:: eye of the storm ::


About Me

A 27-year-old PA student who wants to visit all seven continents, write a book, work at a pediatric clinic in Africa, and basically meet as many of the world's challenges as possible.

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Life List

(already accomplished)

Become a PA

Visit all 7 continents

Take a SwimTrek trip

Bike through Western Europe

Raft the Grand Canyon

Improve my Spanish proficiency

Go on safari in Africa

Trace my roots at Ellis Island

Vacation in Hawaii

Work on a hospital ship in a Third World country

Celebrate New Year's in Times Square

Visit all 50 states (29 to go: AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY)

See the ruins at Pompeii

Swim in Capri's Blue Grotto

Tour Mt. Vesuvius

Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain

Tour the Colosseum

Visit the D-Day beaches

See the Mona Lisa

Visit the palace at Versailles

See the Acropolis and Parthenon

See the Egyptian pyramids

Hike the Inca Trail

Walk El Camino Santiago

Take an Alaskan cruise

View the Taj Mahal at sunrise

Hike Table Mountain in South Africa

Climb through the Amazon canopy

Walk at least part of the Great Wall of China

Get laser hair removal

Learn to surf, ski, and snowboard

Learn to drive a stick-shift

Learn to play the piano

Go on a tropical cruise

Ride horseback on the beach

Ride in a hot air balloon

Get tickets to the Olympics

Go to adult Space Camp

Witness a shuttle launch from up close

Build a full-sized snowman

Sew a quilt out of my old race T-shirts

Update and continue my Life Scrapbook

Become the oldest person to ever do the River Run

Live to be a happy, healthy 100 years old - at least!

(unlikely dreams)

dinsdag 2 maart 2004

I am never buying Tropicana in NL again. I usually buy the Albert Heijn brand, but they were out, so I settled for Tropicana... and I just spent almost ten minutes trying to get the top off. Mom can attest to this - that when *I* have trouble getting a top off of something, then it's a job for a wrestler. We don't have one of those cute little rubber things that you can use for leverage, so I used a towel, my shirt, a garbage bag... nothing worked. Finally in desperation I took a knife and performed surgery - cut the top away from that ring-thing holding it on, expecting that it would then twist off easily. Not so. The @#$%^& thing is STILL stuck. Luckily it was one of those wax-cardboard cartons so I just opened up one of the 'corners' the way you do in school when you have those little cartons of milk. That was a struggle in itself because of the stupid orange top sticking off the side, but I managed. So then I took my first triumphant slug, and it's full of pulp. I hate pulp. So now I'm sitting here eating cereal and gagging down thickened slurps from the torn corner of an orange juice carton... whose plastic orange cap is still mockingly glued to the top.

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