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The "Things I've Done" Meme

November 23, 2008, 5:12 pm

I've missed my "meme a month" for a few months now. If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!

The things I've done are bolded.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo
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
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
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
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
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
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa (ASK ME NEXT MONTH!)
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
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 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

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
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day.

My score:  61 out of 100 -- I've got some more adventuring to do!

 

 

Eric Nichols

Eric Nichols says:

Hmm....well, I don't have

Hmm....well, I don't have 100 right at my fingertips, but here's some highlights

I've eaten a whale in Barrow.  (Well, not the whole thing.  We had leftovers)

I've had a novel published.

I made a movie trailer.

I have every FCC license ever issued, except for the First Class Radiotelegraph

I've been to refugee camps on the Thailand/Burma border.

I've eaten fried grubs in Thailand.

I've gotten Typhus in Burma.

I've lived in Hillsborough, California, at one time the wealthiest suburb on the West Coast.

I lived in a log cabin for 27 years, heated with wood I cut myself.

I've worked for the UCLA plasma physics department.

I've been outside at -63 F.

I've been outside without a shirt at -40F.  (Not for very long. :) )

I've had pet iguanas, gerbils, snakes, mice and spiders.

I've eaten unidentified plants and/or animals in Thailand.

I rode a bicycle 72 miles an hour behind a pace car.

I mooned a cop.

I've lived in a log cabin

Ericka Lutz

Ericka Lutz says:

I've eaten fried grubs,

I've eaten fried grubs, unidentified plants and/or animals in Thailand too! Yum.

Huntington Sharp

HuntingtonSF says:

46/100

I need to get out more: http://www.redroom.com/blog/huntingtonsf/100-things

Huntington Sharp, Red Room

Ericka Lutz

Ericka Lutz says:

Plenty of time, young man!

Plenty of time, young man! Life is long!

Huntington Sharp

HuntingtonSF says:

What was that one word...

...that starts with a "y"? Could you repeat that? :)

Huntington Sharp, Red Room

Ericka Lutz

Ericka Lutz says:

:>

Okay, then. YounGER man.

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