Things I’ve Done

Yet another from Jen to kill some time. All things I’ve done are in bold.

1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula and I NEVER WILL
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it!
9. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Drunk tequila
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse – I won money, so it counts, but my horse didn’t come in first.
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Scored a winning goal
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day – when I hung out with my Dutch friend Anne about 10 years ago, I couldn’t help but pick up her accent – it stuck with me for the entire weekend.
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Visited all 5 continents
40. Taken care of someone who was drunk
41. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country – does an acquaintance count?
42. Watched wild whales
43. Stolen a sign
44. Backpacked
45. Taken a road-trip
46. Gone rock climbing
47. Midnight walk on the beach
45. Gone sky diving
49. Taken a train through Europe – does a train from The Netherlands to Belgium count?
50. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
51. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table, and had a meal with them
52. Milked a cow
53. Alphabetized your CDs
54. Sung karaoke
55. Lounged around in bed all day
56. Gone scuba diving
57. Kissed in the rain
58. Gone to a drive-in theatre
59. Started a business
60. Taken a martial arts class
61. Been in a movie – Like Jen, strictly a college film class production
62. Crashed a party
63. Gone without food for 5 days
64. Gotten a tattoo
65. Got flowers for no reason
66. Performed on stage
67. Been to Las Vegas
68. Recorded music
69. Eaten shark – does authentic Shark Fin Soup count?
70. Buried one/both of your parents
71. Been on a cruise ship
72. Spoken more than one language fluently
73. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over – that’s what we did this summer!!
74. Walked a famous bridge – Brooklyn, baby!
75. Had plastic surgery
76. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived – let’s see, fell on my head at 9 months and got skull fracture, almost drowned at 3 years old, got hit by a car at 13 years old – I’m like a cat with nine lives. Six more to go!
78. Wrote articles for a large publication
79. Tried to lose weight seriously – doing it right now
80. Piloted an airplane
80. Petted a stingray
81. Broken someone’s heart – yeah, but the guy was a tool. I’m actually horrified that I actually dated him in the first place.
82. Broken a bone
83. Eaten sushi
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Parasailed
86. Skipped all your school reunions
87. Shaved your head – not the whole thing, but at one point in 1993 I shaved the entire BACK of my head from the ears down
88. Caused a car accident – in college I was driving home during a snowstorm and slid on black ice into the ditch. But my car stuck out into the road and eventually my little car was the topper on a five or six car pileup tree
89. Pretended to be “sick” – you are lying if you say you have never done this – yes, even Mare-Bear.
90. Swam in the Pacific Ocean
91. Saved someone’s life – maybe not physically, but mentally I’d say yes.
92. Fainted
93. Been in the room while someone is giving birth uh, hello – I have two kids!
94. Hitchhiked
95. Adopted a child
96. Been caught daydreaming
97. Been to the Painted Desert
98. Called off a wedding engagement
99. Donated your blood
100. Had an out-of-body experience