Thursday, January 8, 2009

The things I've done, and the many I haven't

I recently noted that my bold type doesn't show up here so now it's green.

My friend Denise at Full Nest posted this so I thought I'd give it a try to. If you're interested in posting yours, copy and paste then set those that you've done in bold and those you haven't to regular type.

1. Started your own blog (obviously)
2. Slept under the stars (I'm sure I've done this with Girl Scouts)
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii (way too awesome)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world (ummmm, where do I live? Where does my mom work? ;-)
8. Climbed a mountain. (see #4 for most recent)
9. Held a praying mantis (3rd grade project)
No--10. Sang a solo (um, never. Most recent was 10 years ago when a 3 year old patient of mine insisted and we were alone)
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris (and not interested)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child (however, I have a neice & nephew adopted from Vietnam)
16. Had food poisoning (hasn't everyone?)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (life's not complete without this one)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (no, but I did a Red Eye)
21. Had a pillow fight (this one's ridiculous--everyone has!)
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (see #21, last time was for a job interview!)
24. Built a snow fort (born just south of Chicago)

25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (can't wait!)
29 Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (and you haven't really been on one until you've been on a high end one like Regent)
33 Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (which is weird since I've passed nearby so many)
36. Taught yourself a new language (enough Spanish to order and make small talk to a omlette cook in the Dominican Republic--where I strangely started thinking in Spanish and was only there a week)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (as brief as it was)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person (can't wait!)
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41 Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45 Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance (dang slippery, potholed parking lot in the rain! All was well)
47. Had your portrait painted (more like caricatured at Disney World when I was 5)

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 (can't say I was outside in it!)
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (now we can't even find one!)
55. Been in a movie (do home movies count?)

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 (and ordered some today!)
62. Gone whale watching (from my hotel room balcony in Cabo--going again next week!)
63. Gotten flowers for no reason (to me, but to Jay it was just so he could tell his roomates that he's gotten flowers for every girlfriend he ever had)
64 Donated blood, platelets, or plasma (and need to go again)

65. Gone sky diving
66 Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67 Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter (used to every summer in my hometown)
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial (does waving to it from the car count?)
71. Eaten Caviar (and don't get the attraction. Boring and salty)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades (more like drove through in the super dark night--Alligator Alley, Rt 27, can be pretty scary!)
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone (nose and finger)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79 Seen the Grand Canyon in person (if flying over about to land on the way to Hawaii via Arizona counts)
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (2--my current van and my old Chevy)
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 (summer between Kindergarten and 1st grade)
89. Saved someone’s life (my patient's anti-depressant wasn't given to her and she was acutely suicidal and told me her plan to find a way to jump out the window despite her recent knee replacement. I paged her MD 911)
91. Met someone famous (Karel Husa--look him up; Also went to high school with Shonda Rhimes, and Rodney Harrison of the Patriots)

92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby (2 even!)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit (testified as an expert witness)
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee