Mindless fun...
This one is from Kare (www.karchamb.blogspot.com).

Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you've seen perform live. Delete the ones you haven't and add new ones that you have seen until you reach 25. An asterisk means the previous person had it on their list. Two asterisks means the last two people who did this before you had that band on their list.

Karen's List
1. Bon Jovi*
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. 10000 Maniacs
4. Lemonheads*
5. Inxs**
6. LL Cool J
7. Stereo MCs
8. John Mellencamp*
9. Def Leppard
10. Smithereens
11. Tesla*
12. Matthew Sweet*
13. Henry Rollins
14. Whitesnake*
15. The Monkees
16. Rolling Stones*
17. Paul McCartney*
18. Skid Row*
19. Counting Crows*
20. They Might Be Giants*
21. The Muffs
22. Motley Crue
23. Goo Goo Dolls*
24. Billy Squier
25. U2

My List
1. John Mellancamp **
2. Eric Clapton
3. Genesis
4. Phil Collins (not one in the same)
5. Debbie Gibson (yes, I'm admitting to it)
6. Billy Joel and Elton John
7. Air Supply (Kare, why didn't you put them on here! ;) I KNOW for a fact you were with me at Six Flags when I saw them! :) )
8. Jimmy Buffett (x3 or 4)

Sad isn't it?!?!? My list doesn't even get to 10! How sad!

Ok, now its your turn!

Thoughts from a Nautical Blonde

• There are some ways in which going on vacation by yourself is a wonderful, relaxing experience. It's nice just to do whatever you want without taking another into consideration. It also can have moments of terrible loneliness. It's hard to have lots of things to do and see and no one to do or see them with. Experiences are so much better when shared.
• They should have certain times for adults traveling to Orlando on an airplane that are kid-free
• Is it wrong to laugh when a kid who's been banging her tray table (which is attached to the back of your seat) an entire flight gets scared going through clouds? ;)
• The words "Man overboard" can drop your stomach and make you wanna cry. (Luckily, after lots of searching and getting to re-live our Muster Drill...it seemed a life buoy was just thrown overboard...presumably by kids playing.)
• My spirit seems to just soar through my body with the sand-sea-sunshine combination. I really need to move to the beach. Soon.
• Being a girl sucks sometimes.
• I really love music. At one point, lying on a deck chair, soaking in the sun and listening to my iPod, I couldn't help but bounce around/wiggle in tune a little.
• Dueling pianos! I took one lesson...I can play a "C" scale. Those guys were running there fingers all over the keys like raindrops in a puddle. No crossover of the fingers concentration...no mouthing the notes as they played them...no lack of nimble fingers...just beautiful!
• If you're gonna take a cruise, it doesn't really matter what ports you hit, you're really only there long enough to buy something that says "Bahamas (or whatever)" on it. (And with the wedding being that day, not even that long!) The real fun is the stuff you can do on the ship itself.
• A stingray is very soft, like velvet. Not slimy, like I thought they'd be.
• Just because the water is aqua, Caribbean water, doesn't mean it's warm!
• You miss SOOOO much in the "real world" when you're on vacation! (Did you guys know they elected a new Pope? ;) )
• It's nice to know when you're 29 and thinking, "I can't believe that H.S. girl's mother is just letting her daughter and friends dress like that and sitting there allowing this stuff (which was the 40-something dueling piano guy talking about the daughter and her friends)!", there's a 31-year old sitting next to you thinking the same thing. (he also said if he had one more drink he was gonna go ask her what she was thinking! :) )
• Kindness of strangers and meeting new people.
• Winning money at a casino is great! (Even if it is only $6)
• Craps is a VERY tough game to understand. I took a lesson during casino lessons hour. The guys was explaining the board...things like the come bar and the don't come bar, on and off disc, the numbers better, the field section and I wanted to ask "why is it called a come bar?". I was the only girl at the table, and didn't want to seem like a "girl", so I didn't ask.
• I hate people. Why must they complain? We sat with an old couple one morning for breakfast - they didn't like the food portions (too big), the weather didn't look good for today (it was 7am and a bit overcast) and this was the 3rd time they'd taken that exact cruise! We had a guy complaining at our Muster station (the place they corral you to try and account for everyone on the ship) because they made him put out his cigarette, seeing as how we were 50 people crammed in a little space, it was an emeregency drill AND the non-smoking side of the ship! Must everything be so negative?
• I can't imagine ever just walking away from my friends. Maybe it's because I'm loyal to a fault. Maybe it's because if I withhold stuff (any kind of stuff from trivial to a little too personal) I feel like I'm lying and deceiving. Maybe it's just because I'd feel a huge void inside if they weren't around. Whatever the reason, walking away, getting married and having a child without them knowing or without a good or logical reason just makes me so angry! (I agree with you Kare, that maybe it's better, but OMG!)
• Pets are wonderful loving things. I missed my "little" (he's a bit overweight), orange, fuzzy, "adopted" (he's mom's) sleeping buddy!
• I really like clothes. Own WAY too many of them!
• Knowing my boss missed me. I ran into him at our away LAX game today. He was SO tired! Said he was SO glad to see me. Happy Monday to me! :)
• I look SO much better with a tan! :) :) :)
• I love being tan! (could I rub it in any more? ;) )

I hope you guys are doing well. I feel so out of the loop with what's going on with you all. (Kare, you applied for a PhD program?) Give me a brief update of ya'll! (Oh yeah, lots of southerners on the cruise. Somehow, when I get shy (yes, me!) or am feeling out of place my voice is tinged all over with southern dilect.) Miss ya'll!

