3. Hit a HomeRun

Haha this one is a kind of... I'm-super-pissed-off- after-my-softball-game-tonight

So i used to be ok at softball...it wasn't my sport and apparently it still isn't.

I play on a coed league on Fridays at this ballpark near my house, with some good friends and my sister and her husband. Well apparently I suck super bad.

This is the second week in a row that i've lost the game for us on the last play or whatever. I play catcher and last week I didn't catch the ball to tag the guy at home...and we had to hold them to beat them..so we lost.

Tonight I was up at bat, bottom of 7th, two runs down, two outs. All night I haven't been hitting well or catching well, and I hated it. So i hit the ball.. goes 5 feet in front of me.I take off and what do I do? I SLOW DOWN INSTEAD OF RUNNING THROUGH FIRST. had I kept running I would have been safe. but nope. i got out.. And I KNOW I should have ran through. I know all those durn rules, but I just didn't! I hate when the catcher throws to first behind me. Gonna beam me in the head and stuff..no way. It's worse when I see the whole team just pissed and aggravated that I can't do shit. They do cheer me on whenever I get up and I love them for that..i just wish i could do better

once again I lost the game. and I feel like crap. I keep bringing the team down and sucking...and it sucks so bad. I want to be awesome but it just isn't happening..

So Bucket List?
 I want to slam the crap out of that ball...like Benny the Jet and just destroy it. Sadly i'm slow so I will settle for a couple things:

1. Hitting it over the fences.
2. Hitting it over the outfielders head (They all move up when a girl hits)
3. And/ or bringing in atleast 3 runners.

One or all of those would suffice as a completion of this Bucket List number.

Essentially I just want to prove myself to my teammates and all of those other teams.

Stick with me,

K

2. Learn the Free Willy Tune on the Harmonica

*Cue inspirational music*

Ah Yes, that classic little diddy of a boy and a whale!  I mean, come on, and look at this

That’s probably the coolest whale in all of history. If you haven’t seen this movie…seriously… get a childhood. Or go on YouTube and watch the whole thing…or just buy it.. Totally worth any price!

So you know when Jesse, the original bad misunderstood kid finds Willy? He plays a tune on the harmonica and poof! Willy comes up for air. So Jesse runs, slips, and FALLS INTO THE TANK OF A KILLER WHALE! While in real life this kid would die, this is a family movie. So a large killer whale instead lifts jesse out of the water, saving his life, and making kids everywhere jealous. A lifetime friendship is born and they save each other time and again.

But back to this tune…  it sets the whole tone of the movie. Jesse plays it when he needs Willy or he is feeling down, and throughout the whole movie there are variations of it culminating in the epic scene shown above.

Have a listen..

Free Willy on Piano.. first 25 seconds

It was so hard to find the clip but the first 25 seconds on the piano are what Jesse plays.

 

And I love it. I don’t know what it is about the song but I’ve loved it ever since I saw this movie.

Because of my love/obsession, I tend to buy a harmonica wherever I go. I also really like the boxes they come in. The older the better.

Well I have at least 5 harmonicas now. I used to have more, but it was ridiculous. I had never learned how to play…

Until now!

I recently bought a harmonica that has numbers on it. Now listen I am not musically inclined at all. So I don’t know major notes or if it’s a C harmonica. (But I mean I do know because it says so on it…but if it didn’t, I wouldn’t, you get what I’m trying to say.)

I keep trying, but I’ve not yet mastered the harmonica playing ability. But I will.

Stick with me,

K

1. Throw a Penny in the Trevi, or, Oh the places I'll go.

Ahhh sounds completely like a common Bucket List dream. And yet....

I don't even care!

It's not even just about the fountain.... although,  

Who in their right mind wouldn't want to see this?

I can't even imagine what it would be like to go there!

From all the pictures i've seen and the movies i've watched (Lizzie McGuire movie anyone?) it looks like its hidden from the main street, and you turn a corner and BAM! there it is! in all of its magnificent glory! a gift from the gods..

*collective sigh*


Besides the Trevi, I would love to have my own Roman Holiday (Ahh Audrey)...and not just in Rome either! I would kill to go to Tuscany and Bellagio, and Positano.. all of those beautiful places! Italy seems like the place to go when all you want to do is bask in the beauty that is our world.
I mean seriously... look at these

It's like a dream. Hidden discoveries just waiting for me across the Ocean!!

Just the chance to travel and lose yourself in another place  where you don't know anyone sounds terrifying...but then the flipside? They don't know you either. It's a chance to be yourself...and i know you're always yourself...but in a new place? You can be yourself without any judgement! you can be a wildly romantic dreamer with her head in the clouds, and everyone admires you for following your heart.


At least... that's what I hope



Ahh so Number1: Cross the Pond...that is theAtlantic to get to Italy...

In Conclusion.. I want to travel, but i'll need to make some dough first. But it will be there when i'm ready. It has to be. It's all I dream about.
 


Stick with me,

K

My Bucket list

Interestingly enough I have never seen The Bucket List, and for some reason I don't really want to. I have this nagging suspicion that I will not like the ending...meh...C'est la vie..

I'm a young person... and sometimes I feel like my life is already over. I've graduated college and unlike others I was lucky enough enough to become employed before the ink dried on my diploma. So is that it?

 I have a job, and I will have an apartment next year when it becomes available.....but is that how the rest of my life goes? A normal day to day experience? Channeling "Working 9-5" as we speak.

I've always been a dreamer. That sounds so cliche and corny and yet it's true.I dream of traveling and seeing new places and becoming a new person in an instant My mind is full all the time of things that could happen in a instant and it depends on what I am doing. If i'm standing in front of a person I catch myself envisioning every single scenario that could happen If I do something. Like what if right now I'm a spy meeting a contact...or what if the person in front of me is the one i'm going to spend the rest of my life with...I guess, in truth, that's what this meaningless ramble comes down to.

Will I be alone forever?
As a hopeless romantic...this sounds terrifying. I have many people in my life who love me and who i love unconditionally, but where is that someone who loves me unconditionally...and without reason? Am i searching too hard? All of those stupid romantic quotes that say If i keep looking I will never find someone and that they are standing right in front of me.

That went a little off topic. I apologize

REEEEELING IT BACK IN......

So going back to the I'm a dreamer part. I've made multiple promises to myself that  I will do these once in a lifetime things, sometime in my one life time.

I'm not good at blogging. I get these ridiculous notions in my head at 3:13 in the morning that what i have to say will inspire others.. i know i'm not that cool.

but what  i need to do for myself is keep this list updated. My own personal bucket list of things i want to do and why before I die. And honestly try to complete them.

This isnt a Julia Child thing. I'm not going to complete this in a year..but I'm going to try. Im going to try and add to my Bucket List... but also check things off..

Stick with me.

K