46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. GONE DEEP SEA FISHING, rather vomited for three hours.
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 OR A TV SHOW, actually Meagan, Kat and I found ourselves extras in the La Guardia airport during a filming of the lobby. No payment of course.
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 once for mutual. It was very sad.
61. SOLD GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
62. GONE WHALE WATCHING
63. GOT FLOWERS FOR NO REASON, Did I dream this?
64. Donated blood, platlets, 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, actually I saved my whole stuffed animal kingdom, which Penny and I named, to be students in our elementary school. The day they had to draw waterfalls was one long day, but some of those kids could really draw.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
33. Seen Niagra Falls in Person with Grandpa Hughes, Mike, Kath and Greg. It was awesome! 34. VISITED THE BIRTHPLACE OF YOUR ANCESTORS 35. SEEN AN AMISH COMMUNITY in Ohio. 36. TAUGHT YOURSELF A NEW LANGUAGE. Took three years of French and know more spanish. The three phrases I learned were all used when Gina and I went to Ecuador. Donda esta la banyo? (where's the bathroom?) Quanto vala le sapatos (how much are the shoes?), and No may tokay (DONT touch ME!) 37. HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO TRUELY BE SATISFIED 38. SEEN THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA IN PERSON 39. GONE ROCK CLIMBING, girls camp 2001, and of course the small course in Vegas. I raced Ellis to the top only to find her at the bottom three feet from the bottom and shivering in her rock shoes. 40. SEEN MICHELANGELO'S DAVID, he was naked. 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
11. Bungie jumped 12. VISITED PARIS with my son Austin, and some of his friends from his travel class. 13. Watched a lightning storm at sea 14. TAUGHT YOURSELF AN ART FROM SCRATCH- sewing, crocheting, knitting, drawing and painting. 15. Adopted a child 16. HAD FOOD POISONING. 1973 food poisoning from a steak. I flew out of that bed so fast to make it to the toilet that I landed on my freshly frozen plantar wart foot, squashing its fluid filled puffy blister everywhere! 17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty. 18. GROWN YOUR OWN VEGGIES, yeah, 2inch carrots, onions nobody ate and a pumpkin leaf or two. 19. SEEN THE MONA LISA IN FRANCE
30 feet back cuz no one would move for me a short person to view. 20. SLEPT ON AN OVERNIGHT TRAIN from Germany to France. It was sooo tight in our 4 bed compartment with suitcases backed around us. Crazy! 21. HAD A PILLOW FIGHT 22. HITCH HIKED. My Dad made Penny and I get out of the truck to ride in the camper so they could pick up a hitch hiker on the Alaskan Highway. They let us out and then took off, not realizing we weren't in yet. We thought we had become the hitchhikers. I also hitched a ride with a good Samaratan on the freeway when Zach and I ran out of gas. That was scary, but I lived. He was very nice. 23. Taken a sick day when you were not ill 24. BUILT A SNOW FORT 25. Held a lamb 26. GONE SKINNY DIPPING in the YWCA pool late at night with the other swim instructors when no one was looking....hehehehe 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 HOMERUN. 32. BEEN ON A CRUISE
Sunday, November 23, 2008
The List,!
THE List
I have done all the things CAPITILIZED (I Have Been Tagged)
This will be a continuing saga segment so I don't overwhelm you all at once!
1. STARTED YOUR OWN BLOG 2. SLEPT UNDER THE STARS 3. PLAYED IN A BAND, my 4th grade recorder band. We went platinum. 4. VISITED HAWAII, Maui, and Oahu. 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. GIVEN MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO CHARITY 7. BEEN TO DISNEYLAND. 1963 my mom and dad took us to Disneyland. I remember waking up around 4 a.m. and climbing into the folded down seat in the car to sleep while my parents drove. When we got there, I put on my new yellow and blue seersucker short set my mom made for me to wear in Disneyland. I felt pretty proud about my stylin' clothes. 8. CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN. 1971 Penny and I climbed Mt. Timpanogas with the mutual. We were the first of the girls to reach the top, we had really wimpy girlfriends. 2008 Mike and I climbed to the top of Diamond Head in Oahu. 9. HELD A PRAYING MANTIS, duh, who hasn't. 10. Sang a solo, not!
I have done all the things CAPITILIZED (I Have Been Tagged)
This will be a continuing saga segment so I don't overwhelm you all at once!
