54. Have a party, 58.) Have a Disney movie viewing party where are people need to “be our guests”, but it won’t be “under the sea” 88. Spa day

August 13, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Well, with a somber heart, I begin this post. Today is Tuesday, August 13, the last day of summer. Also, with total sadness, I have to report that we didn’t finish all 101 things during this summer vacation. I guess life just gets in the way of things that really do matter. I apoligize on behalf of myself and Alicia for letting all 36,759 of you (or whatever) down. It’s sad to me to think that we had such high aspirations and we failed. 144 things were a lot, but 101? Next summer, there will only be 50 things because it’s better to have quality over quantity, right? We don’t want to have a repeat of last year and for go bowling, we played wii bowling..that is not the point. The point it to enjoy everything we do and make people smile.

Now, yesterday, Monday, Alicia and a few of our friends came over to my house to get blog stuff done. However, what ended up happening is I made dinner (and it was delicious) and we sat around and enjoyed each others’ company. When we did decide to do stuff, it was 12:00 in the morning and well, it didn’t happen. So, I guess our little pow-wow could be considered a party because there were people, food, and enjoyment. I think that counts.

After our friends left the next morning, Alicia and I completed two blog items: the first was spa day, number 88. Spa day for us was using my Love Lettuce face mask from Lush Cosmetics and painting our nails.

The wonderous stuff that makes our faces amazingly soft and clean.

The wondrous stuff that makes our faces amazingly soft and clean.

Alicia and I just finished putting on our face masks. Looking hot as ever, right?

All clean!

After, we painted our nails and didn’t take any photos. I picked a watermelon-y color and Alicia picked a sparkle-y red. When we finished our nails, we were going to have a Disney movie marathon, but, instead we watched Hercules on Netflix. It shocks me to think that as a young child I watched that movie. I know I hated it when I was little, but dang, it’s scary. All the freaking Disney movies are so scary. Like Sleeping Beauty. She gets cursed by a witch, goes somewhere she shouldn’t go and pricks her finger and almost dies. What the heck?!? Cinderella. She is a slave. Mistreated by her evil stepmother and then has to, with the help of her only mice friends, become a princess. Ok, maybe Cinderella isn’t that scary..but..Hercules was. The whole fighting scenes and Hades and Pain and Panic. How are young children able to sleep at night? Don’t get me wrong, I love Disney movies but dang.

Well, that’s all I have to say. Look for more posts later about the end of summer.

Much love and summer fun!

81daysdidn’tlastforever

Molly and Alicia

9. Make our LIFE BUCKET LIST (Molly)

August 3, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hello!

This list item has been a work in progress for as long as I can remember. I’ve had a list in my head of things I’ve wanted to get done for a long time and Alicia and I decided to finally write our lists down. My list is really long and so I’ll just give you a snip-it of what’s on it.

Mostly, I want to travel and eat food. The food that’s number one on my list is turducken. Turducken is a chicken stuffed into a duck and then both birds go into a large turkey. There is stuffing and other stuff that goes in there too but I really want to try it. I would ask for all the poultry because sometimes you only get the turkey part and if I just wanted turkey, I would ask for turkey, right? I want it all!

Secondly, a mixture of both travel and eating: I want to eat my way through Italy. I saw the movie Eat, Pray, Love which is honestly a horrible movie and I’ve heard the book isn’t so great, and my favorite part was when she was in Italy. I didn’t care about what Julia Roberts was saying, I wanted what she was eating! My favorite food “genre” is Italian and Italy just looks like a beautiful place.

Another place I want to travel is to the Great Wall of China. Something about the historical aspect and just the massiveness of it draws it to me.

I want to go to all the 50 states in America. Especially the four corners where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado meet.

Something else I want to do is win some award. Either an Oscar, Pulitzer, or Nobel Peace Prize will do. 🙂

And I really want to either go to a tapping of SNL or host SNL. You never know 🙂

A lot of the other stuff on my list has to do with my obsession with getting a goldendoodle or traveling, or goals I have.

My main goal now is to get through my junior year of high school with only going a little bit more crazy than I already am.

Well, that’s a little snippet of my LIFE BUCKET LIST!

Much love and summer fun!
81dayswontlastforever!

Molly (and Alicia too)

1. Make a rainbow cake, 10. Make a fruit roll up fortune cookie, and 11. Make ice cream

August 3, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Sorry for the delay with our posts, but don’t worry, we’ve been getting stuff done(ish).

