At the end of last year, I wrote about the 100 things I would remember from that year … This year has turned out to be just as eventful. For this Independence Day holiday weekend, I have Fifty Nifty Things for the first half of this year:
Reaffirming those basic truths
1. I am loveable. Period.
2. Happiness is attainable ... and is probably closer than you think.
More amazing adventures
3. Sky diving on Valentines Day ... again!
4. Riding the incredible Orlando Eye Ferris wheel.
5. Nerding out at the Star Wars themed goodness of Disney's Hollywood Studios.
6. Paintballing!
6. Paintballing!
Visiting beautiful and interesting spaces
7. Epcot Center - particularly at night
8. Little Talbot Island state park in Jacksonville, Florida
9. Museum of Science and History in Jacksonville, Florida
Professional development (doing my "day job", and ...)
10. Joining the World Affairs Council
11. Home hosting and serving as concierge to a dance instructor and DJ.
12 Being elected President of the First Coast Blues and Lindy Society.
13. Serving as Vice Chair of the Operations Advisory Council of Feeding Northeast Florida.
Catching up with favorite shows and movies
14. X-Men
15. The Jungle Book
16. Dr. Who
17. Game of Thrones
Still swing dancing at every opportunity
18. The Orlando Lindy Exchange
19. LindyFest
20. Beach Bum Blues Exchange
21. The Jacksonville Jazz Festival
22. First Coast Blues and Lindy Society
Enjoying delicious food and beverage (... all homemade except where noted)
23. Banana bread
24. French toast with blueberry sauce
25. Chocolate filled puff pastry
26. Perfecting the fried egg
27. Cuban roast pork at a tiny restaurant in Orlando, Florida
28. Perfekt Pass boxed lunches delivered weekly
29. Gourmet Popsicles at Hyppo
Appreciating the stuff of life and the places it happens
30. A birthday dance circle with a live band.
31. Most people go to the beach to have fun, not cry.
32. Sometimes people just don't want to be friends.
33. Just because someone wants to be friends it doesn't mean they're good at it.
34. True friends are close, even when far away.
34. Moving into a new home is a most liberating and stressful undertaking.
35. Coin laundry facilities are fertile ground for practicing time management and minutes-long conversations with strangers.
Interacting with incredibly interesting people
36. A non-profit CEO
37. A self-proclaimed Anglophile
38. A presidential campaign manager
39. A novelist
40. A software developer
41. A university professor
42. An expert economist
43. A warehouse director
44. A lobbyist
45. A special education teacher
46. A museum docent
47. A local theatre director
48. An international university student
49. A hipster
50. A small business owner
Have you tried Black Rock beach? It is near Little Talbot Island.
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