Things I Have And Have Not Done
I found the following over at The Crazy Rants Of Samantha Burns who found it at Diane’s Stuff, who got it from Skye’s who got it from Renaissance Blogger. The idea is simple: copy, bold the things you’ve done, and post. So I’m doing it for the heck of it. Post it on your blog if you wish. Comments in [brackets].
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain [When I was in the Boy Scouts at Camp Philmont in New Mexico. I didn't enjoy it. I wore ill-fitting hiking boots which tore up my feet.]
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 [Always with my wife.]
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 [I'm an insomniac and watching the sun rise is something I've done on numerous occassions, but not in a romantic way.]
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game [Well, I don't know how "huge" is defined in this instance, but I've attended several professional and collegiate sports games including, but not limited to, Mississippi State, Florida State, New Orleans Saints, Tallahassee Tiger Sharks and Harlem Globetrotters.]
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables [Long time ago when I was a kid. My brother and I planted some veggies in Momma's garden and got some good food out of it.]
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars [I was in the Boy Scouts for goodness sakes. Of course I've slept under the stars.]
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower [Saw the Leonid meteor shower with my wife out in the countryside several years ago. Great experience.]
23. Gotten drunk on champagne [Well, more tipsy rather than out-and-out drunk. I've never been much of a drinker and now am unable to drink any alcohol at all.]
24. Given more than you can afford to charity [Couldn't help myself the times I did it. But God got us through each time.]
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope [Saw Halley's comet (more like fuzzball than comet) while I was in college. Not impressed.]
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight [A high school football team moment with spaghetti. Momma was not pleased.]
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight [A nice college memory. Also when I was a wee kid, too. A fond memory with my Daddy.]
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can [I spilled some scalding hot liquid on my bare chest as I got it out of the microwave. Hurt like hell and I screamed briefly at the highest pitch possible. Didn't know I had it in me.]
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse [A solar eclipse during the summer I attended Jones County Junior College. All classes went outside to have a looksy.]
34. Ridden a roller coaster [Ahhh...I love old-fashioned wooden coasters. The Starliner at the Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City Beach, Florida was my first. Alas, the park is no longer there but the coaster will live on. It was disassembled and will soon be reassembled at Cypress Gardens in Florida.]
35. Hit a home run [Only once when I played city league baseball. I was a good hitter, but for some reason never seemed able to hit the long ball.]
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment [Key phrase: just for a moment. I really don't like much about my life.]
39. Had two hard drives for your computer [Have two right now.]
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk [I was in a fraternity. It came with the territory.]
42. Had amazing friends [I don't know how the author of this little exercise defines "amazing" but I think my friends are quite nifty and amazing. You know who you are.]
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign [Uhhh..the statutes of limitations HAVE run out by now, right? In case not, I'd rather not go into details.]
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip [I attended college. Road-trips came with the territory.]
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach [I did so on more one occasion with my wonderful wife.]
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 [Two scenarios where that had to be done. First, there used to be a restaurant in Mendenhall, Mississippi called The Revolving Tables Restaurant which had these huge circular tables with a large lazy-suzan on top which the staff kept filled with good country cookin'. You served yourself at the table but the tables were so large you shared them with other guests. The restaurant was the first in the U.S. to serve meals buffet-style and on lazy-susans. Many restaurants have copied the idea, but it originated with the The Revolving Tables Restaurant in Mendenhall, Mississippi. Each of their tables seats about a dozen patrons. Sadly, the place closed several years ago after being in business for over 85 years. The other scenario routinely took place while I attended Florida State University. At the time they had only one cafeteria for the 65,000+ students who attended. The cafeteria only seats about 250 and was only open certain times of the day. You do the math. It was always over crowded well past the point of fire codes and you always shared a table with strangers if you didn't want to eat standing up.]
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero [When I was a little kid, I pretended to be Spiderman in my red-and-blue pj's. My brother had blue pj's so he was Batman. We had good imaginations.]
