- Stay inside
- Get in the pool
- Drive around in your air conditioned car and catch Pokémon
- Eat ice cream
- Complain about how hot it is
- Be that really annoying girl that says “I like it this way!”
- Bask in the sunshine on your skin
- Procrastinate on outdoor chores
- Sleep with your window cracked open anyway
- Take pictures of the temperature on your car since it doesn’t get this hot in the Midwest very often
- Except… climate change
- Discuss climate change
- Plan a beach vacation to further the sunshine experience
Swimming at Grand Cayman
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
- Arizona
- Idaho
- Iowa
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- Louisiana
- California
- Illinois
- Arkansas
- Tennessee
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Ohio
- Missouri
- New York
- Nebraska
- Mississippi
- Washington
- South Dakota
- Oregon
- Utah
- Colorado
- Montana
- Minnesota
- Florida
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- Kansas
- Nevada
- Alabama
- Kentucky
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Indiana
- Minnesota
- Wisconsin
- Iowa
- Illinois
- Missouri
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- Arkansas
- Mississippi
- Louisiana
- Cayman Islands
- Maui, Hawaii
- Northeast Road trip
- Southern California
- Greece
- Dominican Republic
- North Dakota
- Any beach
- Fynbos, in South Africa
- The Lucky Knot Bridge, Changsha, China
- Petra, in Jordan
- Niagra Falls, both in USA and Canada
- Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England
- Easter Island, territory of Chile
- Iguazu Falls, Argentina and Brazil
- The Terra Cotta Warriors in Xian, China
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Tennessee
- Utah
- Washington
- Wisconsin
- Birthday Party Game Night celebrating with family & friends
- Road Trip to Colorado
- Birthday Balloon Breakfast at my friend’s house with her son/my birthday twin
- Saw bison, deer, and ground hogs at a nature reserve
- Visit to the candy factory
- Shopped Manitou Springs
- Traipsed around Red Rocks
- Birthday dinner on the patio in Denver
- Pleasant conversation for hours
- Free sopapillas for dessert
- Co-worker luncheon at Candlelight Inn
- Yard Sale for Haiti
- Condo HOA meeting
- Felix Adler Fest at Children’s Discovery Center, Clinton, Iowa
- Father’s Day
- Graduations
- Road Trip
- Birthday parties
- Multiple doctor’s appointments
- Women’s Club luncheon at George Curtis Mansion
- 149th Annual Chamber of Commerce meeting & awards, Clinton, Iowa
- New washing machine
- RAGBRAI meetings & route inspection
- My sister’s birthday
- My birthday
Our birthday – June 18, 1982
- Eagle Point Park
- Riverfront walkway
- Sawmill Museum
- Discovery Center Children’s Museum
- Discovery Trail
- Lyon’s Farmer Market
- Showboat Theater
- Candlelight Inn
- Downtown Shopping District
- Clinton County Historical Museum
- Riverfront Park
- Wide River Winery
- Lock & Dam 13
- River Arts Center
- Valley Oaks Golf Course
- Bickelhaupt Arboretum
- Pickleball & Tennis Courts
- Clinton County Courthouse
- Visitor Center Kiosk on the River
- Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
- Missions trip to Haiti
- Three “airports” in one day
- Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
- Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
- Ate goat for the first time
- Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
- Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
- Started packing up to move again
- Attended nephew’s high school graduation
- Vacation to San Diego
- Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
- Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
- Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
- Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
- Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
- Read 29 books
- Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
- Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
- Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
- Applied for 66 jobs
- Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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