Anyway, hello everyone. On Thursday, the freaking first day of August, we made a rainbow cake, fruit roll up fortune cookies, did the baby food challenge, we made ice cream, kept three balloons in the air for a minute, bobbed for apples, and we did the saltine cracker challenge. It was a day of delicious food and challenges, I guess.

The most surprising thing we’ve gotten done is the rainbow cake. I was really impressed because we honestly thought it was going to be a Pinterest fail–like all the other projects from Pinterest we’ve done. Though, it wasn’t. The cake was delicious (because how hard is it to screw up a cake from a box) and they looked like a rainbow.

We did an actual rainbow cake where the colors are all together in the cake pan and then we did a layered cake using a scone pan. We ended up just making a mess with the layered cake.

Pre-sliced rainbow cake.

Sliced and eaten cake.

You can actually see the rainbow, correct?!

The layered cake pieces when they were still batter.

The cooked cake!

Check out more photos here

I believe while our cakes were cooking away, or at some point during the day, we made fruit roll up fortune cookies. They aren’t hard to make, but just really sticky. You need:
Fruit roll up
A cup or a cookie cutter (something in the shape of a circle)
Paper for the fortunes
A plate or something for you to put underneath the sticky fruit roll up so it won’t stick to your kitchen table.

Your first step is to take the cup or the cookie cutter to make a circle out of the fruit roll up. Make sure the fruit roll up is on a plate or something so it doesn’t stick.

See, after Alicia tried this, the fruit roll up got stuck to the table. We got it off though. She has the directions from Pinterest open on her phone 🙂

Once you have the circle, you place a fortune in the inside. I took a lined post-it note and cut on the lined part to make strips.

Fold the cookie either in half if you are lazy like me or like a real fortune cookie (your choice).

Enjoy!

So, I know for sure, after we made the cakes (sorry, going out of order), we made ice cream. Last year we made ice cream and that was the last time I made ice cream so we decided to make it again.

You need:
An ice cream maker of sorts
Heavy whipping cream
Another type of milk. Skim milk doesn’t work well but we used vanilla almond milk and it was so yummy.
Sugar
Vanilla extract.

Mix your ice cream base together and then pour into your ice cream maker.

Let churn for as long as your ice cream maker says.

So thrilled about having to churn the ice cream.

Alicia is excited about holding the freezing cold bowl of ice cream.

The finished product. The ice cream my maker makes is supposed to come out nice and smooth and it did. Yum.

Well, look forward to an updated array of post that are in the works.

Enjoy!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

66.) Make a vlog everyday for a week and post it on youtube

July 25, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hey guys, so last week Molly and I vlogged everyday, some we were together, others we weren’t. But, here they were. Watch them, they’re fun. 🙂

Thursday July 18th- Make Shadow Puppets

Friday July 19th- Blog Award- nominations and such

Saturday July 20th- Go to the Dunes

Sunday July 21st- Day After Dunes and Molly’s Vlog- jobs i think

Monday July 21st- Smoothie Vlog and Just another Molly Monday

Tuesday July 22nd- 5 minutes with Maddy

Wednesday July 23rd- Make String Art

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly!

37. Go see some movies and 87. Manicures/pedicures

July 20, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hello all!

Before 81dayswontlastforever goes on a brief hiatus due to the fact I’ll be in Disney World with my mom and sister, Alicia and I have some blogging to catch up with. Today, after a week of being extremely busy, Alicia, our friend Alex (who has helped out with the blog), and I went and saw Monsters University. It was ok, not phenomenal like previous Pixar releases.

Overall, I would give it about 3 out of 5 stars. The overall plot wasn’t very thought out and though the characters already had some background with Monsters Inc, the prequel was not needed. (SPOILERS AHEAD)
It was interesting how Mike and Randall (the good guy and the bad guy) were roommates in college and then their relationship drastically changed when Sulley joined the scene and it was nice that Randall’s character foreshadowed information of Monsters Inc such as there was a poster on the dorm wall that said “The Winds of Change” or how Randall and the Mike/Sulley duo were competing, and Mike even made the OK team do scary feet and pre-scaring exercises. I thought in the first movie, Mike seemed to be a pretty confident character and all the other monsters liked him but in the prequel, he was bullied.

I didn’t understand why one of the OK fraternity brothers was an older guy who ended up with the one character’s mom. That was a weird add-on that was completely unnecessary…Heck, the whole movie was unnecessary. And the ending with the campers? What was that all about? And then how the professors kept talking about Sulley’s father. It was played up so much and then towards the end of the movie, there was no references again. Is there a deleted scene that the viewers should see?

