Fill in the Blank Friday

1.  If I didn't have to work anymore I would  travel and bake a lot of delicious things.

2.  My favorite thing about a vacation is  not having to cook or clean, breaking out of your routine, drinking in new places.

 

3.  When packing for a trip I  pack far too much underwear and usually end up having to put some of my stuff in Chris' bag, or have a separate bag just for shoes and toiletries.

 

4.  My top 3 absolute travel essentials are   pain killers, head and shoulders, and a cardigan.

5.  Vacations are  the shit.

7.  On vacation you must always  actually relax and sleep.  

Julibean <3

Food for Thought

I thought about Jaclyn's little nudger today and then thought about some baby names.  Here's some that I like...

For Boys:
Ethan
Owen
Jude
David
Riley
Oliver

For Girls:
Andrea
Evelyn
Olivia
Leigh
Ainsley
Julia
Audrey
Morgan
Adrian

that is all

Julibean <3

Songs I Really Like Today (and always)

Breakable
By Ingrid Michaelson

Sway
By Michael Buble

Julibean <3

101 in 1001

So yes, I had one of these lists on my old blog, but seeing as very little of it was pertinent anymore, I figured I'd start some more goals for myself.  Many of them are recycled from the old list or from friends' lists, and a small few I have already accomplished because I wanted to give myself a little pat on the back for some important ones from the old list.  Here it is:

1. Make sushi again
2. Make tempura
3. Learn a few songs on the guitar
4. Find a Church in Maryland (12/10)
5. Go to Church wedding classes with Chris (9/11)
6. Write toast for Elise's wedding (7/3/10)
7. Go to CALI graduation (11/8/10)
8. Make a wedding cake for someone
9. Have a stranger pay me to bake something for them
10. Visit Morgan in California
11. Find a wedding dress (bought on 3/5/11)
12. Grow another vegetable/plant (6/20/11)
13. See Muse in concert
14. See any other concert (Regina Spektor - 10/12)
15. Go crabbing
16. Get married (1/8/12)
17. Cook a full Thanksgiving dinner
18. Learn to drive stick
19. Throw a New Year's party (1/1/13)
20. Throw Chris a kickass 25th birthday party
21. Go to a drive in
22. Make an ice cream cake
23. Ride in a hot air balloon
24. Go hiking (1/12)
25. Go horseback riding
26. Swim in the Pacific (1/12)
27. Play the endless set list
28. Play poker
29. Play paintball
30. Go skiing
31. Go jet skiing ( Naples 7/12 (saw so many fucking dolphins))
32. Go on a roller coaster I've never been on (Universal Studios 11/12)
33. Go sledding
34. Learn a first dance with Chris (learn may have been an overstatement 1/8/12)
35. Go ice skating at Rockerfeller Plaza
36. Mail out Christmas cards and cookies
37. Start a sand collection
38. Have a pen pal (Exchanged letters with Morgan 10/12/10)
39. Read the Bible
40. Save $5,000 (savings is up to 10k 3/11)
41. Hang out on a roof
42. Go to Harry Potter world (11/12)
43. Get 20 followers on my blog
44. Go apple picking
45. Go pumpkin picking
46. Carve a pumpkin like a badass
47. Make crepes
48. Get a dog
49. Buy size 12 jeans for myself
50. Lose 10 pounds (1/15/11)
51. Lose 20 pounds
52. Lose 30 pounds
53. Lose 40 pounds
54. Take a fitness class
55. Run for 20 minutes without stopping
56. Go skinny dipping
57. Go on a vacation with friends (11/12)
58. Go to Las Vegas
59. Go on a wine tour
60. Go to Toronto
61. Go to New Orleans (4/11)
62. Go to the German Alps Festival
63. Get engagement photos taken (7/20/110)
64. Go to the ballet or opera
65. Have a bonfire
66. Brush up on my Spanish
67. Write a bucket list
68. Visit 5 states I've never been to before (Louisiana, Hawaii, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina 11/12)
69. Read 10 books
70. Brew my own beer
71. Paint a painting
72. Set up office/craft room/guest bedroom (completed 3/11)
73. Go camping
74. Sing karaoke
75. Join/start a new music group
76. Make flyers/business cards/website for new business
77. Make bread pudding
78. Visit Dan in Seattle again
79. Hold a baby (5/11)
80. Babysit someone's kid(s)
81. See next Twilight movie with my sister (actually saw it with Chris)
82. Re-floor the condo
83. Re-paint the condo
84. Redo the condo kitchen
85. Add my DNA to Be the Match
86. Buy new bras (10/20/10)
87. Buy new underwear (2/11)
88. Go to the zoo (8/26/10)
89. Go to the aquarium (11/26/10)
90. Take a trip to visit a friend by myself
91. Chat over coffee with Jim again
92. Drink around the world at Epcot
93. Act in a play/musical, or at least preform on stage
94. Reconnect with one old friend (2/2/11)
95. Help Elise move in with Jason (7.11)
96. Send out wedding invites (10/11)
97. Sew baby blanket for Jaclyn & Andy's baby (12/15/10)
98. Go to a reniassance fair
99. Have an awesome drunken time on Halloween
100. Go out to a bar with my girlfriends
101. Meet said girlfriends

a few bonus ones that I just thought of...

102. Go on a double date
103. Host a dinner party
104. Celebrate something with a champagne toast (1/1/13)
105. Win a trivia match (8/12)
106. Witness an engagement
107. Clean out closet (3/2011)
108. Meet a friend of Chris' from work
109. See a Broadway show
110. Participate in a bar crawl
111. Throw a kegger

I think a lot of those are do-able in the next 1001 days

A Day in the Life of Chris & Julie - Engaged Couple #3

Chris and I are sitting on the couch last night waiting for dinner to be ready and planning a trip to go see Jim in Philadelphia next weekend.  (I can't wait!!!) 

Chris is, of course, spoiling his dinner by eating some pretzels. 

I tell him to put them away because dinner is almost ready. 

He rolls up the bag with such force that the air pops the bottom open and covers him and the couch in bits of pretzels. 

I can't stop laughing at him. 

He looks at me and just says "help."

I try to pick up a few pieces before realizing just how many pretzel bits are covering the grandma couch.

I say, "You're like five years old.  Good luck, get the vacuum."

<3 Julibean

I am anticipating my first letter from pen pal Morgan this afternoon.  I was so excited that I wrote her a seven page letter.  I probably should have waited to read hers first.  I may have defeated the purpose here.

Fill in the Blank Friday

I'm playing Fill in the Blank Friday from Lauren's blog The Little Things We Do

1.   The first thing I do in the morning to start my day is  kiss my fiance on the cheek and try to get him to turn on the shower.

2.  Today I wish I was feeling a little bit better.  I'm home sick.  I'd also like to be eating GS cookies and hanging out with my sister and Jaclyn.

3.  If I had an extra $100 in my bank account today I'd probably do nothing differently.

4.  Tomorrow I will sleep in while Chris goes to work, then probably bake something.  I'm thinking cinnamon rolls.

5.  Two things that don't go together are  lemon and chocolate!  A tip from culinary school.

6.  Something I can never pass up at the grocery store is  umm I usually don't impulse buy things at the grocery store, but at a CVS I'm terrible.  I'll usually get a cookies and cream chocolate bar or some beef jerkey or something.

7.  The last time I tried something new was I tried a bite of Chris crab imperial at dinner the other day.  I didn't really like it too much, too much mayonnaise.

Have a good weekend!

Julibean <3

Song I Liked Today

Today I listened to this song about five times:

Here You Me
Jimmy Eat World

Julibean <3