# 66 — Be a counselor for diabetes summer camp

.... CHECK!!!!!!

Once again, I did this eons ago, but have not officially checked it off my 101 in 1001 list until now.

HERE is the original blog post about it.

#86 — Get the new Heartland site up and RUNNING

....CHECK!!!!!!




We actually had things running about the first of June, but have yet to make a big to do about it on the Heartland Blog. How time flies!

Because I'm vain, I will NOT share the old sites (or photos of them) because I like what we have MUCH better now! There are some things we'd like to change, but can't because of our template, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE that I can go change stuff on the site at my own whim. We'll be trying to change the splash page sporadically so there is fresh content ...

I think now I actually almost have a dozen items checked off of my 101 in 1001 list.

#38 — Take a walk on the beach

.... CHECK!!!!!



Wow, I am going through my list today and I certainly have quite a few of these accomplished!

Admittedly, when i put "38. Take a walk on the beach (of a warm, tropical-like place, not an inland lake!)" on my list, I was thinking of our honeymoon in Jamacia, but our trip down Manhattan Beach DOES fit the bill!.

Even if we DID walk along, looking like the world's biggest geeks in our tennis shoes!

But it's exciting to cross yet another item off of the 101 in 1001 list.

#85 — Get a stinkin' blog counter figured out on this blog

.... CHECK!

I actually figured out the blog counter awhile ago, but didn't realize it was on my 101 in 1001 list

The original post is HERE

It's SO COOL because I can see who is visiting, when, from where, how many times and even what time of day!

Santa Monica Pier

Ok, so admittedly we took more interesting photos after Jessica & Chris' wedding, we had to go scout out the joint before.

Erik, of course, tagged along.

English Pub

After meeting up with Mike, we went to The Bulldog Bar



Check out how awesome this bulldog, Montgomery, was!



I had some yummie bangers & mash... not sure what E ordered.

Dodger days!!!!

To reward Erik for being SO AWESOME, we went to a Dodgers game.



Besides, when I was in softball, I was on the Dodgers team!!!!!

Oh, and no trip to Dodger Stadium would be complete without a Dodger Dog!

OH.MY.GOSH

It's official. I need to get a life.

This morning, as I was doing my usual blog-stalking, I saw some hot shoes on Jessica Claire's site. Despite the fact that I already HAVE wedding shoes, I can't resist looking some more (for those of you who know me and know how much I loath shoe shopping, I'm sure you're highly amused).

So, in searching Manolo Blahnik's shoe collection, I found THIS:



Oh la la!!!!!!!!!!! I am in love with Manolo's shoe titled something blue.

Fortunately for me, a few things prevent this from even being an option.

a) the shoe has a 4 1/2 inch heel. My current heel is high enough .... there's no way I could master something higer.
b) the shoes are sized in European sizes, and I have no idea what an 11 narrow translates into ... which is good. ;-)~
c) i seriously doubt any store in the state of Kansas carries these shoes, so I consider myself safe from even trying them on to tempt myself.
d) since I'm not a shoe horse, almost 4-figures is a bit more than I think I should invest (yes, these shoes would be an investment) in wedding shoes.

BUT .... fear not! The wedding (in about a month!!!!!!!) will have splashes of blue ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!!!! blue flowers, blue rosary in the my flowers, blue shoes, (hopefully) grandma's blue ring, blue hair jewelry .... and the list goes on and on! :-)

EDIT: This is the shoe from this summer's Sex and the City Movie ... and I remember admiring it on the big screen ... while I'm not going to be wearing it, when I was trying my dress on at the store, a lady DID comment "oh, blue shoes like in Sex and the City."

The blog has eyes ...

... and I LOVE it!

After MONTHS of tinkering around (ok, so I tinkered once or twice, then gave up for months before figuring it out), I added blog counters to our blog and to the Heartland blog. For those of you bloggers out there, they're powered by Sitemeter. Mike kept telling me how much he'd prefer that to the one he has because you can see who is looking at your site when. Ok, yeah ...

BUT IT IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are some regulars of our blog who I want to give a shout to: Hi Terry & Carol, Robin & Chris, Joe & Erin, someone in Manhattan (Nicole?), and Bobby Ann!!!!!!!!!

There appear to be some regular Heartland readers, too! Since we returned from our trip to LA for Jessica & Chris' wedding, we've been getting a lot of California hits. :-)

SO, why the heck am I rambling on about this?

Today, the Heartland blog had a visitor from Kuwait! I could barely believe my eyes when I saw it! How awesome is that?!?!?!??!? (yes I'm a total dork for being excited about this).



I was able to click through and see where this visitor came from .... and it appears to be a friend of a friend from our LA wedding. Rockin!

Speaking of ... anyone know where Rock, Kansas is? I've totally never heard of it in my life!

Ok, after consulting Google Maps, it appears to be just west of Atlanta, Kansas. Make sense? ;-)~ OR just southeast of Wichita.

ps-And DOUGGIE....are you spending vacation time reading our blog? ;-)~ Ok, I won't call you "douggie" anymore. Promise.

Hollywood!

On our way to the Dodgers game, we had some serious time to kill, so we took a brief stroll around Hollywood.






Erik wanted some Beatles love:



Don't ask.