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lederhosen, silverblue, reynardo, unsworn, sapia and probably other people whose messages I haven't looked at yet.
Things I've done in bold.
Bought everyone in the pub a drink
Swam with wild dolphins
Climbed a mountain (Only a small one.)
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 (Even though my SO watches the TV or his book instead of me...)
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise (I used to do this every time we went on a car trip - I'd stay up all night packing and stuffing around, watch the sun rise, then sleep for the first bit of the car trip, instead of being horribly motion-sick)
Seen the Northern Lights/Southern Lights
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 (Waaay too hot summers, take a sheet and inflateable mattress and go sleep on the lawn with the dog. I grew up without airconditioning, here in Adelaide where it is a rare summer when it doesn't stay above 30 degrees celsius for days, if not weeks, at a time)
Changed a baby’s diaper (I've seen a nappy changed. I'm never having kids.)
Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
Watched a meteor shower
Gotten drunk on champagne
Given more than you can afford to charity
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
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
Asked out a stranger
Had a snowball fight (I've never seen snow)
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 -- Or will this week!
Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
Adopted an accent for an entire day
Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Some day I shall go to Ireland... Some day...)
Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
Had two hard drives for your computer.
Visited all 50 states (Out of the 6 states and 2 territories (not counting the Australian Antartic Territory), I have not yet visited Northern Territory, Tasmania, or Western Australia)
Loved your job for all accounts
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
Watched wild whales
Stolen a sign
Backpacked in Europe
Taken a road-trip
Been rock climbing
Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
Midnight walk on the beach
Been sky diving
Visited Scotland
Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
Visited Japan
Benchpressed your own weight
Milked a cow
Alphabetized your records (and books, and everything else that isn't sorted by number or use)
Pretended to be a superhero
Sung karaoke
Lounged around in bed all day
Posed nude in front of strangers
Been scuba diving
Got it on to "Let’s Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
Kissed in the rain
Played in the mud
Played in the rain
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
Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
Toured ancient sites
Taken a martial arts class
Swordfought for the honor of a woman (I've never had to fight with a sword for my honour. I prefer to fight with the pen, not the sword)
Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
Gotten married
Been in a movie
Crashed a party
Loved someone you shouldn’t have
Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
Gotten divorced (kinda hard to do, having not been married)
Gone without food for 5 days
Made cookies from scratch (biscuits, not cookies. And I was in high school before I made them any other way. Or cakes. And I didn't like the taste, so if I can help it, I'll never do it again)
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 (and then found that the feel of that same fabric was a turn-off for my then-boyfriend)
Rafted the Snake River
Been on television news programs as an "expert"
Got flowers for no reason
Got so drunk you don’t remember anything (I've gotten very very drunk, but not to the point of remembering nothing.)
Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
Performed on stage
Been to Las Vegas
Recorded music
Eaten shark (and crocodile, possum, wallaby, emu, jellyfish, and various other 'strange' meats offered for sale here)
Had a one-night stand
Gone to Thailand
Seen Siouxsie live
Bought a house
Been in a combat zone
Buried one/both of your parents
Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off (changed the size of underwear that was comfortable)
Been on a cruise ship
Spoken more than one language fluently
Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
Bounced a check
Performed in Rocky Horror
Read - and understood - your credit report
Raised children
Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
Followed your favorite 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 your Congress person?local rep (we used to go and have barbecues at their place every year)
Picked up and moved to another city to just start over?
More than once? - More than thrice?
Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking (done it when walking along the street, too)
Had plastic surgery
Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived. (the accident of birth. I should never have survived that. Nor the 18 months afterward)
Wrote articles for a large publication (not unless GURPS stuff counts.)
Lost over 100 pounds (I'm the heaviest I've ever been, and I weigh 120 lb/54kg)
Held someone while they were having a flashback
Piloted an airplane
Petted a stingray
Broken someone’s heart (not until they broke me and mine first)
Helped an animal give birth
Been fired or laid off from a job
Won money on a T.V. game show
Broken a bone
Killed a human being
Gone on an African photo safari
Ridden a motorcycle (passenger, not pilot)
Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph/160 kph
Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (I want to learn to do it properly, in a safe learning environment)
Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
Ridden a horse (Once, and I got stepped on, too. I shall try again some day)
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: takeoff, flight, and landing
Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (of course, I'd been up for the preceeding 48...)
Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states (having never visited the USA...)
Visited all 7 continents
Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
Eaten kangaroo meat (this is a challenge? See above for other meats that I have eaten. Some day I shall eat guinea pig)
Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
Been a sperm or egg donor
Eaten sushi
Had your picture in the newspaper
Had 2 healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime (healthy relationship? Me?)
Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
Gotten someone fired for their actions
Gone back to school
Parasailed
Changed your name
Petted a cockroach
Eaten fried green tomatoes
Read The Iliad (No, but the Oddyssey (sp.?) I have)
Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them.
and gotten 86ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you.
Taught yourself an art from scratch
Killed and prepared an animal for eating
Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
Skipped all your school reunions.
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
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 (this was not the hard part - getting out of year 11 English with the Vice-Principal to get my hair permed, which was also against the school rules, with her permission, now...)
Been a DJ
Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
Written your own role playing game
Been arrested
lederhosen, silverblue, reynardo, unsworn, sapia and probably other people whose messages I haven't looked at yet.Things I've done in bold.
Bought everyone in the pub a drink
Swam with wild dolphins
Climbed a mountain (Only a small one.)
