100 Things

I saw this on someone else's blog and thought it looked fun. I adore those lists you get from friends that have stuff about them like whether they like bacon bits or chives on their baked potato and what their favorite color is. So this is perfect for me! There are 100 things and I bolded the ones I've already done.

1. Started my 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 - no but I stayed next door to it in Anaheim this year!
8. Climbed a mountain - not from the very bottom though and I lived on one
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo - it's how I got the nickname, Aw shit Marilyn in college - I forgot the words in the middle
11. Bungee jumped - not happening!!!
12. Visited Paris - not yet!
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning - the day before my good friend's birthday
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty - the stairs were closed when we were there but I've walked to the top of the Washington Monument!
18. Grown your own vegetables - tomatoes, hot peppers, and onions, even cotton!
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France - not yet!
20. Slept on an overnight train - not yet!
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked - if it counts that we waved down people we knew as kids - but never with strangers!
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping - no photos of this!!!
27. Run a Marathon - not happening!
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice - not yet! and not even at the Venetian in Las Vegas
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run - I'm more of a bleacher's advisor ;-))
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person - not yet!
39. Gone rock climbing - but when I did it as a kid we didn't call it that, we just did it ;-))
40. Seen Michelangelo's David - not yet!
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 - on St. Simon's Island, GA with a blond surfer guy I'd met while on vacation when I was 17 - Doesn't get much more romantic than that!!!
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted - yes and the artist signed my HS yearbook as the guy who "immortalized [my] grippable thighs" because I complained that he made my thighs look enormous!
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person - not yet!
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - not yet!
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling - but I want to!
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
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 - I used to sell cartons of them when I was a kid
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason - for myself as well as from The Sports Fan
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma - I keep trying but I'm always too anemic
65. Gone sky diving - this one won't be happening unless I die in a plane and they toss my body out to lighten the load!
66. Visited a (former) Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
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 - when I was 8
74. Toured the Everglades - been there but haven't toured them
75. Been fired from a job - sort of!
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London - I don't know how I missed this one!
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle - and no plans to though there is one in our garage!
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book - I used to do this for my work!
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car and Jeepy is in my driveway right now!
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 - ICK!!! No!
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous - I must have but I can't think who!
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby - nope and no plans to!
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit - nope
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day - I've read three in a day!

I copied this from someone else's blog so feel free to copy this from here and post yur own answers on your blog! And if you do, please be sure to leave ne a comment so that I can go see your answers. ;-))