Start Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Goal Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Items Complete to Date: 39
Italics = Currently working / already started
Strike = Completed
The Complete List
6. See a play - I love seeing plays but not always so much with the musicals, but when I heard that Wicked was coming to Nashville I knew I wanted to see it, since I had read the book a few years ago. David's shares my lack of interest in musicals, but he thought Wicked looked interesting, too. I'm so glad that we went, because it was even better than I thought it would be. There was SO MUCH left out of the play in comparison to the book, and there were also some very subtle differences in the storyline, but it really was a great experience.
27. Watch at least 101 movies that I have never seen (79/101) - I'm up to 79 movies in my list. I'll post the entire list once I've seen all 101.
34. Buy 50 pairs of socks (35/50) - 12 more pairs of socks to add to my collection. Only 15 more to go to mark this off my list.
35. Read at least 25 books (20/25) - Almost there! Just 5 more to go, and I will post the entire list.
38. Rent a cabin with the girls - While technically I had my high school girl friends in mind when I added this to the list, my weekend cabin retreat with the girls ended up being with a different group. Back in August, my mom and friends rented a cabin for the weekend so that we all could quilt or work on our craft hobbies. Our cabin was at beautiful Center Hill, and I think we all got a lot accomplished that weekend!
97. Visit an orchard - I honestly can't remember why I added this to the list. I guess because it's something that I have never done, even though there's several orchards in the Nashville area. I figured I would end up visiting the orchard in Mt. Juliet, but because of other plans in the day, David and I ended up visiting Morning Glory Orchard in Nolensville. While we didn't get to pick the apples, they still let us take a few pictures in the orchard, and we were able to buy their products in the store they have. We also visited a dairy that day, too, but that's not on the list :) And because I can't decide on just one picture to post here, I'm posting two. And if two pictures aren't enough, I have a whole set of pictures from our Farm Day
Adventures.
So 39 Complete and still several others In Progress!
Annnnnd....even though I outed myself on Twitter and Facebook earlier for posting without proofreading my earlier Quilting Blog post, I am not proof reading this one now because I am just too tired to do so. Therefore, by posting this disclaimer, I am absolved of any and all errors, grammatical and spelling. HA!
Dragon*Con - My first experience with Dragon*Con. This was David's 9th year going, and I've heard him talk about it for years. Before going, I was a bit worried that I wouldn't find anything there that interested me, since it's mostly SciFi, anime and fantasy....but OMG there ended up being more interesting things to do and see than hours in the day. I'm looking forward to going next year, too!
Professor Sprout Costume - Costumes are Dragon*Con are quite popular, and I had decided a long time ago that I wanted to bring a costume. It took a really long time to decide what I wanted to wear, and I ended up making a Professor Sprout (from Harry Potter) costume...with the help from my mom and her friend. Since I'm all about posting links tonight, I posted all about the costume on my Adventures in Quilting Blog.
JDRF Walk - This year was the second year I've walked in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk to Cure Diabetes. This year David went with me!
- Mood:
lazy
So instead of worrying about editing the list tonight, I'll just update with the list items that I have completed or show the progress that I am making in other items.
The main thing is to remember that I have NOT given up on completeing all 101 Things on the list! It's always in the back of my head, even when I am not actively working on it or keeping it up to date here.
Start Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008
Goal Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Items Complete to Date: 36
Italics = Currently working / already started
Strike = Completed
The Complete List
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David and I had lunch/dinner there on New Years Day. I even had a drink in a cool glass that I got to keep! I was feeling so pre-teen again!
Disclaimer:Pardon any spelling, grammar or typos. I tried to do a spellcheck, but it's pointing out all the html tags, and I'm too tired to go back and read it again. It took me almost 3 hours to compose this, and when I think about that, I think that's insane.
I have been planning my visit to you on July 15th since before I knew that it would be July 15th that I would be visiting you. You see, five years ago, I saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on your ginormous screen, and from then on I planned to do my best to always see the Harry Potter movies on the IMAX screen. I saw the first two movies in the series on regular screens, and while they were awesome, my experience with the third was heightened so much so that I felt like I was in the movie. Over the years I have become more and more of a Harry Potter fan, and my excitement for each movie has grown with each release.
Then today I hear of your plans to wait 2 weeks to release Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on the IMAX screen. Why must you do this to me? I've been telling everyone for months that I will be seeing the movie on opening day or the following weekend on the IMAX screen. You crushed my spirits! What's worse is that I find out that you are delaying the release of the movie for.....Transformers? Giant Robots are my nemesis! I'm crushed doubly! Of course, this just gives me more reason to hate Giant Robots.
So I'm left with a decision now. Do I still see Harry on opening day/weekend or do I try to avoid all the spoilers that I will most likely hear by waiting 2 weeks to have the ultimate Harry Potter IMAX experience? No, the answer is not to see it on the regular screen on the 15th, then again on the IMAX screen on the 29th. I don't work that way, and we both know that the IMAX experience will not be the same if I've already seen it, even with the extra 12 minutes.
