Coming home after a week of holidays in my home country (Happy New Year, btw!) I found yet another reminder from Natmag Rodale to remind me that a regular reader like me doesn’t usually lapse the renewal of a subscription (yadeeyadeeya).
I promised myself to try to be more clear and straight-forward this year (no, that’s not really true, but in this particular situation I really did want to), so I sent them a mail – again! – that didn’t really leave any room for misunderstandings.
But to get on a more positive note, I copy-pasted this list from here and decided to give it a go myself… It’s a list of to-dos / want-to-dos (italic) / have-dones (bold) which apparently is circulating in blogolonia, so I can’t leave it undone.
- Started my own blog
- Slept under the stars
- Played in a band
- Visited Hawaii
- Watched a meteor shower
- Given more than I can afford to charity
- Been to Disneyland/world
- Climbed a mountain
- Held a praying mantis
- Sung a solo
- Bungee jumped
- Visited Paris
- Watched lightning at sea
- Taught myself an art from scratch
- Adopted a child
- Had food poisoning
- Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
- Grown my own vegetables
- Seen the Mona Lisa in France
- Slept on an overnight train
- Had a pillow fight
- Hitchhiked (unfortunately no one picked us up, so we ended up calling someone to pick us up anyway *LOL*)
- Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
- Built a snow fort
- Held a lamb
- Gone skinny dipping
- Run a marathon
- Ridden in a gondola in Venice
- Seen a total eclipse
- Watched a sunrise or sunset (over and over again…)
- Hit a home run
- Been on a cruise
- Seen Niagara Falls in person
- Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
- Seen an Amish community
- Taught myself a new language
- Had enough money to be truly satisfied (do you need money for that, really?)
- Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
- Gone rock climbing
- Seen Michelangelo’s David
- Sung karaoke (unfortunately for me and for everyone around, except for the guys at my bachelor’s party; they loved me singing I’m a barbie-girl all dressed up…)
- Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
- Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
- Visited Africa
- 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
- Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
- Kissed in the rain
- Played in the mud (every self-respecting kid should’ve!)
- Gone to a drive-in theater
- Been in a movie (hmmm… does a tv commercial count? Otherwise it’ll have to be italic, because I would definitely like to give it a go!)
- 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 (I guess this also counts for other kinds of cookies?)
- Gone whale watching
- Got flowers for no reason
- Donated blood, platelets or plasma (don’t really have a choice when your better half is a research scientist…)
- Gone sky diving
- Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
- Bounced a check
- Flown in a helicopter
- Saved a favorite childhood toy
- Visited the Lincoln Memorial
- Eaten caviar
- Pieced a quilt
- Stood in Times Square
- Toured the Everglades
- Been fired from a job
- 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
- Visited the Vatican
- Bought a brand new car
- Walked in Jerusalem
- Had my picture in a newspaper
- 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
- Met someone famous
- Joined a book club
- Lost a loved one
- Had a baby
- Seen the Alamo in person
- Swam in the Great Salt Lake
- Been involved in a law suit
- Owned a cell phone (doh!)
- Been stung by a bee
- Ridden an elephant
Yep, true… Forgot about that one… Fixed now 🙂
As far as you’ve told me, you’ve taken a ride in the ambulance – althouh you could not remember any of it. ;c) And sorry about the blood tapping…