Super Awesome Bear

Thanks to RubyLetters for stealing the idea in the first place!

The whole idea is to have this list of 99 things you could have done and to put the ones you have done in bold.
Here are mine:

1.) Started your own blog

2.) Slept under the stars

3.) Played in a band (Well, sang in a band)

4.) Visited Hawaii

5.) Watched a meteor shower

6.) Given more than you can afford to charity

7.) Been to DisneyWorld

8.) Climbed a mountain

9.) Held a praying mantis

10.) Sang a solo

11.) Bunjee jumped

12.) Visited Paris

13.) Watched a lightning storm

14.) Taught yourself an art from scratch

15.) Adopted a child

16.) Had food poisoning (I get that every time I don’t want to go to work)

17.) Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18.) Grown your own veggies (Tried growing my own pot once, too!)

19.) Seen the Mona Lisa at the Louvre

20.) Slept on an overnight train

21.) Had a pillowfight

22.) Hitch hiked

23.) Taken a sick day when you’re not sick (See point number 16)

24.) Made a snow fort – Almost, made one with the couch cussions

25.) Held a lamb (Worked at a butchery, did more than just hold one)

26.) Ran a marathon

27.) Went skinny dipping

28.) Rode in a gondola in Venice

29.) Witnessed total eclipse

30.) Seen a sunrise or sunset

31.) Hit a home run

32.) Been on a cruise

33.) Seen Niagara Falls in person

34.) Visited the birthplace/home of your ancestors

35.) Seen an Amish country

36.) Taught yourself a new language (P-Taal? Pig latin? Do these count?)

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 in person

41.) Sung karaoke

42.) Seen Old Faithful erupt

43.) Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44.) Visited Africa (Ok, ok, this is quite the cop out)

45.) Walked on a beach by moonlight (See point 27 for more info on that evening)

46.) Taken a ride in an ambulance

47.) Had your portrait painted

48.) Gone deep sea fishing

49.) Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower

50.) Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (Ek snorkel elke geleentheid wat ek kry!)

51.) kissed in the rain

52.) played in the mud

53.) Gone to a drive-in theater

54.) Been in a movie

55.) visited the Great Wall of China

56.) Started a business (I sold candy to my gran with Alzheimer’s, she would give it to us as an after dinner treat, then I would sell it right back to her)

57.) Taken a martial arts class

58.) visited Russia

59.) worked at a soup kitchen (No, but did do a lot of similar charity work)

60.) sold Girl Scout cookies

61.) gone whale watching

62.) gotten flowers for no reason

63.) donated blood, platelets, or plasma

64.) Gone sky diving (HIERDIE IS DIE JAAR!!)

65.) Visited Nazi concentration camp

66.) Bounced a check

67.) Flown in a helicopter

68.) Saved a childhood toy

69.) visited the Lincoln Memorial

70.) eaten caviar (No offence, but blech! Seriously!)

71.) pieced a quilt (I de-pieced one once)

72.) stood in Times Square

73.) toured the Everglades

74.) been fired from a job (I worked at a butchery, remember? Well, they fired me for sticking my finger in the biltong slicer. Seriously. Thankfully, they fired her too…)

75.) seen the changing of the guards in London

76.) Broken a bone (To get out of work, yes, but medically it was fine. I got R400 worth of plaster and cotton, put the cast on and walked with it for a week.)

77.) Been a passenger on a motorcycle

78.) seen the Grand Canyon in person

79.) Published a book

80.) Visited the Vatican

81.) bought a brand new car

82.) visited Jerusalem

83.) had your picture in the paper

84.) Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve

85.) visited the White House

86.) Killed and prepared an animal for eating (Killed one animal in my life, never again. Unless it attacks me or my family, of course – and with wild animals roaming the streets here in Africa, that might happen sooner or later)

87.) Had chickenpox

88.) Saved someone’s life

89.) Sat on a jury

90.) met someone famous (South African famous or international famous? Only too happy to name-drop! Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville)

91.) joined a book club

92.) got a tattoo

93.) had a baby

94.) Seen the Alamo in person

95.) Swam in the Great Salt Lake

96.) Been involved in a law suit (Whoohoo, that was a close one!)

97.) owned a cell phone

98.) Been stung by a bee

99.) Swam in the Black Sea

Damnit, now I lost count…

Ok, that’s 42 done and 4 close calls/almosts/maybes.

Weird that “being arrested” doesn’t feature on the list. Not that I’d be able to tick that block…