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So back in June of 2010 I did this little survey about my blog. I’ve been messing with my blog over the last month and wound up stumbling across this blog. I thought it could be fun to do an update… Let’s see what’s changed!

1. started your own blog

2. slept under the stars

3. played in a band

4. visited Hawaii

5. watched a meteor shower

6. given more to charity than you could afford to

7. been to Disney

8. climbed a mountain

9. held a praying mantis

10. sung a solo

11. bungee jumped

12. visited Paris

13. watched a thunder and lightning storm

14. taught yourself an art from scratch

15. adopted a child


16. had food poisoning

17. walked to the top of the statue of liberty (… they closed her off in 2001, but I’ve been as far up as they’d let me go…)

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

26. gone skinny dipping

27. run a marathon (Does a 5K count??)

28. ridden in a gondola in Venice (does the Venetian in Las Vegas count??)

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

35. seen an Amish community

36. taught yourself a new language

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

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 

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

63. gotten flowers for no reason

64. donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. been sky diving

66. visited a concentration camp

67. bounced a check

68. flown in a helicopter

69. saved a favorite childhood toy

70. visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. eaten caviar

72. pieced a quilt

73. stood in Times Square

74. toured the everglades

75. been fired from a job

76. seen the changing of the guard in Washington DC

77. broken a bone

78. been a passenger on a motorcycle

79. seen the Grand Canyon in person (I saw it from above in an airplane)

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. kissed a stranger at midnight on new year’s eve

86. visited the White House

87. killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. had chickenpox

89. saved someone’s life

90. sat on a jury

91. met someone famous

92. joined a book club

93. gotten a tattoo

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

I have now completed 54 which is up from the 45 in 2010. We’re making progress. I’m now at a 54% which if you still are looking at school grades is an F 🙁 Bummer. It takes a 59% to get above an F. Yikes! So what have you done?

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