in all major elections  (it's part of my job!)

62. Volunteer for a political campaign (again, part of my job)

63. Spa day – mani, pedi, facial, massage, blowout 

64. Go on a picnic

 65. Build a snowman 

66. Kiss in the rain (well, OK, snow)

68. Eat raw food only for 2 weeks

 69. Try rockclimbing 

70. Kiss under mistletoe

72. Develop relationship with all professors 

 74. Visit San Francisco 

75. Visit Virginia Beach

 76. Kiss someone I care about at midnight on New Year’s Eve 

77. Maintain blog as history of my life 

78. Finish thinking of 101 things I want to do...

And here are my additions:

79. Read all of Edith Wharton

80. GET my passport

81. Go to Europe

82. Finish my MA

A meme

From Karen (I was perusing her blog archives today, and I liked the look of this one).
Bold things are things I've done.


1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (DisneyWorld)
8. Climbed a mountain 
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (can't do it anymore, can you? Is the crown back open?)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (with Di and Suze in Galveston)
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (I hated doing it. I'm awful at selling things.)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square (on New Year's!)
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone (right wrist, upper right arm)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (Boomer Eiason, V-P Cheney, G.W. Bush, Ann Coulter)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day


And while you're at it--read Karen's Guide to Advent. 
And order her book. 

Boden Fall '09 Questions

The quarterly "Qs from the Boden Catalogue"

• Worst fashion faux pas: My all-yellow (BRIGHT yellow) outfit.
• Favourite birthday present: contacts when I turned 14
• Favourite bedtime story: Sleeping Beauty
• Question I'm always asked: "So, when do you graduate from college?"
• Favourite English word: Prententious
• Most embarrassing phobia: Making unsolicited phone calls (but I can't do that anymore anyway, thank you bionic ear)
• Best thing about the 1980s: My birth
• What gets me out of bed in the morning: um....
• Most memorable road trip: Columbus to DC, winter '04
• If men got pregnant: Humanity would cases to exist
• Best way to flatter a man: LAugh at his jokes
• My cure for insomnia: milk
• What music would you listen to on a roadtrip: Anything with a good beat.
• In my next life I'm going to be: Queen of England
• Essential items to take on a road trip: Cell phone, water, map
• I always wanted to be : a ballerina
• Favourite farmyard animal: horse
• First love: Josh
• What makes you smile when you're having a bad day: "Pearls before Swine"
• I always forget: People's names the first tiem I meet them.
• Most extravagant purchase this year: my new MacBook
• Favourite party outfit: dress, pearls, heels
• Favourite accessory: pearls
• I feel more confident when: I have a great outfit
• Best restaurant anywhere in the world: Lupa, NYC
• What really bores the pants off me: NASCAR races
• What you must have on a girls' night: My camera
• Favourite cocktail: Key Lime pie martini
• The sexiest man alive is: Daniel Craig
• Best way to fall in love: slowly
• What song would you sing in a big, echo-y stairwell: "I will survive"
• Favourite fantasy: Living in the OBX with my family, writing a book
• I've never mastered: Math
• Best way to flatter a woman: tell her she's pretty
• To prepare for a night out, I: Take a long bath
• What is your best party trick: Keeping the food stocked
• Hangover cure: N/A
• Most memorable occasion of my life: Getting the t/x call
• I'm superstitious about: walking under ladders
• How do you plan to celebrate your next birthday? Dinner with all my friends
• Favourite party tipple: Champagne
• Who would your ideal party partner be: Patrick Wilson

Me in Threes

Three names I go by:
1. Em
2. Emmers
3. Emmy

Three Jobs I have had in my life:
1. Old Navy
2. Swim Club concessions
3. Congressional Intern

Three Places I have lived:
1. Pickerington, OH
2. Reynoldsburg, OH
3. Bexley, OH

Three Favorite drinks:
1. Diet Coke
2. PEach iced tea
3. coffee

Three Favorite hobbies:
1. acting
2. reading
3. writing

Three Pet Peeves:
1. Smoking
2. whiners
3. bad drivers

Three TV Shows that I watch:
1. Bones
2. Pushing Daisies (until it died. Wah!)
3. Glee

Three places I have been:
1. Houston
2. OBX
3. Chicago

People that text me regularly:
1. Mom
2. Bub
3. Tiffany

Three of my favorite foods:
1. carbonara
2. pizza
3. burgers

Three friends I think will respond
1. Abby
2. um...I got nothin'.

Three Things I am looking forward to
1. Christmas
2. Fall/winter musical auditions
3. Christmas :)

(Note on the musical auditions: they are--Wizard of Oz with Columbus Children's Theater; Jekyll and Hyde (AGAIN!) with Emerald City Players, and THe Music Man with Pleasure Guild (directed by one of my J&H castmates)