Rules:
- Everyone uses this same list of 99 Things.
- Feel free to add editorial comments (mine are in square brackets).
- Change the font of each item according to the legend below.
- That's it! Simple, really.
Things I’ve already done: boldface
Things I want to do: italics
Things I haven’t done and don’t want to: plain text
99 Things
- started your own blog [obviously]
- slept under the stars [lots of tenting, but not open-air, yet]
- played in a band [see here]
- visited Hawaii
- watched a meteor shower [the Perseids, among others]
- given more than you can afford to charity
- been to Disneyland/world [will probably happen, but I'm not enthusiastic]
- climbed a mountain [Snowdon, in Wales; and also one in the Gaspé Peninsula]
- held a praying mantis [seen one up close, though]
- sang a solo [ugh; with the aforementioned band - audio evidence right here (mp3 format)]
- bungee jumped [no thanks]
- visited Paris [twice (once shown here), would happily go again]
- watched a lightning storm at sea
- taught yourself an art from scratch [digital fractals, among others]
- adopted a child
- had food poisoning
- walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
- grown your own vegetables
- seen the Mona Lisa in France [I've been in the lobby of the Louvre - that's as close as I got]
- slept on an overnight train
- had a pillow fight
- hitch hiked [no thanks]
- taken a sick day when you’re not ill [kind of depends on your definition of "ill"]
- built a snow fort
- held a lamb
- gone skinny dipping [in the middle of the night, in a freezing cold lake in the Laurentian mountains]
- run a marathon [again, no thanks]
- ridden a gondola in Venice
- seen a total eclipse
- watched a sunrise or sunset [both; here's one]
- hit a home run [will never happen, not enough upper body strength]
- been on a cruise
- seen Niagara Falls in person [a few times]
- visited the birthplace of your ancestors [some of them, anyway]
- seen an Amish community
- taught yourself a new language [I'm assuming rudimentary html doesn't count]
- had enough money to be truly satisfied [sad to say, will never happen]
- seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person [yes please]
- gone rock climbing [at Rattlesnake Point]
- seen Michelangelo’s David in person
- sung karaoke [not in a million, billion years, unless I'm rewarded by #37 above]
- seen Old Faithful geyser erupt in person
- bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
- visited Africa
- walked on a beach by moonlight
- been transported in an ambulance [no thanks, unless it's a better option than the available alternatives at the time]
- had your portrait painted
- gone deep sea fishing [for mackerel, in England]
- seen the Sistine Chapel in person
- been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris [didn't go all the way to the top either time I was there]
- gone scuba diving or snorkeling
- kissed in the rain [almost certainly, although I can't pinpoint a specific occasion]
- played in the mud
- gone to a drive-in theatre [the one near my childhood home has been replaced with a grocery store]
- been in a movie [been on local TV though]
- 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'm hoping my daughter will take care of this one for me]
- gone whale watching [yes, if dolphins, or watching from the shore, count]
- gotten flowers for no reason
- donated blood [many times]
- gone sky diving [no thanks]
- visited a Nazi concentration camp
- bounced a cheque
- flown in a helicopter
- saved a favourite childhood toy
- visited the Lincoln memorial
- eaten caviar
- pieced a quilt
- stood in Times Square
- toured the Everglades
- been fired from a job [a summer job in high school; it sucked anyway]
- seen the changing of the guard in London
- broken a bone [not to my knowledge]
- been on a speeding motorcycle [does a scooter count?]
- seen the Grand Canyon in person
- published a book [I co-published a poetry chapbook once, but it was self-funded, so hardly counts]
- visited the Vatican
- bought a brand new car [this one, and also this one; but not this one, unfortunately]
- walked in Jerusalem
- had your picture in the newspaper
- read the entire Bible [I'm not religious, but it seems like something I should do out of interest]
- visited the White House
- killed and prepared an animal for eating
- had chickenpox
- saved someone’s life
- sat on a jury [not yet, but I'm on the list]
- met someone famous [two Nobel laureates, and a couple of minor actors and TV personalities]
- joined a book club
- lost a loved one
- had a baby [twice, if being a father counts]
- seen the Alamo in person
- swum in the Great Salt Lake
- been involved in a law suit
- owned a cell phone [I was a late starter though; my first was one of these]
- been stung by a bee [probably; wasps, certainly]
So that gives us totals of:
35 Things I have done
29 Things I would like to do
37 Things I have not done, and could do without.
Your turn, if you will.
13 comments:
Already dunnit:
http://www.moshblog.me.uk/2008/12/21/99-things/
I saw that Wyldwoods "borrowed" it from you.
What goes around, comes around. And around. And around. I guess.
Oddly, I haven't seen this one before. Will have to do it.
MUST.DO.IT.
/zombie mode
WV - warbool - Fits in with the karaoke question.
At the beginning of December I did a similar meme that I pinched from VioletSky. They're fun to do, aren't they?
Since Farty is, um, encouraging me to post something, I'll try to get to this this weekend.
You know, the word verification was more fun before they started making them actual words. I'm just saying...
Debi - warning: it took a lot of Mr. Fartying around with formatting (italics, bold and so forth) to get this done.
*toddles off to read Pinklea's answers
I am proficient with the < b> and < i>, so it will only be about time...
Interesting. Very bloke-like.
Damned by faint praise, or something.
Hello Zoe, Happy New Year at ya.
Mine are up...
Btw, just listened to your solo. You all weren't too bad...
I'm so lucky to have made it to many places you haven't yet. But two really do stand out in my memory - the Grand Canyon (it's awesome) and the Vatican. I was there one Easter Sunday when El Papa appeared and spoke to the throng. Even to the non-religious, it was a moving event, primarily for me because an elderly couple had traveled from their mountain village in Italy for the first time, just to see him. They'd been married 60+ years, and were dressed in their very best clothes. They held hands. The old man told me after seeing the Pope that he and his wife could 'die happy now'.
Happy new year, R!
Funny how we have similar reactions in parallel; I had come on the meme through another channel, but our reaction to the home run was nearly identical. I don't want to bother remembering html syntax, so here it is:
http://network.nature.com/people/etchevers/blog/2009/01/06/its-too-early-in-the-year-to-be-uninspired
:-)
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