This is not MY bucketlist, this is one I found in Daxi’s journal and wanted to play with. 

The Bucket List. Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not.

Things you have done during your lifetime:
( x) Gone on a blind date
( x) Gave blood
( x) Skipped school
( ) Watched someone die
( x) Been to Mexico
( x) Been to Florida (live there now)
( x) Been to Hawaii (lived there for 4 years once)
( x) Been on a plane
( ) Been in a helicopter
( x) Been lost
( x) Gone to Washington, DC
( x) Ridden in a police car
( ) Hugged a homeless person
( x) Swam in the ocean
( ) Swam with stingrays
( x) Been sailing in the ocean
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
( x) Played cops and robbers
( x) Recently colored with crayons
( ) Ran a marathon
( ) Sang Karaoke
( x) Volunteered at a soup kitchen
( x) Paid for a meal with coins only
( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
( ) Seen the northern lights (really on my own list.  MUST DO!)
( ) Been para-sailing
( ) Been on TV
( x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
( x Made prank phone calls
( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
( x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( x ) Fed a Giraffe
( x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Fired a gun
( x) Danced in the rain
( ) Been to the opera
( x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) Serenaded someone
( ) Seen a US President in person
(x ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( x) Watched the sunrise with someone
( ) Driven a race car
( ) Been to a National Museum
( x) Been to a wax museum
( ) Eaten caviar
( x) Blown bubbles
( x) Gone ice-skating
( x) Gone to the movies
( ) Been deep sea fishing
( x) Driven across the United States (Georgia to Cali!)
( ) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
( ) Gone snowmobiling
( ) Lived in more than one country
( x) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
( x) Seen a falling star and made a wish
( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
( ) Seen the Grand Canyon
( ) Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
( x) Been on a cruise
( x) Traveled by train
( x) Traveled by motorcycle
( ) Been horse back riding
( ) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
( x) Been to Disneyland/Disneyworld
( ) Been in a rain forest
( x) Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
( ) Ridden on an elephant
( ) Swam with dolphins
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been spinnaker flying
( ) Been water-skiing
( ) Been snow-skiing
( ) Been to Westminster Abbey
( ) Been to the Louvre
( ) Swam in the Mediterranean
( x) Been to a Major League Baseball game
( ) Been to a National Football League game
( ) Swam with sharks
( ) Been White Water Rafting
( x) Written a book or screen play
( ) Been to a Tournament of Roses Parade
( x) Lived in more than one state
( x) Become a parent
( ) Been Bungee Jumping
( ) Been to Vegas
( ) Been to a minor league baseball game
( x) Worked on a political campaign
( ) Been to the top of the World Trade Center or Empire State Building
( x) Ridden a Subway
( ) Been to your High School Reunion
( ) New Years in New York
( ) Mardi Gras in New Orleans
( ) Been to a college Bowl game
( ) Been on an NFL field
( ) Fourth of July in DC
( ) Been to Skywalker Ranch (100% on my to-do list!  I can’t rest until this happens.)
( x) Met anyone famous

So touching up (read: completely altering) was bad enough, but the explanation and justification was so awful that I decided to discontinue buying the magazine.  I can't possibly trust someone who thinks this way. 

 jezebel.com/5335022/self-editors-explain-covers-arent-supposed-to-look-realistic

So my manager might kill me for this, but I am gonna do it anyway.  The manuscript for Timeshift is completed.  It is in editing phase now, but until time for the 2^nd in the series it is done for now.  Keepers is still very fresh and new and only on chapter.. 4 I think. 

But I wanna do this NaNoWriMo very much.  Ever since I learned about it 2 or 3 years ago I have been thinking I would do it – but never have.  Well, it is time.  I am going for it. 

For those who don’t know about NaNoWriMo, it is National Novel Writers Month.  In November you are taken to task of writing 50K words on a novel.  A new novel.  Not anything that comes with a started manuscript already.  The goal is not quality, but free abandon.  You should bang away with an open mind that is open to anything.  Some of it will be crap, but some of it won’t.  Regardless of the crap, it is a good idea.  I know from my writing that most of the time you end up with stuff you toss anyhow so what’s the diff?

I am hoping to really let my mind flow. 

I might run with the Keepers idea but do a different time frame, different characters – something that I am not attached to.  I really wanna dive into the Keepers worlds, so I might just go that route.  Outlines are allowed, even encouraged.. so I don’t think I am breaking any rules at all. 

If you wanna learn more, you can go here:  http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Wish me luck! Luck on the writing, and luck with my manager! 

Here are the last decades stats, looks like less than 20% usually finish with the 50K.. but I sure wanna try!
 

1999: 21 participants and six finished with 50K or more
2000: 140 participants and 29 finished with 50K or more
2001: 5,000 participants and more than 700 finished with 50K or more
2002: 13,500 participants and around 2,100 finished with 50K or more
2003: 25,500 participants and about 3,500 finished with 50K or more
2004: 42,000 participants and just shy of 6,000 finished with 50K or more
2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 finished with 50K or more
2006: 79,000 participants and 13,000 finished with 50K or more
2007: 101,510 participants and 15,333 finished with 50K or more
2008: 119,301participants and 21,683 finished with 50K or more
 

This week started off with a bang. It was welcome back at my college. We had so many new students (enrollment is up 10%) and so many returning students. It was great. Exhausting, but great.

We set up a tent outside the library and gave candy and soda and maps and calandars and info and stuff like that. I took some pics but they are nothing to write home about.

However, I also took some pics of the Butterfly Garden (now dubbed the Butterfly Forest because it has grown way more than expected). The pic is pretty epic. It was sort of like the butterflies lned up and said "look at us!"


 

Also, I got Dissidia the day it came out (Tuesday).  I had it on reserve for months now so I was more than excited to get it.  I have played that day and yesterday - I must say, it is win.  Seriously.  Wow.