Friday, October 06, 2006

I can't resist...

What I have done is in bold.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula - yeah, does having a pane of glass between me and the tarantula count?
07. Taken a candlelit bath
08. Said “I love you" and meant it

09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea - okay, did the storm have to be at sea, or me while I was watching it?
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights - I wish!
15. Gone to a huge sports game (and survived the crush afterwards)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa - next on my to-do list
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg [lettuce]
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten tipsy on champagne - but only a very little.
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope - Halley's Comet!
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment - many, many times
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
- lunar and solar!
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day - oooh, this would be a good one
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer - good heavens, we must have six or seven!
40. Visited all 50 states - working on it!
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe - well, we had a car, but we got out a lot and walked around and wore our passports in a pouch! Does that count?
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing

49. Midnight walk on the beach - not midnight, but night-time?
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs - by artist!
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day - mostly when sick
60. *edited* - Good heavens, what was this one? Now I'm dying to find out.
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain - but not upside-down
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites - kinda goes with the Great Pyramid thing
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight - D&D? Did Jane Austen even write a book of that title?
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie - do home videos count?
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest - well, but it was in a 4-H competition, and everyone was winning a first prize.
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. *edited*
89. Gone to Thailand - okay, what's with this Japan/Thailand/Great Wall theme? Why didn't someone write up a list with Greece/Egypt/Cyprus/Holland??
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents - in sand
93. Been on a cruise ship - honeymoon!
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children - working on it
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over - I did pick up and move to another city and just start over; thanks to the ambiguous placement of 'just,' this sentence is flexible.
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking - all the time. Why should that stop me? They can't hear me!
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication - just how large?
106. Lost over 100 pounds - cumulatively? Over my whole life?
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane - well, I was briefly allowed to take the controls in a private plane, but I'm sure the pilot wouldn't have let us crash if it had gone awry
109. Petted a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth - hand-delivered a calf while wearing high heels
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone - on me? Or someone else?
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced - well, when I bend over, then my ears are below my neck...
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild - surely some of the mushrooms they sell in the store started off in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states - ooh, this is a tricky one. I guess it depends on if you count 1) layovers in foreign airports; 2) driving through a state without getting out and stopping.
124. Visited all 7 continents - oh, come on. Who besides scientists would go to Antarctica?
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat – not so far as I know
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about - not sure about this one. I certainly hope so
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach - yeah, with the sole of my shoe
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - what, never? No, never! Well, hardly ever.
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating - rabbit
137. Skipped all your school reunions - every family vacation is a school reunion
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office - precinct committeeman back in Oregon
140. Written your own computer language - Ha!
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream - but of course I am!
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts - well, I'm married to someone who has
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

3 comments:

the Joneses said...

So what was the booth at a street fair? I'm curious.

--DJ

Janice Phillips said...

Hey, did you add some to that list?

Rose said...

DJ - Republican booth at the Corvallis Fall Festival. (Of course there were all the years of Republican boothing at the county fair, but that hardly seems street-ly enough to count.)

JRP - No, other than the generous commentary. I assume you mean Did I add any more items to the list? Nope. Who writes these lists, anyhow? Obviously someone who thinks it quite a feat to bake cookies from scratch...