Awhile ago, I got an email with a coupon for an online photography store, so I ordered me some polaroid film! And then I promptly forgot about it. haha.

Lately I've been trying to not focus so much on the big scary things going on in my life right now. To remember how blessed I am and to hold on to the happy things that happen around me, even if they're just little.

Today I have no profound wisdom to share. Surprise, right?

However, this girl and her insights are amazing. Her blog post yesterday is everything I felt but didn't know how to say.

As many of you know, I have a VERY deep love for my bucket list. As in, it's probably unhealthy sometimes. I just love the feeling when I finish one and get to put a little check mark beside an entry! It's like... giving yourself a hypothetical high-five.

A few days ago, I updated the "Bucket List" tab on this blog. I thought today I would list some of my favourite bucket list entries that I've checked off and the stories behind them.

#22. Ride on a Gondola
Nope, not the kind on a mountain slope. The legit Italian kind of gondola. In grade 11, I went on a school trip to France and Italy, and we visited Venice. And obviously Venice = dirty water gondolas. So a few of my friends and I went on a gondola ride. Our gondolier was awesome. He was super cheerful and he even sang to us in Italian! Everything was perfect... and then he got into a fight with another guy on a boat. We have NO idea what he was yelling, but the faces on the local Venetians kind of hinted that the conversation had soured. Then he slapped his stick thingy down hard and got half our group wet. I'm pretty sure one of the moms has this on video somewhere... It was awesome.

#41. See the Mona Lisa
Biggest disappointment of my life. Well, maybe not, but still. The Mona Lisa is actually not much bigger than a regular piece of printer paper. They have it on its own wall, but you can't even get close to it because there is ALWAYS a huge crowd of Asian tourists with cameras swarmed around the thing like a horde of killer bees. I much prefered the mummy exhibit personally....

#63. Try Sushi
The first time I tried real sushi was actually last year! My english family (four of us that had multiple english classes together all year) and I went as a kind of "End of the year hurrah". It was also Ben's first time eating real sushi. In fact I think there's a video which I would probably get in trouble for posting... Yep. Found it!

#82. Bail out of a moving vehicle
We were going to be late for choir, what can I say?

#124. Make posters for a lost sandwich
During our senior year of high school, my friend Shelby (not to be confused with Zygote Shelby) and I had a brilliant idea. And I think it was either the last or second last week of classes that we went ahead and did it. We printed off several posters, you know the kind you see for a lost pet? Except instead of a picture of a fluffy dog, this one had a picture of a grilled cheese sandwich. Underneath we explained that this was Larry, and that he was an important part of our family and all we wanted was to be reunited with him again.

Once upon a time (a.k.a. last year), we had a roommate that made a comment about some guy and how he was REALLY old. Roommate Heather happens to be older than said guy, and she was kind of miffed at that. But it was decided that Heather would not be old, she would just be Legendary! Then it was decided that Old Roommate Indie would be our Toddler, and Roommate Rachel would be the Baby. I happened to be sitting in the living room while this was going on, and I stupidly opened my mouth and said, "Wait a minute! I'm younger than Rachel! If she's the baby, what does that make me?"

Soon, I was introduced to everyone that came over to our house as "The Fetus". Although I didn't really mind, I secretly prayed that the next roommate to move in would be younger than me so that I could give her a special little nickname too.