it's just getting hotter

and apparently the 105* weather I was complaining about was only about 89*. not good. it can only get hotter from here. but, we've always got bucket list items to talk about...so I did 5 plus started 2 more:

Have a totally awesome adventure (okay, spending 9pm to 12:30am in an airport was not originally what I had in mind, but what are ya gonna do? I also went hiking in the woods, so there's that.)

this is echinacea, they put it in cough drops and teas and stuff

Dance in the rain (it was pouring rain while I was at this teeny tiny farm with goats and chickens and then we ran to this ice cream shop and danced on a bench.)

Buy a pair of Toms

Make root beer floats (okay, I didn't make it, but I watched it get made and then I had it, so that's close enough)

Be active (I'd say I've had a pretty active summer...)

and for the two I've started, I made sun tea which is now in the fridge cooling off, and I tie-dyed a shirt, and now it's just sitting until tomorrow when I can wash it!

I'm not gonna lie, it felt like 150* out today and I didn't like it.

Plain and simple. It's just getting too hot.

Here's the lovely kitchen of a place I was at last week

and the yard

and my sign collection is growing! I started with the green one, then one of my best friends gave me the black one with the same quote, then earlier this summer I got the whale one, then last week I got the other two, and then I got 2 more today!

As for bucket list items, I'll have to check again because I forgot which ones...

Back with some stories...

Starting with the fact I was supposed to get back at 7:30 yesterday, but that didn't happen starting with, and leading to a long chain of events which I am too tired to share but will be noted tomorrow. I also did 6 bucket list items, I think.

Leaving again...

I'm going away again until Thursday evening, so expect posts again on Friday...

Pizza Problems...

So I tried to order a pizza myself, but ended up calling the wrong Domino's, so I called the other one, and I didn't actually cancel the other order, but this other guy like hung up and it was just a mush and we thought we were going to have 2 pizzas but we ended up with just one but I'm not really complaining because we still got pizza and in the end that's what matters.

Adventures in Fondue

You can hardly (not even) see it but there is COPPOLA wine

And when you go in, they give you SPEARS WITH RAINBOW COLORED HANDLES

More Coppola Wine on this menu...

YOU ACTUALLY COOK FOOD THAT IS RAW. I REPEAT, THE FOOD THEY GIVE YOU IS RAW.

There were also mushrooms.

COINCIDENCE AGAIN

SO not only does a Food Network chef have a Green Day song as his favorite, but he is the guy that shares the slightest resemblance to the bass guitarist of Green Day...very strange.... 

A BRIEF REALIZATION

I actually crossed off 1 more item then I thought??? I WAS A REBEL. I bleached a section of my hair and that is my rebellious deed. Hehe okay bye bye

Day 14 of Summer 2014

So it's been exactly 2 weeks of summer and I've accomplished 17 bucket list items...That is not as many as I expected so I've gotta do some stuff! In case you've forgotten, here's what I've done:

Jump into water fully clothed
Pull an all-nighter
Take pictures while jumping in the air
Take underwater pictures 
Pick a summer song
Make jello
Make lemonade
Try a new food

Eat with chopsticks

Paint pottery

Try coconut water

Freeze jello

Road trip

Wear a bikini

Buy a bracelet

Buy an anklet

Go to the movies at night

And about going to the movies at night...I actually went to see a Doctor Who special and then a movie about birds narrated by David Tennant (he was one of the doctors in Doctor Who) and it was a really good time! And in that movie about birds (called Wings 3D) there were these stingrays doing this crazy thing and just click...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHrrS_hOnZw

You will not regret it!

MASS COINCIDENCE

Or is it? I don't know, but look at this:

I also accomplished a list item: Went to the movie theater at night!!! I'll tell you all about it tomorrow

I AM BACK

Hello I am back! AND THERE IS A SLIGHT PROBLEM WITH MY CACTUS

IT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE PARTS TO IT

I crossed off 4 things from my bucket list (more pictures to come tomorrow!)

ROAD TRIP

WEAR A BIKINI

BUY ANKLET

BUY BRACELET

Quick Note:

The post below was actually my 200th on this blog! Yay!

GOODBYE!

For a few days, anyway...Two, to be exact. I should be able to post again by Sunday, if not in these next two days, there just won't be pictures because I would be posting from a source other than my completely indestructible Dell laptop.

