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Make bold the things you have done.

Italicize all the things you WISH you had done or would like to do.

Then steal and copy to your LJ.



1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland  (just to see what the hype's all about.)

8. Climbed a mountain (I've been to the top of a couple of mountains, just not climbed it.)

9. Held a praying mantis

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch -- Painting, jewelry-making, and sex.  (Hey, it's an art if you're doin' it right. :-P)

15. Adopted a child  (maybe someday, as I don't intend to have spawn of my own.)

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 (It's tiny!)

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight.  (If you're using couch pillows, be sure you're holding the corner with the zipper!)

22. Hitch hiked.  (Car broke down, but I was with friends, so not as dangerous.)

23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill.

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb  (I did get to hold a lion cub, once...)

26. Gone skinny dipping.

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice  (a proper one, not the motorized kind!)

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 (some of them, anyway...)

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied  (Let's face it: most of the things I want to do will cost money.)

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelo's David

41. Sung karaoke

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  (walking on a beach at all would be nice...)

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted by your mother

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 snorkelling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in movie

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 (sky what? sky diving? skyclad? I went moonbathing naked, once... :-?)

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp  (Dachau)

67. Bounced a cheque

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favourite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten caviar  (Ewww!)

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.  (Two toes, when I was six.  I think it may have Done Something to me, as, since then, things that probably should have broken something have only bruised, including having my hand slammed in a van door.  I now joke than I am Unbreakable. :-P)

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person  (It's so huge that it's anti-climactic.)

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.

85. Read the entire Bible.

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone's life.

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous (Voice actors count)

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one.

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 mobile phone

99. Been stung by a bee

100. Read an entire book in one day- a few times.

P.S. My car is being stubbourn about being fixed and staying fixed.  I don't like being stranded!

Morbidly beautiful

I want this read at my funeral...  (lifted from spyderfyngers ' LJ.)

"After Prayers, Lie Cold" - C.S Lewis

Arise my body, my small body, we have striven
Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.
Arise small body, puppet-like and pale, and go,
White as the bed-clothes into bed, and cold as snow,
Undress with small, cold fingers and put out the light,
And be alone, hush'd mortal, in the sacred night,
-A meadow whipt flat with the rain, a cup
Emptied and clean, a garment washed and folded up,
Faded in colour, thinned almost to raggedness
By dirt and by the washing of that dirtiness.
Be not too quickly warm again. Lie cold; consent
To weariness' and pardon's watery element.
Drink up the bitter water, breathe the chilly death;
Soon enough comes the riot of our blood and breath.