A list!

Here is what I do when I should be writing a paper.

The List of All Things Carly Related


1. I love black olives

2. I love onions

3. My favorite time of year is autumn

4. My least favorite time of year is summer

5. I love flamingos

6. I pick my finger nails

7. I like taking pictures and would someday love to take a photography class

8. I dream of someday soon buying a house (it would be even better if that house was in Astoria, Oregon)

9. I am a morning person

10. I love stories about anything paranormal

11. If I could choose to be anything in the world, I would choose to be a rock star

12. My three favorite words are; resonate, kaleidoscope, and menagerie

13. My least favorite meal of the day is breakfast

14. I worry about everything

15. I am an over-planner

I will be adding this list to all the "All About Carly" section of my blog.

Team Autumn

Yesterday was the first day of autumn, which happens to be my favorite time of year! Take that all other seasons! Autumn rocks!
 
 

 

I have been thinking a lot about what I want to accomplish this autumn. I have come up with a list (because we all know how much I love a good list).

• Go to a corn maze
• Make pumpkin bread. Maybe I can talk my friend Stephanie into letting me try her award winning pumpkin bread recipe
• Have a pumpkin carving/Donnie Darko viewing party
• Take an anniversary trip to Port Townsend, WA. Andy and I have almost been married a year, and it has been one hell of a year. To celebrate he and I are splurging and staying in a nice old hotel in Port Townsend for the weekend. We hope to do a lot of shopping, eating, geo-caching, giggling, picture taking, and general merry making.
• Go to Issaquah Salmon Days. This has become a family tradition of sorts, but this year no one will be in town that weekend except me.
• Take some pretty autumn pictures
• Take a fall hike

 

On a different subject, a few weeks ago, my friend Monica sent me a link for free museum tickets. I decided that checking out the Museum of Flight might be kinda cool. So tomorrow Andy and I are going to spend some time learning about aviation. I know Andy will enjoy it, but tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day and I think it is going to kill him to not be fishing. :)

 

Summer List Revisted

Dear Blog,

Today is the first day of fall quarter here at the wonderful university where I work which officially means summer is over. Let's take a look at my summer goal list to see what I managed to accomplish.

The Summer List
1. Read 5 books: Sadly I did not even finish one book over the summer


2. Learn how to fly fish (this will make Andy very happy): This was sorta accomplished. I did fly fish a bit on Fan Creek in Yellowstone. Though I am pretty sure it wasn't real fly fishing because I just threw the fly in the water and let the current carry it down stream. Even better though, I really had to go the bathroom and I couldn't hold it anymore, so I went pee outside! First time I have done this since I was probably 7 years old.


3. Play volleyball: Barely made this goal. I played volleyball last Wednesday.


4. Play catch: Nope :(


5. Attend a farmer's market I haven't been to before: Nope :(


6. An easy easy hike: Wallace and Twin Falls. Both were beautiful hikes. I am actually looking forward to doing some fall and early winter hikes soon.


7. Paint our night stands: Nope :(


8. During the month of August, drive no more than 5 times to work: Nope :(


9. Road trip to Denver: It was great! Next summer we are planning on going back to Montana and I can't wait to visit Denver again.


10. BBQ a whole lot: I cheated with this goal because it is so arbitrary.  But I am going to take what I can get. I think I BBQ'd the proper amount this summer.
 
Maybe I didn't accomplish as much as I orginally wanted to, but all in all this was a great summer. Now we are on to my favorite time of year (goal list to come shortly).

Planned Spontaneity

Tonight is my last night of EDUC 513!

It has been a great class and I have learned a lot (go ahead ask me about Mezirow's Theory of Transformative Learning), but I am glad this quarter is over. It has kicked my butt! So to celebrate I took tomorrow off. But like usual, I have scheduled myself silly with everything I hope to accomplish on my day off. Do you wanna see the list? Well who cares if you don't I am going to show it to you anyways!

1. Have breakfast with my mom
2. I was going to check out Target, but Katherine just sent me this in an email so now I am conflicted.
3. Clean bathroom
4. Clean bedroom
5. Call friends who I have not spoken to in a while
6. Buy a sleeping bag
7. Watch a Netflix movie that Andy will never watch with me (I watched “Bolt” and cried my eyes out)
8. Develop pictures from my trip to NOLA and put them in frames
9. Now that the quarter is over I think I should put together the desk we bought for me to do homework on :)
10. I haven't checked with Kate on this yet, but I am getting one of my nasty tension knots in my neck, so maybe I can sweet talk her into a massage.



This is Jack Mezirow. Learn his theory it is important!

Come on Tuesday, I am looking forward to you!

***Update! I bolded the items on my list that I actually accomplished***