200 Things

c/o frog. Everything in bold I've done. Regarding the remainder... I ain't sayin'. Comments are in italics.

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said "I love you" and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten my own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
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
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
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
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip Does a daylight skinny dip count?
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Rode on a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
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. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
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
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
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
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
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 Does living on popcorn count?
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Rode 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
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 I do NOT recommend this.
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy
128. Followed your favorite 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 Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
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 If academic journals count.
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth I have watched, though: cat, horse, goat.
147. Been fired or laid off from a job Well, my contract expired...
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Rode on 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
157. Rode 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 U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days Try 63, plus 10 land 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
175. Gone back to school
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 Moby Dick!
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 an art from scratch Knitting! Guitar!
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating Fish. I also have helped pluck dead chickens and ducks.
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 Blogger
199. Written your own role playing game
200. Been arrested

Comments

[wolfangel]

Oh, it's not the shaving the pubic hair that's the issue, it's the growing back. Itch! Itch itch my god the itch! I hear, though, if you *both* are hairless, it's worth it. (I won't be trying this, but feel free to tell me if the rumours are true.)

[Rana]

Yeah, it's not the baldness, it's the itchy aftermath and --TMI -- the in-grown hairs.

(As for the two-fer, I don't think I'm likely to persuade D. to make the experiment anytime soon, and I really don't want to go through the growing-out experience again. Someone else will have to give it a try and report back. ;) )

[LiL]

So now I'm weary of posting my version on my blog... and it's a crying shame too 'cause it's a great list! But people from my office read it and all those guys (really, nearly all guys) absolutely do not need to hear about my pubic-hair-shaving habits. (Just by the way on that one: electric razor...) Nor do they need to know my answer to the sex-in-the-office question.

I'm most impressed that you've had a snake as a pet. And (of course) that you've sold your artwork to people who don't know you. That's just always impressive.

[LiL]

Oh, and WA, the rumors are true. And, in my experience, the electric razor helps with the ingrown hairs... and even with the itching, a bit. The trick with that is to just keep shaving. Or else grin and squirm and bear the itch for about five days and not shave again.

[wolfangel]

Do you find electric razors help? Not for the pubic hair as much as, say, my legs. I would love something faster for my legs, but only if it's painless. I have no intention of shaving my pubic hair again -- I'm way too lazy to keep things shaved, and the itching is so not worth it.

I am totally curious about the number of people who've fallen in love at Mayan burial grounds.

[LiL]

Yup, I find that electric razors make shaving my legs easier too. Also, I don't cut myself or have infected hair follicles, which both shaving and waxing used to give me. Although I have to confress I consider one of winter's advantages that one can forego shaving one's legs... I mean, one can just wear pants throughout, or black thick black tights if the urge to wear a skirt strikes.

How symbolic of cycles of life and death: love at Mayan burial grounds. I kinda want to fall in love in a really strange place the next time. Just for the adventure of it.

[Rana]

That is a good thing to know about the electric razors, though I'm such a cheapass that I probably will never buy one.

I love that I don't have to shave my legs in the winter! (Not that I do much anyway; it's pits and below the knees -- I'm blessed in having fine pale thigh hair.)

It is a strange list, isn't it? Some of it seems so normal to me (along the lines of damn, what do you mean you've never made cookies from scratch?) and some of it so odd (like "See Siouxsie live" Whaaa?).

It also makes me want to add some oddities of my own. Hmm...

[wolfangel]

Well, I'll just continue to take up comments and ask LiL if she has razor suggestions.

In high school, it was all girls, and we would have "who has the longest leg hair" discussions in March, before spring break. It's fun. But I like the feel of having shaved legs.

The list is very weird. It seems like it's made up of some interesting things one person did -- or didn't do but wanted to -- plus additions from friends or what have you. I also tend to think it's someone young who wrote it, because of that "dumped via blogger" thing.

[frog]

63 days in a canoe? No kidding? Wow.

[Rana]

Well, minus a few camp days here and there. The overall trip was 73 days. (It was an early incarnation of this expedition.)

Believe you me, I got damn good at paddling, and if I never again have to tote huge heavy dry bags over rolling rock portages, I will not complain. Otherwise, it was the "trip of a lifetime" -- though I have hopes of getting myself strong enough to do another such trip someday.