Day 7, exactly 1 week of summer...

Well I accomplished a bucket list item, obviously...

if you can't tell, that's frozen jello. Hard as a rock, and I can't tell if those are ice crystals or freezer burn...

Day 6 of Summer, off to a soggy start...

Quite literally. My leotard didn't get dried properly AHEM so we had to make do on the way to camp...my leotard took a walk {drive?} on the wild side and rode out the window today. It eventually dried off, but not until I had been wearing it a good half an hour. I didn't do anything on my bucket list, but we'll surely do 6 or 7 or 25 things in one day to get them all done, right? Right.

Day 5!

Day 5 as well as my first day of camp, but there's still time to post! Yes, always time to post! Well, I tried coconut water and it was SO bad. Like, imagine soapy seawater with a hint of coconut, and there you have it. Yuck. Here are some lovely flowers in a lemonade bottle instead.

Day 4 of Summer with a tad bit of a problem?

Yes, well my phone has run out of space so that's a smallish issue...so I cannot take pictures at the moment, but I did cross off another item off my bucket list! I painted pottery today! I also had carrot juice. AND: if you've probably heard of The Fault in Our Stars and know about the movie, but did you know there's a song? (written based on the story) It's actually called The Fault in Our Stars by Troye Sivan and it's a really nice song. So let's just see what other lovely pictures I can put in here for today...

well look at these lovely shredded carrots!

and HA! remember this?

Day 3 of Summer!

The first official beach day of the summer! We found tons of seaglass, mostly brown, a few green and a couple clear, and 2 aqua colored pieces! Also saw ducks in the yard, and a small land crab. Crossed off 2 more bucket list items, although not the ones I had planned, (those will still be a surprise) I tried a new food, and learned to use chopsticks while eating it! I had Vietnamese noodles and they were actually really, really tasty. I highly recommend them.

duck sneaking away in the yard

and a smallish land crab

Day 2 of Summer

Accomplished 2 things off of my bucket list and got supplies for 2 more...

First of all, we had smoothies. Mine is the yellow one, it was mango, pineapple, banana, coconut milk, and ginger, and it was really yummy! The pink one was apple, banana, strawberry and pineapple.

Bucket List Item 1: I made jello

Bucket List Item 2: I made lemonade

You'll have to wait and see which items I cross off tomorrow!

Summer 2014: Day 1

FINALLY!!! Here are the things I already crossed off my bucket list:
Jump into water fully clothed (bonus points for wearing uniforms)
Pull an all-nighter (technically, we stayed up past 1 am)
Take pictures while jumping in the air
Take underwater pictures (although I'm gonna try again with this one)
Pick a summer song (or two or three)

THE BUCKET LIST GOES PUBLIC

Finally, my creation I have been working on for months, my 176 item summer bucket list to be accomplished this summer:

Summer 2014 Bucket List

¥       Grow out my hair

¥       Skateboard…a lot

¥       Learn to do my own fishtail braid

¥       Spend a whole day photographing

¥       Successfully tie dye

¥       Host a beach party

¥       Wear flowers in my hair

¥       Hang out with my friends a lot

¥       Make a flower headband

¥       Bake and frost a layer cake

¥       Have a totally awesome adventure

¥       Cut a watermelon myself

¥       Ride a bike with a friend

¥       Surf

¥       Go on boat rides

¥       Fish off of a boat

¥       Make a chalk mural

¥       Make a time capsule

¥       Have a picnic away from my house

¥       Perfect the messy bun

¥       Make ice cream

¥       Dance in the rain

¥       Watch a sunrise and a sunset in the same day

¥       Build a pillow fort and sleep in it

¥       Pull an all nighter

¥       Go by a different name by a day

¥       Make heart shaped pancakes

¥       Do handstands on the wall

¥       Climb a tree

¥       Do a “Wreck this Journal”

