100 Things to Do

Daddy Dan inspired me to do this post with his own 100 things list here.

Here is the list, shamelessly copied from Dan’s post (I did change the tense). I think it’s fun looking at a list made by another person, comparing your own acheivements, failures and dreams to those of others. I think this list is quite American in scope and nature, actually adding a dimension of cultural variety for me. So… here’s my version of the 100 things list. Striked out are things I completed. In bold, things I want to do:

1. Start my own blog
2. Sleep under the stars
3. Play in a band
4. Visit Hawaii
5. Watch a meteor shower
6. Give more than I can afford to charity - not sure what this one means. If I can give it than I could have afforded it?
7. Visit Disneyland
8. Climb a mountain - do steep hills count?
9. Hold a praying mantis
10. Sing solo - hey, raising two babies, I excel at lullabies
11. Jump Bungee - let me get back to you on this one
12. Visit Paris
13. Watch lightning at sea - never occurred to me that this is that special
14. Teach myself an art from scratch
15. Adopt a child - definitely on our list for when our own are older and we have enough room
16. Have a food poisoning
17. Walk to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grow my own vegetables - well, IsraeliDad and his brother did most of the work but it still counts
19. See the Mona Lisa
20. Sleep on an overnight train - from London to Edinburgh and it was freezing cold
21. Have a pillow fight
22. Hitchhike - I never do, but there was this one time when my car broke down
23. Take a sick day when you’re not ill - I don’t call them sick days, one of the benefits of not having to work for someone else
24. Built a snow fort - what is that??
25. Hold a lamb
26. Go skinny dipping
27. Run a marathon - I’d be happy with doing a 10K actually
28. Ride in a gondola in Venice
29. See a total eclipse
30. Watch a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run - ummmm, can you hit a home run if you never play baseball?
32. Go on a cruise
33. See Niagra falls
34. See an Amish community
35. Teach myself a new language - did it on my own with French. Good thing the verb is teach rather than learn…
36. Have enough money to be truly satisfied - well, it’s easy, I don’t let money affect my level of satisfaction in life
37. See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
38. Visit the birthplace of my ancestors
39. Go rock climbing - I don’t think so, really
40. See Michelangelo’s David
41. Sing Karaoke
42. See Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Buy a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visit Africa
45. Walk on a beach by moonlight
46. Be transported in an ambulance - not on my list of things to do though
47. Have my portrait painted
48. Go deep sea fishing - I won’t fish or hunt any animal, sorry
49. See the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Be to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - only been to the first elevator stop
    
51. Go scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kiss in the rain
53. Play in the mud - I must have done when I was a kid - judging by my own two, you can’t go through a winter without doing this
54. Go to a drive-in theater
55. Be in a movie
56. Visit the Great Wall of China
57. Start a business
58. Take a martial arts class
59. Visit Russia
60. Serve at a soup kitchen - we don’t have them here, but I’d be happy to do that when traveling
61. Sell Girl Scout cookies - see #60, well, actually I don’t want into trouble for working without a proper VISA…
62. Whale Watching
63. Get flowers for no reason
64. Donate blood, platelets or plasma
65. Go sky diving
66. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp - don’t think I can do this one, sorry
67. Bounce a check - I once wrote the date wrong and they sent it back, does that count?
68. Fly in a helicopter
69. Save a favorite childhood toy - haven’t done that and I think I’m too  late?
70. Visit the Lincoln Memorial - not sure why “I should, but if it’s on the way, why not.
71. Eat caviar
72. Piece a quilt
73. Stand in Times Square
74. Tour the Everglades
75. Be fired from a job - never have been and I don’t think I’ll ever get the chance
76. See the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Break a bone - ummm, haven’t up to now and I have no plans to, tyvm
78. Be on a speeding motorcycle - same as #78 and the reason is related as well
79. See the Grand Canyon in person
80. Publish a book
81. Visit the Vatican
82. Buy a brand-new car
83. Walk in Jerusalem
84. Have my picture in the newspaper - several times and been on talk shows too, all related to cats
85. Read the entire Bible - not in one go, but I did read many parts in the original Hebrew version
86. Visit the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating - no and not going to, unless I’ll start eating mosquitoes
88. Have chickenpox
89. Save someone’s life
90. Sit on a jury - we don’t have jury duties here, nor do we have juries, actually
91. Meet someone famous - everyone knows famous people in Israel, it’s just the way it is in a small country
92. Join a book club - I get my books at the library
93. Lose a loved one - my two beloved dear Grandmothers
94. Have a baby - twice
95. See the Alamo in person - not sure what happened there, but I know it’s big in American history
96. Swim in the Great Salt Lake - didn’t know you could do that. Is that like our Dead Sea?
    
97. Be involved in a law suit - been sued twice, one lawsuit still in the works - two bizarre lawsuits, related to cats. Don’t ask.
98. Own a cell phone - duh
99. Get stung by a bee - only a wasp so far, alas
100. Ride an elephant

Wow, only 29 things done. Then again, my own list will probably be different. I’ll work on that one for another post some day.

Fun list to go through. I will be making my own 100 things to do before I die list one of these days. Probably based on this one, but with my own twist. Thanks for the inspiration Dan!