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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
99
Right so, I'm jumping on the bandwagon! Here's my "99".... I've "bolded" the ones I have done.
Started your own blog (erm... helloooo?)
Slept under the stars
Played in a band
Visited Hawaii
Watched a meteor shower
Given more than you can afford to charity
Been to Disneyland (4th trip to Paris coming up, and twice to Florida! I get stressed if i don't get a regular Disney fix)
Climbed a mountain well, a small hillock in Connemara - but it felt like a mountain at the time!
Held a praying mantis
Sang a solo
Bungee jumped
Visited Paris see comment re Disney - never seen the Eiffel tower, though!
Watched a lightening storm loads - the most impressive one was from the 2o - something floor of our hotel in Thailand. Floor to ceiling windows, very impressive!
Taught yourself an art from scratch
It's a bit matronly, but I cross-stitch
Did this one while waiting for Button to come home
Adopted a child 2, and another in the pipeline!
Had food poisoning
Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Grown your own vegetables a few straggly scallions, and some quite impressive carrots!
Seen the Mona Lisa in France
Slept on an overnight train
Had a pillow fight
Hitch hiked
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
Built a snow fort
Held a lamb
Gone skinny dipping
Run a Marathon
Ridden in a gondola in Venice
Seen a total eclipse
Watched a sunrise or sunset
Sunrise on the morning we brought Button home
Hit a home run
Been on a cruise
Seen Niagara Falls in person
Visited the birthplace of your ancestors umm....Galway?
Seen an Amish community
Taught yourself a new language i tried to teach myself Thai - and learnt how to say "where is the toilet?" surely, that's all you need?
Had enough money to be truly satisfied
Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
Gone rock climbing
Seen Michelangelo’s David
Sung karaoke
Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
Visited Africa Egypt - wow!!!
Walked on a beach by moonlight
Been transported by ambulance
Had your portrait painted does a caricature done in Disney World count?
Gone deep sea fishing
Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
Kissed in the rain I think I mentioned Galway...... If i didn't kiss in the rain I'd never have been kissed!
Played in the mud
Gone to a drive-in theater
Been in a movie
Visited the Great Wall of China
Started a business
Taken a martial arts class
Visited Russia
Served at a soup kitchen
Sold Girl Scout Cookies
Gone whale watching
Got flowers for no reason
Donated blood, platelets or plasma
Gone sky diving
Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
Bounced a check
Flown in a helicopter
Saved a favorite childhood toy
Dylan
Visited the Lincoln Memorial
Eaten Caviar
Pieced a quilt
Stood in Times Square
Toured the Everglades
Been fired from a job
Seen the Changing of the Guards in London before my parents moved us back to Ireland we did all the touristy things in London so that my bro and I would have some great memories. needless to say, we don't remember a thing!
Broken a bone
Been a passenger on a motorcycle
Seen the Grand Canyon in person
Published a book
Visited the Vatican
Bought a brand new car
Walked in Jerusalem
Had your picture in the newspaper
Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
Visited the White House
Killed and prepared an animal for eating
Had chickenpox my mum got out of doing jury service because of my pox - she's still thanking me!!!
Saved someone’s life Technically, if we hadn't adopted Button.....
Sat on a jury
Met someone famous Said hello to Gok Wan in London in November!
Joined a book club
Got a tattoo
Had a baby
Seen the Alamo in person
Swam in the Great Salt Lake
Been involved in a law suit
Owned a cell phone
Been stung by a bee
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love them Taz! There's no doubt you saved a certain little man's life, abd the sunrise pic is something extra special.
ReplyDeleteLove the cross stitch too xxx
Yep i would say a caricature done in Disney World counts!
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
Greta Stuff...I'm getting more tempted!xx jazzy
ReplyDeleteLove it.I love these 99 as much as I like the ones with the flakes!!
ReplyDeleteI want to see the caricature! xx
ReplyDeleteGreat read - I wonder who will be next?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting missus :) xx
ReplyDeleteI do (or did) cross stitch too so don't think it is matronly at all. I just don't have time these days but I have a lot of stuff backed up that I want to do:) I want to see the caricature too:) Jen.
ReplyDeletebrilliant taz, really glad a third baby in pipeline xxxx
ReplyDeletehad to laugh at galway and kissed in the rain, so fecking true thoe