A “me-me” swiped from Kim.
At 39/100 it seems I’ve done a lot more eating than living! 🙂
How about you?
(see list below)
The things I have done are in bold, things I would like to do in italics and things I never want to do crossed through…
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii [indifferent]
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity [indifferent]
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo (if I could learn to sing, that is)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France [indifferent]
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
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
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors (Ireland!)
35. Seen an Amish community [indifferent]
36. Taught myself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt [indifferent]
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 [indifferent]
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
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
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a cheque
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy [too late]
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
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican [indifferent]
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper [indifferent]
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House [indifferent]
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (do lobsters count?)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one (my cat Lua)
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
100. Rode an elephant
casa azahar 
Old Faithful, The Alamo and Chicken Pox are all over-rated.
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Funny. I’ve actually done a few more items than you, which surprises me. I think this list is a bit biased towards US stuff. (I count 13 US-specific items. Counting Niagara, which I guess is also Canadian.)
I wonder if there were things that you thought should have been added to the list that you have done? And are there things on the list that you’d really like to do?
I’d really like to visit Africa and the Great Wall. Also sell Girl Scout cookies. No, wait. I’d really like to eat some Girl Scout cookies.
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I’ll take your word for it, mister anchovy. 🙂
Yeah, I also noticed it was a bit US biased, alejna. And yes, there is a Canadian side to Niagara Falls, which has to be the tackiest place in all of Canada. But in a fun over-the-top sort of way.
Hey, good thinking! I’m going to adapt the list and put the things I’d like to do in italics and cross through things I never want to do. And then maybe add a few of my own things.
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Food poisoning is overrated too.
The day I went to the Eiffel Tower the top part was closed for maintenance.
How fast does a motorcycle have to be going to be speeding?
I don’t specifically remember, but I’m sure I must have played in the mud sometime as a kid.
I was selected for jury service, but never called.
I’ve been stung by a wasp.
I make it eighteen, with a few almosts and questionables in addition (see above)
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Times Square, the White House and cruises are over-over-over-rated!
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I agree that chicken pox is vastly over-rated.
I think if a motorcycle is going over 10 miles per hour it is speeding.
While I suspect it depends on where and what cruise line you are on, I don’t find cruises over rated, but then I’ve never cruised on the huge cattle car floating hotels either, and you’d never catch me doing that even if they gave it to me for free.
Of the list, there are only 18 items I have not done, and a couple of them I am sure will never happen: I will never run in a marathon and unless there is an act of god I will never hit a home run. I hope that I will never be transported in an ambulance.
Anyone who hasn’t already walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (I have) will never get to do it because the inside of the statue is closed due to the safety concerns of the helical staircase which is how you get to the top. I’ve never had a baby, never could although I tried hard enough and now being five years into menopause it is way too late. LIke the ambulance, I am hoping I will never be involved in a law suit.
Of the things on that list I have not done, only going to Africa and visiting the Great Wall of China are on my list, and I could skip the Great Wall.
Somethings that are high on my list and not on this one is visiting Machu Picchu in Peru, and the gardens of Kyoto, Japan. I also would like to see the solstice sunrise at Stonehenge sometime. It is a pretty good list even if it does contain quite a few US specific items.
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Happy Solstice Greetings to you and yours, azahar!
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52 for me, but most are “cheats” because they happened through work. Yes, I was in a movie but I was part of a crowd scene so big that I can’t even find myself. Yes, I had a baby, at least I was present and involved with all three of my daughter’s birth. I held a lamb because I grew up on a sheep farm. I’ve met famous people because I’ve been paid to. Etc, etc. as the King of Siam said somewhere. Cheats.
Where are the home made rockets, the walks above the Arctic Circle? The Sun City golf cart traffic jams, the hockey games inside a hollow mountain? The river in Tennessee we got to turn off and on, banging the royal birth stones in Kauai? Floating down a river for an entire day, hunting six weeks for whales with the Japanese (photographically). I would have done better with those. 🙂
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someone ought to fix the spelling mistake in #13
if you want to do #49, wouldn’t you also have to do #81?
do you seriously want to read the entire bible? why?
and please tell us about the life you saved…..
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Fixed! (cut & paste job – didn’t notice it)
Yeah, but I’m indifferent to doing #81 itself.
I’ve tried reading the bible several times, but have never been able to get past Genesis (though perhaps this version would be more user friendly). Why? Because it has affected so much of history and the world as we know it and I’d like to know what’s in it.
Sorry, but that’s a very private story, just for me and the person who was involved.
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Wow! That list exhausts me – its like that book “101 things to do before you die” or whatever its called, which freaked me out because its so full of things I’m not interested in, like bungee jumping, or which had never occurred to me, like visiting the vatican 🙂 I might adapt this meme to be “100 things I’ve done” to make myself feel better!
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I like your modifications. Though they make me think more that this is quite an odd list. Most of the items are things that I could imagine someone aspiring to do, but then there are things like “been stung by a bee” and “been involved in a lawsuit.”
And then there is the randomness of “held a praying mantis.” Am I missing something there?
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I see on your blog that you linked to a similar me-me that we both did last year, alejna (in fact, last year in December). I remembered doing it but couldn’t remember what it was called. You’re right – there was quite a bit of overlap.
Have you ever…?
Since then I can add two things to that list…
-Had two hard drives for your computer
-Gone without food for 5 days
And curiously, there were two things I had put as having done that I have as not having done this time. Now I’m confused. 😕
In general, I think last year’s list was better.
I don’t think of that stuff as “cheating”, zoomer. I mean, I only built a snow fort because I was born in Winterpeg…
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All lists are partly random, and also biased towards the achievements and ambitions of their creators.
So where were
– understood string theory
– read The Critique of Pure Reason in the original.
– given yourself a black eye by walking into a door.
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