A List, not like The "A" List Just a list of stuff

I found this list on another blog. It has nothing to do with weight loss but it will allow me to mark each activity I have completed, which is thrillingly close to filling in a form.  The activities in green are ones I have done, red ones are activities I NEVER want to do, pink are ones that I don’t understand and blue are ones that I would do if the opportunity presented itself. This is a very involved blog post so please appreciate all the effort I am putting into this and recognize that I am fully aware that it only interests me. It's my blog, I'll bore you if want to. 

100 Things To Do That Make Life Exciting, Fulfilling or Better

Than the Lives of People Who Haven’t Done These Things.

Sleep under the stars – when I was young, before we had central air, we would sleep on patio furniture or on the deck when it was really hot.

Play in a band -- I, uh, I don't... I mean, no

Visit Hawaii

Watch a meteor shower – I did this the last time I went camping. It was on Mt. Washington. I returned home to the news that Elvis had died. I haven’t gone camping since out of concern for the well-being of cultural icons.

Give more than you can afford to a charity – Of course I have, “altruistic” is my middle name.

Go to Disneyland/Disneyworld

Climb a mountain – I don’t think I climbed all the way to the top of Mt. Washington but some of it, I had to see the meteor shower, and get water out of a stream, and go potty outside.

Hold a praying mantis – wha???

Sing a solo—it doesn’t say in front of an audience so I have definitely done this.

Bungee jump—no just no. See bungee cord breaking here.

Visit Paris – and watch Midnight in Paris because it is a lovely movie.

Watch a lightning storm at sea – this would involve being out on a boat at night in a storm, so no.

Teach yourself an art from scratch—I don’t really know what this means. I took up needlepointing but I went to a class so I guess that doesn’t count.

Adopt a child -- Never say never but I don't see this on the horizon but I would if needed.

Have food poisoning – Not sure why this is on the list but I have managed to pull this off. It’s not pleasant.

Walk to the top of the Statue of Liberty – I have been to the Statue of Liberty but it was not open for climbing to the top. I give myself a half point for this.

Grow your own vegetables – Yes I have. There is a garden tomato story involving Brigid that I may tell in the future to prove what a good (read: horrible) mother I am.

See the Mona Lisa in France – I don’t know where else you would see her unless they move the Louvre. I have seen the Mona Lisa, much smaller than I expected and surrounded by Japanese tourists taking pictures of it.

Sleep on an overnight train – I have slept in a couchette from Paris to the south of France and it was one of the best night’s sleep EVER. LOVED it!

Have a pillow fight – check.

Hitchhike -- I don't think so.

Take a sick day when you’re not ill – Duh.

Build a snow fort – I honestly don’t know if I have or not. Have I?

Hold a lamb – No but I’d love to and a baby pig. A piglet.

Go skinny dipping

Run a marathon – no, no I won’t do this.

Ride a gondola in Venice

See a total eclipse – I don’t know if this is a lunar eclipse, solar eclipse, eclipse of the heart, or what; but I have seen all of those things.

Watch a sunrise or sunset

Hit a home run – probably, I bet I have.

Go on a cruise – No, you’re not the boss of me. Do NOT go on a cruise, see here.

See Niagara Falls in person –

Visit the birthplace of your ancestors, as well as their burial places – I’m going to need some clarification on this one. How far back do you go for someone to be an “ancestor”?

See an Amish community

Teach yourself a new language – a new made up language or a language already in use?

Had enough money to be truly satisfied – Probably once for like an hour.

See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person – I think they (the people who created this list) could probably leave out the “in person”. Seeing these things in a Google search wouldn’t be very worthwhile or impressive.

See Michelangelo’s David – Doesn’t say if this needs to be in person or not.

Go rock climbing -- I could do this but I doubt I will.

Sing Karaoke –  I don't think I have and you’re welcome.

See Old Faithful geyser erupt

Buy a stranger a meal at a restaurant -- this reminds me of the distress I experience when I see old men eating alone in restaurants.

Visit Africa

Walk on a beach by moonlight

Go by ambulance – Yep. Did this after elective surgery and had a horrible reaction to the anesthesia.  Tummy tucks should not be day surgery.

Have your portrait painted -- I have had my portrait pastelled.

Go deep sea fishing – see cruises

See the Sistine Chapel in person

Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower

Go SCUBA diving or snorkeling – I’m not a good multi-tasking swimmer apparently because snorkeling was too difficult for me to master.

Kiss in the rain

Play in the mud – I’m guessing I have. Does gardening count?

Go to a drive in theater – my parents used to take me and my brother to the drive in in our pjs with our patchwork sleeping bags and we would lie in the way back of the station wagon for the show. That’s when we first saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Be in a movie

Visit the Great Wall of China – unless this can be a restaurant, I doubt I'm doing it.

Start a business – I got cards and letterhead made but the actual doing the business didn’t interest me as much but I did start it.

Take a martial arts class -- meh

Visit Russia – nyet

Serve at a soup kitchen

Sell Girl Scout Cookies – I was a Bluebird/Campfire girl as a child and even then I knew my limitations as a salesman. My mother had to buy my allotment of Campfire candy because I absolutely refused to sell candy door to door. My fear of rejection was quite powerful and it was to be years before I found therapy, not that I could do it to this day. I have stood outside Zupan's with my children who were selling Girl Scout cookies.

Go whale watching -- does this mean on the water or from the beach? I think we know what the water answer is.

Get flowers for no reason – I don’t know if this is receive flowers from someone else for no reason or buy flowers for no reason other than you want flowers. I think I’ve probably had both those things happen and I know I definitely buy me flowers for no reason.

Donate blood, platelets or plasma

Go sky diving – No.

Visit a Nazi concentration camp

Bounce a check – Duh

Fly in a helicopter – No!

Save a favorite childhood toy – can I save adult toys?

Visit the Lincoln Memorial

Eat caviar –

Piece a quilt – I did piece together an afghan that I knit, like a quilt afghan not the Taliban.

Stand in Times Square – much nicer now than when I first stood there in the 80s

Tour the Everglades

Be fired from a job – strangely enough, that’s only happened once

See the changing of the Guards (it's Guard but I didn’t write this) in London – as opposed to seeing the Changing of the Guard in Topeka.

Break a bone – check

Ride a speeding motorcycle -- No.

See the Grand Canyon in person

Publish a book

Visit the Vatican

Buy a brand new car

Walk in Jerusalem

Have your picture in the paper –

Read the entire Bible -- I tried this once and I made it to Leviticus (chapter 4, Jackson 5).

Visit the White House – check.

Kill and prepare an animal for eating – NO, I don’t want to wind up a vegetarian!

Have chickenpox

Save someone’s life -- I would totally do this

Sit on a jury

Meet someone famous

Join a book club

Lose a loved one -- I'm assuming this means have someone you love die, not just lose them like in a mall.

Have a baby –check

See the Alamo in person

Swim in the Great Salt Lake -- I guess I'd do this if I were with a big group of people and it would be awkward for me to refuse to do it.

Be involved in a lawsuit – I am involved in a class action suit right now!  It’s somebody against Netflix and I’m in line to get a cash settlement. My ship has come in!!!

Own a cell phone

Be stung by a bee

Read an entire book in one day