Melissa blogged about the TrySports holiday calorie burn contest that starts tonight and apparently the post saved the program from being cancelled! I figured I should get the word out too as we are super excited about this challenge. What a great idea for the store to have a calorie burn contest around the holidays. So everyone come to Trysports tonight and start the holiday season off right!
My bucket list is on Kevin’s blog because I don’t have a blog and can not start one up at work.
Things I would like to do:
The most important thing I want to do in life is to help other people. Something I feel most passionate about is organ donation. I pray that whatever happens to me in life or how I die, that every single piece of my organs and body will be able to go to someone and help change or save a life. I guess this wouldn’t be on my life list since I will not be alive when it happens, but that is a huge desire of mine. I have been thinking lately about bone marrow donation and/or kidney donation, which you can do while you’re alive and be ok. If you have any questions or concerns about organ donation, just ask me. If I don’t know the answer, I will find out. I have strong stories about the miracles it creates. Now on to my list which is in no particular order and I add to it often. Sometimes, I add stuff I did that wasn’t on the list just because it’s so freakin’ cool I don’t know why I didn’t have it on the list to begin with.
1.) Meet Ellen Degeneres, attend her show taping
2.) Learn Ballroom dancing
3.) Visit as many Hard Rock Cafes as possible: Already been to New York City, Key West, Gatlinburg, Myrtle Beach, Atlantic City, Orlando, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Jamaica, Cabo San Lucas, Las Vegas (I passed the one in Philly, but didn’t stop and eat there)
4.) Go bungee jumping
5.) Run the Cooper River Bridge Run (completed in 2008)
6.) Run the Cooper River Bridge Run in under an hour
7.) Run a 1/2 marathon
8.) Run a marathon
9.) Run in Central Park
10.) Take a hot air balloon ride
11.) Watch the ball drop in NYC, actually be there in Time Square
12.) Go the Macy’s Day parade
13.) Go to the Mall of America
14.) Memorize all of the Presidents of the US
15.) Go somewhere new on vacation each year ( So far so good since 2003, Key West, Cancun, Orlando, Puerto Vallarta, Jamaica, Cabo San Lucas, Bermuda )
16.) Go skydiving (completed on June 22, 2005 with my mom in Chester)
17.) Swim with the dolphins (completed in Cancun, August 2004)
18.) Get married (completed 
August 21, 2004)
19.) Have kids
20.) Go on a canopy tour, where you slide down zip lines ( completed in Puerto Vallarta September 2006 )
21.) Jump off a waterfall ( completed in Puerto Vallarta September 2006, it was small but a waterfall )
22.) Buy a truck for Ryan ( completed June 2009 )
23.) Build my own house with Ryan
24.) Hike up a mountain ( completed in 2005, it was a small Mt in Hot Springs, NC, but a mountain none-the-less, and we were tired hiking up the trail)
25.) Visit a planetarium
26.) Learn to play tennis
27.) Learn to play golf with Ryan
28.) Take Ryan to a Philadelphia Eagles game
29.) Visit all the stadiums in SEC (visited Neyland Stadium, TN)
30.) Go on a real safari
31.) Swim with sharks (me in a cage)
Places I would like to go:
1.) Go to Paris with my mom
2.) NYC, see the Empire State Building, Ground Zero, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Rockefeller Center and the Christmas Tree, see a Broadway show, see the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes (completed in December of 2005)
3.) Jamaica (completed August 2007)
4.) Hollywood
5.) San Francisco
6.) Hawaii
7.) St. Lucia
8.) Fiji
9.) Tahiti & Bora Bora
10.) Grand Turks & Caicos Islands
11.) Mexico (Cancun August 2004 on our honeymoon, Puerto Vallarta September 2006 with great friends, Cabo San Lucas 2008)
12.) Chicago
13.) Visit the little NC cities in the Nichalos Sparks books
14.) Niagra Falls
15.) The Grand Canyon, and walk out onto the skywalk (completed Feb. 2008)
16.) Las Vegas (completed in Feb. 2008)
17.) Mt Rushmore
18.) New Orleans
19.) I would like to visit all 50 states at least once. (I know this covers lots of those up there, but those are specific sites/places.)
20.) Aruba
This is me blogging to you from Peurto Vallarta, Mexico! Jenn and I are here on vacation and it is nice.
I was able to run on the treadmill yesterday morning. I only went two miles to try and not push it. It felt great, so I planned to run 2.5 today. About a mile into it, my shin started hurting, so I jumped off the treadmill and onto a stationary bike and rode 10 miles.
Hopefully I will be able to work through this and still be okay for the marathon. Time will tell.
So we went into town today for a bit of shopping. Let me tell you, the street vendors are pushy. As we walked by one store, a man was offering Cuban cigars and when we told him “no thanks,” he said, “Ah, you must be from Chicago.” When I said, “no,” he said, “that is why you are so white, no?” So I guess by the color of my skin, I must be from Chicago and just never knew it!
View from the balcony
Ah...relaxation
You may or may not be aware, but next Friday, I will participate in the Blue Ridge Relay race that is a 208 mile course that stretches from Grayson Highlands State Park in Virginia to downtown Asheville, NC. The run is split into 36 “legs” that the runners complete in succession. I am running with 5 other team members and I will run in the 3rd position and run a total of 6 of the legs that will account for over 25 miles of the course. The race starts Friday morning and we will run throughout the night and finish sometime Saturday afternoon.
Our team decided to put our training and running madness to work to help a good cause. My brother-in-law, Alex Sullivan, is one of the team members that will run with me. He suggested that we raise money to benefit Muscular Dystrophy. He is being “locked up” and needs to post “bail”. His bailout will go to benefit MDA. Please see his message below and consider donating to this great cause. If you do decide to donate, please let me know so that I can thank you, as I won’t have a way to track donations on his website.
Thank you for your time!
Kevin
I’m proud to tell you that I’m being locked up…that’s right, I’m going behind bars to help Jerry’s Kids© and MDA. To be released on good behavior I have to raise bail and I need your help! Alex
P.S. I’m counting on you, click here to donate.
All you have to do is click here to make a secure, online donation before 09/23/09. Your donation will help families living in our community and help guarantee me an early release. I can’t wait to add you to my list of contributors.
Thanks in advance for your help. Don’t hesitate to call or email me with any questions.
Together we’ll make a difference,
If the link above does not work, please cut and paste the address below into the address bar of your Internet browser.
https://www.joinmda.org/rockhill2009/alexsullivan/