oh why not
Jul. 4th, 2008 09:31 amSure, why not.
- Bought everyone in the pub a drink
- Swam with wild dolphins
- Climbed a mountain
- Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
- Been inside the Great Pyramid
- Held a tarantula
- Taken a candlelit bath with someone
- Said I love you and meant it
- Hugged a tree
- Done a striptease (Never in public or for a crowd tho'. ^_^ )
- Bungee jumped
- Visited Paris
- Watched a lightning storm at sea
- Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise (Every year!)
- Seen the Northern Lights (At my house! And also not.)
- Gone to a huge sports game
- Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
- Grown and eaten your own vegetables
- Touched an iceberg
- Slept under the stars
- Changed a baby's diaper
- Taken a trip in a hot air balloon (well, been up in one.)
- Watched a meteor shower
- Gotten drunk on champagne
- Given more than you can afford to charity (To political causes, however, boy howdy.)
- Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
- Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
- Had a food fight
- Bet on a winning horse
- Called in sick when you were not ill
- Asked out a stranger
- Had a snowball fight
- Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
- Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
- Held a lamb
- Enacted a favorite fantasy
- Taken a midnight skinny dip
- Taken an ice cold bath
- Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
- Seen a total eclipse.
- Ridden a roller coaster
- Hit a home run
- Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
- Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
- Adopted an accent for an entire day (Rather by accident. After about a week in Scotland, everybody I talked to started thinking I was English. It was weird. Phonemes are my one truly strong talent in languages, I guess this is related.)
- Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
- Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
- Had two hard drives for your computer
- Visited all 50 states
- Loved your job
- Taken care of someone who was shit-faced
- Had enough money to be truly satisfied
- Had amazing friends
- Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (well, Canada)
- Watched wild whales (hello, Puget Sound. But only from ferries.)
- Stolen a sign from uncle sam
- Backpacked in Europe
- Taken a road-trip
- Rock climbing, Joel - rock climbing
- Lied to foreign governments official in that country to avoid notice
- Midnight walk on the beach
- Sky diving
- Visited Ireland
- Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
- In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
- Visited Japan (Want to go back. All the time.)
- Benchpressed your own weight
- Milked a cow
- Alphabetized your CDs or DVDs
- Pretended to be a superhero
- Sung karaoke
- Lounged around in bed all day
- Posed nude in front of strangers
- Scuba diving
- Got it on to "Lets Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
- Kissed in the rain
- Played in the mud
- Played in the rain (It sucks.)
- Gone to a drive-in theater
- Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
- Visited the Great Wall of China
- Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
- Dropped Windows in favor of something better
- Started a business (Sorta)
- Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
- Toured ancient sites
- Taken a martial arts class
- Swordfought for the honor of a woman
- Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
- Gotten married
- Been in a movie (I have, however, provided some props to one.)
- Crashed a party
- Loved someone you shouldn't have
- Kissed someone so passionately it made you dizzy
- Had sex at the office
- Gone without food for 5 days (Only three. It wasn't voluntary.)
- Made cookies from scratch
- Won first prize in a costume contest
- Ridden a gondola in Venice
- Gotten a tattoo
- Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
- Rafted the Snake River
- Been on television news programs as an "expert" (Not TV. Radio, tho'.)
- Got flowers for no reason
- Masturbated in a public place
- Got so drunk you don't remember anything
- Been addicted to some form of illegal drug (pot counts)
- Performed on stage or recorded music (Both! Hell, I'll be on stage this afternoon, for all of two minutes -
s00j recruited a chorus for a song at the Tall Ships show this afternoon. Next real gig on Sunday.)
- Eaten shark
- Had a one-night-stand
- Gone to Thailand (Unrelated to the previous. -_^ )
- Seen Siouxsie live.
- Bought a house
- Been in a combat zone
- Buried one/both of your parents (Don't know them, but I believe they are dead.)
- Been on a cruise ship
- Spoken more than one language fluently (Not fluently yet, nor close to it. But I got around in Japan.)
- Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
- Bounced a cheque (Bank's fault; fees refunded.)
- Performed in Rocky Horror (Um... thinking about it, I'm not sure of this counts. I sang a role while running "spotlight," which was really just a big-ass flashlight. But it worked pretty well in the setting.)
- Read - and understood - your credit report (And those of hundreds of others, thanks to a summertime bank job as a credit investigator in college.)
- Raised children
- Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy
- Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
- Created and named your own constellation of stars
- Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
- Found out something significant that your ancestors did
- Called or written to your Congressperson
- Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (Not for just that.)
- ...more than once? (See previous.)
- Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
- Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
- Had an abortion, or your female partner did
- Had plastic surgery
- Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.
- Wrote articles for a publication
- Lost over 100 pounds
- Held someone while they were having a flashback
- Piloted an airplane
- Petted a stingray
- Broken someone's heart
- Helped an animal give birth
- Been fired or laid off from a job
- Won money on a T.V. game show
- Broken a bone
- Gone on an African photo safari
- Ridden a motorcycle
- Driven any land vehicle at a speed of 100mph or faster
- Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
- Fired a rifle, shotgun or pistol (All three)
- Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
- Ridden a horse
- Had major surgery
- Had sex on a moving train
- Had a snake as a pet
- Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Slept through an entire flight
- Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
- Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
- Visited all 7 continents
- Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
- Eaten kangaroo meat
- Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
- Been a sperm or egg donor
- Eaten sushi
- Had your picture in the newspaper (...maybe. I got some newspaper press coverage when I ran a small press - see above about being the radio "expert." Photos were taken, I don't know whether they ever ran anywhere.)
- Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
- Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
- Gotten someone fired for their actions (I have gotten people busted for academic fraud, but not fired or expelled.)
- Gone back to school
- Parasailed
- Changed your name legally
- Petted a cockroach
- Eaten fried green tomatoes
- Read The Iliad
- Selected one "important" author whom you missed in school, and read him/her
- Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
- ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
- Taught yourself an art from scratch (Glass sculpture)
- Killed and prepared an animal for eating
- Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt (...I think there was long enough lag for this to count...)
- Skipped all your school reunions so far
- Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
- Been elected to public office
- Written your own computer language
- Thought to yourself that you're living your dream (sorta)
- Had to put someone you love into hospice care
- Built your own PC from parts
- Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
- Had a booth at a street fair
- Dyed your hair
- Been a DJ.
- Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
- Written your own role playing game (Well, not formally. I did run one for a little while that I'd made up, but I never wrote out the rules or anything like that. It was extremely free-form.)
- Been arrested
- Conducted original research science