Thursday, June 30, 2011
Today I am 22
A birthday is always a good day to celebrate and do something exciting. Today I am going to check something off my bucket list...
#173- Go to a luaua!
Boy planned a fun filled day. I am not sure what we are doing during the day but this evening we are VIP's at Paradise Cove's Luaua!
I am really excited about this! I will of course report back later with pictures!
#173- Go to a luaua!
Boy planned a fun filled day. I am not sure what we are doing during the day but this evening we are VIP's at Paradise Cove's Luaua!
I am really excited about this! I will of course report back later with pictures!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
6/28 Random Post
My fiance is in the Navy. Because he is leaving soon I somehow acquired two dogs from his fellow shipmates. I can't get the one to stop eating my cats food. My poor cat is freaking out. I have had one dog for about 4 days now and the other just came here tonight and has been howling for the last couple of hours. I have never had a dog, so this is defiantly an experience for me!
Just bought a new couch last week. Good vibes this way for my couch please! I hope it makes it through this experience also.
Just bought a new couch last week. Good vibes this way for my couch please! I hope it makes it through this experience also.
Monday, June 27, 2011
#145 Wine tasting
My fiance and I went to Oneo Wines in Kailua Hawaii to try out some of their wines and get some bottles made for our wedding. The guy that worked there was AWESOME and the wine of course was AMAZING because I love wine! In front of me is my grading sheets and the woman at the table behind me were busy with their bottling party!
#154 Sing Karaoke!
HAHA! That would be me, fulfilling bucket list #154 in a hole in the wall bar in Waikiki Hawaii. Note the Lady gaga lyrics on the back screen ;)
Ok heres the run dun
I originally started this blog on Tumblr. After using Tumblr for a little bit and realizing that I didn't have a lot of followers I began to think to myself...Why? Well because I was blogging! Tumblr users are more into pictures and quotes then actual blogs. So I decided to continue the rest of my journey on Blogger so I can get more people to be interested in it.
Here is my tumblr for the orginal dates and posts including some extra hiking trips!
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/britferrell
Feel free to follow me there also!
Here is my tumblr for the orginal dates and posts including some extra hiking trips!
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/britferrell
Feel free to follow me there also!
Read the All Time 100 Novels
Incredibly written novel that takes place in the Bronx in New York city. The novel centers around the Bober family who own a local grocery store. Because of commercialism and high end grocery markets being built around the Bober’s business, they financially are doing very poor because they can’t match the prices of the big time grocery stores. It is an insightful book that shows the transition of classic American life to a commercial American life. In the meantime the author brings the reader’s attention to the new store clerk and his influence on the Bober family both personally and professionally. The book does a good job showing the decline of family owned stores (besides the local liquor store owner who does very well for himself throughout the story).
The novel starts off with an armed robbery stealing the pathetic amount of cash from the Bober’s register. The book just continues on a downward spiral for many of the characters which results in a very entertaining, unfortunate, and realistic story. If you are feeling bad about your life, or think that you have really bad luck try reading this novel because you are guaranteed to feel some aspect of your life as being more amazing then you could ever imagine. Seriously, pick this book up.
#193 Read times 100 best novels of all time…
Done and done, although not too easy with this one. I found this book very tedious. I have a hard time reading long novels that go WAY into detail about everything.
The novel had a great storyline however. It takes place in Chicago during the Great Depression in America, which is probably why it is seen as such an American classic. The book opens up with a young Augie March who is stealing with one of his school age friends, and a very strict Polish grandmother who makes her two grandsons work hard for their supper. The book goes on and on through random jobs and random lovers throughout Augie’s life during the depression. Even throughout Augie’s life he remembers his Polish background and his grandmother’s words of harsh wisdom cause the book to have a great deal of satire. The book deals with a lot of common themes, including love and loss, wealth and poverty, the highs and lows of life, struggles to conformity, death, disability, and many many others. I think Augie is a relatable character. I know at times I would stop and think to myself “damn, I am kind of like Augie. I don’t have a guaranteed plan for myself and often just go with the flow of life”. Or, for the stronger person they might think “Damn! I can definitely see myself training an eagle to hunt lizards in the depth of a Mexican jungle.”
Overall, I am glad I read it…maybe not so much at first, but it has a fantastic ending. Do I recommend it? Yes, if you have plenty of time to waste :)
#48 Go whale watching
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I can cross off Item #196 Wooohooo!
My amazing fiance and I spent 3 magical days in Walt Disney World in Orlando Flordia during his leave from the Military January 1-3. We had an amazing time. The first night we stayed was a complete accident. We were supposed to be meeting Anthony’s family in Cape Coral on the first, but since we were driving from New Orleans the day before we decided it would have been wiser to just spend an extra day at Disney! We spent the night walking around downtown Disney where we ate at Fulton’s Crab house. A very cute restuarant modeled after a steamboat sitting on the lake. The service was very disney! Everyone everywhere was exceptional. I had a wonderful time. The next day we switched hotels to meet up with his family at the Saratoga Springs resort.
