More meme’s on plutogirl…

I saw this meme at The Crochet Dude’s blog… and just had to snag it… he, in turn, saw it at another blog… he mentions who it was on his blog. (For future reference, it’s the August 22, 2006 post – I don’t like linking directly to posts, I prefer linking to the home pages, because posts may magically go poof…)

Life’s to do list – Completed items are bolded – (plus my comments in parathesis)… Enjoy!

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula – (not likely to ever happen… I dislike spiders, thank you very much! Grin.)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it – (Mmmmm… this is the best feeling, I think…)
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise – (Sunrises are beautiful to watch… plus it proves you ain’t a creature of the night… hehe)
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game – a live football game (in Denver) and a live baseball game (in Kansas City))
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars – (camped a lot!)
20. Changed a baby’s diaper – (babysat a lot!)
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon – (I’d love to do this someday!)
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne – (Since I don’t like champagne, this one isn’t happening – plus I don’t get drunk, not anymore!)
24. Given more than you can afford to charity – (many times… before I learned to budget)
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen an eclipse – (this one was at my high school, my entire high school was allowed outside to watch the whole thing – it was awesome to watch!)
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking – (I do it all the time – in fact, I did it just today at work, my coworkers laffed at me! Grin… I love making peeps laff!)
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day – How about for several months? This I did.
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 10 provinces or all 50 states – (Sooo close… missing the New England states, Oregon, ND, Alaska, Hawai’i – that’s it. )
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends – (There’s no “had” about it, I have amazing friends, no questions about it.)
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip – (Several times – and cross-crountry, too… and even once on the back of a motorcycle from D.C. to Colorado Springs in late May (that was the longest motorcycle roadtrip I’ve been on. Motorcycle, Semis, and regular cars were my mode of transportation (and no hitchhiking done here, believe it or not).)
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving – (I wanna do this, too!)
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your cds – (all the time… and even my DVDs… and books…)
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving – (This won’t ever happen – I have breathing issues, so I’ll never be certified fit for scuba diving.)
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married – (on 05-05-05!!!!!! WooWoo!!!!)
73. Been in a movie – (Does feeling like a character in one movie count?)
74. Crashed a party – (I’m not THAT rude! Never gonna happen!)
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo – (I have four and if you wanna know more, look at my Q’s and A’s page… hehe)
81. Rafted the Dead River – (I’ve rafted the Arkansas and Colorado rivers…)
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas – (visited Las Vegas years ago and now am living in Las Vegas… Bwah!)
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand – (shhh)
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house – (I don’t want a house, I want a CONDO!)
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in aisles at Rocky Horror
96. Raised children.
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over – (Several times…)
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery – (It was major, not a minor procedure.)
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi – (And I won’t be again… not to my taste… )
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad – and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read their books.
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions – (didn’t have anything in common with anyone at school and am already in touch with friends from school, so why go to reunions?)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts – (More than once – and it’s fun!)
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146: Dyed your hair
147: Been a DJ
148: Shaved your head – (twice and won’t be occurring again… )
149: Caused a car accident
150: Saved someone’s life

Web Designing…

Well, I’ve been told that I rave as a webdesigner, a blog designer, what have you.  That totally pleases me, yep yep, as that’s my goal in the future to become a groovy webdesigner. 

What had not occurred to me was blog designing for people who weren’t computer savvy enough to work with the blog software on the various blog sites out there such as Blogger, WordPress, and the like. 

I’ve been blog designing for two people, in trade for their services.  The barter system lives on.  This is something that is interesting me more and more, the idea of bartering my designing and websavvy skills in trade for something that one can provide.  What this would garner me is the recognition of my skills over time.  The person would gain a great looking blog that he or she is totally satisified with and would leave with the knowledge of how to add things such as urls, categories (in the case of WordPress, how to edit all that), how to fix up pictures so that it looks great in posts, so forth, what the owner of the blog needed to know to feel uber-satisified. 