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day [I suffer from depression and before I start medication, there were times, especially during my college days, where I wouldn't leave my bed.]
60. Played touch football [Lots of times in my younger days.]
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain [Kissed my wife in the rain.]
63. Played in the mud [Even had high school football practice in the mud. Loads of messy fun. Again, Momma was not pleased.]
64. Played in the rain [As long as it wasn't lightning during the rain, my parents didn't mind me playing in the rain when I was a little kid.]
65. Gone to a drive-in theater [The Lakeside Drive-In in Starkville, Mississippi when I was a college student and The Chief Drive-In in Cleveland, Mississippi when I was a little kid. Both have long disappeared.]
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken [And I'm still married to her to this day.]
69. Toured ancient sites [An Indian burial mound in NW Mississippi when I was a kid.]
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight [Okay, geek admission here: I got hooked on playing D&D when I was in college and continued for about 5 years after college. I've grown out of it.]
72. Gotten married [21 years when June, 2007 rolls around.]
73. Been in a movie [I happened to be in the right place at the right time in Laurel, Mississippi when they were filming scenes for a made-for-TV movie starring LeVar Burton as a Detroit Tigers baseball player. The name of the movie is "One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story." They needed extras to sit in the stands in period costume for a baseball game that took place when the character Mr. Burton played was much younger. Unfortunately, all those scenes I was in were cut.]
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. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage [Did some stage magic as a teen. That's about it. Nothing spectacular. I was no Lance Burton.]
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark [Tried it. It wasn't bad.]
88. Kissed on the first date [And she eventually became my wife. Cool, huh?]
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house [Living in it now.]
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 [Another weird point of my teenage and college years. I saw it in theaters over 350 times. I lost count long, long ago. It's not the same anymore since it's available on DVD. I did the part of "Eddie" incidentally. Not too many choices for fat guys.]
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking [I do that a lot.]
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 [I did that the first time several years ago while taking Redux which was pulled from the market by the FDA. I gained it all back and then some. In March of 2006, I had gastric bypass surgery and have lost over 140 pounds so far. I'm shooting for about 80 or more pounds to go. This time around I'm keeping it off.]
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 [Broke a bone in my hand a couple of years ago. Funny thing...it didn't hurt that much.]
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol [My Daddy took my brother and I hunting a lot when I was a kid. Fishing was more my thing.]
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse [Only once when I was a little kid visiting my Uncle & Aunt in Winter Haven, Florida. I don't remember much about it anymore.]
119. Had major surgery [See my mention of the gastric bypass surgery above. Also had my tonsils out when I was a kid and also had oral surgery to dig out my wisdom teeth when I was a teen.]
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 [Did that a couple of times. Once was due to some medications that were put in my system after a trip to the hospital emergency room. It sure didn't feel that long, but my wife tells me it was.]
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 [Tried it. I wasn't impressed. If raw fish was the only food available, then I'd eat it again. But in a restaurant, I'm ordering something else.]
128. Had your picture in the newspaper [Yup. On several occasions in small-town newspapers.]
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about [I think so although I couldn't tell you any specific examples offhand.]
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach [I'm the official bug-killer in this family.]
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes [Tried it. Again, another food that didn't impress me.]
134. Read The Iliad – and the Odyssey [A college thing. Didn't care for either one.]
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating [Did so with my Daddy hunting and also on fishing trips.]
137. Skipped all your school reunions [I have absolutely no interest in going to any of my high school reunions. Too many bad memories. Plus I doubt if any of my classmates in my graduating class -- all thirteen of 'em -- could give a tinker's damn about me anyway.]]
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language [Only if email counts. They didn't speak English, but could read and write it a bit.]
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 [20 years in radio. Started in 1976 when I was 13 years old. Who knows, I may do it again someday.]
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
Boy that was lengthy. Whaddya think?
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