Jamie over at Duward Discussion has posted this meme. It’s not unlike the 100 Things to do Before you Die on my Zen Mischief website, so I thought I’d give it a go!
To participate, just copy and paste the list into your own blog, and color all of the things YOU have done (mine are in blue, but use any colour you like). Things you haven’t done will be in black. Add some commentary if you wish. Please add a pointed back to here and/or add a comment pointing from here to your posting. And tag others if you wish.
Enjoy!
- Started my own blog – you’re looking at it!
- Slept under the stars – it’s amazing the things one did when one was young
- Played in a band – for the school play when I was 18
- Visited Hawaii
- Watched a meteor shower – more than once
- Given more than I can afford to charity
- Been to Disneyland/world
- Climbed a mountain – something else I did in my youth, in Scotland and the English Lake District
- Held a praying mantis
- Sung a solo – at the school carol service when I was 18
- Bungee jumped – no and I’m unlikely to!
- Visited Paris – several times
- Watched lightning at sea
- Taught myself an art from scratch
- Adopted a child
- Had food poisoning – who hasn’t?
- Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
- Grown my own vegetables
- Seen the Mona Lisa in France – failed this too, despite several visits to Paris
- Slept on an overnight train – another youthful adventure; returning from holiday in Cornwall with my then girlfriend when we were students
- Had a pillow fight
- Hitchhiked – more of the stupidities of youth!
- Taken a sick day when you’re not ill – but don’t tell anyone; it was a long time ago
- Built a snow fort
- Held a lamb
- Gone skinny dipping – surprisingly for a confirmed nudist I’ve never managed this
- Run a Marathon
- Ridden in a gondola in Venice
- Seen a total eclipse – of the moon; sadly never a total solar eclipse (but several partial ones)
- Watched a sunrise or sunset – both more than once
- Hit a home run
- Been on a cruise
- Seen Niagara Falls in person
- Visited the birthplace of my ancestors – yep, several of my ancestors were born in and around New Romney, Kent; been there several times; next visit I must look for the graves
- Seen an Amish community
- Taught myself a new language – when I was younger I tried teaching myself Esperanto and shorthand (failed at both) and I’ve learnt several programming languages from the manuals
- Had enough money to be truly satisfied
- Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
- Gone rock climbing – another idiot thing I did when young
- Seen Michelangelo’s David
- Sung karaoke
- Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
- Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
- Visited Africa – no and I’ll opt not to, please
- Walked on a beach by moonlight
- Been transported in an ambulance
- Had my portrait painted
- Gone deep sea fishing
- Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
- Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris – despite several visits to Paris I’ve not done this
- Gone scuba diving or snorkeling – water and I don’t mix; it’s as much as you can do to get me in a swimming pool
- Kissed in the rain
- Played in the mud – find me a kid that hasn’t!
- Gone to a drive-in
- Been in a movie
- Visited the Great Wall of China
- Started a business
- Taken a martial arts class
- Visited Russia
- Served at a soup kitchen
- Sold Girl Scout Cookies – done lots of other things to do with scouting tho’
- Gone whale watching
- Got flowers for no reason
- Donated blood, platelets or plasma
- Gone sky diving – there have to be easier ways to commit suicide
- Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
- Bounced a check
- Flown in a helicopter – I’d like to tho’
- Saved a favorite childhood toy
- Visited the Lincoln Memorial
- Eaten Caviar – and I don’t care if I never do so again
- Pieced a quilt
- Stood in Times Square
- Toured the Everglades
- Been fired from a job – came pretty bloody close; I resigned “under duress”; another stupidity of one’s youth
- Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
- Broken a bone
- Been on a speeding motorcycle
- Seen the Grand Canyon in person
- Published a book – if being joint editor of some conference proceedings counts
- Visited the Vatican
- Bought a brand new car
- Walked in Jerusalem
- Had my picture in the newspaper – in the local newspaper when young and in the scouts; I still have a copy too
- Read the entire Bible
- Visited the White House
- Killed and prepared an animal for eating
- Had chickenpox
- Saved someone’s life
- Sat on a jury – it was interesting too!
- Met someone famous – does author Ian Rankin count?
- Joined a book club
- Lost a loved one
- Had a baby – I somehow think I’m the wrong gender for that as well as being a bit old now
- Seen the Alamo in person
- Swam in the Great Salt Lake
- Been involved in a law suit
- Owned a cell phone – I’m on at least number 8, but then I have had a mobile for something like 15 years, and I currently have three in working order!
- Been stung by a bee
- Ridden an elephant
I’m not going to tag anyone, join in if you like!
Last night we had a little celebration. Only a little celebration over a bottle of wine followed by an early-ish night. For why? Because Noreen had hunted back through her old diaries (who has the time and discipline for these things? I never did) and discovered that we first properly went out together on 24 November 1978. I said I thought it was earlier, like late October, but she insists on the veracity of her pretty comprehensive journal from those days. So I figured I’d say “thank you” and not argue. 