However, don’t be thinking I’m a professional, for I’m not yet one.  Much as I would adore to be one, I’m still at the mid-level and improving.  The more I do, the more I gain in knowlege and the better I become.  I also do graphic designing, somewhat.  So with WordPress, for example, the ability to do customizable headers, I’ve done that for my clients.

Fact of the matter, I adore webdesigning. 

Blessed Be!!

how plutogirl met her soulmate…

Roughly exactly two years ago, I met a guy online on what is commonly known as IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and in just a few months, we knew we were each other’s soulmates.  We married a year and half after we met, on May 05, 2005. 

You say you want more details than just those two sentences??  Well, well… laugh, I should do that.   

First, before doing that, I want to say that I love my husband, and have loved being with him these past two years, have enjoyed the growth of our relationships, even the ups and downs.  Hey, all relationships have those ups and downs!  Even cats and their humans. 

On to more details…

We met in person two months later, at my place.  One of the things that struck me the most about that first meeting was the way I felt and thought the minute, no, the second, I locked eyes with him through the window of the Greyhound bus station as he walked towards the entrance from the bus. 

It was as if I had been struck down by lightning.  Everything around me just seemed to fade out and all I could see was his beautiful delighted eyes meeting mine.  I could feel my heart expanding to encompass this guy already, and I knew that I would not be shy with him, not a single trance of shyness.  It was the first time I had ever felt that way with anyone and I have never felt that way with anyone else.  That’s when I knew he was my soulmate, my everything. 

The following month, I visited his place and met his family. 

Four days after the New Year’s, he proposed to me online and I accepted!  He decided to propose online because that was where we had met, and he wanted to complete the circle, as it were.    He’s a very sweet romantic guy.   Here’s the proposal, blush. 

Paul (8:20:39 PM): I thought that since we met online… that’s where it all began for us, it would be appropriate to… 
Paul (8:20:46 PM): Simona, would you marry me?  
Simona (8:20:55 PM): ohhh 
Simona (8:21:06 PM): yes, i will, Paul  
Paul (8:21:12 PM): See how easy that was?

Then just a couple weeks after the new year had begun, I moved down to his town and lived there, visited each other frequently.  And practically exactly five months after the proposal, we married on May 5, 2005 (05-05-05).  Neat date to have married on, isn’t it? Plus… if you want pictures… there’s some simple pictures in my newly formed gallery.  Just follow your nose, or rather, more accurately, your mouse to the pictures. 

So that’s my story of how I met my soulmate.  And I guess I should change the title from “Roughly Two Years Ago…” to “how plutogirl met her soulmate”… laugh… I really get distracted and way off track very easily! 

Blessed Be!!

An excited plutogirl! Watch out!! Grin!

My goodness!!!

plutogirl’s gonna be working in a library on Earth! 

I am so lucky to have gotten the most perfect job in the universe!  Working in a library, amongst books!  What more could I ask for? 

YAY!!!!

• Being married to my loving soulmate.
• A home in the best city in the United States.
• Awesome doctors.
• A job.
• Lots of buses that run 24/7.
• Great friends online.

Indeed, what more could I ask for?  More would simply be icing on the cake, to be honest.

Thank you, the Fates, for providing this humble but delighted plutogirl what she has received! 

Blessed Be!!

Why am I from Pluto?

Heya, welcome to my new blog! 

I like to say I’m from Pluto because I’m from there! Grin.  Well, in reality, it’s because I’m forever thinking in extremely odd ways that make absolutely no sense to everybody else, but makes perfect sense to me. 

I discovered a very perfect analogy to describe that.

You guys know the saying: “See the forest for the trees.”

As in details or big picture.  Well, here’s the thing.  I see the leaves instead of trees OR forest.  So I tend to really focus on the tiny useless details that I think are useful because I don’t realize they’re useless due to not seeing the trees or the forest.   

Here’s where I thank my husband, thereafter known as bb, for seeing the forest for me and making sure the big pictures are always shown to me.  Pixie and Fairy are wonderful friends for showing me the trees and occassionally the forest. 

Sometimes all three actually help me connect the leaves to the trees to the forest!  Yay! 

Now you see why I can’t claim to be from Venus even though I’m a woman?    Hehehe!

Blessed be!!