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An amusement park adventure, thrift shopping, making cookies and more October fun!

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Hello, my bucket list, friends ! I’m over a month behind with my blog posts, so I’m going to try to get caught up by writing about multiple things in a few blog posts. We out anymore introduction let’s get to some of my October adventures.

10/04/ 2024 – On this day, I got a large surprise toy at work. It is the Rainbocorns Mermaidcorn toy. It is a very large surprise toy with a lot of different things inside but I haven’t opened it yet! I should do a review on it when I do.

10/05/2024 – On this day, I went to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk with my family. We were invited to a private party there. It was nice to be with my family I did get to go on some of my favorite rides but it was a very busy day at the park so there were long lines and that was stressful but it was a good day overall.

10/09 – On this day, I went to my favorite local thrift store. I got a lot of great things on this day, including a bag full of a bunch of random items, stickers, a book, and Play-Doh. However, my favorite item that I got was a sealed TY Beanie Baby calendar that has stickers in it . After the thrift store, I went to a local coffee shop for an iced coffee. After that, I went to one of my favorite local toy stores. The fun does not stop there because not only did I buy some fun items at work including a Hello Kitty Journal, I also did a pick up order Target and I got some great items in that order including a craft kit, a sticker book with so many great stickers, and a Squishmallow hair accessories set. It was a really fun day

10/10/2024 – On this day, I got a much needed massage! Selfcare is an important thing, and massage is a great form of selfcare.

10/ 16/ 2024 –

On this day, I went to Safeway, and I got some great clearance items. Including a 4th of July decoration and a Crayola scribble scrubby toy! I also got some cookie dough, and that night, I made cookies!

10/18 – On this day, my friend came to see me on my  lunch break! It was so good to her. The time went by so quickly, but it was wonderful!

10/19 – On this day, I went to my favorite party supplies store! I got lots of stickers, a coloring book, a bracelet making kit, surprise toys, and more! I also went to Jack in the box for curly fries, and later on, I went to ACE hardware. I got some fun things there a well including a Hot Wheels car and a cute turtle toy. It was a pretty great day!

Thanks for reading!

Love, Christina Epperly

Sunglasses, a squishy lama and dinner with my cousin

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Hello, my bucket list, friends! This month is turning out to be a lot more fun than I had planned on it being, and that is a very welcome surprise. Last week, I had Wednesday and Thursday off from work. On Wednesday I went into town and I went to a store that I don’t think that I had ever been in before. I got a pair of purple sparkly sunglasses. Then I went to one of my favorite local toy stores. Outside of the store there is a sale table. I saw a Barbie that was out of the box but in good shape. She was only five dollars, so I was more than happy to have her join my collection. Inside the store, I got some ice cream shaped erasers, a very cute and squishy lama toy, and more. I also went to Blue Bottle coffee for the first time. I got an iced coffee, and it was pretty good. It was also a very sunny day and I wore a dress for the first time in a while. The next day, I did not have anything planned, but I was happily surprised when my cousin called and asked if I wanted to go to dinner. We went to the Lazy Dog. I had never been there before but now that I have been I can recommend it. It was really good to get to go to dinner with my cousin. I have wanted to focus on being more social, and I have had some good opportunities to do that this month. After we ate dinner we went to Barns and Noble. I got two books. One was a book made up of a bunch of short Barbie books, and the other was a larger Barbie book that comes with toys. Last week my days off were pretty exciting and I’m happy about that.

Thanks for reading about some of my everyday adventures!

Love, Christina Epperly

Christmas day fun blogmas day 25

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Hello, my bucket list, friends! Well, here we are after Christmas, and this is my last post for blogmas. I enjoyed Christmas day this year. I spent the day with my family. I got some great gifts this year, including a bag of hair bows! One big highlight of my day was when we all went to the movies. We saw the movie Wonka. It was a fun movie and we all enjoyed it. I hope you had a great Christmas day as well!

Thank you for reading – Christina Epperly

Things I love May 2023

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Hello, my bucket list, friends! Once again, another month has ended, so that means it is time to remember all the great moments that it brought. Let’s get to it!