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 (Even though my SO watches the TV or his book instead of me...)
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise (I used to do this every time we went on a car trip - I'd stay up all night packing and stuffing around, watch the sun rise, then sleep for the first bit of the car trip, instead of being horribly motion-sick)
Seen the Northern Lights/Southern Lights
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 (Waaay too hot summers, take a sheet and inflateable mattress and go sleep on the lawn with the dog. I grew up without airconditioning, here in Adelaide where it is a rare summer when it doesn't stay above 30 degrees celsius for days, if not weeks, at a time)
Changed a baby’s diaper (I've seen a nappy changed. I'm never having kids.)
Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
Watched a meteor shower
Gotten drunk on champagne
Given more than you can afford to charity
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
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
Asked out a stranger
Had a snowball fight (I've never seen snow)
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 -- Or will this week!
Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
Adopted an accent for an entire day
Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Some day I shall go to Ireland... Some day...)
Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
Had two hard drives for your computer.
Visited all 50 states (Out of the 6 states and 2 territories (not counting the Australian Antartic Territory), I have not yet visited Northern Territory, Tasmania, or Western Australia)
Loved your job for all accounts
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
Watched wild whales
Stolen a sign
Backpacked in Europe
Taken a road-trip
Been rock climbing
Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
Midnight walk on the beach
Been sky diving
Visited Scotland
Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
Visited Japan
Benchpressed your own weight
Milked a cow
Alphabetized your records (and books, and everything else that isn't sorted by number or use)
Pretended to be a superhero
Sung karaoke
Lounged around in bed all day
Posed nude in front of strangers
Been scuba diving
Got it on to "Let’s Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
Kissed in the rain
Played in the mud
Played in the rain
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
Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
Toured ancient sites
Taken a martial arts class
Swordfought for the honor of a woman (I've never had to fight with a sword for my honour. I prefer to fight with the pen, not the sword)
Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
Gotten married
Been in a movie
Crashed a party
Loved someone you shouldn’t have
Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
Gotten divorced (kinda hard to do, having not been married)
Gone without food for 5 days
Made cookies from scratch (biscuits, not cookies. And I was in high school before I made them any other way. Or cakes. And I didn't like the taste, so if I can help it, I'll never do it again)
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 (and then found that the feel of that same fabric was a turn-off for my then-boyfriend)
Rafted the Snake River
Been on television news programs as an "expert"
Got flowers for no reason
Got so drunk you don’t remember anything (I've gotten very very drunk, but not to the point of remembering nothing.)
Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
Performed on stage
Been to Las Vegas
Recorded music
Eaten shark (and crocodile, possum, wallaby, emu, jellyfish, and various other 'strange' meats offered for sale here)
Had a one-night stand
Gone to Thailand
Seen Siouxsie live
Bought a house
Been in a combat zone
Buried one/both of your parents
Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off (changed the size of underwear that was comfortable)
Been on a cruise ship
Spoken more than one language fluently
Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
Bounced a check
Performed in Rocky Horror
Read - and understood - your credit report
Raised children
Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
Followed your favorite 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 your Congress person?local rep (we used to go and have barbecues at their place every year)
Picked up and moved to another city to just start over?
More than once? - More than thrice?
Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking (done it when walking along the street, too)
Had plastic surgery
Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived. (the accident of birth. I should never have survived that. Nor the 18 months afterward)
Wrote articles for a large publication (not unless GURPS stuff counts.)
Lost over 100 pounds (I'm the heaviest I've ever been, and I weigh 120 lb/54kg)
Held someone while they were having a flashback
Piloted an airplane
Petted a stingray
Broken someone’s heart (not until they broke me and mine first)
Helped an animal give birth
Been fired or laid off from a job
Won money on a T.V. game show
Broken a bone
Killed a human being
Gone on an African photo safari
Ridden a motorcycle (passenger, not pilot)
Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph/160 kph
Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (I want to learn to do it properly, in a safe learning environment)
Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
Ridden a horse (Once, and I got stepped on, too. I shall try again some day)
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: takeoff, flight, and landing
Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours (of course, I'd been up for the preceeding 48...)
Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states (having never visited the USA...)
Visited all 7 continents
Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
Eaten kangaroo meat (this is a challenge? See above for other meats that I have eaten. Some day I shall eat guinea pig)
Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
Been a sperm or egg donor
Eaten sushi
Had your picture in the newspaper
Had 2 healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime (healthy relationship? Me?)
Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
Gotten someone fired for their actions
Gone back to school
Parasailed
Changed your name
Petted a cockroach
Eaten fried green tomatoes
Read The Iliad (No, but the Oddyssey (sp.?) I have)
Selected one important author who you missed in school, and read
Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them.
and gotten 86ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you.
Taught yourself an art from scratch
Killed and prepared an animal for eating
Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
Skipped all your school reunions.
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
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 (this was not the hard part - getting out of year 11 English with the Vice-Principal to get my hair permed, which was also against the school rules, with her permission, now...)
Been a DJ
Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
Written your own role playing game
Been arrested
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Among the things I could add:
Shod a donkey
Been stalked by a lovesick fan
Missed out on an easy million
Been internally searched at Customs (not that, for once, there was anything for them to find)
Smuggled a relative's ashes across the world
Spat in a CEO's face
Worked as a prostitute
Overdosed on LSD
Shagged the brother of a Princess
Rescued a frozen swarm of bees
Made garlic ice-cream
Anyone else? :-)