FRIVOLOUS things in life...

I'm borrowing this list from Heidi at Mt. Hope Chronicles blog. I have to say, the thing I love most about Heidi's blogs is that she makes me THINK about myself sometimes!! I have been so busy with kids for the last few years that even thinking about my "Pre-Kids" life seems foreign and light years away! I enjoyed going thru this list and reminescing about my "other" life, as I call it now. It was great, though, to put a bunch of things on my to-do lifetime list too!

Items in blue are ones that I have done. Items with an * are ones on the 'to-do in my lifetime' list.)

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (I think...)
3. Played in a band (does a school orchestra count?)
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain*
9. Held a praying mantis (well, I took a photo of one..)
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped (closest thing was a slingshot, which I'll count, since I'll never bungee).
12. Visited Paris*
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (does photography count?)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (grew up in NY and didn't until I was in college)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (nope, held a kid (baby goat! LOL) at a farm once, though).
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon*
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person*
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Italy)
35. Seen an Amish community (Lancaster, PA)
36. Taught yourself a new language* (Been trying to learn Italian for years...)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied*
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person*
39. Gone rock climbing *
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
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
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted*
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris*
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (been snorkeling and have swam with stingrays, but because of my asthma, was rejected for a scuba diving course)
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
62. Gone whale watching (& dolphin )
63. Gotten flowers for no reason (have I?)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (I need to - haven't since I've had kids, but multiple times before)
65. Gone sky diving (no thanks)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (by accident!)
68. Flown in a helicopter*
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (not the ones I would have liked, but my mom has some still)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt*
73. Stood in Times Square (yup, hubby works there!)
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person*
80. Published a book*
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem*
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible* (working on it)
86. Visited the White House*
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (does fish count? then, yes)
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club*
93. Lost a loved one
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
99. Been stung by a bee (and realized I was allergic when my leg blew up!) :)