Mother’s Day – I enjoyed celebrating Mother’s Day this month! It was great to have my whole family together! ( You can read about it HERE )

Hanging out with my cousin – I’m making an effort to spend time with people more often than I have been. It was really nice to spend time with my cousin this month. ( You can read about it HERE )

Seeing my my friend twice – Yesterday ( The last day of May) I had a last minute hang out with my friend because we just happened to be in the same area. I also got to see her earlier in the month as well. ( You can read about it HERE )

Shopping at Savers – I got to go to Savers this month. My mom’s car was was being worked on not too far away from Savers so my mom and I took an Uber there. ( You can read about it HERE )

Shopping at my favorite local thrift store – I got to go shopping at the thrift store close to my work a few times this month. ( You can read about it HERE,HERE and HERE )

Trying and reviewing Starbuck’s new Frappuccino – I had fun trying a new Frappuccino this month! ( You can read about it HERE )

Idaho family reunion!

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Hello, my bucket list friends! I hope you all  had an amazing Labor day weekend! I spent the holiday weekend in Idaho for a family reunion. It was really great to have everyone all together again. It had been years since everyone was all together. It felt like old times. We had a family photoshoot together and it was so much. It was a weekend filled with laughter, good food, and some adventure as well. In addition to spending time with many different family members, I went thrift shopping at a thrift store that we don’t have locally. My favorite thing that I got while thrift shopping was a Barbie puzzle from the 90s. I also went river rafting on the Boise River. I had a fun time going river rafting. I found this rafting trip to be very relaxing! There were a lot of dogs playing in the river, they were all so cute! This was my second time going River rafting and I hope I get to do it again someday. It was a fun trip to Idaho and I hope to make to back soon!

Rock On- Christina Epperly

Christmas Eve and Christmas day 2018

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Hello, my bucket list friends ! I hope all of you had a very merry Christmas. Before we get into wrapping up 2018 I wanted to write about my Christmas eve and Christmas day celebrations. Here we go !

 

Christmas Eve and Christmas day 2018

On Christmas Eve my family and I went to my cousin’s house to celebrate Christmas but before we did that there was a lot that needed to be done. My dad spent a lot of cooking and baking for our family get -together. We delivered some baked good to the neighbors and made a quick stop at the store before arriving at my cousin’s house. At my cousin’s house there were lots of great food and drinks, wonderful laughter and two fun gift exchange games ! It was a smaller get – together then we have had in past years but it was still just as fun. I had a fun Christmas Eve with celebrating with my family . Christmas day was very busy but a lot of fun ! Christmas morning we opened up gifts and my dad made us all great breakfast. We delivered some more baked goods to neighbors before heading out to eat and  to the movies. We had a wonderful dinner I love pasta ! Then we went to see Mary Poppins Returns. We all really enjoyed the movie it was so much fun I loved the songs! It was a great family movie and I’m glad we saw it !

That was my families Christmas celebration I hope you enjoyed reading about it !

Rock on – Christina Epperly

Happy 28th birthday and a trip to the ER

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Hello, My bucket list friends I had on 28th birthday on August 26th and it was a wild one ! I really didn’t see it turning out the way it did but that’s life for you ! Hang on tight and I’ll tell about my crazy birthday !

 

 

My 28th birthday and a trip to the ER

My birthday started with a trip to Peet’s coffee and petting some very cute dogs there before heading to work .  While I was at work my amazing friend brought me cake ! After work I went out to eat with my family we went to PF Chang’s. The food was so good and the desserts were wonderful ! After dinner we were driving back home and a pain that I had been having throughout the day began to get worse and worse . It was soon unbearable about an 8 on the pain scale . I didn’t want to go to the ER because it is expensive but due to the amount of pain I was in I didn’t have a choice . I’m not sure what time it was when I got to the ER maybe around 10 pm . Right away the tests began to find a source of the pain . After hours of doing tests and waiting the ultrasound showed that I has a cyst on my left ovary. It is about 5 1/2 CM. long . It was decided that I did not need anything further right then but that needed to talk to my doctor in a day or so . I was given some pain medication and after 3 AM I left the ER. The issue with the cyst is still on going . I’m going to be talking to a surgeon next week but I’ll write more about that another time . Overall it was a birthday I wont soon forget !

