wow... march 23rd was the last time I blogged...said anything really...
so much has happened and so much has changed in my life...
I'll spare you all the crazy details...
but to clarify a few things....
**not sure who started the rumours that I sold ALL my scrapbooking stuff, but the things I go rid of.. well let's just say it didn't even scratch the surface..

** yes we moved...downsized...yes my scrap space is now in the furnace room...LOL

**rob and I are still together

**my son has graduated from highschool...drives on his own now, almost 18 and apparently likes beer...*sigh*

** my daughter will be attending a class for the deaf and hard of hearing in the fall..and just turned 6 last week...

**I haven't really put a bathing suit on in YEARS.. but have swam almost every day for the past few weeks...and I have a really great tan!!!

**I have yet to scrap in my new house, mind you I did attend a Donna Downey event in June...I *heart* Donna D.

**booked a trip to NYC with my girlfriends from church...yay!

**I have learned to let things go, start again and not worry about what anyone says about me...

**I AM learning to listen to my fragile body and slow down when I need to...

** oh and 1 last thing, I got 2 tattoos on the same day at the beginning of July... love them.. and might do it again!!!!

I haven't posted in a while, because I thought.. I'm boring...I have nothing important or worthwhile saying...I was bored with my own blog...LOL

I'm posting today because I had a really great day yesterday with an old friend, that I frankly don't see enough of, and the question came up in conversation, a few times actually, about living life and "bucket lists"...
I was told a story about a woman who was 55 and just made this list and was determined to complete it in her 55th year and she did it all.. lived life, didn't just make the list, but actually went out and did it...and inspired people to just LIVE...LIVE life and not watch everyone else LIVE it ...

I think many of us have great intentions, but making that list and DOING the things on that list are two totally different things...
I thought a lot about it on my drive home last night..
Dreamt about it last night...
I had a dream I jumped out of a plane...and probably because I just watched a video of someone I know do it.. and it's been on my bucket list...and yesterday I was told to just go and "do it"...

I turned 40 in January...I had always said that I was going to be fit and fabulous at 40...turns out, I didn't achieve that goal BY 40...but It's only July and if I can keep my ass out of the hospital with iv's and insulin and emergency rides for the rest of the year, then that is my goal...it means I have managed to keep my blood sugar manageable and that in itself would be a vast improvement over the past year.

I was asked yesterday what was on my "bucket list"..
it had been a while since I had thought about it..
but I looked it up this morning, and found the things I wrote years ago that I had always wanted to do...

> get a tattoo at 40...check x2
>skydive
>run in a race...I didn't specify the length...lol... let's go with 5 kms...but I did write that I had to run the entire race.
>write a book... I started and have a great start....but I lost my mojo...a must complete list item!!
>travel to Europe..Spain specifically...
>go on a motorcycle vacation
>go to Vegas with my girlfriends...I didn't even specify which girlfriends...that's all I wrote..
>see Canada...travel the Rocky Mountains on the Rocky Mountaneer Train, Calgary Stampede, West Edmonton Mall, eat PEI potatoes IN PEI...
>see Alaska in the winter
>learn to play the guitar..(not sure when or why I wrote that.. but it's there)
>go on a good will mission

well that's a just a few things I have on my list...but it's time to start crossing things off of it...
it's time to start looking forward to tomorrow and the adventures I will take and making the most out of every minute...

life is too short....too many close calls.. I'm running out of chances..it's time to start living now...

what's on your bucket list?
D.