The Saratoga Springs resort was a nice touch to our vacation, because it was modeled exactly like the home town Saratoga that I grew up in! Even the street names were the same (Ave. Of Pines, Congress Park) and the hotel room looked like many of my friend’s apartments that live in the old victorian houses. The whole thing was surreal and oddly comforting.
We spent our next day at Universal and Hollywood studios and we also spent time on the very vacant (sunday night) Boardwalk.
Our last day in Disney we went to Epcot where we got to drink around the world! This was a wonderful thing to be crossed off my bucket list, and everything I dreamed that Disney would be. Magical!
Read Times 100 Best Novels
Time's list of the 100 Best novels
I want to read every novel on this list. As of today these are the titles that I have already completed reading…“Atonement” (2002)- Ian McEwan (Great story. Favorite quote: “The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse)
“Gone with the Wind” (1936)- Margaret Mitchell (This is my all time favorite novel. So much better than the movie, although the movie is very good too. Favorite quote and let me be cliche: “My dear, I don’t give a damn”. I have always wanted to say that to someone!)
“The Great Gasby” (1925)- Scott Fitzgerald (Who hasn’t read “The Great Gasby”? I enjoyed it better the second time around)
“Light in August” (1932)- William Faulkner (I am not going to lie, this was a slow painful read)
“Lord of the Flies” (1955)- William Golding (Don’t remember a lot of it, except a lot of talk about how Piggy liked boys? Might have to go back and re-read it)
“The Lord of the Rings” (1954)- J.R.R. Tokien (Epic Adventure)
“To Kill a Mockingbird” (1960)- Harper Lee (All I remember is that no actual mockingbirds were harmed in the making of this book)
WOW 7 out of 100! I have a lot of reading to do! Guess my feminists pieces didn’t make the cut, such as “The Awakening” or “O! Pioneers”. Probably because they were terrible. Classics…but terrible terrible torture.
There you have it...
There are some things I must do one step at a time in order to get them done. These are the following…
3-34, 36, 37, 69, 70, 92, 114, 115, 140, 144, 149, 193, and 199
Unfortunatly, you are just going to have to take the above journey’s along with me. Some of them I have already started.
I am sure you are going to find out a lot about me. For quick summary’s sake I will start by saying I am 21 years old, engaged and living in Hawaii because my fiance is stationed at Pearl Harbor. Being with someone in the military is different. After months of sitting in the house complaining, I realized I needed goals. I have never been the person to sit down and really think about goals and start to achieve them. I am more of the person to take life as it goes. Finally Anthony (my fiance) sat down with me and made me realize that we only get one life. We only get the chance to do everything once. Why in Earth would I sit at home and be miserable, when I can go do things most people never even dream about doing? So here goes my life story, with my computer and my camera in hand.
The List!
Let's start with the List...
Things I want to do before I die
1. Drive a racecar
2. Drive a dune buggy
3. Drive a 4 wheeler
4. Learn how to shoot a gun
5. White water rafting
6. Watch a NYC ballet
7. Build a raft and float down a river -Tom Sawyer style
8. Get a meaningful Tattoo
9. Abseiling
10. to a Nude beach
11. Paris
12. Nice,
13. Rome,
14. London,
15. Amsterdam,
16. Venice,
17. Florence,
18. Great Wall of China
19. Get my Scuba Diving License
20. Go on a Hot Air Balloon ride
21. Ride a Train
22. Play Paintball
23. Break a World Record
24. Write a Book
25. Sell Someone a Picture that I took
27. Perform a Stand-up Comedy
28. Be in a play
29. Witness an Eclipse
30. Become fluent in French,
31. Spanish,
32. Japanese
33. and Italian
34. Learn how to say “hello” in 50 different languages
35. Teach English in a foreign country
36. Learn Guitar
37. Listen to every piece of Chopin
38. Learn the Rumba, cha cha, Salsa, Tango, Waltz, Foxtrot, and Samba
39. Go snorkeling at a shipwreck site
40. Go on a cruise
41. Become a published author
42. Drive a motorcycle
43. Go on a cross country trip
44. Drive down Route 66
45. Ride on the Millennium Force
46. Swim with Dolphins
47. Go to the San Diego Zoo
48. Go whale watching
49. Go on a safari
50. Ride an Elephant
51. Go to the Grand Canyon
52. Go through the everglades
53. See the Northern Light
54. Camp at Yellowstone
55. Visit Stone hedge
56. Smithsonian Museum
57. National Museum of History
58. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