Stuff I've Been Up To (since my last post).....

• Mourning the Pope
• Yelling at Congress and the President for their involvement with Teri Shiavo (and feeling for her husband)
• Getting crossed off my mom's list of people who will have a say over her life.
• Buying clothes for my upcoming cruise
• Trying to workout and lose weight (which resulted over the 3 months I've been working on it, in me gaining 5 lbs) so I am wow-licious in a bathing suit on my cruise. (And knowing Kare will lose her last remaining straw at my made up word "wow-licious")
• Falling more and more in love with Patrick Dempsey (yeah, yeah, I know...it's just a character) every Sunday I watch "Grey's Anatomy".
• Growing out my hair (you'd be SURPRISED at how much effort this takes! ;) :) )
• Learning the Piano (I had my first lesson today. My fingers are NOT flexible. My poor teacher/band director/track coach had to keep telling me not to lift my fingers WAY up in the air after I press the key! :) )
• Sleeping (I LOVE SLEEPING!!!!)
• Not sleeping because I had to rescue my dad from our downstairs bathroom. It kidnapped him. Luckily, I was napping upstairs and could decifer the distress call of a trapped man BANGING ON THE WALL over and over because he tried to fix the loose doorknob and suceeded in making it stick, so you can't turn it and thus, get trapped inside.
• Working on saving my roommate Karen's students, faculty members and the other random people she may encounter at the precise moment she snaps from all her stress, by reminding her that I love her and really, that should be enough to de-stress anyone! :) :) ;) (If you didn't know I did that...READ YOUR BLOG COMMENTS YOU OVERSTRESSEDWOMAN!!!!)
• Praticing; My semi-colon use; so I may then send Karen over the edge; all by myself! :) :) (check out www.karchamb.blogspot.com)
• Reading journal articles as part of my ATC Journal Club
• Practicing my speeches to one of our LAX players on why the "mullet" is not the ultimate choice for his newest hairstyle. (His hairstylist wouldn't do it, so she did it the way she wanted it. He didn't like it and shaved it yesterday. Looks Fantastic! -In a big sister/mom sort of "hey you look great" way)
• Playing Spider Solitare (I know I know, it's a waste of time, but a fun one)
• Working 3 days of our Spring Break last week...shopping in A.C. and sleeping the other days.
• Laundry...hehehehehehe....aren't I funny?!?!?! I don't do laundry! Unfort., for me, no one else does my laundry either. Got a giant lump of clothes on the right side of my bed. I miss my old Chinese Laundry mother and daughter who used to do my laundry in Greensboro. I tried convinving my mom that as Mrs. Van Hee, people could MISTAKE her for Chinese and maybe she pretend to be them and do my laundry. :) (It didn't work....there's still a big lump of laundry next to my bed!)
• Enjoying the 70 degree sunshine! YEA!

I hope you guys have all been up to great stuff too! Happy Spring!!!!!!!

Here's The Answers to the Quiz from 3/25

1. If our lord wasn't testing us, how would you account for the proliferation, these days, of this obscene rock and roll music, with its gospel of easy sexuality and relaxed morality? FOOTLOOSE

2. My brother and I used to say that drownin' in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he's not here, and I've got two soakers... this isn't heaven, this sucks. STRANGE BREW

3. Oh, yes, as a matter of fact it is. We're supposed to do the show in two days, you won't show me the lift, I'm not sure of the turns I'm doing all this to save your ass when what I really want to do is drop you on it. DIRTY DANCING

4. Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

5. One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the d*** vampires. LOST BOYS

6. Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watch "The Wide World of Sports." So you tell me... Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell? BETTER OFF DEAD

7. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

8. May I have ten thousand marbles, please? ANIMAL HOUSE

9. That'll never be me, that'll never be me. That'll never be, never be me. NO... NO, NEVER, NEVER, EVER. And don't you EVER THINK IT. SAY ANYTHING

10. [singing] Some women are drippin' with diamonds / Some women are drippin' with pearls / Lucky me, lucky me, look at what I'm drippin' with / Little girls ANNIE

11. Donger's here for five hours, and he's got somebody. I live here my whole life, and I'm like a disease. SIXTEEN CANDLES

12. I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. GHOSTBUSTERS

13. You want me to go all the way up there, to a Yankee school, just so I can come over every weekend and practice "free love" with you? SHAG

14. I'm about as flamboyant as a bagel. FAME

15. He'll keep calling me, he'll keep calling me until I come over. He'll make me feel guilty. This is uh... This is ridiculous, ok I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go. What - I'LL GO. FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

16. You see? That's the sort of crap people are always trying to lay on me. It's not my fault you wouldn't play catch with your father. FIELD OF DREAMS

17. Heather, my love, there's a new sheriff in town. HEATHERS

18. C-C-C-C-C-C-C SUMMER SCHOOL

19. This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl... AIRPLANE

20. Prepare ship for ludicrous speed! Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo! SPACEBALLS

21. Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? BREAKFAST CLUB

22. Men are rats. Listen to me, they're fleas on rats. Worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. GREASE

23. Husbands should be like Klenex--soft, strong, and disposable. CLUE

24. [I] still live with my parents, which I admit is both bogus and sad. WAYNE'S WORLD

25. You break my heart. Then again, you break everyone's heart. ST. ELMO'S FIRE