And usually the short films that play before the movie are really good. For example, La Luna which played before Brave was amazing and creative. Or, one of my favorites: For the Birds which played before Monsters Inc was movie magic. My second favorite, Partly Cloudy, should have been a movie in itself. However, The Blue Umbrella was a disappointment. It was a cute five minute love story..about two umbrellas. Alex said that if the short had a yellow umbrella instead it would have been How I Met Your Mother.

Anyway, so Monsters University like many prequels (and sequels–I’m looking at you Cars 2) should not have been made. A wise teacher Alicia and I had in eighth grade said no movie should ever need a sequel and I agree. Sequels and such just become money makers instead of an original feature.

So, after finishing the movie and our lunch at Chipotle, Alex left because Alicia and I got manicures and pedicures. It was super relaxing and the guy who did my nails was very kind.

At the particular nail place I go to, they always have HGTV on the TV and I don’t understand two things about the houses they have on that channel. One: The house, no matter if it’s a $200,000 house or a $948,000 house, the furnishings are horrible and the walls are the most horrid colors I have ever seen. Who has a $948,000 house and just a bed with a white down comforter in their “master suite”? And the second thing that confuses me is the kitchens! You want the people to purchase an almost one million dollar house that has a kitchen that is smaller than the one we have in our two bedroom house in the burbs? Really? If my house was almost a million dollars, that thing would have at least an island in the middle of the kitchen!

Anyway, for Alicia’s nails, she picked a light purple for her toe nails and she picked almost a tomato red for her fingernails. Both look splendid, of course.

Modeling her tomato-y nails.

For my nails, I chose a light pink for my fingers and a teal for my toes.

My very pudgy toes.

One thing that separates Alicia and I is that Alicia is very tickleish. When you get a pedicure, they rub this thing on your foot to soften the skin on the bottom of your feet. Well, when you are tickleish and they do this, it’s sort of the funniest thing I have ever witnessed. Oh poor Alicia. According to the guy who did my nails, I flinched once..but who’s counting?

So, that concludes our adventure for today. Alicia probably will be posting things about our vlogs and then our arts and crafts day. So, look for that!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Alex, Molly, and Alicia

23. Go to the Indiana Dunes

July 15, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hey guys, so Molly and I went to the Indiana Dunes on Saturday, we pretty much explained it in the quick video, so here are a few more pictures from our day.

: In the car

: I’m ready

: She’s ready

: Awkward chair between us

: Dunes and some trees

: Lake Michigan

: le sky

: The Lake

: The Dune

: More Lake and lake goers

: Molly’s feet

: Chilling

: Awesome panorama ruined by this dude

: my feet, my very white legs which are no longer white

: Cuties

: Cuties again

: hot hot hot

: #attractive

: We’re adorable

: The burial process

: sleepy

: And done!

: I am the headless- horsewoman, wait I only have a head. i’m the bodyless horsewoman

: more burying

: My initial

: I was buried in the sand

Much Love and Summer Fun

81dayswontlastforever

Alicia and Molly

66. Vlog for a week and 93. Get jobs (Molly!)

July 14, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Enjoy my first vlog by myself!
Much love and summer fun!
81dayswontlastforever!

A Sleepover of sorts

July 14, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Well, Friday night, the day before the Dunes, Molly and I had a very fun sleepover, which consisted of us getting a few things done, one of which already has a post, but we were also able to complete 71.) Blindfold makeup challenge and 89.) Dip dye our hair (ish).

What we learned from these two things 1. When dip-dying/hair chalking our hair, darker colors work best, You could barely tell that my hair was purple, however you could tell the navy blue color was present in Molly’s hair, and neck :). And, that if you are going to do the blindfold makeup challenge, you really don’t want a girl who doesn’t wear makeup in general (me) and doing it at one in the morning makes it so much more fun, especially when we are half-asleep.

First, we hair-chalked our hair, Like I mentioned earlier, Molly used a navy-ish blue and mine was a pastelly- purple. What you do, if put the hair chalk applicator thing on your hair and on the other side of your hair put your thumb and then slide the applicator down your hair, and repeat.

Before

During

Some more During

During

Fist piece done

First piece done

Blue hands!

: After…. All of these beautiful pictures are after

And that’s that for hair chalking. As for the blindfold makeup challenge, we did one round of just eyeshadow, but then we realized that it’s no fun unless you have lipstick, mascara, blush etc. So we started over.

