This was more amusing than most such things, so I thought I’d steal it from Ron. And I’m annotating some of them, which is I think allowed.
Just bold the things you have accomplished (sic - Ed.) in your life.
1. Bought everyone in the bar a drink (Of course, the only other people in the bar were Ron and Sharon and Raina)
2. Swum with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain (I think.)
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula (And had it hold back!)
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it
9. Hugged a tree (See number 8)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea (Yes, if this is to be construed as the lightning storm was at sea. The times I’ve been “at sea, assuming within 30 miles of the coast counts, it’s all been fog.)
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (Oh, please. Give me something I’ve done less than fifty times.)
14. Seen the Northern Lights (No, because my parents didn’t wake me up to see them on the drive home from Grandma’s and I don’t think I’ll ever forgive them.)
15. Gone to a huge sports game (If Maple Leaf Gardens counts as big and the 1973 Ottawa Nationals playoffs counts as sports, that is.)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg (No, but I’ve licked a glacier.)
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. Gotten drunk on champagne
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
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (Every day at work.)
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse (Lunar. Why do I get the feeling they assumed solar?)
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run (Kicked one once.)
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (Four at present)
40. Visited all 50 states (Missing Alaska, Montana and Washington.)
41. Taken care of someone who was wasted (See 29)
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip (Once or twice, maybe. It’s been days.)
48. Gone rock climbing (Do we count bouldering?)
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them (See 52)
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs (No. LPs, yes.)
57. Pretended to be a superhero (Pretended?)
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers (Or at least they called me a poseur.)
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight (What do they take me for?)
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie (Did voiceover for a documentary on the Futaleufú River in Chile)
74. Crashed a party (But that’s pretty much how parties worked in Buffalo back then. I also crashed a Patti Smith concert with a friend (Hi Cindee!)
75. Gotten divorced (I’m gonna sassume they mean legally, so no.)
76. Gone without food for 5 days (Close.)
77. Made cookies from scratch (Mmm scratch.)
78. Won first prize in a costume contest (George Washington, Ovid Central School Hallowe’en Party, 1966.)
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River - or was it the Colorado River? (South Fork of the American River.)
82. Been on television news programs as an expert (Sort of. Interviewed as a newsmaker and activist.)
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage (More times than I can count, actually)
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Eaten fugu (pufferfish)
89. Had a one-night stand (“a”. heh.)
90. Gone to Thailand
91. Bought a house
92. Been in a combat zone
93. Buried one/both of your parents
94. Been on a cruise ship
95. Spoken more than one language fluently
96. Performed in Rocky Horror Picture Show
97. Raised children
98. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived (Asshole red light runners.)
105. Wrote articles for a large publication (The BMUG Newsletter alone was like fourteen pounds!)
106. Lost over 100 pounds (Not yet.)
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray (Monterey Bay Aquarium has a ray petting tank, but are they stingrays? Don’t think so.)
110. Broken someone’s heart (OK, this is starting to sound like a typical week for me)
111. Helped an animal give birth (Dog, guinea pig, sister.)
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone (“a”? heh.)
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (from my cold, dead hands.)
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild (But the Trees Of Purple Light said they were safe!)
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery (See 118) (OK, joke. It was a bicycle.)
120. Had a snake as a pet (And an amulet. And I was breeding a dwarf, but he wasn’t done yet.)
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (If “morphine-induced drowse” counts as sleep, see 119, in which case I did it like six times consecutively)
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat (And if you can’t finish, just put it in its own pocket for later.)
127. Eaten sushi (This IS a typical week!)
128. Had your picture in the newspaper (Does this blue dot make me look fat?)
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes (I read 132 and 133 too quickly and mixed them up at first, and I’ve done both of those too)
134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey (or at least skimmed for school)
135. Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read something they wrote
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (with almonds and lemon juice)
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (see 89)
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream (“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!”)
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ (Free Radio Berkeley, 106.6 on your pirate dial! World Music and other stuff.)
148. Shaved your head (More than once)
149. Caused a car accident (Low speed, backing out of a parking place)
150. Saved someone’s life (or at least he said so.)
haha! I’ve seen the aurora borealis. It was cool. I woke up Allie in the middle of the night to come outside and see it but I don’t think she remembers.
Or maybe that was Coral? I dunno.
Ok, other things I’ve done that you haven’t done, since answering all 150 would be too much:
Built my own pc from parts, yes.
Been pierced below the neck? Yes, but not intentionally.
Sold my own artwork to someone who didn’t know me? Depends on the definition of artwork.
Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream. Yes. Nightmares are dreams.
Won Money on a TV Game Show: Does winning record store gift certificates, tickets for two to “Tootsie” and free food at Arthur Treacher’s from Dialing For Dollars count?
Alphabetized my collection of CDs: Yes, back in 1984 when I had about 15 CDs (which was almost half the CD section at the record store. When checking out, the clerks sometimes said “What are THESE?”)
“If Maple Leaf Gardens counts as big”. Wanker.
re #132; does crushing with fist count as heavy petting? Cockroaches and hyenas are the only animals I hate.
=v= This kind of checklist/quiz/meme is pretty much the only thing I ever post on livejournal.
Maple Leaf Gardens sure counted as big in 1973—I never saw a game there, but I did see the Rolling Stones at the Gardens in 1975. These days Maple Leaf Gardens is a horse of another colour. From the Friends of Maple Leaf Gardens:
I haven’t done at lot of the things you have. But I have done 2, 10, 11, 14, 28, 46 (not really, it was Southeastern Asia), 50, 54 61 90, 108, and 114 (if copiloting counts). Number 97 is the hardest one on the list. I’m still working on that one; check back in about 18 years.