What to do?
Sincerely,
Disgruntled Giant Robot Hater
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P.S. If you're reading this in Facebook, then it means it was imported from my LiveJournal blog.
Tonya: I seem to get a better night's sleep when I wake up at least once during the night.
David: I want to be able to close my eyes, open them and it be the next day.
Tonya: I want to be able to close my eyes, and feel like I've slept for 3 days.
It's quite possible that I enjoy sleeping more than many things in life.
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Here's a few pictures from things going on the past couple of weeks.
(Each picture is linked.)
I started another quilt last week, called Scrappy Pinwheel. It's a set of 12 blocks, each with different colors and patterns but all with at least one pinwheel design. Here are the first 6 completed blocks. I'm thinking of buying another 12-block set so that I can make a larger quilt.
The Flickr set for this quilt
Pictures from our adventure with the parents and the Nashville Rollergirls last Saturday.
(Left to Right: David's Parents, David and myself, my real Dad....I mean, an Elvis impersonator, my always-happy-to-take-pictures Dad and Mom, and The Biggest Nashville Rollergirl Fans Evar!
All the pictures from The Nashville Rollergirls event
My Mom "listening to" my tea (follow the earbud cord to see where it's "plugged in"). 
Volunteering with Dell at the Special Olympics.
The boy on the right in the last picture was REALLY getting into having his picture taken while he was in the Winner's Circle. He was pumping it up and hamming for the camera. He was a really sweet kid with Down's Syndrome.
The girl on the right in the second to the last picture coule run like the wind and loved to high-five.
All the Dell people in the first picture (with the exception of the participant in the middle) work in Sales or Manufacturing, and I didn't know a single one of them. 
Special Olympics Pictures
150 cookies that I baked for the March of Dimes Bake Sale at work.
When I walked in, I had a feeling I would end up seeing someone I knew, and even made a bet with myself that I would probably even know a Rollergirl...and both happened. First I saw one of the managers at Dell, but he had already walked past us when I saw him. I also saw another girl leaving, but for the life of me I can't remember what phase of my life I know her from (grade school, church, college, credit union). But the best part was that one of the Rollergirls is, in fact, someone I sorta knew in college. She wasn't one of my BFFs or anyone in my circle of friends, but she hung out in the campus gameroom where I worked.
Overall we had a great time, but Nashville didn't represent itself well in either bout. In the end, we decided that we would have rather seen The Jacksonville Rollergirls go against the Texas Rollergirls instead of our two teams against them. Each team beat each of ours by more than 100 points. It was sad. I really do want to go again, and I hope that our girls will be more equally matched the next time. Thankfully this is the only bout that is a Double Header, because I don't think my back and butt can take another Double Header on hard bleachers.
We got a few pictures. You can view them on Flickr or see them in a Slideshow.
But don't miss this AWWWW Moment!
I have seen a few of my LJers who seem to love Trader Joe's, and I was wondering what items you have found that you like there. Has anyone tried their coffee?
- Mood:
curious
I tried making a quilt once before like 10 years ago, but I didn't get very far into the process. Hopefully I won't give up on this one, because I've always wanted to say, "I MADE THAT QUILT!"
And here's a hijacked picture of what the pattern looks like. I think the colors may be similar to this, too, but I haven't seen the completed quilt, only the colors of the pieces for January block, but they're very fall-like. I'll post pictures after I'm done with my block on Thursday.
I'm thinking of editing my 101 Things List to include completing a quilt as one of my goals. We'll see how it goes Thursday before I make that change.
The whole Facebook Relationship Status started out as a joke between David and myself after I saw en episode of The Big Bang Theory regarding the subject. Then we've had all these problems with some people who view David's Facebook sees that he's in a relationship, but it doesn't have my name. So David thought the best name for a Rock Band band evar would be Facebook Relationship Status, and thus our Rock Band name was born.
We rocked out quite a bit today, and I gave singing a try....and liked it WAY more than I ever thought I would. Some of the songs have been a challenge on the guitar for me, but I can hit the notes singing so much better! Matthew even joined us for awhile and played Lead Guitar while David played Bass, and I sang some more.
So I created us a banner, and David turned it into an LJ icon. Unfortunately the size limit on an icon is pretty small, so some of the quality was lost, but still IT'S OUR BAND IN AN ICON! HAHAH! 
And the funniest thing tonight was how I cheated an Xbox Achievement that is apparently a popular cheat. If a song is completed flawless on Expert, you earn an Xbox Achievement. Since getting an Xbox, I've been a bit obsessed with earning Achievements, and finally hit the 1000 mark today! But anyway, the popular cheat is to sing the Beastie Boy's What'cha Want song, because as long as you are constantly making SOME sort of noise, then you earn the Achievement. I tried and got 99%! I just couldn't try again, because it takes SO MUCH lung capacity to pull it off. So David had the idea of putting the mic next to my sound maker spa to make constant noise to complete the song....and it worked!
