"Have you ever..."

Well, since everyone else is doing this and I like to be a follower sometimes, I guess I join in...


99 things to cross out if you've done them:

1. Started your own blog - well you're reading it, aren't you?

2. Slept under the stars - on the beach at Lake Michigan, and I hated it...

3. Played in a band - unfortunately. I played the clarinet and I was awful

4. Visited Hawaii 

5. Watched a meteor shower 

6. Given more than you can afford to charity - this doesn't really count because it was in college and I could barely afford McDonalds

7. Been to Disneyland - Disneyworld...so much better

8. Climbed a mountain - technically it was a volcano in Guatemala

9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped - I wish!

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightening storm - who hasn't?

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch

15. Adopted a child - I would love to someday

16. Had food poisoning - twice...barf

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetable - I can't even keep a cactus alive

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France 

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight - Oh you haven't? You must have skipped elementary school...

22. Hitch hiked - have your parents taught you nothing??

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill - again, who hasn't?

24. Built a snow fort - I was the fort building queen

25. Held a lamb - I live in the country

26. Gone skinny dipping - nakey in the lakey

27. Run a Marathon 

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice 

29. Seen a total eclipse 

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset - once more, who hasn't?

31. Hit a home run - I'm not athletic...

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person 

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors

35. Seen an Amish community - horse and buggy, baby

36. Taught yourself a new language - I took 3.5 years of Espanol 

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing - in New Mexico... I almost died

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David 

41. Sung karaoke - Spice Girls, obvi

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant - I am a Social Worker, people...

44. Visited Africa - someday!

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight - Mexico, Lake Michigan, who knows where else...

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted

48. Gone deep sea fishing - does it count if I was knocked out? Dramamine. 

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling - in Mexico, twice. So much fun!

52. Kissed in the rain - overrated. I hate the rain...

53. Played in the mud - I was a child once...

54. Gone to a drive-in theater - It was a kids movie and homeboys next to us were getting high...appropriate.

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 didn't make it past Brownies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason - my favorite thing ever (hint, hint)

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma - the last time was in highschool. I blacked out, ran into a metal door frame, and then passed out in the cafeteria during lunch...NEVER AGAIN

65. Gone sky diving - someday!!
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check - oops! In my defensive, I was in college
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy - my Samantha American Girl Doll
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial - 8th grade DC trip

71. Eaten caviar  
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 - my right arm and I still have a huge scar to prove it!
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book - does it count if a poem I wrote in 4th grade was published in a book?
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper - for basketball in high school...which I wasn't good at
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House - again 8th grade DC trip
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating - unfortunately, a chicken. It was part of a class I had to take Freshmen year of college. Worst. Thing. Ever.

88. Had chickenpox - too young to remember what it was like

89. Saved someone’s life - no, but I am CPR and First Aid certified just in case you need my help...
90. Sat on a jury - no, but I testified in court for a Termination of Parental Rights case for my internship 
91. Met someone famous - Jeff Daniels lives in my hometown
92. Joined a book club - maybe when I'm 90
93. Got a tattoo - Greek word 'agape' on my left foot 
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 cell phone - I'm sorry, I live in the Stone Age
99. Been stung by a bee - 23 years and going strong!

xoxo, J