#10. Ride a Train

Guess what? --I can cross that off the bucket list! :)

     I was visiting my grandparents on spring break and they were gonna drive me back to Reno because they live in Sacramento and it's only about a 3 hour drive. But the weather changed those plans. It snowed overnight on the path they were gonna drive, and they were afraid of having to drive back in bad weather. So we checked if there were any flights I could take to get there quick and easy. Nope. The only flights were ones that went to San Francisco and then back to Reno, and the tickets cost about $500! Insane and not an option. My grandma has traveled on the train before so we found that the train was the best option--even though it was going to take 5 hours, it only cost $50. So there we have it. It was settled that I was going to ride the train back to Reno! I was kinda excited because it was something I have never experienced before and it was on my bucket list.



     When I got on the train, I had noo idea what to do, so I just sat down next to this lady that looked nice. And she was. Her name was Valerie and she was 39. That's about the same age as my mom. She was headed to Chicago, which is about a 2 day trip...crazyness! When I sat down and got settled, I decided to listen to some music and write in my journal that I haven't made an entry in a month. I'm trying to start to write in it everyday. Anyways, as we were riding along Valerie and I made a little conversation. Once I was done writing in my journal- which took up about 2 hours- I realized I was really hungry, so I decided to go find something to eat. Valarie decided to come with me and I got a sandwich and some chips. We sat down in the dining area where there was a huge window to see the beautiful scenery. After we were done, we went up to the top floor where the whole car was windows so that everyone could see. There were soo many trees covered in snow and the truckee river was beautiful to see. I took some pics and Valarie took a pic of me by the window. That was pretty much it. Just talking to her and looking at the scenery, and texting my friends along the way. It actually went by pretty fast!

     Now I can say that I've traveled on a train :)

My Biggest Fears

1. Being alone
2. Thunderstorms
3. Breaking a bone
4. Failure
5. Not making enough money
6. Growing old
7. Getting sick
8. Germs
9. Getting an incurable disease
10. Love
11. Not making it into the Celestial Kingdom

iPod Randomness

Top 25 most played songs:
1.  Break My Bank -New Boyz/Iyaz (531 plays)
2. I'll Pray For You -Unknown (421)
3. Get Outta Your Mind -Lil John/LMFAO (244)
4. Double Vision -3oh3 (185)
5. Please Don't Go -Mike Posner (145)
6. Cooler Than Me -Mike Posner (142)
7. Love Like Woe -The Ready Set (134)
8. Right Above It -Lil Wayne/Drake (126)
9. A Milli -Lil Wayne (123)
10. 143 -Bobby Brackins/Ray J (121)
 11.  Everybody In Love -JLS (113)
12. Baby Boy -Beyonce/Sean Paul (104)
13. F-You -Cee-Lo Green (104)
14. Goodies -Ciara/Petey Pablo (100)
15. Should've Said No -Taylor Swift (96)
16. Papa Don't Preach -Glee Cast (94)
17. Russian Roulette -Rihanna (90)
18. Piece Of Me -Britney Spears (84)
19. Donk -Soulja Boy (80)
20. Animal -Neon Trees (78)
21. Jesus Walks -Kanye West (77)
22. Yeah -Usher/Lil John/Ludacris (73)
23. Club Can't Handle Me -Flo Rida (70)
24. Misery -Maroon 5 (64)
25. Amazing -Kanye West (63)

Food!

Here is a list of my most favorite foods:

Pickles
Bacon
Dark Chocolate
Tuna
Pineapples
Strawberries
Raisins
Coconut
Sourdough Bread
Pork
Zucchini
Chicken Quesadillas
Chicken Tortilla Soup
Banana Peppers
Cheddar Cheese
Cranberries
Green Beans
Fried Onions
Applesauce
Cherries
Ice Cream
Olives

I could eat these foods ANY time and I will be happy!

#106. Get Abs

So Bella and I decided to get going on finishing our bucket list, starting with getting ripped. That's right. I am finally gonna have a flat stomach and some definition of my ab muscles when I flex. We started by choosing a time to exercise on the weekends: 2:00pm. Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we do cardio for 20 mins-this is either running up the stairs in our dorm, playing just dance, or looking up cardio exercises to do in our room. Next, we do 20 mins of straight ab workouts. And then we finish with 20 mins of either arm, leg, or butt exercises. Mmhhmm fun stuff! We are also eating healthier. Salads make up the main course, along with other healthy stuff that we find in the dining commons of UNR. We are gonna stay away from fried foods and dairy as much as possible, but once a week we are allowed to eat bad. We also only get one dessert a day. As an added incentive, our roomie, Brigitte, and her boyfriend, Danny, brought up the idea of making a bet on who could get the best abs by the end of the school year. The winner gets $20, and I'm gonna win that money! I also expect to lose weight, so we weighed ourselves, right now I am 116lbs, and every week were gonna see our progress. I'm excited to be getting some abs!
Today is the second day of our new healthy lifestyle and I have to say that I'm in pain! I woke up extremely sore-which I think is the worst feeling in the world. My shoulders hurt soo bad and so do my legs and arms and especially my stomach. But it's a good sore! :) I know it's gonna pay off soon enough!
I'm going to try to keep track of what I ate and what we worked out every day here:
  Saturday 2/26/2011-We did cardio in our room, abs, and arm workouts. I ate: salad (lettuce, spinach, spring mix, chicken, carrots, cucumbers, olives, croutons, banana peppers, and fat-free raspberry vinagarette), pepperoni and sausage stromboli, rice, and pineapples with cottage cheese, and an oatmeal raisin cookie.
  Sunday 2/27/2011-We ran up and down 7 flights of stairs(afterward our legs were shaking uncontrollably), abs, and legs. I ate: salad, turkey, mashed potatoes, rice, corn, curried zucchini, cranberry sauce(one of my favorite foods), and some chocolate thing for dessert.
Well that's too hard to keep up with! hahaha So I'm not gonna keep track of what I ate on here...
<3 Amanda

