100 out of 100 Things
As someone who got a fairly low score on the meme Ericka started -- yet enjoyed playing along! -- and as a writer, I thought it might be interesting to see how hard it would be to tweak the language of the meme enough to get me a perfect score on the list. : ) The following is the result of my efforts. Everything is in bold, because I've actually done it all! You can compare it to the score of 43 I got originally.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the covers (all the way, including my head)
3. Played piano accompaniment for the high school chorus
4. Had friends who honeymooned in Hawaii
5. Watched a shooting star
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a firefly
10. Sang a solo
11. Pulled the ripcord on a parachuting simulator at the amusement park
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself to teach from scratch
15. Adopted a cat from the shelter
16. Had food poisoning
17. Can see the Statue of Liberty from your house
18. Grown your hair out after having layers cut
19. Seen Matisse's cut-outs in France
20. Slept on a train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitched a boat or U-haul trailer to a car
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Made a snow angel
25. Held a kitten
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Walked 17 miles in one morning
28. Ridden in a gondola lift (aka a cable car) in Cape Town
29. Seen a partial eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run, metaphorically speaking
32. Been on a dinner cruise
33. Seen (and walked up) Dunn's River Falls, personally
34. Visited the birthplace of your parents
35. Been hit by an Amish man driving a wagon
36. Acquired relatives who speak a different language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Touched a stingray personally
39. Flown over the Rocky Mountains
40. Seen Rodin's The Thinker
41. Sung in a bar
42. Seen the ocean from the southern-most tip of the U.S.
43. Had a stranger buy you a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported to a blizzard shelter in an 18-wheeler
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Salisbury Cathedral 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 play
56. Grew up visiting a replica of the Parthenon in your hometown
57. Started a novel
58. Taken an arts and crafts class
59. Visited Belgium
60. Sang at a retirement home
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Seen dolphins from the beach
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Tried water skiing
66. Visited a Holocaust Memorial
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a Cesna (small one- or two-prop plane)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Helped piece a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Quit a job in under 3 weeks
76. Seen vespers at St. Paul's Cathedral in London
77. Broken a law
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Been to the top of Table Mountain in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, IL in person
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Johannesberg
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the Capitol
87. Watched your mother perform a hog killing
88. Had chickenpox
89. Had someone save your life
90. Been rejected for jury duty
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Held a day-old premie baby
95. Seen the Liberty Bell in person
96. Swum in salt water
97. Been a lawyer
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day
There! That's better! : )
Peace.
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Jessica Barksdale Inclan says:
Very clever! Now it seems
Very clever! Now it seems possible to do everything on the list. I still need to do some European travel, though! And other continents as well.
J
Jessica Barksdale Inclan www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
Evie Shockley says:
travel
I remember thinking, as a kid, that I had traveled a lot simply because I'd been to 20 or 30 of the States and to Canada! It was true, but only in comparison to most of the folks around me. Now, the fact that I've been to 2 other continents, plus various places in the West Indies, leaves me completely in the dust compared to so many of the people around me! I don't have a ton of money for travel these days, but being an academic helps (the occasional research or conference trip).
Rosy Cole says:
Mutation
That's terrific, Evie! Makes the meme game much more interesting and resourceful.
Rosy
Farzana Versey says:
Seemed like fun
I did the test and scored 67...which really isn't bad, but I am not sure that under 'saved soemone's life' a mention of divorcing husband would qualify :) Or 'Went skinny dipping'...hmmm...not really, but whatever was on slipped...
Thanks for making me feel like an achiever.
But I really, really did see David, Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel, Leanign Power of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, a concentration camp in Dachau...
And I held a falcon.
~F
Dale Estey says:
And I Held A Hummingbird
OK.
So - now - using your criterion I have done everything in the list plus done everything on the list.
Time for a nap.
Evie Shockley says:
thanks!
Thanks, everyone, for not calling me a big ol' cheater! : )
I have to say, holding either a falcon or a hummingbird would be among the coolest possible things to do. I held a butterfly, too, once, but I don't even think that compares.
Happy thanksgiving, folks!
Matthew Biberman says:
see you in the ville
I was putting together the schedule for the Louisville Conf and I saw that you will presenting. How nice! I will make an effort to attend.
Evie Shockley says:
oh, yay!
I'd not made the connection, but I should have remembered that you are at Louisville! I hope I see you while I'm there, even if you don't find it possible to sit through a panel on a poet you probably haven't (yet) read. : )