Theresa made me do it…bold I’ve done, italics I want to do…
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (I’m pretty sure I did, but it is also entirely possible I didn’t)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower (I hope the aurora comes up cause we’ve watched them walking down the middle of the road, blissed out on aurora somewhere in the wilds of Alaska)
6. Given more than I can afford to charity (considering we have kids, this is a good thing, I think, but how also, how sad we haven’t done it)
7. Been to Disneyland/world (once even pregnant!)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis (No, but at least one of my kids have and I’ve seen them frequently in the backyard/jungle)
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea (one of these days I’ll get a picture)
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (I could SO see us doing this though…)
16. Had food poisoning (doesn’t EVERYONE get this at some point? I think I’ve even poisoned my own family, though the first time for me was at my boyfriend’s house after almost breaking my ankle)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables (When we lived in the US our front yard was a veggie and flower garden)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon (I’ve done a 1/2 though. My sister has done a full)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse (both the sun and the moon and both in Mexico)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (though I think there are many who wouldn’t have been 
)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (who doesn’t climb rocks?)
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
47. Had my 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 (what’s with the French appeal here?)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (I seem to remember The Godfather in the back of our Rambler when we kids were supposed to be sleeping)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class(I’d really like to get the boys involved also)
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (I know I bought them, but it might have been one of my sisters that actually sold them)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason (I think this is true)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (I think 2, actually)
67. Bounced a cheque
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (Jamie has boxes and boxes at his mom’s house, though)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt (my sister has made some gorgeous ones though)
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London (well, I”m pretty sure – seen them at any rate)
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (well, on the BACK of one)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (Saturn, back in the early 90’s)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper (I honestly have NO idea about this one)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (I have no desire but I think everyone should do this at least once. Mine was just a fish, but still..)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (I lived in LA)
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 (early 80’s, sexual discrimination against our employer, and yes, we won)
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Rode an elephant
Wow, I put no on #87 (killed and eaten and animal) because I didn’t even think of fish. Mostly because I don’t like to eat fish, regardless of who killed ‘em. I have eaten animals that we raised for food, just never “processed” them myself. Yup, that’s what the 4 H kids used to call it processing them for food.
I hope your Christmas funk has evaporated by now.
regards,
Theresa
Sounds like a very interesting life.