¥       Learn to use chopsticks

¥       Sit on the roof

¥       Make lemonade

¥       Finish a friendship bracelet

¥       Go swimming in the middle of the night

¥       Bake rainbow cupcakes

¥       Have a water balloon fight

¥       Do yoga

¥       Be active

¥       Go to an aquarium

¥       Take a picture everyday

¥       Post on my blog a lot

¥       Take pictures while jumping in the air

¥       Take underwater pictures

¥       Say yes to everything for a day

¥       Blow bubbles

¥       Go for a late night walk

¥       Have a do nothing day

¥       Go to Starbucks

¥       Finish a chapstick

¥       Eat fondue

¥       Make popsicles

¥       Drink a soda

¥       Stargaze

¥       Make chalk

¥       Sleep all day

¥       Be a vegetarian for a week

¥       Use a different name at Starbucks

¥       Listen to music for an entire day

¥       Drink coconut water

¥       Make root beer floats

¥       Spend a whole day barefoot

¥       Get a suntan tattoo

¥       Have a huge scavenger hunt

¥       Build a sandcastle

¥       Learn to juggle

¥       Throw a party for no reason

¥       Be a rebel

¥       Create a perfect sock bun

¥       Go a day without technology

¥       Grow an avocado plant

¥       Dye carnations

¥       Make rainbow ice cubes and put in sprite

¥       Make a wish at 11:11 pm

¥       Host a fancy dinner party

¥       Road trip

¥       Finish a 1,000 piece puzzle

¥       Make strawberry lemonade

¥       Eat breakfast at midnight

¥       Host a sophisticated tea party

¥       Eat cake without hands

¥       Tons of sleepovers

¥       Create something beautiful

¥       Have a me day

¥       Watch a thunderstorm

¥       Camp in my yard

¥       Make smoothies

¥       Make my bedroom magazine-worthy

¥       Make a random but delicious drink

¥       Make a music video

¥       Make s’mores

¥       Jump into water fully clothed

¥       Host a fourth of July party

¥       Break a pen

¥       Make the greatest ice cream sundae ever in the history of ice cream sundaes

¥       Count the stars

¥       Fly a kite

¥       Make layered drinks

¥       Tattoos with watercolor crayons

¥       Get a pair of high heels

¥       Hang out at Ikea

¥       Put Mentos in Diet Coke

¥       Throw a random surprise party

¥       Nap on the beach

¥       Order a pizza myself

¥       Buy a goldfish and name it Johnny

¥       Swim in the ocean with tiny rubber rings

¥       Skip stones on water

¥       Write a letter to a company

¥       Make dessert pizza

¥       Make a life bucket list

¥       Learn sign language

¥       Go to dairy queen and order a Pepsi

¥       Paint all my nails different colors

¥       Wear a bikini

¥       Carve my name in a tree

¥       Use a coupon

¥       Trash a t shirt but make it cool

¥       Buy a lottery ticket

¥       Go to Joe Picasso’s

¥       Walk on a boardwalk

¥       Nap in a hammock

¥       Dangle my feet off a dock

¥       Go to the keys with a friend

¥       Go to key west

¥       Swim in a pool with glow sticks

¥       Go snorkeling

¥       Get a beta fish and name it Rusty James

¥       Watch movies all night

¥       Make jello

¥       Pet a dolphin

¥       Burst a pillow

¥       Write a letter to Rapunzel

¥       GO on a glass bottom boat

¥       Get donuts from a drive-thru while wearing PJs

¥       Make French macaroons

¥       Have a water gun fight

¥       Order a pizza with ‘special instructions’

¥       Make a Camp Mary Atkinson bracelet

¥       Paint a wall mural

¥       Eat Italian ice

¥       Make a pop top bracelet

¥       Go to ipic

¥       Food fight

¥       Get a double piercing

¥       Create a recipe

¥       Buy a pair of white converse

¥       Buy a pair of toms

¥       Get a bouquet of flowers

¥       Pick a summer song

¥       Go to the mall

¥       Make a photo journal

¥       Go to the movies at night

¥       Silly string fight

¥       Watch fireworks

¥       Make a garbage bag water balloon

¥       Walk to the grocery store

¥       Make chocolate covered strawberries

¥       Send letters to my friends, snail mail style

¥       Buy something at a flea market or antique mall

¥       Wear sunglasses for an entire day

¥       Leave a note on a stranger’s windshield

¥       Freeze a water balloon

¥       Ride a bike somewhere

¥       Have breakfast/brunch outside

¥       buy a bracelet

¥       buy an anklet

¥       Make an anklet

¥       Make sun tea

¥       Get at least 100 pop tops

¥       Freeze jello

¥       Go to the container store

¥       Eat a new food

¥       Drink Arizona

¥       Make chocolate covered bananas

Plus, 1 item I'd like to add right now: Have the best summer ever.