in the spirit of one's blog giving others insight into the writer, I am posting this meme, borrowed from urban-urchin. Items in bold are ones I have done. I am amending the exercise to italicise those I really want to do. Those in red are those I am actively avoiding. Those in green I kinda-wanta try but can't make up my mind or haven't conquered that fear yet.
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 (is that allowed any more?) substitute the Statue of Liberty and I can highlight.
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 (I am tempted to italicise this one)
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 (lotsa newly born kittens, though)
33. seen a total eclipse
34. ridden a roller coaster (and will continue to do so every opportunity I get)
35. hit a home run
36. danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. adopted an accent for an entire day (does total immersive language school count?)
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 (and I don't mean myself)
42. had amazing friends
43. danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. watched whales
45. stolen a sign (I thought it was a law that you had to steal any sign that has your name on it)
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 than 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 (actually I should substitute vinyl records here)
57. pretended to be a superhero (when I was a kid we did this all of the time. I am assuming that this meme applies to adulthood - but I don't really know why)
58. sung karaoke
59. lounged around in bed all day
60. played touch football
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 (this is one of the definitions of summer)
66. visited the great wall of china
67. started a business
68. fallen in love and not had your heart broken (I wish I knew how to do this, seems to me you can't do one without the other - no one is perfect)
69. toured ancient sites
70. taken a martial arts class
71. played d&d for more than 6 hours straight (but not since that summer in college)
72. gotten married
73. been in a movie (I almost was, but I had to work the days they were doing the "cattle call" for extras.)
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. gotten flowers for no reason (I have a sweet wife!)
84. performed on stage (not since I was in the 5th grade when I was Santa)
85. been to las vegas (I've been to Reno - not vegas.)
86. recorded music
87. eaten shark
88. kissed on the first date (I don't remember, the last first date I had was almost 22 years ago. - but back then I would have if I could!)
89. gone to thailand
90. bought a house
91. been in a combat zone
92. buried one/both 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. passed out cold (I have had an alcoholic black out - again during my college years)
99. taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. picked up and moved to another city to just start over (I could probably write a book....)
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 accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. wrote articles for a large publication
106. lost over 100 pounds (collectively - then maybe)
107. held someone while they were having a flashback
108. piloted an airplane
109. touched a stingray
110. broken someone’s heart (see comment for #68)
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 facial part pierced other than your ears
116. fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
sidenote where is 118?
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 (I don't know, but I'm so damned opinionated and stubborn I might have just from sheer tenacity.)
130. gone back to school
131. parasailed
132. touched a cockroach (I didn't want to and hadn't planned to, but the roach didn't ask me first)
133. eaten fried green tomatoes
134. read The Iliad
135. selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read (I just have to get finished with the list of junk authors I read today first)
136. killed and prepared an animal for eating (technically I have, I used to hunt and fish with my granddaddy when I was in my adolescence - but since I stipulated at the beginning that this list supposes adulthood and adult choices, I have not highlighted it).
137. skipped all your school reunions (There aren't more than one or maybe two people I went to high school with I would care to see)
138. communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (I need to pee in sign language is fairly easily understood by people in all parts of the world)
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 (for as many I have taken apart and put back together and for those I rebuilt for work you'd think I'd've done this for myself by now)
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 (they are pretty big on that at basic training)
149. caused a car accident (it was only a fender-bender, but I was at fault.)
150. saved someone’s life