oh, the things I’ve done…

by dawn ~ November 28, 2006

photo by me

sage, over at Musings, did his take on this meme and I thought it might be fun to share a bit of myself with you through it.

If it’s bold, I did it. My personal comments are in the parentheses.

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain (can’t count how many)
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid (Like sage, only the one in Vegas)
6. Held a tarantula (my aunt had a pet tarantula)
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it
9. Hugged a tree (oh, how I get teased about this)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris (not yet - but maybe someday soon)
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (too many times to count)
14. Seen the Northern Lights (this isn’t a big deal - they can be seen from the tops of the  mountains here)
15. Gone to a huge sports game (I guess the national league playoffs count)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (and fruit)
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper (been doing this since I was a kid - and still don’t like it much)
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower (from the top of Wolf Creek pass in Colorado - among others)
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity (it’s those cute baby seals, darn it!)
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (inappropriate fits of laughter are an art form)
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse (but it wasn’t a big win)
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (At Universal Studios, I was chosen out of the audience to reproduce Janet Lee’s scream from Psycho so they could show how blue screens work)
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse (wore my dad’s welding goggles - but we also built an egg cooker at school and cooked an eclipse egg)
34. Ridden a roller coaster (wheeeeee…I feel sick)
35. Hit a home run (I wasn’t the clean-up batter on my softball team for no reason)
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (more times that I can count)
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (more often than not)
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (What? This isn’t normal?)
40. Visited all 50 states (so close…48)
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip (spontaneous road trips are the best)
48. Gone rock climbing (scary and exciting all at once)
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland (on my list)
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 (on my list)
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs (ahem…they are even chronological within the alphabetizing)
57. Pretended to be a superhero (I *was* wonderwoman!)
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day (oh…people don’t do this a lot?)
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving (almost but something happened)
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud (even made mud pies)
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater (I miss drive-ins)
66. Visited the Great Wall of China (on my list)
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites (I do this often)
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 (does the Venetian in Vegas count?)
80. Gotten a tattoo (and want another one)
81. Rafted the Snake River (I’ve hiked around it)
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage (used to be in theater in high school and first few years of college)
85. Been to Las Vegas (even lived there)
86. Recorded music (high school concert band)
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand (on my list)
90. Bought a house (yay!)
91. Been in a combat zone (does SouthCentral count?)
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country (this would be cool)
99. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (several times and don’t regret any of them)
100. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
101. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking (imagine LA rush hour, traffic stopped, people right next to me)
102. Had plastic surgery
103. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived (at least 2)
104. Wrote articles for a large publication
105. Lost over 100 pounds (73 but not 100)
106. Held someone while they were having a flashback
107. Piloted an airplane
108. Touched a stingray
109. Broken someone’s heart (I don’t think I have)
110. Helped an animal give birth
111. Won money on a T.V. game show
112. Broken a bone
113. Gone on an African photo safari (high up on the list)
114. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears (I wouldn’t mind an eyebrow piercing)
115. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (yes, yes, and yes - and still hate them)
116. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
117. Ridden a horse
118. Had major surgery
119. Had a snake as a pet
120. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (several times)
121. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
122. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states (I wish)
123. Visited all 7 continents
124. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
125. Eaten kangaroo meat
126. Eaten sushi
127. Had your picture in the newspaper
128. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
129. Gone back to school (hah!)
130. Parasailed
131. Touched a cockroach
132. Eaten fried green tomatoes
133. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
134. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read (several, actually)
135. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (do fish count?)
136. Skipped all your school reunions (I haven’t heard about any of them - and I live in the same town!)
137. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
138. Been elected to public office (do school elections count?)
139. Written your own computer language (some programmers may think it’s my own language - heh)
140. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
141. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
142. Built your own PC from parts (and it still works)
143. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
144. Had a booth at a street fair
145. Dyed your hair (blue and pink - but not at the same time)
146. Been a DJ
147. Shaved your head (and loved it)
148. Caused a car accident
149. Saved someone’s life (there were two of us)