Monday 8 March 2010

Things to do (aka a good post when you don't have access to the Mac)

The Mac has the photos. Patience is on the Mac. So thanks to Sarah at Just Me and Lucy at Dimishing Lucy, I have decided to jump on the list bandwagon for today!



Instructions: The post is a list of 99 things you could have done, and you are supposed to bold the ones that you yourself have done.





1. Started your own blog. (Apparently so!)

2. Slept under the stars (aren't stars beautiful. Mozzies and wombats, not so much.)

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii (okay, technically a flight change in Honolulu...)

5. Watched a meteor shower (I was still living at home, and Dad, who gave us our love of science and nature, dragged us out of bed at crazy o'clock to see it. Amazing.)

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to DisneyWorld (no, but like Lucy, I'm counting DisneyLand. Fun!)

8. Climbed a mountain (it's technical name is Mt Dandenong. I am dubious re: actual mountain status)

9. Held a praying mantis (I had a bug catcher as a kid, so at least in that)

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm (I have daydreams about getting struck by lightening and acquiring a superpower...true story.)

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch. (does it count if I'm still pretty much at scratch?)

15. Adopted a child

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables (*shows total disregard for the fact that technically tomatoes are a fruit*)

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France 

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked.

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (err yes. I am trying to be more ethical on that point.)

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping (on my to do list for sure)

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse (I think so, the lunar one?)

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset.

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (Rather touristy, but also amazing, the amount of water that pours over!)
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community (I'm going to count the Mennonites in Canada =) They were cool)

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (probably when I was 7 and earned $2 for washing the car.)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight (I remember when I started dating Patience. *sigh* Lovely)

46. Been transported in an ambulance. (After I had Drama. He's not called that for nothing!)

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing

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

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

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

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

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (Skin, the bear, is in the boys' room now as they sleep)

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 ('changes in funding?' Oh my I deserved it)

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone (only my nose.)

78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating


88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Got a tattoo

94. Had a baby (Two)

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





So there you go.

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