This is a really cool blog that was actually made into a book. Unfortunately now, since it was made into a book I can't find the complete list online. The link below has over 500 though so there are alot of awesome things to read about. If you haven't read it you need to check it out!
http://1000awesomethings.com/the-top-1000/
It takes quite awhile to read through it so you might want to do it in a couple of sittings. I know my neck and back were starting to get sore by the time I was done reading through it.
Ken and I decided to try to pick our top 5 from the list. It is really hard though. Here are 5 of my favourites on the list but if I looked through it again I'm sure I would find more to add:
Mel:
1)Finding money you didn't even know you lost
2)Sleeping in new bed sheets (even better with freshly washed pj's)
3)Using all the different soaps and shampoos in someone else's shower
4)When you are really tired and about to fall asleep and someone throws a blanket on you
5) The sound of scissors cutting construction paper (reminds me of my elementary school teachers)
There were so many more that I wanted to add. As I was doing my list of 5 I actually subsituted in and out of it quite a few times!
One of the things on the list was "getting something with actual handwriting on it in the mail". I thought that was interesting because that is what I was writing about in the blog on Thursday!! Yay, me!
Ken:
I found these things to be my favorites on this list. I read the list but it was really hard to make it down it. The 5 I chose were near the top of the list because I could not change them. I would have made a list of about 2 or 300 if I would have chosen all the ones I wanted. You will see when you start reading it that this happens to you.
1. Finding money you think you lost
2. Planning for snoozes
3. Eating cookies like a cookie monster
4. Doing anything that makes you feel like a caveman
5. The 5 second rule
**We wanted to let you know that Ken didn't read my list before he wrote his. I think it is cool that we picked one of the same ones out of 500
Monday, April 26, 2010
Day 115 (April 25, 2010): The Antique Mall
Today Mel and I went to the antique mall and saw a lot of cool things and very nice furniture. Mel saw a few wine glasses that could match her set that she received from her grandma. She also saw some antique jewelry that she is dreaming about. I saw a jersey from Eric Desjardins that he wore in the Montreal Canadiens farm team, the Fredricton Canadiens. He was one of my favorite players as a kid. I saw some cool German knives from WWII.
http://www.oldstrathconamall.com/
Day 114 (April 24, 2010): Massages
Today was an awesome day. Mel and I went to get massages. I loved this day. We hadn’t gone for massages since some time last fall. We don’t “spoil” ourselves very often. I unfortunately woke up to strep throat or a viral infection the Dr. is not sure. The massages were awesome none the less. Strep throat or not I was gonna enjoy the massage.
Day 113 (April 23, 2010): Car Show
Today Mel and I went with our friend Andrew Premo to the car show at the northlands. We saw lots of old cars and some new ones. There was a vote at the end and I voted for the ’32 ford roadster. It was a sweet car. Then I saw a new F-350 dually 4x4. Now that’s a damn truck if I ever saw one. Premo had a good time and got a t-shirt that he always wanted from So-Cal. All in all it was a good evening out. We ended it by stopping by the Boston Pizza and having some wings watching the hockey game. Mel’s thoughts: It was nice hanging out with Ken and Premo and looking at all the shinny cars, lol. I am not much of a car person so for me the best part was just the company.
Day 112 (April 22, 2010): Ken-volunteering, Mel-thank you card
Today I had a fun time playing kickball with some of the neighbourhood kids in Millwoods. It was supposed to be police and firefighters but there were not enough officers available so Mel asked me to help out and I really enjoy sports so there was no question. It was really fun. I had an incident while I was going to eat. I was using the relish squirt container and as I was squeezing it, it blasted a whole bunch all over the bun and this kid that was standing next to me busted out laughing. We had a good laugh about it .
