Thank you, God, thank you, Phil the AC guy, and thank you, Guy-Who-Thought-of-Air-Conditioning-in-Florida-Way-Back-When! This guy, John Gorrie:
I was happy to see that people are taking an interest in my really terrible painting of the princess staring off into...somewhere. There's a little bidding war going on for that one, which I think is just the best.
Someone else has bid on Junior Aviation Science. Other items are being watched, so I don't know what will happen to them, This ebay thing is very new to me. Thank you to everyone who is bidding and/or watching.
The second I woke up this morning, my mom was up, and complaining about the ghost again. She said last night it was saying "BOOM.....BOOM." I honestly don't know what to think about it, except that she knows the 'boree is coming up and I'll be going out of town, and she's preparing the guilt part of the trip.
I want to say a huge THANK YOU to whoever sent me the new Fennboree map. I got #55 out of 250. That was a very generous and awesome thing to do, and I appreciate it and am very thankful and grateful. I hope you're reading this right now, and wanted you to know I love it. It is a very nice map!
So here's a fun thing...Ramona posted this on her Facebook page, and I thought I'd steal it and use it here, too. If you want to play, feel free to copy and paste in the comments and put your answers!
The Bucket List--Place an X by the things you have done:
Fired a Gun X (All kinds...I like to shoot guns and am pretty good at it...was a marksman in the AF)
Gone on a blind date X (too many bad ones to count)
Skipped school X (who wants to go to school when the surf is good?)
Watched someone give birth (I don't think seeing on TV counts, so I didn't mark it)
Watched someone die X (saddest was in x-ray school in OK when a young woman with kids died in the ER from a tragic car accident)
Visited Texas X (Drove through a couple times, and "visited" Lackland when I joined the AF)
Visited Canada X (Harrison Hot Springs is the BEST!) Here are some pics from one of our trips there:
Visited Hawaii (you would think with my ex-husband co-owning a house in Kauai with his mom and sister, we would have gone to Hawaii at least once--NOPE.)
Visited Europe X (England, France, does the Bahamas count?)
Visited Las Vegas X
Visited Asia
Visited Africa
Visited Florida X (LOL)
Visited Mexico
Visited Australia
Seen the Grand Canyon in person X (very pretty and awe inspiring--the Canyon of all Canyons)
Flown in a HELICOPTER
Been on a cruise X
Served on a jury (Asperger's gets mentioned and I'm immediately out of there...lol)
Been in a movie X (I was an extra in Parenthood)
Visited L.A.
Been to New York City
Cried yourself to sleep X
Played in a band X (high school and college)
Recently colored with pencils X
Sang karaoke X (Most recently Drag Me Down by One Direction with friends. First ever was Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer at Rising Star on Universal CityWalk.) Here's me and my friend Jeananne at Rising Star. I look like a way too excited dork:
Swam in the ocean X
Paid for a meal with coins only X (at Denny's while in college)
Made prank phone calls X (with goofy friends calling boys we had crushes on)
Laughed so much you cried X (SOOO many times...like watching Riding a Buffalo)
Caught a snowflake on your tongue X
Had children X (Three amazing wonders of the world)
Had a pet X (Most recently Monet. My first pet was a black lab named Sam before we moved from West Palm Beach to Merritt Island)
Been skinny dipping X (a couple times...not often)
Repelled down a building/tower
Gone zip lining X (I went on the Sky Coaster, the worlds second biggest sky coaster, which combines zip lining with bungee jumping and gives you the feeling of jumping out of a plane) Here's me and my ex sister-in-law getting ready for the plunge:
Been bungee jumping X (see above)
Been downhill skiing X (more like downhill falling)
Been water skiing X (I've wiped out on water skis, too...lol) Here's the first time I ever water skied:
Driven a motorcycle X
Jumped out of a plane
Gone to a drive-in movie X
Done something that could have killed you X (Way too many times)
Done something that you will regret for the rest of your life X (Unfortunately)
Rode an elephant X (at a zoo)
Rode a camel (at a zoo)
Eaten just cookies or cake or ice cream for dinner X (Ha! All the time)
Been on TV
Been in newspaper X
Stolen any traffic signs
Been in a car accident X (two or three, none my fault)
Stayed in Hospital X
Donated blood X (O Negative)
Had to pay a fine in the past 12 months
Eaten snails (Never ever will I ever eat a snail)
Gotten a piercing X (I had my belly button pierced when I was in the AF, then removed it when I had Callie...my ears are pierced) Here's my belly button:
Gotten a tattoo (not yet, but maybe a small one like the following pic...it represents peace in my heart) Here's my design:
Driven a standard car X (I learned how to drive in my dad's Datsun 280ZX)
Ever owned your dream car (laughable...I'm thankful to even have a car)
Been Married X (twice)
Been divorced X (twice)
Fell in love X (not entirely sure on this one...maybe?)
Paid for a strangers meal X
Driven over 100mph X
Worked in a pub
Been scuba diving X (I think SNUBA counts)
Found a dead body (almost...once I rode my bike past a guy that committed suicide on our street on Shady Lane,,,twice as I rode home from my friend's house in the early AM, and back to her house with my swimsuit because her dad was taking us sailing...I think somehow God shielded my eyes so I wouldn't see)
Lived on your own X
Rode in the back of a police car (hopefully never)
Written or published a book/story/poem/song (Lots--and edited them too...I still get measly little royalty checks ten years later...lol) Here's my most recent check (certain stuff blurred out)
Well, this post took longer than I thought...gotta hurry!
Well, apparently I pissed Dal off by asking Forrest Fenn a question via Dal's blog and then defending my actions when Dal told me not to. I showed him other postes where ppl asked questions directly to FF via his blog.Now I am banned. I cannot post, not even in moderation. He won't even acknowledge my apology or let me e-mail him. I have been blacked out like the books in Nazi Germany or the former Soviet Union. No freedom of speech or forgiveness on Dal's blog. I have been there for four years and he bans me just to show me who's boss? I am beside myself. if anyone reads this, perhaps they could find it in their hearts to plead my case to Dal and see if they can convince him to let me back into the group discussion...or at the very least provide me with some reasonable explanation for banishing me.
Sincerely, Michael D