A Bucket List of Sorts

I got this survey from Ciara and Enya's mom's blog, a blog chronicling the lives of twin micropreemies in Germany.

The rules are that you are to bold/change the color on each of the below that apply to you, then tag 4 more people and let me know when you’ve posted!


1. Started your own blog (if you can call this a Blog)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band (high school band counts right?)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (not professionally or anything)
9. Held a praying mantis (I can't be certain, but I wasn't always terrified of bugs)
10. Sang a solo
12. Visited Paris (twice)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (who hasn't?)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (Dude. I really did. Tomatoes, corn, carrots, onions and cucumbers. Once.)
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (There were sooo many people in that room!)
20. Slept in an overnight train (on the way to Italy)
21. Had a pillow fight (yeah...NAKED!)
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (Gasp! Of course not!)
24. Built a snow fort (me and my brother did this a lot when we were younger)
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (once you get past the fish smell, Venice is quite lovely)
29. Seen a total eclipse (I think we did at school once)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (I've seen the sunrise, but I sure as hell wasn't happy about it)
31. Hit a home run (Hells yeah!)
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (the Canadian side is sooo much cooler than the U.S. side. Go figure)
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (Does TV count?)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person (That thing looks about ready to fall any day now)
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David (And he is magnificent!)
41. Sung karaoke (Only when drunk and by force)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (Yep, he's faithful alright)
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person (Pretty amazing actually)
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (twice)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain (what a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. Hmm...I think that's "singing in the rain". Oh well)
53. Played in the mud (routinely as a child)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (Dude. Girl Scout Camp was the bomb-diggity)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason (Thanks Andrew)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (Dachau in Germany)
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (Yeah...like ALL of them)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London (numerous times--never gets old)
77. Broken a bone (only fingers; we won't discuss the broken finger from last New Year's Eve)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (Quite frightening, but cool)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican (It would be hard to see the Sistine Chapel in person without visiting the Vatican don't you think?)
82. Bought a brand new car (a Grand Am GT and a Mazda RX8)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (several times I think for softball and cheerleading. Oh! And one time Jodi and I were in the newspaper for Jump Rope for Heart or whatever it was called)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chicken pox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (Gary Busey is my ex-great uncle, Jake Busey is my second cousin or first cousin once removed or second removed once cousin, first cousin seconded, or whatever)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person (Boy howdy)
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day (many times--I can be quite single-minded when given the chance)

And no, I don't know what happened to numbers 11, 54, 64 and 65. Maybe they started a band together and went on tour.

I'm not tagging anyone in particular. I just couldn't think of anything to blog about today so I thought it would be fun to do another random survey.