Nocturnal Journal

Things I've Done/Haven't Done

I stole this from Annalee

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula ( I stood in awe as my friend played with his and as he tried to hand it to me, I got faint.) LOL
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree (I’ve run fast first into one while playing flashlight tag. Oh, and once after having drank a wee bit too much. Might have hugged it to hang on.)
10. Bungee jumped (with my aversion to heights…umm…no.)
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
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
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon (again, the aversion to heights thing)
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
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
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
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (I’m so counting Canada)
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign [When I was in high school my bedroom was decorated in stolen street signs. I had a MASSIVE stop sign that was great.)
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
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 (we went to a place that does this to you. They seat you at a long table with people you don’t know. It was in Amish country. Odd but fun and great food!)
54. Visited Japan (not yet but its like that might be in the not too distant future)
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs (my DVDs, my books, my….okay, you get the point)
57. Pretended to be a superhero (I was wonder woman forever and a day when I was younger. I blame those underwear that were made to look like their outfits)
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving (I’ve sat on the boat watching everyone else go. Story of my life…ever the observer.)
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
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie (I was in several plays in high school and after. Can I count those? Lol)
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days (when I was pregnant, I was extremely sick and hospitalized because I couldn’t eat or drink. I would spent a couple of weeks in the hospital with IVs and then a couple home with home heath care there to change my IV spot and make sure the fluid (kept in a backpack like thing that plugged in) was filled…then back to hospital. Was like that for several months. So, it wasn’t by choice. I remember being seven month pregnant and eating food for the first time in what felt like forever. I had a banana. I also put almost five years between my first and second child for fear of history repeating itself.)
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice (painted various scenes with them but have never ridden in one)
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently (ah, damn I don’t even speak English fluently. so people get what I can give. LOL)
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Been to the Great Barrier Reef
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
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 T.V. 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
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states [Just Canada and Mexico though.
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed (I was on the boat yanking them. Can I couldn’t that? LOl)
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
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 (Mom, I am still SO sorry about that shaving the sides of your head fad that thankfully died not too long after it started. I know seeing your daughter like that couldn’t have been easy.)
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

I wonder if anyone can highlight them all? If you're reading this, you've been tagged!