A picture from my Japan 2006 photo albumAlejna of Collecting Tokens has done it again: i.e., posted about something that made me want to follow suit. In this case, it's a meme that, in her words, is "a big old checklist of things done in one's life". As she went on to explain, the idea is to go through the list of 150 items and bold the 'done' things. So, while I'm in a revelatory mood, here goes on my part with regards to disclosing what among the list I've already gone and done (and, for good measure, I'm going to italicise the top ten things on the list I haven't done which I'd like to!):-
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
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
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
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
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
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched whales
45. Stolen a sign
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 (I do this pretty much every day here in Hong Kong!)
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
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
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
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 a television news programs as an "expert"
83. Gotten flowers for no reason (0r, at least, no reason that I can think of!)
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
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
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (Boy, have I ever!)
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 (Does one with a 1.4 million circulation qualify? Trust so)
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
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
118. Ridden a horse
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
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read (Don't quite understand this item)
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
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
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
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
So... does that make for 60 things on the list that I've done? In any event, hope that the list was even half as interesting for you to read as it was for me to go through! Also, if any of these blog's readers decide to go ahead and do this meme on their own blogs, do please alert me to that fact. :)
10 comments:
What is this, Over-achievers Anonymous? Give all us middle-aged slackers a break, will ya? I got enough stuff to keep me depressed, thank you.
Hi leo86 --
Hahaha re your comments! I guess it must be cultural but by the standards of a lot of people I know, many of the listed activities are themselves considered slacker-type ones!!! :D
I'm so glad you played along. It doesn't surprise me that you can check of so many of the items. (And I bet you could make a pretty amazing list of things you've done that aren't this random list.) How great that you have links to posts on quite a few of them, too!
You've seriously never changed a baby's diaper? Huh. You probably didn't do much babysitting. (Not that you're missing out. It's just that I've changed so many diapers in the past couple years that it's a bit alien to me the thought of never having changed a diaper. Of course, by the time Phoebe arrived, I'd gone roughly two decades between diaper changes...)
And you've never made cookies from scratch? I wish we could get together some time, hang out, watch movies, and bake chocolate chip cookies.
I also share your desire to ride in a hot air balloon.
But enough about the things you haven't done, I have some particular curiosity about items 26, 57, 84. (Well, I'm also curious about 68, too. But that seems nosy of me.)
Hi Alejna --
"And I bet you could make a pretty amazing list of things you've done that aren't this random list."
On a related note: must admit to thinking of starting a meme based on exactly that premise... So, if I do, would you be game to participate? ;)
"You've seriously never changed a baby's diaper?"
Yep! And yeah, I tended to do more child- than babysitting... ;b
"And you've never made cookies from scratch?"
Not that I recall -- no!
"I wish we could get together some time, hang out, watch movies, and bake chocolate chip cookies."
Yes, well... maybe some day... :)
"I have some particular curiosity about items 26, 57, 84."
#26: Too many to relate -- but I used to have a phobia of public speaking. So when called to, say, read an essay in front of a class... and this got made worse by a well-meaning's friend trying to help me get over the phobia by asking me to imagine everyone in front of me being naked!!!
#57: The Bionic Woman was my choice of superhero(ine) to pretend to be when I was a child... ;)
#84: Mainly primary school plays and stuff like that. But I also once gave a karate demonstration on an open-air stage at the Royal Australian Air Force base that used to be in Penang! ;b
As for #68: Yeah, well... ;S
I'm going to try it.
Hi Willow --
Give me a holler once your response is up on your blog! :)
Mine's up.
Hi Willow --
Went and took a look earlier today -- interesting, and I'm quite envious that you've seen the Northern Lights! :)
I sometimes catch myself skipping when I am walking and in an even mildly good mood. I think that is important. I haven't led a revolution in a Third World country yet, but it could happen ;)
Hi Vrint --
Thanks for those revelations... I think! ;b
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