Notes from ShellyCentral

20 Things that Could be Fun

I am bored. And so I made a list of things I could do that might be fun. I thought I'd share it.

1. Making art in the garage

2. Reading in the library

3. Doing the Gazelle

4. Taking a walk

5. Making a vlog

6. Making a mind map

7. Practicing Italian

8. Sorting trip finances

9. Doing fun trip planning

10. Searching for car registration stuff

11. Printing/doing Project Life for last week

12. Photographing/posting past Project Life stuff

13. Taking dogs for a walk

14. Writing

15. Making grocery plans/list

16. Taking '07 trip photos off the MacBook

17. Researching tablets

18. Finding summer clothes

19. Washing dog toys

20. Ordering 1/2 price Snapfish book

Will I do any of those? I can't really say. But if I do anything worth showing you I promise I will.

14 Random Facts for Tonight

% I am still in love with listening to Adele. My favorite song sometimes changes several times a day.

% It is bad enough that the Jayhawks lost but the snow on the ground is a bit much.

% If you have the exact same tastes as me, I have the greatest tumblrs of all time.

% I love hanging out in my garage. It's like having a whole new room. Who could have guessed that a year ago?

% I am not ready for the morning.

% Tomorrow starts the last 8 weeks of a long career of public school.

% Tomorrow also starts a couple weeks busy with appointments, mostly medical. Yuck.

% It's crazy how quickly time flies by in the evening.

% They are talking about Rosedale BBQ on Check, Please. They are not giving it nearly enough praise.

% I downloaded the Instagram app today. Everyone seems to like it better than Hipstamatic these days. I want to see for myself.

% I am about to get a new phone and I don't think it's going to be an iPhone. I know! Gasp! Shock! It's going to be an Android phone and I think it's going to be the HTC Inspire, if I remember the name correctly. Android because I think it's the future of good phone things and that phone because it has an 8 mp camera with a flash. Sadly there's not a Android version of Hipstamatic, but there is one of Instagram.

% Danny made brunch AND dinner today. That was fantastic.

% My brother's dog passed away today. My mom's dog passed in February. My beloved Luna passed in December. They all went unnaturally and too early. It is not a good time to be a dog in my family.

% That's so sad it needs two numbers.

100 Facts About Me

Is this going around the internet? I think it is.
I needed something half mindess to distract me while I watched The Third Man for the 4 millionth time. And you know I don't like to miss out. So I did it to. You should too! It's only a little hard.

