99 Things
This list is just for fun, seen on some other blogs... Bold the things you’ve done and post on your blog!
I cut & pasted this into my e-mail & now I can't remember where I found this - sorry!!!
1. Started your own blog (duh)
2. Slept under the stars (lots of times, but favorite time was on a Green Tortoise trip through the National Parks)
3. Played in a band (elementary school band counts, right? Go Flutists!)
4. Visited Hawaii (many times, plus lived there for a little while)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity (I've only given what I could)
7. Been to Disneyland (Love it!)
8. Climbed a mountain (a very small one. Maybe it was just a hill... or maybe just a pile of rocks... whatever, I'm claiming it.)
9. Held a praying mantis (as a little kid, I think)
10. Sang a solo (6th grade choir! - I was not good.)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightening storm (Seeing one in New Mexico was the best)
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (Not yet!)
16. Had food poisoning (This is how I started off 2010.)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (and foiled a robbery attempt!)
21. Had a pillow fight (slumber party!)
22. Hitch hiked (eh, a short distance, don't do what I did.)
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (Shhh!)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (but would love to!)
26. Gone skinny dipping (It's a nice feeling.)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (With my cousin. Not so romantic.)
29. Seen a total eclipse (July, 1991)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run - (Uh, no, when I'd come to bat everyone would come in closer.)
32. Been on a cruise (a few, Galapagos was the coolest.)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
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 (I even won a competition at my old job.)
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
46. Been transported in an ambulance (three times, I believe...)
47. Had your portrait painted (By my old, nearly blind neighbor. I ended up looking like a gray potato.)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person (missed it by thismuch)
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (seeing two endangered Monk Seals about to fight was a thrilling highlight)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (My first one was "Mommy Dearest" when I was 5(!))
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class (Woo hoo YWCA of Manoa, Hawaii)
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 (they made me lie down for a long time because they couldn't tell if I had lost all my color or if I was normally that white - I think it was my natural color.)
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (Auschwitz in Poland)
67. Bounced a check (well, my identity & checkbook was stolen & a bunch of checks were written to Cigarettes Cheaper, which bounced, so sort of.)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (weird, I keep everything, but nothing is coming to mind)
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
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 (Paul.a Co.le was a good friend of my cousin for a while, and once Adam Sa )
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo
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