Before

Before

Molly went first, and being a makeup extraordinaire she had a pretty simple time other than getting lipstick on my teeth, and the fact that she picked a blush color that was much too dark for my skin tone, giving me an orange ring outlining my face, but totally quick fixes. I, on the other hand, had a much more difficult time, especially when I ended up applying mascara to her mouth because apparently her lips felt like an eye, it was late, and apparently I had lost my mind. My favorite though,was when Molly said “Why are you applying my lipstick vertically? It goes horizontally!” I had no idea I was doing it vertically in the first place, like I said, it was late, But I know it’s been killing you all to see what we looked like in the end, So, here we go.

lipstick on my teeth

No explanation needed

And, that was our sleepover.

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly

69. Make Shadow Puppets

July 13, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Much Love and Summer Fun
81 days won’t last forever!
Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

20. Create a Blog Award for Summer Blogs like us

July 13, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hey everyone! So, Molly and I have created a Summer Blog Award to get to know some more summer bloggers like us.
We have nominated 9 very amazing summer blogs for this award:Shay

Alright, so the rules for all of you summer bloggers who have received this award

Nominate 5 summer blogs for this award (not any blog who has been nominated in this post)
Make a post about receiving this award and nominating these people, and whatever else we make you all do next
Ask nine questions for people to answer (relating to summer blogs, not relating to summer blogs, doesn’t really matter)
Answer the nine questions that the person who nominated you asked
Put our link in the post somewhere so that everyone who gets the award can comment on our blog, so that we can follow all of you. 🙂
Also, put the blog award picture in the post as well, thank you all
Any questions??????????? Comment below or email us at 81dayswontlastforever@gmail.com

The Nine Questions

Why a Summer Bucket List?
What is the craziest thing on your list?
What is you worst summer memory?
What is the hardest thing on your list?
What is your favorite shampoo?
If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
What is your favorite inspirational quote?
What is your favorite childhood movie?
What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?

Our Answers

Why a Summer Bucket List?
Molly: We watched Julie and Julia and decided to make a blog to document our summerAlicia: Same as Molly, but after I read gonewiththesummer’s blog, I told Molly that we should give this whole blogging thing a tryWhat is the craziest thing on your list?
Both: Hand out lemons wearing shirts that say lifeWhat is you worst summer memory?
Molly: I don’t remember it, but when I was two, my right ring finger was caught in a side garage door.Alicia: Last summer, I spent a week on crutches and then a month later, spent three days in the hospital, not really a good summer at all, What is the hardest thing on your list?
Both:Getting everything done…
What is your favorite shampoo?
Alicia: Herbal Essences: Tousle Me Softly (Purple bottle)
Molly: Aveeno, Nourish plus moisturize
If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
Alicia: A turtle, because they are really chill, swimming in the EAC dude (haha Finding Nemo) and they live long, Sandy Plankton tells me they live to be 100 years old,
Molly: A pair of shoes because I complete an outfit and help people feel confident or if I don’t like the person I can make their feet hurt
What is your favorite inspirational quote?
Molly: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.” -Forrest, Forrest Gump
Alicia: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe
What is your favorite childhood movie?
Alicia: The Princess Diaries
Molly: The Little Mermaid
What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?
Alicia: Sitting in my nursing home with my 16 year-old great-granddaughter, pushing my life-alert button, and trying to set her up with one of the hot firefighters that show up. Molly: Running a Marathon

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia and Molly

44. Learn the Lyrics to “Pollito Pio”

June 28, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, Maddy, and Rosie

Be sure to check out our Bloopers video

P.S. Be sure to look at the original video and see how terribly we messed up

92. Complete driver’s ed

June 27, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hello all.

Yesterday, Alicia and I completed driver’s ed. It was a long 15 days. To get a graduated driver’s license, which Alicia and I are going to get, you have to do 30 hours of driver’s ed and get more than a 70% on the driving exam. We passed with Alicia getting 98% and I got a 96%. Now, we have to have our permits for nine months and we have to drive for ninety hours. Next summer, we will have our licenses which will be great.

Anyway, there isn’t much else to say except..

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

29. Go to Lincoln Park and 36. Take the Train Somewhere

June 25, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hey everyone, since Molly already made the post about what we did today, I figured I should stop procrastinating (like what I’m doing with my AP U.S. history packet, AP Literature reading, and Honors Pre-Calc packet) and just write this post.