1. i grew up in the dotte.
2. i went to sumner academy.
3. i have been in 5 countries.
4. i really want that to be a lot more.
5. i love to take pictures
6. i write a lot.
7.  i have kept a journal online since 1994.
8. outside is my favorite place
9. i lived in missouri for a very short time in the 80s.
10. the rest of my life i've lived in kansas.
11. i have a love/hate relationship with my state.
12. i love it's physical beauty, and it's civil war history.
13. i hate it's political view points and the entrenched closed minds.
14. i graduated from high school in 1984.
15. i graduated from college in 1991.
16. i have a ba in english.
17. for a couple years i tried majoring in film
18. i miss a lot of people from the "olden days".
19. i would love to have a grade school reunion.
20. i have skipped most of my high school reunions.
21. i think i had an idyllic childhood.
22. I have never seen the movie animal house.
23. i have (co)owned two houses.
24. with all it's faults, i love the house i live in now
25. i wish i had a wild overgrown yard (with giant hydrangeas).
26. i love my tivo
27. i played flute in school
28. there are 11 years between me and my closest sibling
29. i have two dogs
30. i used to have 3 dogs
31. they have all been lhasa apsos, dogs of buddhist monks in tibet.
32. i fostered a pregnant lhasa and her 3 lhasa puppies.
32. franklin planner are my favorite planners.
33. i am a giant fan of benjamin franklin.
34. i am a history geek.
35. i am a government dork.
36. i like to count my gratitudes.
37. i love reading other people's journals.
38. henry miller is my hero.
39. i am also a huge fan of julius caesar.
40. i like listening to stand up comedy.
41. i haven't had a "job" for 9 years
42. i want to be cremated when i die.
43. i like to sing along in the car real loud.
44. i love to drive with the windows down.
45. my favorite show right now is match game
46. i am super double truly in love with vincent d'onofrio.
47. i love it when people tell the truth. especially about difficult things.
48. i think more people have been abused than you could ever imagine.
49. i like squishy pillows.
50. i was born in 1966
51. my favorite nostalgia years are 73-77.
52. i modeled when i was a child
53. my best friends and i used to hang out at a local strip club.
54. when i was a girl, my favorite book was jennifer, hecate, mcbeth and me, elizabeth
55. i love my alone time
56. i love to drive to clinton lake, for many reason.
57. some people i've loved are dead. i miss them.
58. i have a baby niece. she's brand new.
59. i could eat mexican food every day
60. i have a handful of coins from ancient roman britain.
61. i hate everything about winter.
62. i have a lot of siblings.
63. i love painted toenails.
64. i don't do horror moves (exceptions: the shining, the omen)
65. my favorite disney movie is bambi. i love thumper.
66. my zodiac sign is cancer. i am the year of the horse.
67. one whole room of my house is filled with books.
68. i think orson welles is a brilliant genius.
69. my favorite book is pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard.
70. my favorite movie is either my dinner with andre or the princess bride
71. i am in love with new york city.
72. i am about to take a trip to ireland and great britain with my daughter.
73. i am unexpressably excited about that.
74. my favorite cities are rome and london.
75. when i was a kid, i wanted to take over as batman's sidekick.
76. my dad owned and ran a bbq restaurant in kansas city.
77. my grandpa broke wild horses when he was young.
78. i have watched general hospital since i was in 3rd grade (a long time ago).
79. having dinner with a bunch of friends is one of my most favorite things.
80. i think bill hicks was a visionary genius.
81. i really wish everyone (including myself) could feel their own power.
82. i talked really loudly. "hey shelly, we're all in the same room." i've heard that a lot.
83. i love to plan.
84. i think too much.
85. todd rundgren is my musical hero.
86. i know tiny bits of french and spanish.
87. i don't care about any kind of sports.
88. i want to be a tour guide when i grow up.
89. i think kindness is under rated.
90. i never want any tattoos
91. i can never have enough pens and markers.
92. i wish i could redo hannah's entire childhood.
93. i am a big fan of bing crosby.
94. i like to feed the birds
95. i love the internet.
96. i love to look at foreign places on google maps.
97. my favorite musical is pippin. i love pippin.
98. i enjoy taking classes at my local community arts center.
99. i like to keep my nails very short.
100. i love to talk about myself.

List of Questions

In honor of List it Tuesday, here's my list of qustions wandering around my head. It's not hand written, which I think was the original idea, but you can't have everything.

They're mostly about my trip. Some things are changed now and a new list of questions have popped up. For example...

Hannah wants to leave Glastonbury off our itinerary. I'm fine with that, surprisingly. The question is should we add in Dingle, Ireland (or somewhere else) instead?

Am I wrong to revisit British cities I loved before? Should I be trying all new places? New countries? (We are going to Ireland and Scotland which are both new for me.)

Should I buy a new suitcase with wheels or stick to the one I have that has back pack straps?

Should I take Ali Edwards' new Scrapbook on the Road? It's only $14.

Should I make and take a journal on my trip, like Mary Ann Moss and Ali and Monika Wright - and my Disney book? Or should I just take a little journal for my thoughs and put together a book after I get home?

Where is my beloved brown sweater? It zips up the front. It has a hood. It goes with everything. I really wanted to take it on the trip.

I wonder what kind of tablet I'm going to get. Not an iPad. An android tablet for sure, but what kind, and what size? I thought I wanted a 10 inch but now I'm thinking the 7 inch looks super easy to carry around.

How many weeks till this trip anyway?

Am I ever going to start practice walking?

When should I cash out my CD? I want to use the money for some things, like clothes and supplies and before long deposits and plane tickets, but I'm afraid once I take it out I'll start dwindling it away on things I don't really need.

Should I buy Hannah her own camera? She doesn't really want one. She doesn't beg or anything. And by them she'll have a new phone with a decent phone camera. On one hand I think the more pictures the better, on the other, just because she has a camera doesn't mean she'll actually use it.

Fell free to leave answers/suggestions in the comments. I could use some help.

List - It Tuesday

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Today my list is mostly title, with little actual listing. But I got the hilights.