Rock on – Christina Epperly

January 2018 wrap up!

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Hello, bucket list friends since January is ending soon I thought I would do a quick wrap up on the first month of 2018. I’ve been working on somethings this month and I can’t wait to tell you all about it so here we go!

 

 

My life in January 2018

 

January always seems to go by slowly for me. There does not seem to be a lot happening in January and the month just drags on. Also, the gloomy weather can cause me to become depressed. I discovered a long time ago that walking is a great way to improve my mood and that is what I have been doing a lot of this month. I have been on many walks this month and some even on sunny days! Two of my favorite walks that I took this month were the one by the beach and the one to the pond on a trail that had been closed for a long time, It felt good to go on that trail again. I also started working on one of my more long-term bucket list items #195 read 100 books in one year this month I read 8 books, so I’m off to a great start. I’ve also been doing a lot of writing this month I’ve started writing a fiction story The Unschooled Dairy of Aspen Roads (you can read it here

 

). I plan to do a lot more fiction writing this year and I have been working on two other books that I have not posted. I’ve also spent some great times with family and friends this month and as you can tell from my last blog post I dyed my hair green and that was bucket list item #166 I also booked my vacation for this summer and the destination is on my bucket list, I signed up for a 5k next month as well!   To top it all off today a whole box of my little pony toys that I won from eBay arrived today, I had so much fun looking through all the ponies. January might not usually be a very fun month but this time I feel like I turned that around, I mean I crossed off a list item and I had some great friend time! I did face some obstacles month but overall the year is off to a great start .

 

Rock on – Christina Epperly

Bye 2017 Hi 2018

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Hello, my bucket list friends and happy 2018! I hope all of you had a fun and safe time celebrating the new year! In my next blog post I’ll be talking and my plans and goals for the new year, but for this blog post I’m going tell you all about how I celebrated the last day of 2017 and welcomed 2018.

 

New year’s fun

 

My New Year’s Eve celebration started with an end of year hang out with my friend Amy. We went to Starbucks and talked about our plans and goals for the new year, then we went on a nice walk. After spending some time back at home. I went to my cousin Amanda’s house to get ready to go celebrate the new year at Gilroy gardens. I had just ben to Gilroy gardens for the first time on December 23rd   . but I was very excited to go again. (you can read about it here) After getting my makeup done by my cousin. Her fiancé came to pick us up and we headed off to Gilroy gardens! We didn’t have a lot of time before the fireworks, but we went on 3 rides, got some food, new year’s hats and accessories. I also bought a really cool light up cup.  Amanda found a really good stop to see the fireworks and all of us had a wonderful time welcoming 2018 while watching some pretty awesome fireworks! After a long day of fun, I crashed with my cousin for the night. I was tired but so thankful that I had a great time welcoming in the new year.

I hope all of you live 2018 to the fullest . Rock on – Christina Epperly

Christmas eve and Christmas day 2017

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Christmas eve 2017

For my whole life every Christmas Eve we went to my grandparents’ house and a had a wonderful celebration filled with food and presents and lots of laughs. This year was different because my grandparents are in Idaho now, so this year we had the party at my aunt’s house. it was different but lots of fun. We started off the celebration by attending Christmas eve service at the church my aunt goes to. After a great service we went back to my aunt’s house to have a big Christmas eve celebration!  As with most big celebrations there was a lot of yummy food and of course lots laughs. Oh, and my aunt has three dogs so it’s always fun with them around. To top it all off we did a gift exchange, the white elephant game and the Christmas morning game.  It was a fun night celebrating with my beautiful family.

 

 

Christmas day 2017

When I was a kid I always woke up early on Christmas day and did everything I could do to get my parents out of bed, so we could go open presents but now I love my sleep, so my Christmas morning started out a little slow but once I got up and going, it was time to open presents with my parents before going over to my sister’s house.  After opening presents at home, we went to my sister’s house and had some yummy food yay for potatoes! Then we went to go see Star Wars! The movie was awesome! I had a great Christmas day and I hope all of you did too !

 

Rock on – Christina Epperly