Tuesday, December 4, 2007

What Have I Done?

I've done the bold stuff.
What've you done?
(Need I mention The Rule again? Bloggers... post your "done" list on your blogs. Know that I will be lurking.)

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (Teapot Hill is SO a mountain.)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
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
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa (Well, we stood underneath it...)
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
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 drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (Yeah, but we couldn't figure out how to make the telescope work... that one at the cabin is posessed.)
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
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
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run - (Nah, I was usually the score keeper)
36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (My laptop has two hard drives)
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk (Taken care? Or put up with?)
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (Dancing at Creation? There are strangers there. The United States is foreign...)
44. Watched whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
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
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
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
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
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
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice (No, but I watched them glide past me while I stood beside the canal)
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Gotten flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage (Played the piano at Killarney Park's talent contest)
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music (Taped myself playing the guitar)
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone (This house sometimes feels like a combat zone.)
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently (apparently when I was two I spoke real good German)
95. Performed in Rocky Horror (performed alongside while watching Rocky Horror at a small theatre in Vancouver in the '70's)
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour (Followed David Crowder to all his Seattle based concerts...)
98. Passed out cold (Passed out while getting hooked up with an IV for C-sections ... does that count?)
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (Moved from Langley to Fraser Heights to start over, does that count?)
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge (Drove over it, back in '74 - we probably drove real slow, so it was almost like walking ...)
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication - (The MB Herald is so a large publication.)
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth Helped? Not so much. But I did watch a cow give birth.
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery. (C-sections with a tubal are major.)
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (What? Like the Brady's? No. But I've been to the Grand Canyon. It was fogged in and snowing.)
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions (Went to the 10 year one, but none since.)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
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

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