Anyway, on Sunday, my mom, Molly, my friend Orlando, and I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo. But, instead of driving, we took the L (a train downtown) to the zoo. I had never ridden the L before, and it was just like any other normal train ride, except there was this old man, who was blind, and he was able to make it down a flight of stairs without his (guide stick is it?) touching the ground. I can’t make it down the stairs gracefully, and I can see… just thought you all should know. 🙂

train card

Waiting for our train

So, that crosses of 36. Take the train somewhere. So, when we got to Lincoln Park, my mom kept walking and the three of us followed, and then we realized that we had gone maybe three blocks out of our way, and then after making up that ground, we were at the zoo.

So, it was about 90 degrees outside, so us Chicagoans, Molly, my mom, and I were extremely hot, but Orlando, who lives in New Orleans, had jeans on and wasn’t complaining about the weather at all. We were really jealous.

It was, however, still a nice day,and while Molly and I envied all of the animals who were not outside, who were probably sitting in front of a fan, drinking an iced tea, we still had a great time, and got to see some very fun animals.

A very cute meerkat, whom was given the name Timon, loved posing for me

FISH

Did you know that flamingos are really white? But the food they eat makes them pink. #funfactswithAlicia

Pretty bird

Our nation’s bird, how majestic. Did you know that the female bald eagles are larger? They are. #funfactswithAliciapart2

After visiting the main part of the zoo, we decided to head to the children’s zoo, which, at the age of 16, is still my favorite. In the children’s section, you can look at ponies, cows, goats, chickens, chicks, termites, bees, and farm machinery. My favorite part, however, was the petting of the goats, that is until one of the goats made the not-so-smart decision of trying to eat my shirt. After he did that to Orlando and me, we decided the smartest idea was to get out so he didn’t eat Molly.

: Goats like me,

: chilling on some tires

: The goat that tried eating my shirt

: Hanging in an egg.

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, Orlando, and Lorene

: Gorgeous view of the city

: Molly and I on our way back home

: How cute, my hair isn’t all one length… it slants

: Just chilling on some tires

: How cute

: Me and my madre

: And my hair’s in the way, so surprise there

: We only took like 15 of these before we got one good one. Darn wind…

77.) Make a glitter snow globe

June 22, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Well, hey guys. As Molly has said in our earlier posts today we got a lot done yesterday. One of those items was 77. Make a Glitter snow globe. Well, if any of you have a pinterest or have attempted to do something from pinterest, sometimes things don’t always turn out as planned, this happened with the glitter snow globes… or at least we thought.

What the pinterest picture said to do was mix glitter glue and warm water in a jar of some sort, mix with a knife, and voila “Glitter snow Globe” So, Molly had a big prego jar and I had a small jar that has previously been the house of garlic (Molly’s kitchen smelled very garlicy)…

Molly was taking forever washing the jars

excited… as always

my jar

glitter

Anyway, what I was not told was only to put about a tablespoon of glitter glue into the jar, and since mine was like 8 times smaller than Molly’s, a teaspoon would have sufficed. Oops. Mine looks like glitter in a jar.

weird

uhh it was hard and glue-like

like i said, glitter in a jar

And, Molly on the other hand, when she put the glitter glue in the jar and started mixing, some weird chemical reaction started to happen and the whole thing was foam and stayed like that, so darn again.

we even added more glitter… still foaming

Jeez pinterest, give us girls a warning. anyways, the day after, they both look fine and dandy, which is good. But at the time, we were very aggravated with Pinterest but we’re good now. 🙂

the two finished products- Yesterday

the two finished products, a day later

Anyway, just a piece of advice, less is more, especially when you have a small jar, using a knife to mix is VERY VERY DUMB… use your fingers to mix the glitter… Like I showed earlier, the glitter is solid and your hands do the best job of making it… un-solid? It;s not liquid but not solid… I don’t know.

Anyway, if it does begin to foam, give it a day and it will be alright. 🙂

81 days won’t last forever

Much Love and Summer Fun

Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

: we got very bored waiting for Molly, she’s slow

: well, that’s mighty attractive

: glitter

: plastic bag on my head for the win

: we had to ad more glitter and shake Molly’s

: glitter and the finished product

: the two finished products- Yesterday

: Molly’s jar was confusing

22. Paint pottery

June 22, 2013 by 81dayswontlastforever

Hello!

Yesterday was a very eventful day for us. We completed three? things and we are continuing on with our very busy summer!

In order to complete number 22. paint pottery, we went to a studio I guess you can call it where there is an array of various pottery pieces you can paint. This particular item is something we have done in the past because probably once in your life when you were little, you have had a pottery painting party or you’ve been to one. Please enjoy the gallery!