My Bucket List!

As my very first blog post I decided to put my bucket list that my best friend Bella and I made together. We are currently in the process of trying to complete at least one a month, if possible. I feel like this is a little insight into my life and it shows what I want to accomplish in my life.

1.       Graduate High School 6/8/2009

2.       Go to the Olympics

3.       Go to a Super Bowl

4.       Be on a TV show

5.       Get a Bachelor’s degree

6.       Get Married in the Temple

7.       Have a child

8.       Get a henna tattoo

9.       Swim with a dolphin

10.   Ride a train 3/17/2011

11.   Ride in a helicopter

12.   Go to another country 2006?

Mexico

13.   Kiss in the rain 7/2011

14.   Road trip!

15.   Be in the audience on a TV show

16.   Fall in love 6/2011

Summer Love <3

17.   Go to Disneyworld

18.   Go to all 50 states

19.   Move out of parent’s house

20.   Stay up for a full 24 hours 3/2011

21.   Donate $100

22.   Buy a puppy

23.   Sing in front of an audience

24.   Surf

25.   Ride in convertible with top down

26.   Go in a hot air balloon

27.   Kiss a guy you just met 9/2010

28.   Go to statue of liberty

29.   Ride an elephant

30.   Go to prom 5/2009

31.   Go on a cruise

32.   Go snorkeling in the ocean

33.   Go on a safari

34.   Go to a jungle

35.   Stay in a presidential suite

36.   Stand at the north or south pole

37.   Go to the Eiffel tower

38.   Build a tree house            

39.   Walk on the great wall of china

40.   Visit the pyramids in Egypt

41.   Go white water rafting

42.   Kiss someone on New Years

43.   Ride in a submarine

44.   Save someone’s life

45.   Shake a famous person’s hand

46.   Go to the Niagra Falls

47.   Live in a different state

48.   Eat in a five star restaurant

49.   See a broadway show

50.   Vote

51.   Volunteer for something

52.   Take a self defense class

53.   Have a yard sale

54.   Jet ski

55.   Ride an atv

56.   Enter a food eating contest

57.   Be hypnotized

58.   Flatten coins on a train track

59.   Ride a mechanical bull

60.   Bury a time capsule

61.   Make fire the old fashioned way

62.   Swing on a rope into a lake

63.   Spend an hour in an elevator

64.   Get fortune told

65.   Visit five other continents

66.   Take dance again 1/2011

67.   Go skiing

68.   Sleep outside with no tent

69.   Dye hair a crazy color

70.   Drive across the country

71.   Visit the white house

72.   Ride in a police car

73.   Ride in a fire truck

74.   Get a job 8/2009

 My favorite job so far:
Rollercoaster Attendant

75.   Get a scholarship 8/2009

76.   Give money to a homeless person

77.   Ride a gondola in venice

78.   Go canoing/kayaking

79.   Go paragliding                      

80.   Visit the coliseum

81.   Visit the taj mahal

82.   Ride the ten largest roller coasters

83.   Swim in every ocean

84.   Break a world record

85.   Donate blood  4/2011 (I can't donate blood but I did give blood plasma, so I'm counting that!) 

86.   Audition for a reality show

87.   Visit a castle

88.   Milk a cow

89.   Ride a camel

90.   Go to macy’s thanksgiving parade

91.   Own a house

92.   Go to a club on the strip

93.   Visit the world trade center memorial

94.   Climb to the top of a mountain

95.   Skydive

96.   Go into a lighthouse

97.   Learn to skip rocks 6/30/2011

98.   Go through a corn maze

99.   Stomp on grapes

100.   Pay for the person behind me in a drive through

101.   Go on a mission with my husband

102.   Send a message in a bottle

103.   Make it all the way up the down escalator

104.   Ride a tandem bike

105.   Kiss under the mistletoe

106.   Get abs

107.   Go cow tipping

108.   Ride a horse on the beach

109.   Go to an Usher concert

110.   Dine and dash

111.   Patent an invention

112.   Have a star named after us

113.   Finish face the facts

114.   Make a CD with our songs

115.   Finish this bucket list!