meme

There’s a meme going around the blo­gos­phere where you go through a list of 99 things, indi­cat­ing the ones you’ve done, the ones you haven’t done and never ever want to do, and the ones you haven’t done but would like to do. Here’s my take on the list, with

• Things I’ve done in bold.
• Things I haven’t done but would like to do in italics.
• Things I haven’t done and never, ever want to do in plain text.

1. Started your own blog.
2. Slept under the stars. (Camp­ing was a big thing in my fam­ily grow­ing up)
3. Played in a band — or musical.
4. Vis­ited Hawaii.
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to char­ity. (It sounds good but I don’t think it’s a wise idea.)
7. Been to Dis­ney­land. (Dis­ney World, but not Disneyland)
8. Climbed a moun­tain.? (Of course, it depends on how you define “mountain”.)
9. Held a pray­ing mantis.
10. Sang a solo. (Rather dis­as­trously, but it was bless­edly brief).
11. Bungee jumped (HELL NO!!!)
12. Vis­ited Paris.
13. Watched a light­ning storm at sea.
14. Taught your­self an art from scratch. (Many, many times; many other times with min­i­mal instruction.)
15. Adopted a child.
16. Had food poi­son­ing. (Far too many times!)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
18. Grown your own veg­eta­bles. (I tried but it was a pretty mis­er­able failure.)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France.
20. Slept on an overnight train. (Going to visit my grand­par­ents when I was 5 or 6.)
21. Had a pil­low fight.
22. Hitch­hiked. (WAY too dan­ger­ous even when I was young)
23. Taken a sick day when you?re not ill. (Define “ill”, LOL)
24. Built a snow fort. (Not when you grow up in the South.)
25. Held a lamb.
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Run a Marathon. (Not a chance!)
28. Rid­den a Gon­dola in Venice. (Maybe, but I’d be more inter­ested in see­ing the Venet­ian glassworkers.)
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sun­rise or sun­set. (The best sun­sets were on our hon­ey­moon cruise!)
31. Hit a home run. (BWAAHAAHAAHAA! I was always the kid picked last!)
32. Been on a cruise. (Twice)
33. Seen Nia­gara Falls in person.
34. Vis­ited the birth­place of your ancestors.
35. Seen an Amish com­mu­nity. (Big Amish com­mu­nity east of Cleveland.)
36. Taught your­self a new language.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Seen the Lean­ing Tower of Pisa in person.
39. Gone rock climb­ing. (I took a class, BUT…see bungee jumping.)
40. Seen Michelangelo?s David.
41. Sung karaoke.
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.
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.
55. Been in a movie.
56. Vis­ited the Great Wall of China. (Nope, but my son has.)
57. Started a busi­ness. (http://artofthefirebird.com)
58. Taken a mar­tial arts class. (My DH is a black belt. One of these days I’ll get up the nerve.)
59. Vis­ited Russia.
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Scout Cook­ies. (Eaten my share, too)
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Got­ten flow­ers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma. (And been asked to never do it again after pass­ing out two dif­fer­ent times.)
65. Gone sky div­ing. (See bungee jump­ing — do you dis­cern a pat­tern here?)
66. Vis­ited a Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camp. (No, but my son vis­ited Dachau on a band trip when he was fifteen.)
67. Bounced a check. (Oops.)
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favorite child­hood toy. (I still have my teddy bear, and I wish I’d saved a few others.)
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 Guard 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 your pic­ture in the news­pa­per. (No, but I’ve been quoted.)
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Vis­ited the White House.
87. Killed and pre­pared an ani­mal for eating.
88. Had chick­en­pox. (Sec­ond grade.)
89. Saved someone?s life.
90. Sat on a jury. (Civil case, and I was bored to tears.)
91. Met some­one famous. (Again, define “famous.”)
92. Joined a book club. (Sixth grade. Great Books.)
93. Lost a loved one. (Too many of them)
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. (From back when they looked like a brick.)
99. Been stung by a bee. (Hor­nets and wasps, actu­ally, but the result is the same.)