#24 - go scuba diving/renew certification

Catching up some old events! Last October (that's right--2011), Ricky and I took advantage of a Groupon for a dive class. I really want to get Ricky his open water certification (I'm already certified), but he wasn't sure if he would like it, so this was a chance for him to get his feet wet, literally speaking.

He loved it! I had a great time doing a refresher course, and it was fun going with Ricky. (The title here is misleading. SCUBA certification never expires, but you do have to do a refresher if you haven't been diving for a while.) I forgot how amazing diving is. I told Ricky that as soon as he's done with school, we're going to get him certified so that he can be my dive buddy.

I wound up leaving my dive gear (oops!) and we had to go back to Orlando the next month to retrieve it. But it was a good excuse to visit the dive shop again!

Comments

#29 - write in a journal weekly for six months (1/27)

Ok, blogosphere. It's time to get serious. One of the items on my list is keeping a weekly journal for six months, and since I'm getting dangerously close to not having six months left in those 999 days, I better start now. I'd much prefer to keep a paper journal, but it takes so long to hand-write things. (First world problems, right?) So here we are. I'll be pulling prompts from this website whenever I get stuck...so, basically all the time. I really struggle with blogging because I'm too worried about how I come across to the people reading it, and that distracts me from writing about real things like how I really want to play a Dungeons and Dragons game (I'm serious, you guys) and how I may or may not have left a load of laundry in the washing machine for two days and am writing this to avoid dealing with it. First up is something eerily similar to those Livejournal/Facebook "fill this out about yourself" lists, so consider this m...

#88 - buy a kitchen table and chairs

Compared to many of my other 99 goals, this one seems a little silly. After all, what impact will acquiring a table and chairs have on my personal growth? But, let's be honest, some things are just necessary. Ricky and I loved eating on the couch and everything, but it's a tad embarrassing when you have guests...so I was on the hunt for a table, not for my personal growth, but for my social development. And by "on the hunt," I mean "scavenging Craigslist." (As if you didn't already know!) Most of the options down here in southwest Florida fall into two categories: the white-washed, pastel-cushioned, retirement-community style... ...or the metal-and-glass, I-don't-have-any-children-that-may-break-their-faces-on-this style. Give or take a few rattan pieces (which probably could be used as makeshift rafts in a hurricane-induced pinch, I suppose), this was my selection. "Why can't I just find a contemporary, wooden set that just h...

#13 - take Ricky to NYC (day 2)

DAY 2 - TUESDAY, MAY 15TH After a surprisingly restful night of sleep (despite being woken up at 7:00 by boys yelling in German in the hallway and the bathroom door that sounded like a trumpeting elephant when opened--I didn't even know that was possible), Ricky and I left the hostel at 9:00 or so to try and get standby tickets for "Death of a Salesman." The box office doesn't open until 10:00, so if we're in line by 9:30, we'll be good, right? Wrong. All the info I found online about standby tickets said the non-musical shows were pretty easy to get tickets for, and you didn't have to show up super early, etc. Well, apparently Phillip Seymour Hoffman is more popular than I anticipated, because all the standby tickets were sold out by the time we showed up. In fact, the ticket attendant told Ricky they had been sold out since 7:00. IN THE MORNING. He said the line started at 5:00. I laughed in Ricky's face when he passed the informati...

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

Search This Blog