1. STARTED YOUR OWN BLOG 2. SLEPT UNDER THE STARS 3. PLAYED IN A BAND, my 4th grade recorder band. We went platinum. 4. VISITED HAWAII, Maui, and Oahu. 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. GIVEN MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD TO CHARITY 7. BEEN TO DISNEYLAND. 1963 my mom and dad took us to Disneyland. I remember waking up around 4 a.m. and climbing into the folded down seat in the car to sleep while my parents drove. When we got there, I put on my new yellow and blue seersucker short set my mom made for me to wear in Disneyland. I felt pretty proud about my stylin' clothes. 8. CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN. 1971 Penny and I climbed Mt. Timpanogas with the mutual. We were the first of the girls to reach the top, we had really wimpy girlfriends. 2008 Mike and I climbed to the top of Diamond Head in Oahu. 9. HELD A PRAYING MANTIS, duh, who hasn't. 10. Sang a solo, not!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Grandma and Grandpa Burton
As a very small pre-elementary school kid Grandpa Burton would tend me, while my mom ran errands. First thing in the morning, Grandma Burton would fry up an egg, never breaking the yoke, and cooking it in about 1/2 cup of bacon grease. The edges would fry up to a very brown crispy edge. Grandpa would have his toast dipped into the yoke with I think it was coffee to swig it down. He would always have lip slime on the side of his mouth that he rarely wiped off. I could never figure that out, but even as a small child I thought that was rather funny. After breakfast, we would mess around outside, sometimes he would be working on an old car and I would just hang around and watch. After outside duties it would be lunchtime. It seemed that Grandma Burton was gone somewhere about this time and lunch would be up to Grandpa to fix. Always, always he would fix me a peanut butter and slathered honey sandwich, and a side bar of Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup. It was the best, because he would let me pick out my favorite handled spoon. My favorite was a Mickey Mouse silver spoon, and it seemed to be his favorite too! I don't know why that always made me feel so big, but it did. It was one of my favorite things to do. Sometimes later in the after noon when Grandma was home we would have a snack. Grandpa would eat peanut butter from a spoon while Grandma wasn't looking. That would always make me laugh to get one over on Grandma. If she caught Grandpa she would always scold him with "Howwwward", in an amused, very low, slow voice. Even as she voiced her displeasure, she had a half crooked smile on her face. They were funny.
Grandma used to tend us when Mom and Dad went hunting. There was an old iron bed in the spare bedroom that we slept in. As the night got older we got a little sillier and would start our circus act on the bed. We would run and flip, tumble and do acrobatic tricks until we became so loud, that Grandma would catch us and give us heck. We would promise to behave and quietly work up another circus act as if we had just lived through the intermission. She would even threaten to spank us if we didn't "settle down". EWWWW!
I remember Grandpa letting us, meaning Kathryn, Penny and I, rollerskate in the Zellerbach warehouse as we played "Hide and Seek". I must have been about 7 or 8. We would hide behind the tall shelves of paper as our "it" person hunted for us, all while Grandpa proceeded to do his janitorial work in the other office. I remember one Saturday hiding in a new place right by the warehouse office. Quietly I rolled around, positioning myself into a great spot, and just as I was settling down I looked up at the wall above my head and noticed a nudey calendar. My mouth dropped and I couldn't believe my eyes. "What in the heck was that doing here?" "What kind of a place is this?" We never told Grandpa, because it was too crazy, but oooohh what a day that was. Yuck!
I remember Grandma Burton's classic 50's high heel shoes, black, with fat heels. She would dress up, makeup and all and put those crisscrossed toed shoes on to go to work at the Paris. They were the coolest!
I remember the day I discovered that wives sometimes do quiet, underhanded things to keep their husbands from complaining. My mother, me, and Penny watched Grandma Burton cut the tag out of a new t-shirt that Grandpa Burton would wear. When I asked why we were doing that, Grandma replied that Grandpa wouldn't wear a shirt made out of certain fabric, so she cut the tag out and told him it was a different fabric she had bought on sale. What in the world? I had never conceived of this type of deception, but it has come in handy as I have gotten older and quite a bit more in need of calm.
Grandma Burton would take us every year to the Paris Christmas Party. The tradition was to watch "The Wizard of Oz", of which I have become quite attached, at Grandma's and then go to the party. After the fun of the party we picked out a wrapped present and took it home. They always had the best gifts and it was so fun to anticipate what was in the present every year.
The summer when I turned 16 we drove to Alaska. At one point we had to load the truck onto the ferry and travel up river. Grandpa and Grandma Burton were on the ferry with us and we started playing "Old Maid", the card game. After playing several hands Grandpa ended up with the "Old Maid". It was then that he realized that wasn't what you wanted to end up with. He started laughing, until he cried, all the while his glasses sliding down his little nose. I remember his teeth dislodging from the "polident" tight grip, which never seemed tight to me, and jiggling out of his mouth, back in, and then back out again. It was a site to behold. He was soooo much fun!
I miss both of them so much and all the weird fun we had. They made my childhood very memorable. It's great to have a loving, fun family. One that can throw an orange straight as an arrow on a dare and blacken the eye of another beloved. I guess that's what makes families unique and certainly memorable!
Grandma used to tend us when Mom and Dad went hunting. There was an old iron bed in the spare bedroom that we slept in. As the night got older we got a little sillier and would start our circus act on the bed. We would run and flip, tumble and do acrobatic tricks until we became so loud, that Grandma would catch us and give us heck. We would promise to behave and quietly work up another circus act as if we had just lived through the intermission. She would even threaten to spank us if we didn't "settle down". EWWWW!
