Friday, December 12, 2008

100 Things

I don't usually do these things but discovered it on Sylvia's blog and became intrigued.

The instructions are to copy and paste the list in your own blog and color all of the things YOU have done (mine are in blue). Things you haven't done will be in black.

If you put this on your blog, let me know, so I can go read your list.

1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii (on my list and I will get there)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain (Clingman's Dome in the Smokies felt like a mountain but no, not really)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo (not in front of an audience much to their delight)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea (ON the sea but not out there at sea)
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (gave one up for adoption and wish I hadn't - but she found me and things are great with us)
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (nope, just the Bunker Hill Monument which was so not worth it)
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (I'd like to do that)
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 (yeah, right!)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run (not on a real, organized team - in the neighborhood when we played)
32. Been on a cruise (I'm trying to build up to that - no way across an ocean!)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (I want to do that, too)
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
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (in central Arizona)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke (again, thankful people everywhere applaud)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (on my list)
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 (I've posed for an art class but it was drawing)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (it was closed or we would have)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in
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 check
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
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
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper (several times and an article about my old blog Joy's Updates)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury (twice)
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one (too many)
94. Had a baby (two)
95. Seen the Alamo in person (another place I want to go)
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit (I won)
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Ridden an elephant

4 comments:

Sylvia K said...

So glad you came to my blog and glad you liked the list -- I did, I know. It was great fun, I thought. It would seem that we have a lot in common -- well, except for the fact I'm ten years older than you. But that's okay, too, because I had so much fun getting here! Thanks for becoming a follower, I've added mine to yours! Have a great weekend!

Joy said...

Thanks and welcome!

Unknown said...

when you come back to Maine, skinny dipping will be the first on our list. I'm gonna post the list now.
xoxocharlie

SailorAlphaCentauri said...

It took me long enough to get around to doing so, but I have posted this list on my blog.