100 Things

100 Things

The point of this is to add color to the things you have done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band - Jr. High flute
4. Visited Hawaii - several times
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity - only once but it hurt so good.
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped - no, but I'd "jump" at the chance;)
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm - stunning!
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch - many times
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
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 - all over Europe!
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill - define ill, I needed a mental health day.
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice - only dreamed about it
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset - both and they were all memorable
31. Hit a home run - we played ball a lot when I was growing up
32. Been on a cruise - day cruise to Tracy Arm and ferry from Italy to Greece
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors - my mother's Quaker ancestors were from England and Wales
35. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
36. Seen an Amish community
37. Taught yourself a new language
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing - not dangling off the edge of a cliff but I've certainly scrambled glacier moraines
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David - not yet...
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa - not yet, but I intend to!
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance - yes, hurt during a water polo game
47. Had your portrait painted - does charcoal count? My birthday in Moscow!
48. Gone deep sea fishing - Alaska
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling - in Mexico
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud - heck yeah!
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie - I was on Good Morning America, does that count?
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business - trying now
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 - again, I'd "jump" at the chance!
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check - yep, Baylor book store in college
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy - Poppin' Fresh doughboy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar - Russian caviar at a cafe in Greece with all sorts of new friends
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 on a speeding motorcycle - it always feels like speeding
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book - not yet!
81. Visited the Vatican - saw the Pope 3 times during Easter week and I'm not even Catholic!
82. Bought a brand new car - still never without a co-signer
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper - often
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating - fish, crab and I've cleaned deer
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous - Bob Hope, Michael Jackson (the beer writer) OJ Simpson when I was a kid and my folks almost ran over Sonny Bono.
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swum in the Great Salt Lake - not yet, maybe this summer!
97. Been involved in a law suit - not by choice
98. Owned a mobile phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day