1. When you are running at the redline of stress, you sleep really frickin’ well.
2. The pipe in the apartment’s ceiling would happen to freeze while I am down in PBI.
3. That makes a HUGE MESS!
4. The mess lasts a lot longer than preferred…
5. Cleo now has PTSD with Fire Alarms.
6. On Feb 2nd, 2018, we became homeowners!
7. The day after we closed, the toilet breaks… (Hopefully not foreshadowing!)
8. Two days after we closed, we had lowered the value of our house easily 20k. Good thing we hadn’t made a payment yet!
9. Geneva has the largest hangar I have ever seen!!! 5 stories high at the short end, it made the X+ look like a model.
10. Movenpick gives you rubber ducks!
11. That feeling of descending into St. Johns is one of my favorite feelings when flying.
12. Correction… plummeting into St. Johns.
13. Who would have thought our favorite show would be the Great British Baking Show Season 5?!
14. We saved ourselves three months of rent!
15. All of the walls in the bathroom were made of 0.5” concrete, then a metal screen, another 0.75” of concrete, and finally the tile. Talk about a mess…
16. Just because you are carrying a life raft doesn’t mean you will have one when you land.
17. Frontier has less creature comforts than Spirit!
18. But when the ticket costs $30 to go from Miami direct to Milwaukee, I guess you cannot complain.
19. Electricians sometimes switch the neutral instead of the hot.
20. Sweating pipes? Not too tough.
21. Disney world was just as cool as I remember it being, many years ago!
22. Magic Kingdom was much smaller than I remembered it being.
23. The clientele at Universal Studios is very much different than the clientele at Disney.
24. “Best places to nap at Epcot” <- Google search I never thought I would need.
25. Blisters for days!
26. KURT AND NICCI GOT MARRIED!
27. Rolls of sod worked perfectly.
28. The previous owners of our house burnt a lot of stuff!!
29. Realizing the dream of driving around in a Jeep with the top and doors off makes me giddy.
30. When your Jeep is topless, you are much more in tune with the weather.
31. Soffit Vents – Sorted!
32. Summer is such a fun time of the year when it comes to house projects!
33. Drywall isn’t that hard to hang up.
34. Especially when you hire a professional to reattach the cement board that you couldn’t drive a screw threw and mud the joints for you!
35. We are adding a second puppy to the family! Carmen!
36. Apple Care paid for itself in one event.
37. After a disappointing Snee tourney last year, the King is back on top!
38. Although rain/injuries/lack of beer made it feel like a shallow victory
39. BUT IT WAS A VICTORY NONE THE LESS! BOOYA!
40. Dave’s kayaks have a purpose, I am sure. That purpose is not keeping up with a canoe while loaded down and crossing a lake with a steady breeze from the west.
41. Dave’s kayak has an amazing built in feature. If you are ever lost, simply stop paddling. It will naturally turn in the exact opposite direction that you need to go.
42. A little paint will rip the garage door opener mechanism right out of the door.
43. That three months of rent saved? Yeah… it showed up as a bill.
44. When an official letter comes in the mail and you are expecting it to be your security deposit, but it turns out to be an invoice for three times what your security deposit would have been, it sucks.
45. Like a lot a lot.
46. Jeep hair don’t care.
47. Drones equipped with flame throwers are used for powerline maintenance.
48. “We don’t have problems man, we have situations.”
49. Carmen is an amazingly beautiful dog!
50. It’s awesome that Cleo now has a four legged best friend.
51. GHAY!
52. Croissant class was a lot of fun!
53. Who would have thought our favorite show would be the Great British Baking Show Season 6?!
54. Well, it happened. The one thunderstorm in the whole sky hit the Jeep while we were driving home from the Zoo.
55. Soaked. Cold. Couldn’t be happier.
56. Carmen is a cryer.
57. If she is bored, she cries. If she is hungry, she cries. If she wants to play, she cries. If she is inside and wants to go outside, she cries. If she is outside and wants to come inside, she cries. If she is in bed and wants to wake up, she cries. If she is full, she cries. Foreshadowing?
58. Starting a business takes a lot of work! LLC, Insurance, Website, Advertising, Business bank accounts, State Tax Accounts, camera rental, etc.
59. It’s hard to find time to actually make money while running a business!
60. However, when you do, it is really satisfying.
61. I am not sure what a BTR is, but It’s not due for another 12 months.
62. Apple Care paid for itself again!
63. You only get two instances of Apple Care covering your repair before they refuse to help you anymore.
64. For about 7 months of the year, I will need to clean the gutters out every two weeks.
65. Unless that tree gets hit by lightning.
66. Zeus… do your thang man.
67. They fixed the Midway Airport Naked man.
68. Vienna may be my favorite European city to visit.
69. It’s not that Merry is a bad gardener… but she can’t even keep a gnome alive!
70. The day the top goes back on the Jeep is a very sad day indeed.
71. Next year, I will ensure there are no spiders living in the hard top before installing it.
72. After doing battle with the tub for 6+ months, we finally have achieved the status of “no more leaking!”
73. At 6 months, Carmen has not achieved the same status.
74. Amanda is as tall as 16 rolls of toilet paper.
75. Cosmin does not stack the toilet paper nearly as neatly as I would have expected.
76. The US Postal Museum is still my favorite museum in Washington DC.
77. Putting the FaceTime camera flip button one menu level down was a really bad decision on Apple’s part.
78. Avocados get a lot bigger than I expected.
79. ALWAYS ensure the jeep hard top has been rid of 8 legged residents prior to installation.
80. Blu-Rays are beneficial to plants.
81. Outback is fantastic for low carb diets.
82. Outback is fantastic for high calorie diets.
83. Outback is fantastic for high sodium diets.
84. You have to pay a tax on creating an account which enables you to pay tax.
85. The easiest way to guarantee a trip will cancel is by booking a non-refundable hotel room.
86. Sometimes, being a Diamond member cannot get you out of cancellation fees.
87. Beer advent calendars are a thing. A very good thing!
88. Who would have thought our favorite show would be the Great British Baking Show – Holiday Special!
89. Don’t even call Nassau approach. Go straight to Miami Center.
90. This year is the first year since the Apollo era that the US has successfully launched 100 rockets in a single year.
91. RIP Richie
92. The WAC opens later on holidays
93. Building an addition would be a lot of fun…
94. Probably should finish the first remodel first.
95. Autopilot failure at FL450 is a non-event, but it really brings the level of focus up.
96. Apple put the flip button back at on the main FaceTime screen!
97. The furnace from Home Alone isn’t nearly as scary as it was when I was young!
98. Meat should be brought up to room temperature prior to grilling.
99. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a dream come true to middle-school me.
100. Turns out the same is true for middle-aged me.