Share with others

07 January 2009

I have...

Last night, my husband and I had some time to waste, uh, spend, before I had to head out to pick up a friend from work and he went to bed. First we played cribbage, which we've been doing for about 20 years now. We're not very strategic anymore- it's mostly about luck because, when you have been playing with someone for that many years, you pretty much know what they'll do next...

And then I found this list at Megan's Half Pint House.
It was a fun conversation starter.
We've done a lot of these together, my husband and I.
Those are some good memoires.
Looks like we still have some more memories to make...

This is easy. Just mark the things you've done in bold. You try too!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
(the middle school band- we even marched in the State Fair parade)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
(while sleeping under the stars in Northern New Mexico. Amazing!)
6. Given more than you can afford to charity (I don't really understand this question. Is it ever "more than you can afford?")
7. Been to Disneyland/world (both. prefer Land.)
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo (uh, in the car? in the shower?)
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
20. Slept on an overnight train
(from Juarez to Mexico City. HOT!)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
(I had a bad streak in college of running out of gas. Got picked up by a guy on a motorcycle once, and burned my leg on the exhaust. Haven't run out of gas, or hitch hiked, again since...)
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 (but T has- just this last summer at the Parent/Player end o' season baseball game. Dad rules!)
32. Been on a cruise
33 Seen Niagara Falls in person
(technically, barely... we DROVE by, slowly, and could see some from the road...)
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (remember Zoom? remember ubbie-dubbie?)
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 (one of my all-time favorite memories- T singing Born to be Wild in the Japanese culture exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum...)
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 (it's in my house. visitors always think it's one of my girls...)
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
(moment of silence for the demise of the drive-in, please...)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China (still can barely believe that one!)
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. Gotten flowers for no reason (including "gotten flowers for no reason for myself"!)
64 Donated blood, platelets, or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66 Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67 Bounced a check (but not in a REALLY LONG time...)
68. Flown in a helicopter (T. & I have done this together twice- in Hawaii, and to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Very cool.)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (stuffed Snoopy. I recently saw him "new" in an old picture. Poor fellow. Some rough years there...)
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 (T & I rafted the Colorado as a retirement gift to ourselves. Spectacular!)
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
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox (at age 21. I was exposed in Mexico. Worst illness of my life, hands down. I'll take childbirth...)
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
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 (but, like Niagara Falls, we have driven by...)
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

3 comments:

sperlonga said...

You mean the guy who picked you up on the motorcycle didn't speed? You could kill two birds with one stone if he did!

K said...

HA!
Actually, Tim asked the same thing, but the truth is, he picked me up on the off ramp of the highway, and the gas station was not too far away, so, alas, no speeding...
:-)

C and J said...

When was that hitchhiking? I never heard about THAT! That list is terrific! :-) XOXOXO, Mom