Wednesday, July 26, 2006

list -- with caveat

This has been circulating the blogwaves, and since I have nothing much else to talk about today, here it is. The things I've done are in BOLD. 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 07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone 08. Said 'I love you' and meant it 09. Hugged a tree 10. Bungee jumped 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 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 44. Watched wild whales 45. Stolen a sign 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 then you were actually in love 53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them 54. Visited Japan 55. Milked a cow 56. Alphabetized your cds 57. Pretended to be a superhero 58. Sung karaoke 59. Lounged around in bed all day 60. Posed nude in front of strangers 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 72. Gotten married 73. Been in a movie 74. Crashed a party 75. Gotten divorced 76. Gone without food for 5 days 77. Made cookies from scratch 78. Won first prize in a costume contest 79. Ridden a gondola in Venice 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. Had a one-night stand 89. Gone to Thailand 90. Bought a house 91. Been in a combat zone 92. Buried one of your parents 93. Been on a cruise ship 94. Spoken more than one language fluently 95. Performed in Rocky Horror. 96. Raised children 97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour 98. Created and named your own constellation of stars 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 illness 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. Petted 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 body part of yours below the neck pierced 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 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 132. Petted 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 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 149: Caused a car accident 150: Saved someone's life ----------------- Yeah... but, hold on a second. Some of these are open to interpretation. 12. did I have to be at sea? or just the lightning storm? 28. an actual horse? or a metaphorical horse? 53. I have invited a stranger to join R and I at a restaurant once, because the wait for a table was shorter for larger parties 56. no, but I have alphabetized my books 57. But, I AM a superhero. 60. who would admit this when their parents read this??? 88. ditto 90. to tour it while it was docked? or to take an actual cruise? anyway, R and I took an overnight 'cruise' to Nova Scotia on our honeymoon 96. I am raising a child. I don't think you're ever done raising children

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kat, did your parents never take you to either of the old drive-ins North or East of the Soo (#65)? I vaguely recall falling asleep in the back of the car during one of these movie nights. I don't know if it was old-style where you hang the speaker in the car or where you tune in on the radio. Any Sault-ites know if I'm just imagining these venues?

By the way, what was the dinner item for #136?

7/26/2006 11:26:00 PM  
Blogger Katia / Crazy For Trying said...

#136: FISH!

No, we never went to the drive-in in the Soo. sniff.

7/27/2006 08:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well now, I just don't know about some of these things! Who was the stranger you danced with in a foreign country?
Plastic surgery?
Major surgery?
In any case - interesting life sofar!

7/27/2006 08:45:00 PM  
Blogger Katia / Crazy For Trying said...

Well now, over active imagination!!!

Stranger I danced with in a foreign country? ABTENAU (youth camp) where there were a ton of strangers and there was a dance

Plastic surgery? having the mole on my nose removed (you paid for it, mom)

Major surgery? appendectomy (you were there too, mom)

xo, K

7/28/2006 08:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It could have been 'major', if we had let it ripen a little more (maybe another walk around the lake?)
xo, love you too

7/28/2006 01:47:00 PM  
Blogger Katia / Crazy For Trying said...

My dear mother is referring to the fact that despite my PAIN and COMPLAINTS she still made me walk around a lake to look at some ancient monastery while were on vacation in Germany. Needless to say, 24 hours later I was admitted to the O.R. for an emergency appendectomy. Hmph. That was almost 20 years ago and I still won't let her live it down!

k

7/28/2006 02:37:00 PM  

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