Twenty WHAT?!

Well hello!

Playing in super soft Canary Island sand

I turned twenty five yesterday.

My grandfather gave me a birthday phone call and casually asked how my life to do list was going.

THANK GOODNESS I have another three years to complete the list.  I take it very seriously despite all appearances.  Thanks, Grandaddy, for inquiring after the list and holding me accountable :)

Here is the list.  (I'm only 90% sure this is 100% accurate as I lost the original documentation.)

1. skydive
2. hanglide
3. ride a camel
4. ride an elephant
5. swim with dolphins
6. volunteer at an orphanage 
7. write a song
8. write a book
9. learn to sail
10. pay for a family vacation*

One, two, and three.  Done.

Four, five, and six.  Okay so, I'm not trying to be lazy, or a tree-hugging hipster, but I'm not sure these are very nice or ethical. I've decided I'm not going out of my way to do these things; I certainly won't pay to do them. But do I secretly hope that one day I'll dive off my sailboat into crystal blue sea and be suddenly surrounded by Flipper and his extended family?  Yes.

*Ten.  I don't know what I was thinking when I was eighteen.  Maybe that I'd win the lottery by twenty one?  I don't know. So I'm going to cheat.  Melissa and I paid for our parents to stay in a nice Florentine B&B.  So... check.  Until I win the lottery.  And I'm taking Melissa on a postgrad Caribbean cruise.  So... double check.

Seven, eight, nine.  Working on it.

love,
mb

Three day weekend list

Hip hip horray! Three day weekend! Here's what I'm doing with my tomorrow off:

* eat nice breakfast with Dave (Blueberry pancakes or fancy eggs? I think both.)

* get haircut (I mean. Look at me. I need one so bad.)

* hit gym

* job hunt

* download new country album (recommendations?)
* buy art supplies

* find copy of the first Hunger Games book

Hoping it's sunny and warm wherever you go!
mb