Only Sometimes Clever

I’ve seen this meme on a number of other blogs, most recently on Mom Loves Being at Home.

Copy and paste this into your own blog, if you want to participate.  Then, bold the items that you’ve actually done.  If you do this, I’d love to read it, so make sure you link here or comment so I know to visit your blog!

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars (if being in a tent counts – if not then I haven’t )

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 (not as cool as it seems)

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 (in Scotland, no less!)

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (ridden in an imported Venetian gondola in fake canals at the Hyatt at Gainey Ranch… but surely that doesn’t count)

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise (actually have NO desire to go on a cruise, unless it’s a Windjammer Barefoot cruise)

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (does this mean European ancestors?  Or couple-of-generations-ago ancestors?  No to European, yes to the other.)

35. Seen an Amish community (although I’ve been in areas where you can see the Amish driving their buggies around)

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (This is tough.  I am SO PLEASED to not be dirt poor, like I was growing up, and in many ways, I am immensely satisfied.  Yet, there are a number of items I would like to buy that we simply don’t have the $$ for, so am I truly satisfied?  Perhaps not.)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing (just rock scrambling;  not true face climbing or anything like that)

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

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance (felt so lame doing so;  it was because I was visibly pregnant and involved in a small accident in which I was rear-ended.)

47. Had your portrait painted (does the silly portrait/caricature in pastels at Disneyland count??)

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 (not on purpose, of course)

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt (a small quilt;  made several of them… but never a full-sized quilt)

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades (camped in the Everglades, anyways)

75. Been fired from a job (so embarrassing… from a work/study job in college, even!  Had other responsibilities that conflicted with my job schedule, and my boss wouldn’t change my job schedule, so I kept being late.)

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 (the closest I’ve come is really enjoying episodes of The Naked Archaeologist — no, he’s not really naked — on History International channel…  the guy mostly covers Biblical archaeology.  Saw an episode last night, in fact!!)

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 (does slaughtering chickens count?  I didn’t chop off their heads, but I did about everything else.  Or fishing, then gutting the fish?  Does that count?  I’ve done that a billion times.)

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous (quasi-famous, I guess)

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 (no, but I flew over it while flying in to Salt Lake City!)

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee