A List -- Just For Fun! (sorry Megan)

Copy and paste the list, then bold the things you have done. Like so:


01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with wild dolphins

03. Climbed a mountain (LOVE the view from the top.)

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula (Are you kidding? I was at a friend's house where they had one, but I wouldn't even go look at it!)

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone (May I add that we are married?)

08. Said “I love you” and meant it (Many, many times. And I won't stop!)

09. Hugged a tree (but am not an environmentalist)

10. Bungee jumped (oh, no. no. no. no. and no.)

11. Visited Paris (So much fun!)

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea (I’ve seen one from an airplane!)

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise

14. Seen the Northern Lights (Beautiful!)

15. Gone to a huge sports game (Does Major League Baseball count? I’ve been to three different Major League ballparks)

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 (more than I can count...)

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon (on my list of things I’d love to do!)

22. Watched a meteor shower (Only in season of course…)

23. Gotten tipsy 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 (does front row of my in-laws’ church count as a “worst possible moment?”)

28. Bet on a winning horse

29. Asked out a stranger

30. Had a snowball fight (Hello... I grew up in Iowa!)

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (Used to do it in college quite often to release stress)

32. Held a lamb (I've touched one...)

33. Seen a total eclipse of both the sun and moon

34. Ridden a roller coaster (been a long time, though…)

35. Hit a home run (ummm.. I'd have to actually hit the ball with the bat, right?)

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 (most moments)

39. Had two hard drives for your computer

40. Visited all 50 states (I've been to about 34)

41. Taken care of someone who was drunk

42. Had/Have amazing friends

43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (does a teenager -- when I was one -- in Canada count?)

44. Watched whales (Off of Cape Cod and New Zealand. New Zealand was amazing!!!)

45. Stolen a sign (In high school. We moved For Sale signs and put a bunch of them in someone’s yard.)

46. Backpacked in Europe (I wore a backpack in Europe...)

47. Taken a road-trip

48. Gone rock climbing (Nope, but I’ve been repelling)

49. Midnight walk on the beach (Does just night-time count?)

50. Gone sky diving (I am not crazy)

51. Visited Ireland

52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love (more than once)

53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them (Bennihanna’s and in Asia and on a cruise ship)

54. Visited Japan (Does being at the Tokyo airport countless times – even spending the night at an airport hotel count?)

55. Milked a cow (Megan did in New Zealand!)

56. Alphabetized your cds (And my spices. It's a gift. And a curse.)

57. Pretended to be a superhero

58. Sung karaoke

59. Lounged around in bed all day

60. Played touch football (I don’t exactly remember… but I’m pretty sure I did in PE in Jr. High or High School)

61. Gone scuba diving (I got certified in high school)

62. Kissed in the rain (I'm married...remember? I'll kiss him anywhere!)

63. Played in the mud (I even made mud pies when I was little!)

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 (See #72)

69. Toured ancient sites (castles and cathedrals in Switzerland.)

70. Taken a martial arts class

71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

72. Gotten married (Best thing I ever did!)

73. Been in a movie (Does a “movie” made in Spanish class in high school count? It was so bad and so cheesy)

74. Crashed a party

75. Gotten divorced

76. Gone without food for 5 days

77. Made cookies from scratch (Is there any other way? I finally found a recipe for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.)

78. Won first prize in a costume contest

79. Ridden a gondola in Venice (do the boats at the Riverwalk in San Antonio count?)

80. Gotten a tattoo (Three. Okay, they were just temporary henna tattoos. I got them in Bali.)

81. Rafted a river

82. Been on television news programs as an “expert” (In Missouri. We were at a new park in town. I was the expert Mom.)

83. Gotten flowers for no reason (I have the bestest husband!)

84. Performed on stage (In Choir??)

85. Been to Las Vegas

86. Recorded music (Does the choir director recording the Christmas concerts and making an LP record count? I still have it.)

87. Eaten shark (Shark Fin Soup in Singapore)

88. Kissed on the first date

89. Gone to Thailand

90. Bought a house (Only 2 in 24 years of marriage)

91. Been in a combat zone

92. Buried one/both of your parents

93. Been on a cruise ship (Around the islands of Hawaii over Christmas)

94. Spoken more than one language fluently

95. Performed in a Rocky Horror Picture Show (I avoided seeing this even though my boyfriend in high school really wanted to.)

96. Raised children (The two most amazing kids ever!)

97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

98. Passed out cold (I’ve fainted twice.)

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 (Driven across it)

102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking (all the time)

103. Had plastic surgery

104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived (I was in a head-on collision when I was three months old. I was in a basket on the front seat between my parents. I rolled on the floor, but wasn’t hurt at all. My dad broke his arm and my mom got a bad cut on her head and shattered her kneecap and was in the hospital for three months.)

105. Wrote articles for a large publication

106. Lost over 100 pounds

107. Held someone while they were having a flashback

108. Piloted an airplane

109. Touched a stingray

110. Broken someone’s heart

111. Helped an animal give birth

112. Won money on a TV game show

113. Broken a bone

114. Gone on an African photo safari

115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears

116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (Once when I was about 14, and then just a couple of months ago!)

117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

118. Ridden a horse

119. Had major surgery (Two C-Sections)

120. Had a snake as a pet (Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck!)

121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (looked at it from the rim and from a helicopter)

122. Slept 30 hours in a 48 hour time frame

123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states (I’ve been to about 11 countries)

124. Visited all 7 continents (I’ve been to 4!)

125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

126. Eaten kangaroo meat (My husband has.)

127. Eaten sushi (don't wanna, ain't gonna)

128. Had your picture in the newspaper (When I was about 3 my siblings and I were in the paper dressed in our Halloween costumes. I was a ghost. The costume was a sheet over my head with holes cut out for my eyes. All you can see are a couple of big brown eyes peaking out. Then I was again when I was about four. I think that had something to do with the county fair.)

129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about

130. Gone back to school

131. Parasailed

132. Touched a cockroach (I have stomped on many. Living in the tropics and all…)

133. Eaten fried green tomatoes

134. Read “The Iliad”

135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (I prefer my meat resting on a Styrofoam tray covered in plastic wrap.)

137. Skipped all your school reunions

138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (The owner of our house in Singapore was Chinese educated and knew very little English. That made for interesting conversations.)

139. Been elected to public office

140. Written your own computer language

141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream

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

148. Shaved your head (My son has. **SIGH**)

149. Caused a car accident

150. Saved someone’s life