Things I've done...

Every week while I am away from my computer I think of things to blog about. And then when I am home they disappear from my brain. I am such a horrible blogger! I know I wanted to write one about how I appreciate my parents more now a days... Because as times have been a little tough financially these past two years and my parents hear me talk about cheap dinner ideas or asking for dinners out as gift ideas and they'll say "that reminds me...when you were a kid - we did *blank* to save money". I NEVER noticed we were short on money when I was a kid. Before last year, I would have said we were always comfortably middle class. Thanks Mom & Dad for keeping my childhood worry free and yet opening my eyes as an adult on how a family can go thru some lean years and be happy in the process!

And now for something a little fun to let you blog readers know more about me. Anything in bold I have done. I might add a little to explain the event. *whoever wrote this, some are pretty boring but most hold a story. You can copy & paste to your blog if you want to show how many of these 99 things you've done in your life:

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band *marching band counts right? right?!
4. Visited Hawaii *I was 14, would love to go back as an adult
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (Disney World) *I was five, I only remember what I've seen in pics
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightening storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch *is trombone an art? LOL, but also drawing
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill *Just last Friday :)
24. Built a snow fort *growing up in Chicago - this is a must!
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping *And was watched by friends ex-military neighbor with his night vision goggles. He told us later that week. CREEPY!!
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors *Barham, England...very small town but very cool to see the remains of my family castle.
35. Seen an Amish community *When I worked for CBS in Iowa- I tried to sell the television commercials! LOL had to explain how funny that was!
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied *2004, ah it was a great year!
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke *used to do this all the time when I was single. Try to get the gals to go out doing it once a year now that we're all old & married :P
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
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 *twice, yuck!
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater *saw ET at a drive in when I was five
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
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check *sophomore year of college. Thanks Dad for saving me! Most embarrassing thing ever!
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
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
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper *for swimming in HS
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life *Lifeguarding, I saved a seven year old that jumped off the high dive but didn't know how to swim.
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous *at NATPE, I met Will & Grace,Luey Anderson, Hal Spark, Alex Tribeck, and mini me. Maybe a few others but that's off the top of my head.
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo *gecko on my hip
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee *I'm allergic, that is one of my ambulance rides.