Katie's 99 in 999 (currently 55 in 555!)

A few months ago, when Ricky and I knew we would be moving to Florida, we decided that we needed to go gallavanting across the northeast before we were too far away.  Enter #15, the Hill Cumorah Pageant, held annually outside Palmyra, NY in July.  (More about the Pageant here ; the storyline is based on the history of the Book of Mormon .) We left on Wednesday and drove the nine hours to catch the pageant at 9:00 that night.  It was a blast! Ricky definitely thought so. Seriously, the pageant was awesome.  Before the show, the actors mill around and talk to people in the audience, and we had the chance to talk to so many awesome families!  They came from all over the country to participate as characters in the pageant.  I was jealous.  One more down on the list!  The Hill Cumorah wasn't the only place we visited on our trip (Niagara Falls, anyone?), but since nothing else was on my 99 list, you'll have to read about it on my other blog.

I can officially cross an item off my list! When Ricky and I knew for sure where he was going to law school, I started looking for English grad school programs. It was April, so I wasn't expecting to be able to start until fall 2011, but I poked around the area we're moving to just out of curiosity...and I found an English M.A. program at a university just 20 minutes away from Ricky's law school! Perfect, right? I was fully prepared to wait until the February deadline and start next August, but I out of MORE curiosity I decided to call the head of the program and see if they could make an exception and review an application for this fall instead. "Oh, that's no problem," she said. "We actually just extended the fall 2010 application deadline to August 1st!" To put it mildly, I was excited. I've been practically dying to go back to school since I graduated last May, and the odds of me finding a live classroom (I hate online classes), small (

I've been writing this 99 list for a long time....and you can tell, because a lot of them (ok, a handful ) are already in progress (and one is already completed)!  I don't mind, because it makes me feel like I have a jump-start.  (Or it may possibly make me a cheater.)  Either way, today is the official start day of my 99 in 999 list.  Wish me luck, and feel free to join me with a 99 list of your own!