99 things...

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1. started your own blog (just did this one!)
2. slept under the stars
3. played in a band (if playing the flute in band class in 5th grade counts!)
4. visited Hawaii (I was married there!)
5. watched a meteor shower
6. given more than you can afford to charity (how does one measure this?)
7. been to Disneyland/world
8. climbed a mountain
9. held a praying mantis (they are kind of beautiful in an odd way)
10. sang a solo (not something that’s likely to happen in front of large groups of people, but sometimes I sing to my classes - I know a song to teach the quadratic formula)
11. bungee jumped
12. visited Paris
13. watched a lightning storm at sea
14. taught yourself an art from scratch
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 (twice!)
20. slept on an overnight train
21. had a pillow fight
22. hitchhiked (I know, I know, it was in Hawaii, and the person picking us up was a friend of a friend from when I was volunteering with YWAM, we saw his car coming and didn’t want to walk any further since it was really hot – otherwise NEVER)
23. taken a sick day when you’re not ill (sssshhhhhh!)
24. built a snow fort (maybe next time I have a snow day?!)
25. held a lamb
26. gone skinny dipping
27. run a marathon (my knees have declared my running days over, but when I did run, a 12K was the longest I ever did)
28. ridden in a gondola in Venice (it was cheesy, the gondolier even answered his cell phone while he was pushing us around – kind of annoying since it is so expensive – but I guess at the very least I can say I’ve done it)
29. seen a total eclipse
30. watched a sunrise or sunset (both of course)
31. hit a home run
32. been on a cruise
33. seen Niagara Falls in person
34. visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. seen an Amish community
36. taught yourself a new language – (I think I’d rather take a class than teach myself)
37. had enough money to be truly satisfied (I don’t think that money will ever satisfy me, but it would be nice to never have to worry about it again!)
38. seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. gone rock climbing (and rapelling!)
40. seen Michelangelo's David in person (I’ve also seen the replica outside the Ufitzi museum in Florence – I went there the same day after I’d seen the real thing because you can’t take pictures of the real one, so I figured a picture of the replica was better than nothing.
41. sung karaoke
42. seen Old Faithful Geyser erupt
43. bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. visited Africa
45. walked on a beach by moonlight
46. been transported in an ambulance
47. had your portrait painted
48. gone deep sea fishing
49. seen the Sistene Chapel in person
50. climbed the Eiffel tower in Paris (only to the 2nd deck though)
51. gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. kissed in the rain
53. played in the mud (the last time was at a spa in Temecula in May 2007)
54. gone to a drive-in theatre (I saw ET for the first time as a kid at a drive-in)
55. been in a movie
56. visited the Great Wall of China
57. started a business (hopefully sometime soon!)
58. taken a martial arts class
59. visited Russia
60. served at a soup kitchen
61. sold girl scout cookies (I’ve definitely bought them though!)
62. gone whale watching (there’s no real excuse for this – I now live very close to some of the best whale watching spots in the world!)
63. received flowers for no reason
64. donated blood
65. gone sky diving
66. visited a Nazi concentration camp
67. bounced a check (not proud of this one - for a second I considered lying!)
68. flown in a helicopter
69. saved a favorite childhood toy
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 (it was actually a volunteer job at a hospital – I was being a typical irresponsible teenager and didn't show up or call when I got a paying job and my shifts overlapped)
76. seen the changing of the guard in London
77. broken a bone (just a “pinkie toe” – When I was a kid I hit in on a sprinkler when I was running around on some grass during the summer)
78. cross country skied, down-hill skied, or snowboarded
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. read the entire Bible
86. visited the White House (I’ve never been inside, but I have taken pictures from the outside gate)
87. killed and prepared an animal for eating – seen it, never done it myself, dissecting animals in science was bad enough)
88. had chickenpox
89. saved someone’s life (this sounds cool in theory, but there’s always the chance that you don’t actually save them, that would stink)
90. sat on a jury
91. met someone famous
92. joined a book club (I started one a long time ago, I miss it, I want to be in one again – I may start one again sometime)
93. lost a loved one
94. had a baby/had a baby (not sure yet)
95. seen the Alamo in person.
96. gone swimming in Lake Tahoe.
97. been involved in a law suit (I was part of a class action suit against Blockbuster Video for fraudulent fines on their part – my settlement check was for $17 – the fraudulent fine they charged me was for $21 – they said I’d turned in a video late – I’d never even been to the store location they said I’d rented it from. But I paid the fine anyways because they threatened to send me to collections and it wasn’t worth the fight). I was not voluntarily part of the suit, somehow I just ended up on the list – but it was nice to see them get in trouble for what they did.
98. owned a cell phone (is there anyone over the age of 14 who hasn’t?)
99. been stung by a bee (Just once: I accidentally kneeled down on a bee who was stinger up with his face in a flower, his stinger went into my knee. In the next couple of hours my knee grew to about 4x it’s natural size – apparently I’m mildly allergic – as in I don’t have to carry an epi-pen, but I definitely avoid mean bees, the Mason kind are okay)