200 things I might've done

[matgb]

I aten't dead. I would proclaim I've been busy, but that'd be a lie—I've been doing stuff (currently revamping and adding content to the local constituency site—nowhere near finished) but mostly I've been reading, playing Starcraft and doing stuff with SB. Just lost the need to post at the moment. Ah well. In lieu of actual content, I thought I'd do a meme, might break the block...

The instructions are quite simple:

You bold the things you've done!

So I thought I'd add some commentary to some of them, no idea how many yet, there are 200 of the things...

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink. (But only because it was pretty much empty, I ain't stupid)
02. Swam with wild dolphins (I grew up in Torbay, dolphins are normal)
03. Climbed a mountain (The Brecon Beacons are mountains, it counts)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula (I don't see the appeal)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it (she's still in bed, listening to The Now Show, lazy arse)
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped (I ain't stupid)
12. Visited Paris (France, I have no real desire to go to Texas)
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise (bloody insomnia)
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game (But I didn't enjoy it)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (My Dad still does)
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars (ten years in the Scout movement does that sort of thing to you)
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity (When utterly skint, even a small amount counts)
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight (hasn't everyone?)
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb (Dude, my Granddad was a farmer, I've birthed a lamb...
36. Enacted a favourite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar (if 'meaningful' includes my CD purchase of the day, the Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit, of which he was something of a fan)
40. Seen a total eclipse (Got distracted by the rather pretty Slovenian girl I was hugging about a third of the way in, but...)
41. Ridden a roller coaster (and didn't see the point)
42. Hit a home run (is this some sports reference from the colonies?)
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (Dude? I'm a goth...)
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day (but not intentionally, was very weird)
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (um, I grew up there? Stoopid USian memes)
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Bench pressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records CDs (and SB's, not that it lasted)
70. Pretended to be a superhero (but not since I was about 10)
71. Sung karaoke (I used to be an activity planner for a kids language school FFS)
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud (shrublette loves mud)
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theatre (??? Oh, movie theatre, silly colonials. I've been to several open air theatres though)
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it (I'm defining 'should' based on other people being judgemental here)
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog (Um, I write in my own real name FFS, anonymity never really works)
83. Dropped Windows in favour of something better else (I tried Ubuntu, but couldn't get a driver for the modem, so that was no good—might try again at some point)
84. Started a business (technically, if being self employed currently counts)
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class (I hated it)
88. Sword fought for the honour of a woman
89. Played D&D an RPG for more than 6 hours straight D&D remains crap—WFRP plzkthx
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything (once, I do like the Dwarf attitude to alcohol)
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship (but not during an actual cruise)
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check cheque
124. Performed in Rocky Horror (and a spoof, although how you can spoof it I know not)
125. Read - and understood - your credit report (I have no money and am useless with it, what's hard to understand?)
126. Raised children (Not technically, yet)
127. Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy (for shrublette. Honest)
128. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Member of Congress MP (and he got the law changed for me. And since then he's invited me to the House and bought me a drink in the Stranger's Bar. Shame he's not my MP anymore)
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once? (7 times, depending on how you define it, but definitely twice)
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge (it's gorgeous)
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived
140. Wrote articles for a large publication (technically Liberal Conspiracy counts these days, scary innit)
141. Lost over 100 pounds (do they mean lbs or £s? Either way, no)
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray (why would you do this?)
145. Broken someone's heart (not that I'm aware of, but you never know)
146. Helped an animal give birth (I was a kid, but it counts)
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a TV game show (I'll have a 'p' please Bob)
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild (well, from Granddad's farmland woods but that's the closest we get in Britain. Still hate mushrooms)
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than US states (this is slightly easier given I live close to lots of countries and I've only been to CA once)
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions (um, I fired him, and decided retail management wasn't for me)
175. Gone back to school (best thing I ever did)
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself art from scratch (um, but I did learn miniature painting techniques to a very hig level—I have no talent, but I can paint)
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196. Dyed your hair
197. Been a DJ
198. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal (but only on a technicality)
199. Written your own role playing game
200. Been arrested

Meh, can't be arsed to count that, but, y'know, if you want to take the piss out of the list like I did, knock yerself out...

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

doing stuff with SB

That covers a multitude of sins ;)

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

144. Petted a stingray why would you do this?

They're actually very docile. I've done it loads of times.

[caseytalk.livejournal.com]

144. Petted a stingray (why would you do this?)

Ooh, they're velvety soft and wonderful. They're beautiful to watch flying gently by underwater. You just have to reach out and pet them as they come near.

I ♥ stingrays -- and all rays.

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Agreed. They're like soft sea-cats. ^^

The fishermen in Belize stand in the water while gutting and cleaning fish and the stingrays rub against them like begging kitties.