- Mood:
satisfied
I got fitted for new glasses yesterday. Surprisingly, they're Hilary Duff glasses! I tried on at least a dozen pairs, and between my mom, the assistant at the store and myself, we kept going back to the Hilary Duff glasses. I should be getting them next Friday. You can see a better picture here, but I got the black pair. I'll probably go back in a few weeks and buy the same pair in sunglasses. I just didn't have the money to get both pair yesterday. (Click on the pictures for the larger Flickr version.)
Also yesterday while in Wal-Mart, my mom noticed this frog nightlight first, then commented that it looked like the frog was a little too happy with where his/her hands were placed. Yes, my mom made this observation before me.
Okay, off to sing some Rock Band 2. I can't believe I am singing! Strangely enough, I am much better at singing than I am playing the guitar.
- Mood:
nerdy
I have this thing about trying to do something different for New Years Eve every year. This year David and I celebrated by having dinner at a restaurant I've wanted to go to since I was a kid, New Orleans Manor. The food was pretty good and rather pricey, but it was a (most likely) once in a lifetime experience for me. I had the Shrimp Imperial and David had the Jambalaya Penne Pasta. Oh, and I thought the little yellow package was a gift, but then David points out that it's a lemon in a bag. I'm SO not educated in the ways of fine dining!
And for the New Year, I got sick. YAY! I've got the cold that everyone I know has already had for the last few weeks. It was inevitable that I would get it eventually. So far it's not really too bad. Mostly I feel achey, and I've been sneezing. My Dad hooked me up with some Allegra D, so that's keeping my nose clear, though I can still feel some junk in my head. What's really weird is that I'm WAY tired, but when I tried to take a nap, I kept waking up with this wide awake feeling. I guess that's the decongestant talking.
For New Year's Day, David and I went to see The Spirit. The movie was okay, but the best part about it was that it was a bit on the different side. Lately I've been bored with movies that are just like all other genre movies with a few changes. I like movies that are daring and mix it up a bit. They sorta left it open for a sequel, but I'm not so sure it will happen.
After the movies, we had lunch/dinner at The Hard Rock Cafe in Nashville. I've only eaten at the one in Nashville once way back in 1995, and I got a Gift Card from work, and besides it's on my 101 Things list! I decided to go all out and get a fruity girlie drink in a souvenir glass. I wish I had thought to take a picture of my fancy schmancy drink. I wish I had taken the opportunity to walk around and look at some of the memorabilia, but my cold was really starting to ramp up about the time that we were there, so sitting at the table seemed to be the best idea at the time. 
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giselc</lj>was Quick Draw McGraw and was texting my cell phone within seconds of the "break up." It was very funny, but apparently it's still not fixed completely. We've given up fixing it (for now). For all you Facebook junkies or cynics, check out this video as seen on The IT Crowd.
- Mood:
sick
I have so much I want to post, but I need to post two polls first.
Poll #1319906 Off the Market
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9
When a single person comes off the market (i.e. no longer single but not necessarily married), are they suddenly more desirable?
Yes, I always find them more attractive when they belong to someone else.
0 (0.0%)
Yes, I have felt this way at least once. 3 (33.3%)
No, but I have noticed this happen to other people, but I don't generally feel this way. 4 (44.4%)
No, I have never felt this way or noticed others. 2 (22.2%)
Poll #1319907 Seaonal Greetings
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9
Are you offended by seasonal greetings?
I am offended if someone says, "Merry Christmas." 0 (0.0%)
I am offended if someone says, "Happy Holidays." 0 (0.0%)
I am offended if someone says, "Seasons Greetings." 0 (0.0%)
I am offended by some other popular greeting. 0 (0.0%)
I'd rather no one greeted me this time of the year with anything. 0 (0.0%)
No, I am never offended, but I see why others might be. 3 (33.3%)
No, I am never offended and don't see why other people are. 6 (66.7%)
Cake request for Adolf Hitler, 3, denied
I KNOW you can name your child whatever you want, and the world SHOULD be tolerant of what you choose, but DAMN it's hard enough being a kid without the name Adolf Hitler Campbell or JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell.
I swear, if I ever have kids, they will have the most normal name EVAR! Kids are cruel!
Yes, I am 5!
giselc for posting the link. If I ever have a baby, this is where I want to go!Hello Kitty has a hospital!
Poll #1311574 Which is better?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8
When there's something questionable that you're going to do, is it better to ask permission or forgiveness?
2. Better skin
3. Laser hair removal
Hey, while I'm making absurd requests....
4. Magically lose 100 pounds