59. The Egyptian museum in Cairo
60. The Louvre
61. Climb the Statue of Liberty
62. Vacation in Martha’s vineyard
63. Visit Hollywood
64. Ride a cable car in San Fran
65. National Cherry Blossom Festival
66. Oktober fest
67. Day of the Dead
68. Marti Gras in New Orleans
69. Learn not to take what people do or say personally
70. Get my Master’s degree
71. Own a Beach house
72. Shop on Rodeo Drive
73. Spend a week at a 5 star resort
74. Sleep in a castle
75. Own an Island
76. Fly First class
77. Buy Jewelry at Tiffany’s
78. Get married
79. Have a baby (My baby story)
80. Go on an amazing honeymoon and check some things off my bucket list
81. Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary
82. Build a Habitat for Humanity Home
83. Change someone’s life
84. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
85. Donate blood
86. Start a Charity
87. Own a sports bar
88. Become a teacher
89. Coach a national winning cheer team
90. Own a coffee shop like Uncommon Grounds
91. Invent something
92. Create a successful Blog (50 followers; 100 followers;500 followers; 1,000 followers)
93. Have my blog in Time’s magazine best blogs
94. Be interviewed by the Today show
95. Eat at an undersea restaurant
96. Go to the Macy day Parade
97. Spend New Years at Time square
98. See the Rockettes
99. Go ice skating at the Rockerfellow Center
100. Watch fireworks over Sydney
101. Get my palms read
102. Win over $1,000 in the lottery
103. Mud wrestle
104. Be a member of the audience in a T.V. show
105. Sit on a jury
106. Eat something I have grown
107. Catch a fish and prepare it myself
108. Make Sushi
109. Invent a dinner dish
110. Be on a reality show
111.Catch a foul baseball at a game
112. Visit a Movie set
113. Have a chance to say “Quick! Follow that car!”
114. Write in a journal for 365 days in a row
115. Learn a new word, every day for a year
116. Spend a week in a small town
117. Ride in an open aired airplane
118. Ride a mechanical bull
119. Go on a walk through central Park
120. Go on a ghost tour in New Orleans
121. Take a tour at Gettysburg
122. Take a tour at Saratoga Battle field
123. Go to the Kentucky derby
124. Be in a music video
125. Bowl a 300
126. Have my parents tell me that they are proud of me
127. Perform a song in front of an audience
128. Walk on a boardwalk
129. Drive over the Golden Gate bridge
130. Go to a circus
131. See Disney on Ice
132. Learn to cook
133. Run a marathon
134.Learn archery
135. Learn how to golf
136.Learn how to snowboard
137. Learn how to surf
138. Get my black belt
139. Learn sign language
140.Visit all 50 states
141. Make the front page of the Newspaper
142.Volunteer at an animal shelter
143. See the Northern lights
144. Climb every peak in the Adirondacks
145. Go to a wine tasting
146. Go backpacking
147. Bake an amazing cake
148.Visit a Volcano
149. Dip my toes in every ocean
150. See a kangaroo in the Outback
151. Get my picture taken on Abby road
152. Read the Bible
153. Send a message in a bottle
154. Sing karaoke
155. Enjoy some time in a sunflower field
156. Witness paranormal activity
157. See a monarch migration
158. Be a movie extra
159. Get a real estate license and practice it as a hobby
160. Take a self defense class
161. Ride a jet ski
162. Kiss under mistletoe
163. Make pasta from scratch
164 Get on a random airplane
165. Go on a carriage ride
166. Shop for a prom dress for my daughter
167. See an Olympic game preferably Gymnastics
168. See a comet
169.Watch a space shuttle take off
171. Go to the Polynesian Cultural Center
172. Take a tour through the Dole Plantation
173. Go to a luau
174. Have a conversation with Lady Gaga
175. Make awesome chili
176. Have a pen pal
177. Spend some time in Maui
178. Play Black ops and get good at it
179. Fold 1,000 cranes
180. Take art classes
181. I want to be able to indentify constellations in the night’s sky
182. Try P90X
183. Brew my own beer
184. Make a list of 100 books I want to read, and read them all
185. Find a glass float on the shore of Oregon
186.Visit Fiji and drink some Fiji water while I am there
187. Visit Bora Bora
188. Ride the Hiawatha Bike trail in Idaho
189. See some Mayan Ruins
190. Visit Cancun
191. Ride a horse on a beach
192. Ride in a limo
193. Read Life’s 100 novels of all time (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1951793,00.html)
194. Win a game of Bingo
195. Go to a Nascar race
196. Go to Disney World
197. Spend St. Patricks day in Dublin
198. Flip and sell a house for a profit
199. Wake up before 6 a.m. for two weeks
200. Adopt a puppy
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