Partly Clowder With a Chance of Cake: The Greatness That's Me

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Greatness That's Me

I'm a victim of my own greatness. Tonight I won 1st place in the Western Division Evaluation Contest. Drat. It would be a-okay if that was that, but NOW I have to go to the next (and final) round of competition on May 2nd. A Saturday. All the way down in Canton. Great. An hour drive, early in the morning, to public speak in a contest format.

Ah, the trials and tribulations of being so great. Humble, too. I'm great and humble. And what did it get me? An early morning drive and a spent Saturday.

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While I'm still 98.6 degrees:

Go to Mardi Gras - or is it Mardi Gra? Who cares, just show your boobs...
Make a documentary
Write a screenplay
Attend Elvis Fest
Witness the Northern Lights
Travel on Route 66
Find the Perfect Vacation Drink
Submit a Trip Report about anything to something - CHECK! Have been submitting to CNN's iReporter, and one story/photo was picked up - hooray!
Write a romance novel / story
Swim in Barbados - a dream from my youth - CHECK! APRIL 2011
See the Busch Clydesdale Horses In Person
Swim in a Glow-in-the-Dark Bio Bay - CHECK! APRIL 2nd, 2011, Vieques Island PR with Joanne M.
Mine for diamonds
See the glaciers - check!!
Go Whale Watching - check!
Climb a waterfall - CHECK! Dunns River Falls, Jamaica 2009ish
Swim with Stingrays - CHECK! Grand Caymen
Invent something
Grow red raspberries
Plant a tree
Improve someone's life
Vacation in a hut on stilts over tropical waters
Live in a beach house
Start a tradition
Throw a surprise party - CHECK! Kenny's 40th, Linda's 60th, My moms way back in the day.
Publish a piece of fiction
Have an offshore bank account - tried to do this in Grand Caymen, it's tougher than getting married! Letters of reference, bank statements..they want a lot of stuff to float my 50large around down there.
Swim with dolpins - check
Drink Guinness in an Irish Pub
Drink wine under the Tuscan sun - check
Use a bidet - CHECK! Trip to Italy 2006ish?
Swim in tropical waters - check
See the sun rise and set over the ocean in the same day - CHECK! Florida. We watched the sun set on the one coast, drove across the state, got up in the morning and watched the sun rise of the east coast the next morning.
Go on a safari
Ride in a helicopter - CHECK! During my "married to a policeman" years, friends with the police chopper pilot, took a few spins over the glorious city of Cleveland.
Whitewater rafting - CHECK! Back in my younger/married/unwiser years, rafted in WV, the Gulley River was one of 'em. Lived to tell about it.
Skydive - CHECK! During married/unwiser/braver years. Three times, I did. I was brave, had to do it again, and again to prove it wasn't just hormones, but actual braveness.