Never Have I Ever - Bucket List edition

Last night, I was pinning on Pinterest and I came across this pin.

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I repined it but now it's hitting me a little harder. I sit here with my breakfast and beverage buffet of espresso, orange juice, and water like I do every morning and I think to myself "What haven't you done in your life, woman?"  I love my life and go throughout my day to day activities with a routine.  Have I ever held back from doing something I wanted to do?  Why haven't I just packed my bags with a few outfits and hit I20 without any plans?

But, as I watch GMA a man is demonstrating how to do THE BURPEE and I remember a certain time I learned to do a burpee after a few glasses of wine with one of the most fit girls I know. This probably has no relevance to you, but to me I remember I've always been down for anything.  Why am I holding back? And I can't help but think of 2 quotes that are usually screaming in the back of my head.

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It's so true, you only have one life to live.

So today, I wanted to do a little Never Have I Ever, but with a twist. This is going to be my official Bucket List. There will be some cliche bucket list items, but also some random personal ones. And I hope to finish them all someday before my time is up.

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Never Have I Ever - Bucket List Edition 

• Gone bungee jumping
• Gone skydiving
• Gone cliff diving 
• Gone scuba diving
• Attended a taping of Live! with Kelly and Michael 
• Drove to the West Coast from the East Coast
• Gone camping
• Bought myself a Tiffany Necklace 
• Gone to Vegas since I've been 21
• Been a Red Cross disaster volunteer (I do have the training though) 
• Let my eyebrows grow and got them threaded 
• Gone to every state in the United States
• Traveled to Belize 
• Traveled to every country in Europe 
• Traveled to every island in the Caribbean 
• Obviously, I want to fill every page of my passport by the time I'm 30
• Made pottery 
• Had a penpal that I've wrote real hand written letters to 
• Maintained a garden
• Pried my own Pearls out of those little sea creatures
• got my daisy tattoo removed
• Added to my 'free bird' tattoo
• Gone to a Washington Capitals hockey game at the Verizon Center 
• Read the entire bible
• Followed around my favorite band to every location on their summer tour 
• Flown across the Pacific Ocean
• Had a snake around my neck (this is probably NEVER going to happen)
• got plastic surgery
• Been an extra on Grey's Anatomy (this is inspired by my nephew) 
• Stuck my toes in every ocean
• Danced in a flash mob
• got my Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• passed the NCLEX and got my RN License
• got my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (DNP)
• saved a life
• learned how to ballroom dance 
• Read an entire book in one day
• worked out with Lauren Kitt and Nick Carter (lol lol lol LAUGH, no really) 
• ran a full marathon
• done a race in Washington D. C. 
• gone "ghost hunting"at Dorothea Dix Hospital 
• collected my own honey from honey bees
• studied Thomas Jefferson more (this includes staying up in Charlottesville and visiting Monticello more) 
• Cooked Lobster

I have more, but I must end this for now. I plan on making a separate page for this and adding it up on the tabs so I can keep track of my adventures.

What would YOU do if you knew you could not fail? I challenge you! What do you want to do before you die?

It's OK Thursday #4

It's OK...

• that I don't like Darius Rucker's version of Wagon Wheel
• that I don't give a crap about any other problems going on in my life right now, other than my family
• that Rutledge and Priscilla are helping me write this (they're going to the vet after this and they will hate me) 

• that I'm going to instruct all my future post-op patients to use their Spirometer just like you use a Hookah 

• that I am lacking total motivation to study for my last exam and my 3 finals
• that I dread coming home most days
• that once I get home, I nap on the couch every day with my babies

• that I'm not going to let anything get in my way of achieving my ambitions anymore
• that the highlight of my week was the Backstreet Boys getting their star on the Walk of Fame #proudfangirloverhere

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• that I think Nick Carter is looking extra sexual on this special day 



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• that I'm feeling six years old right now and I still think one day I'm going to marry that man...

I did a vlog.

and I look like an idiot. that's okay. Does anyone else wear a nice shirt and pajama pants when they vlog? haha! Whiit-naaay would be ashamed they're not yoga pants...

Enjoy!

I'm also here to tell you what I want when I grow up...

-I want to make a difference in someone's life in my profession. Whether I stay a nurse, or go onto specialize in Neuro and become a DNP. I just want to save lives.

-I want my closet to resemble Lisa Vanderpump's

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-I also want to keep shootin' em like the Pump

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I want to roll around in a black Dodge Challenger and a white Range Rover
I want to be next door neighbors with Nick Carter and Lauren Kitt, since he decided to marry her and not me..I'm okay with it, cause I lurv her. 

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I also want to keep doing vlogs reviewing products. hah.

That's all I've got right now. I've got to study!

Oh, to be a kid again

I remember my childhood like it was yesterday. My older sister and I played out our tapes of the Backstreet Boys until they couldn't be played anymore. We made up dances and plastered our walls with posters, to the point you couldn't even see the white paint on the walls. We wore BSB t-shirts and devoted our lives to the music of these handsome older men. We even had our mother hooked. Every year we went to a BSB concert in Raleigh or Charlotte. My sister being 6 years older than me and me being a 90's baby, she had to introduce me to New Kids on the Block. We had the dolls, bath towels, and even the sheets. That's right, I fell asleep on Jordan Knight's every night :) It was the dream life. How could this end? As I got older, I converted to non boy bands. I still had so much love for the boy bands, but it just wasn't cool anymore. I feel so ashamed to even say that now.

Now, at 20 years old, the boy bands are back and I couldn't be happier. I feel like I'm 5 years old and my sister, mom, and I are just living the good ol' days again. Being the obsessive girl that I am, since all of the music I owend was on tapes, I bought all the albums off iTunes. And I even downloaded Nick Carter's new album "I'm taking off". 

Feeling like a kid again is an understatement. I have seriously slipped back into that state of mind where nothing matters but the love for this music and theses boys. I play it when I'm in the car, when I'm working out, when I'm in the shower, when I'm cleaning...constinuously all day long.  I'm seeing NKOTBSB in Greensboro, NC next month and I'm counting down the days! Clearly, I realize that this are GROWN men now and Nick Carter is no longer that 16 year old blonde headed boy I feel so deep in love with...

But what's wrong with reliving childhood for a summer? Nothing.

I have mixed emotions about this article.  Everyone has their opinion and they are entitled to it and I'm more than open to hearing it. But, the joining of 2 generations at 1 concert, why is this a bad thing? The people who will be going to this concert are probably moms and college students who devote their lives to their family and school work. And maybe even a few younger girls.  This concert is the highlight of our summer, it's our girls night out.  It allows us for one night to slip away from reality and back into our childhood. Regardless of what the intent of the cliche boy band is, doesn't change the fact that it was pure bliss growing up on this music. Who cares? It made me dance like I've never danced before. It brought me and my sister so close. Music can mean one thing to one person and the total opposite to another.

So, I say to you people who agree with the article, including my husband. Let me enjoy my "one night one stage once in a lifetime concert". Let me relieve my childhood and have a blast with my mom. There's nothing wrong with that.