I remember Grandpa letting us, meaning Kathryn, Penny and I, rollerskate in the Zellerbach warehouse as we played "Hide and Seek". I must have been about 7 or 8. We would hide behind the tall shelves of paper as our "it" person hunted for us, all while Grandpa proceeded to do his janitorial work in the other office. I remember one Saturday hiding in a new place right by the warehouse office. Quietly I rolled around, positioning myself into a great spot, and just as I was settling down I looked up at the wall above my head and noticed a nudey calendar. My mouth dropped and I couldn't believe my eyes. "What in the heck was that doing here?" "What kind of a place is this?" We never told Grandpa, because it was too crazy, but oooohh what a day that was. Yuck!
I remember Grandma Burton's classic 50's high heel shoes, black, with fat heels. She would dress up, makeup and all and put those crisscrossed toed shoes on to go to work at the Paris. They were the coolest!
I remember the day I discovered that wives sometimes do quiet, underhanded things to keep their husbands from complaining. My mother, me, and Penny watched Grandma Burton cut the tag out of a new t-shirt that Grandpa Burton would wear. When I asked why we were doing that, Grandma replied that Grandpa wouldn't wear a shirt made out of certain fabric, so she cut the tag out and told him it was a different fabric she had bought on sale. What in the world? I had never conceived of this type of deception, but it has come in handy as I have gotten older and quite a bit more in need of calm.
Grandma Burton would take us every year to the Paris Christmas Party. The tradition was to watch "The Wizard of Oz", of which I have become quite attached, at Grandma's and then go to the party. After the fun of the party we picked out a wrapped present and took it home. They always had the best gifts and it was so fun to anticipate what was in the present every year.
The summer when I turned 16 we drove to Alaska. At one point we had to load the truck onto the ferry and travel up river. Grandpa and Grandma Burton were on the ferry with us and we started playing "Old Maid", the card game. After playing several hands Grandpa ended up with the "Old Maid". It was then that he realized that wasn't what you wanted to end up with. He started laughing, until he cried, all the while his glasses sliding down his little nose. I remember his teeth dislodging from the "polident" tight grip, which never seemed tight to me, and jiggling out of his mouth, back in, and then back out again. It was a site to behold. He was soooo much fun!
I miss both of them so much and all the weird fun we had. They made my childhood very memorable. It's great to have a loving, fun family. One that can throw an orange straight as an arrow on a dare and blacken the eye of another beloved. I guess that's what makes families unique and certainly memorable!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
THANKFUL THANKSGIVING
This is the month of Thankfulness, even though I try to be Thankful all year long. But in respect to this month I am turkey tagging everyone in reading distance to blog at least 5 things they are thankful for. Ready, set, GO! (In no particular order, if you kids are wondering.)
1-Home with heat, food, and especially a hot bath.
2- A Job, (so I can pay for everyone who wants a handout from Obama.)
3- Health, need I say more! Especially Kaitlyn's miraculous recovery.
4-Children that I love more than I could verbally blubber through!
5- Grandchildren: Ownie, and Mack-Daddy. I would like more however! Maybe one named Milton!
6-Fag, Willie! As a matter of fact, Chubbie, Junior, and Dodger. I miss Hurley,Cody, and Spider. And appreciate Sally and Cooper.
7-Mike's Bishop calling. He has become a "real boy", and I am having fun with the peeps! (Don't go there Tiffany!)
8-Turkey tag with Whit Bonesaw, she pretty good at the game, but I am BETTER! hehehe
9-My Daddy! Especially lovin his membership in the church and ALL he gives, and the lives he has affected for good! Love you Daddy! Same goes for my sis Kathryn. Glad shes still with us and kickin'.
10- Thankful that I still miss Timmy. That lets me know I still think, love, and care for him. I know he is doing well and thinks of us constantly. His passing has taught me many lessons, especially patience. I can't wait to see him again, but in the meantime I am thankful for life's lessons! Happy thankfulness everybody!
1-Home with heat, food, and especially a hot bath.
2- A Job, (so I can pay for everyone who wants a handout from Obama.)
3- Health, need I say more! Especially Kaitlyn's miraculous recovery.
4-Children that I love more than I could verbally blubber through!
5- Grandchildren: Ownie, and Mack-Daddy. I would like more however! Maybe one named Milton!
6-Fag, Willie! As a matter of fact, Chubbie, Junior, and Dodger. I miss Hurley,Cody, and Spider. And appreciate Sally and Cooper.
7-Mike's Bishop calling. He has become a "real boy", and I am having fun with the peeps! (Don't go there Tiffany!)
8-Turkey tag with Whit Bonesaw, she pretty good at the game, but I am BETTER! hehehe
9-My Daddy! Especially lovin his membership in the church and ALL he gives, and the lives he has affected for good! Love you Daddy! Same goes for my sis Kathryn. Glad shes still with us and kickin'.
10- Thankful that I still miss Timmy. That lets me know I still think, love, and care for him. I know he is doing well and thinks of us constantly. His passing has taught me many lessons, especially patience. I can't wait to see him again, but in the meantime I am thankful for life's lessons! Happy thankfulness everybody!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
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Halloween 08
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From left to right: Sexy Wee-och Lisa, Mike aka Mike the Dike, J-Dawg Home Boy, Elfettissa, and Meagan Crow.
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