Things I've Done

Last seen at The Miss Rumphius Effect. She says she got it from Libby. You are welcome to play and pass it on if you like. The things I have done are in bold [with some comments.]

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower [I've only seen one shooting star!]
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain [I didn't make it all the way to the top, though]
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea [but I've had an ocean-side view of a hurricane]
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch [glass-etching]
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty [been in it, but not up it - renovations were going on when I was there]
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train [I was on an overnight boat ferry]
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort [I always got too tired before getting very far!]
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon [I ran a 1-mile fun-run when I was a teenager]
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run [a double is the best I can really hope for]
32. Been on a cruise [thanks to my parents for taking me when I was young]
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors [depends on how far back we're talking. One great-grandmother was born in a country house just a few miles south of where I grew up. But I'e never been to the "home country" of any of relatives not born in the US.]
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
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke [but only with the on-demand feature of my TV while folding laundry]
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 [and tripped over a baby coconut tree!]
46. Been transported in an ambulance [I guess that's how I got to the hospital when I got hurt the 1st weekend in college, but maybe it was a station wagon - hmmm.]
47. Had your portrait painted [not painted, but drawn by my sister at least twice that I know of]
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris [only part-way up]
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 [guess home-movies don't count...]
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 [more than I care to remember!]
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving [not at all interested!]
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp [I have too vivid an imagination to want to do this]
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy [my dog Waggles is in the basement now]
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar [but I was too young to remember - will have to try again]
72. Pieced a quilt [I keep wanting to do this.]
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job [does being laid-off count - job reductions due to budget cuts]
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London [I've seen the Guards, just not the changing part]
77. Broken a bone [no but a torn ligament takes longer to heal.]
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
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper [growing up in a small town made this easy]
85. Read the entire Bible [I think I made it all the way through the Old Testament, and I've read at least the first 6 books of the New Testament.]
86. Visited the White House [just from the street]
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating [catching fish is the closest I've come, but I wouldn't even touch them to take them off the hook.]
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life [I was a lifeguard and am thankful that yelling at people was the most I ever had to do. I did once ride in the back of a vehicle with a kid we thought might have a severe back injury - she turned out ok (whew)]
90. Sat on a jury
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
100. Read an entire book in one day [or in one night!]

I think that is 42 out of 100, but I'm too tired to try and count again!