 

15 Things I miss About Summer

Here's my list today. I scribbled it in the composition book thinking I'd rewrite it pretty and then post it. But! Today's looking a bit too busy for that, realistically, so I'm just posting the scribbly version.

Hooray for List It Tuesday.

 

List - It Tuesday

I am not impressed with my list this Tuesday. I wish it looked better, but it's the best I'm going to do for this afternoon.

It's day two of snow days here in my lovely little town. It's made a lot less lovely by the snow in my opinion. I know even people who don't like winter usually at least think the snow is pretty, but me not so much. Tomorrow could be a no school day as well, for the frost bitten temperatures instead of the snow. In fact, I heard the Kansas City news woman say something about why there might not be school all week.

Hannah loves it of course, but I'm thinking about how they'll have to make up the days at the end of the year, and how it's Hannah's senior year and she's not going to want to go any past the day she already has in her mind as her last day of high school. There must have been bad weather the year I graduated as well because I remember having to go back for classes after we'd had our graduation ceremony. When they handed us our dipolmas they didn't have diplomas in them, they were just empty folders. Then again my school was kinda crazy so who knows how this school district will handle it.

Yesterday I was all on the ball and got all kinds of dreaded chores done. The I only slept about 5 hours last night and so today was way less energy. It's still been an ok day. The snow is everywhere, but the sun is bright and shiney and I love that. I've got some not so dreaded chores done, and I've goofed off tons.

The list above is, of course, a list of the cities Hannah and I will be visiting in just 8 months. There may also be a city we visit on a day trip from Edinburgh but I'm not sure yet. I feel like making some more lists. Maybe I'll post another one before I go to bed.

64 Things I like

1. pink
2. writing
3. sunshine
4. cold soda
5. warming blanket
6. birds
7. dirt
8. my couch
9. music
10. cutting
11. gluing
12. coloring
13. pens and markers
14. cilantro
15. incense
16. shabby
17. photographs
18. lunar eclipses
19. history
20. asian elephants
21. myths
22. water
23. general hospital
24. palaces
25. smart phones
26. my camera
27. squirrels
28. banjos
29. Julius Caesar
30. beaches
31. peacocks
32. my tivo
33. smushy pillows
34. netflix instant viewing
35. post offices
36. trips
37. good tv programs
38. the internet
39. copic airbrush system
40. being warm enough
41. my dogs (but are they things?)
42. chocolate
43. hats
44. shiny
45. coke
46. rebellion
47. kindness
48. earbuds
49. boxes of kleenex
50. all audio italian tapes
51. blue skies
52. chips and salsa
53. reading
54. riding in cars
55. zines
56. dvds
57. airports
58. boots
59. hammocks
60. my bed frame
61. lotion
62. disney world
63. memories
64. my life

. p l a n s .

Well I've taken a little time to look back at last year. Now it's time to turn around and look forward to the new one!

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+ allow more good things and good feelings

+ write about everything

+ take pictures of everything

+ keep dogs better groomed

+ sleep with dogs more often

+ clean more

+ shop less

+ make money

+ host an art party

+ more of all of these:

    * visits with friends
    * time with family
    * more email with friends
    * more commenting on the internet
    * more writing without censoring

Thankful Top 25

In honor of impending Thanksgiving, and List It Tuesday, here is my imcomplete list of 25 things I'm grateful for, but meaningful and shallow.

* That Girl - my wonderful, amazing, loving beautiful daughter
* Our House - it's not perfect, but it's home. and big. and i have loved it since before we lived here.
* My Family - from Danny to my Mom to my Aunts and Cousins
* The New Baby! - she's not here yet, but it's so close.
* That we can still pay the bills
* My Favorite Boyfriend - 9.5 years later and I still feel lucky
* The Dogs - they make me crazy but I am so glad to have them
* My friends - especially the old ones and the ones who live too far away
* Hannah's Insulin Pump
* Fantastic Health Insurance
* To get to know my son Greg (after relinquishing him for adoption)
* To still be a stay at home mom
* Netflix instant viewing
* Technology in general
* My beautiful iron bed
* My new to me love seat (where Daisy loves to sleep)
* The places I've travelled
* The places I'm about to travel
* My art room full of tools and art supplies
* That our bad cars still work
* The birds that come to my feeder
* An awesome therapist (since 1995)
* A sense of humor
* My books and their library
* The Universe