There are at least three good, solid posts I want to get done, but found this on Nickelbee Notes, and decided this would be more fun. And it’s easy.
If you want to spread the meme, copy, paste, and bold the things you’ve actually done yourself. Adding notes optional.
1. Started your own blog (duh)
2. Slept under the stars Several times. I recommend the high and dry mountains of southern Nevada, on the border of California. There really is a Milky Way.
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland Once. Doubt I’ll ever go back–I don’t like crowds.
8. Climbed a mountain Not a big one, but I did make it to the technical top of the Continental Divide somewhere in Idaho. Twice.
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo (and you’re all glad I haven’t, trust me.)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris Very briefly.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables They turned out pretty puny, but I did it.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train In Ghana, when I was in the Peace Corps
21. Had a pillow fight Heck, yeah. Are there really people who slept with pollows who didn’t, as a child?
22. Hitch hiked Just a couple of times. I’ve picked up more hitch-hikers than I’ve hitch-hiked myself
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill Called them “mental health days”. Then paid for it when I ran out of sick days and then got sick. Never again.
24. Built a snow fort Participated in the snowball fights, but never built the fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon No, thanks
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors Well, some of them. I’m a bit of a mutt.
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing I’ve climbed rocks, but never gone rock climbing, if that makes sense. I used to like the challenge of “seeing if I could get up there”, back in the day when I was stronger and didn’t weigh quite as much 🙂
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David When it was in New York
41. Sung karaoke No–be grateful
42. Seen Old Faithful erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant Would giving a street person a sandwich count?
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight In Africa
46. Been transported in an ambulance Dumb story. Weird experience.
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Been deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater Both licitly and illicitly (my brother and I snuck in once)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia With my mother. She paid. She wanted to go one more time, and she needed someone to look after her.
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching Once on each coast. Got seasick in the smaller boat we went out in in CA.
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (not intentionally!)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy My childhood teddy bear is sitting on my bureau upstairs even as I write.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone Four different ones. Migawd. Am I that careless? Nah–just that old.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car And I’m still paying for it–sigh.
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House Does looking at it from the street count? Back in the days when there was a street that went past it, and no fence, and you could stand and look as long as you liked?
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating If a fish counts. And sort of, a chicken. Chopped off the head, but didn’t do all the prep, though I did help pluck it–I was maybe 10 years old, and didn’t cook back then 🙂
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury For 2-3 days, then the attorneys made a deal–we never knew the details. I was releived–I’m not constitutionally well-suited to sitting in judgement on someone.
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
Wending my way down the list, it occurs to me I didmost of these things a lo-o-o-ng time ago. I need to be more active.
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