Mel: Today I did something that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. It wasn’t really an activity though. I decided to write a Thank You card to someone that I really appreciate. I am not going to write about this person or what I was thanking them for but I will write about the experience. In the past few weeks I have heard a couple of conversations and a bit on the radio about how manners are not what they used to be. In fact, I actually heard someone talking about how people don’t hand write letters or Thank You cards anymore. Someone had a dinner party and they received a Thank You card in the mail from one of their guests a few days after the party. They talked about how nice it was to be acknowledged after the fact for the experience that they created for their guests including the time and effort that was put in. So, with that in mind I decided to acknowledge this person who is so thoughtful and considerate in my life with a hand written card. It is funny but by expressing my feelings in the card and giving specific examples of what they do that I appreciate, I felt a bit vulnerable. However, I know from my education and work that taking risks with your emotions is one way to cultivate stronger relationships so I am glad that I did it.
Mel: Today I did something that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. It wasn’t really an activity though. I decided to write a Thank You card to someone that I really appreciate. I am not going to write about this person or what I was thanking them for but I will write about the experience. In the past few weeks I have heard a couple of conversations and a bit on the radio about how manners are not what they used to be. In fact, I actually heard someone talking about how people don’t hand write letters or Thank You cards anymore. Someone had a dinner party and they received a Thank You card in the mail from one of their guests a few days after the party. They talked about how nice it was to be acknowledged after the fact for the experience that they created for their guests including the time and effort that was put in. So, with that in mind I decided to acknowledge this person who is so thoughtful and considerate in my life with a hand written card. It is funny but by expressing my feelings in the card and giving specific examples of what they do that I appreciate, I felt a bit vulnerable. However, I know from my education and work that taking risks with your emotions is one way to cultivate stronger relationships so I am glad that I did it.
Day 111 (April 21, 2010): The Blue Chair Cafe
Today Mel and I went to a short story competition at this small café/restaurant/bar. They call it a story slam. It was a new season and they have not done this for a while so it was a little late getting started and a little disorganized but once it got goin’ it went very smoothly. As for me, it was a little boring because I could not fast forward the stories I did not like. For the stories that I liked it was pretty good. There were some interesting stories of the history of the First Nations people of Western Canada. They do the competition once a year for 10 months and then in January they have all the winners come back for a final competition. That one would be good to go to. The Blue Chair Café is a really cool little place. They have a unique menu that we wished we could have sampled a bit more of. Unfortunately we were expecting more of like a coffee bar so we ate supper before we went. But we did have dessert which was awesome. We had a really big gooey chocolate chip cookie that was warmed up and had ice cream on it. Yum! We would like to go back to the Blue Chair sometime to see one of their Blues or Jazz bands and have a whole meal there.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Day 110 (April 20, 2010): Floam or Gazz-It
There is this stuff called Floam that I tried to get for Ken and I to play with for one of our activities. A kid at work had it and I thought it was kind of neat. There was nothing like it when I was a kid. When I went to buy it I couldn't find the actual brand called "floam" like I had seen before. I had to buy the cheap knock off called "Gazz-It". It turns out that it wasn't as good as the Floam stuff but it was only $.99 so it wasn't a big expense. Ken and I had to work opposite shifts again today so I decided to make some creations with my Gazz-It in the morning and take pictures of them and then Ken would do the same when he got home from work. Here are our creations:
The first thing I made was a heart. When I took the stuff out of the container I noticed right away that it seemed to be more sticky than the Floam that I had touched previously. I found it a bit difficult to mold it into the shapes that I wanted so I stuck with easy shapes.
These are my hands.....look at how it is sticking to them. I was starting to get annoyed!
Next I made a snowman because the white foam balls just reminded me of snow. You can get this stuff in many different colours as well. I like the way the white foam glows when you use the flash on the camera.
This is what it looks like without the flash
Ken is much more creative than me and he made a goalie stick.
And a cat! I would not have had the patience to make a cat out of this stuff!
Ken is very creative. I can be creative too but I am a perfectionist so I often quell my creativity if something is not going EXACTLY the way I want it. The Gazz It was another example of that. Once I realized that I couldn't make complicated shapes like I had wanted I stuck to easy shapes that I could do well, lol.
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