i am - SHOCKER! - bored at work today, what with the holiday absenteeism and everything. so i decided to do this fun little list that was posted on my friend's blog: http://www.greenroomthoughts.blogspot.com/ that she saw on someone else's blog...
it's a list of 99 random things, and i've bolded the ones that i've actually done. you can play too! make a comment or post it on your blog. fun times.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii and danced on a lava cliff with the roar of the Pacific below.
5. Watched a meteor shower - many! and got in trouble with the coppers for it once...
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/Disneyworld
8. Climbed a mountain - parts of several smallish-mountains...
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo as a child in the church choir
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea - lake michigan counts as 'the sea', right?
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch - painting? i've done a few not-terrible paintings
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning - several times
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
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked - in germany
23. Taken a sick day when you weren't ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping - i keep TRYING to make this one happen, and i keep chickening out...
27. Run a Marathon - it's gonna happen! hopefully in '09
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise - feb. 2009!
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors -- you mean, like, monroe center, IL??
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 - sort of.
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
46. Been transported in an ambulance with the siren wailing - the infamous 'head splitting open' incident
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain - one of my all time best moments ever. in the rain. on the sidewalk. in dubrovnik. with an australian rugby player i had just met that night...sigh....
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 - but i did SEE whales from a scenic overlook on the oregon coast...
63. Got flowers for no reason - miss it. *sniff*.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma - and blacked out on the chair...
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 - my stolen yoda sits proudly on my windowsill...
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 -- not yet, but all this 'nonworking' this week could inch me ever closer...
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone - fractured my ankle. but no cast.
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 my picture in the newspaper - in high school.
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year's Eve - not yet, but NYE is tomorrow!!
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox - twice!
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous - well, less like "met", and more like "stalked" - bono and edge, michael phelps, oprah....
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
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