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Busy Weekend Meme

Wanna play? It’s simple. Copy, paste and if you’ve done it, bold it. Here are just a few of the things I have done in my life — proof I am actually quite boring:

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins (ok, they were in captivity, but it was cool…)
03. Climbed a mountain (I’ve hiked a few …)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game (Does NASCAR count?)
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states (close, but not quite)
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign (Gram made me put it back.)
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River (I’ve swam in it and fished in it, but no raft.)
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (all three)
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad – and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. **Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you (Does writing count as art work? If yes, then: Yes!)
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

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Quilly is the pseudonym of Charlene L. Amsden, who lives on The Big Island in Hawaii. When she is not hanging out with Amoeba, she is likely teaching or sewing. Or she could be cooking, taking photographs, or even writing. But if she's not doing any of that, she's probably on Facebook or tinkering with her blog.

16 Comments

  1. Quilly-Sister,
    1,7,8,9,13,14,15,17,19,20,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,36,38,41,42,44,45,47,49,52,55,56,57,59,60,62,63,64,65,68,72,75,77,83,85,88,90,92,96,102,110,116,117,118,119,129,130,133,135,137,146 whew!

  2. Quilly, I stole this and posted it to my blog…hehehehe. 1,6-9,13,15,17,19-24,26,27,29-34,36-38,41,42,45,47-49,52,55-60,62-65,68,71-78,84,86-88,95,96,100,102,104,106-108,110,111,113,115-119,125,127-130,132-138,141,144,146,148-150! Whew, now I am tired!

  4. Jackie — I remember #31 after Kenny’s funneral. You felt better but the rest of us had our hair standing on end. You know, my friend Linda and I tried it after Joanne died and it really did help. We drove out into the middle of the wheat field so there was no one around and just screamed — and then we cried.

    Jan — you’re welcome to it! That’s how I got it! I’ll be over to read it in just a bit.

    Nessa — so, how would your list look? No less surprising, I bet.

  5. Ayup: 6,8,11,12-14,17,19-20,22-25,27,29-33,38-39,41-42,44,47,49,53-54,56-60,62-65,69,72,77,82,84,86-90,92,96,113,116-118,120,127-8,132,135,141,147

    Stories and comments:

    15. Once attended an Ohio State-Minnesota college football game. When Minnesota first crossed the 50-yard line, second quarter, OSU up 33-zip, the faculty wife in the seat next to mine started yelling “Spear him (their quarterback)! Spear him!” I left at halftime. Have never been in a major sports stadium since. This was 1981.

    37. I lived in New Zealand. Came home and people I knew well said “You talk funny”.

    75. Pending.

    89. Mind you, it was just a midnight stopover on a round-the-world flight …

    120. It was a hog-nosed snake, a native of Eastern North America that tries its hardest to look like a dangerous viper. Freaked my poor father (petrified of snakes) right out …

    132. Dissected. Professional duties. Perhaps also professional courtesy. 🙂

    147. But they call what I was “an announcer” now. DJs do parties, not name the tunes on pothead radio. 🙂

    I’m more boring than you, nyah nyah. 😛

  6. OC — boring is not a word I would use to decribe you. I’ve read about your road trips.

    I am very sorry to hwear about #75. I’ve been there and it isn’t a comfortable place.

    As to #132, I live in the desert southwest, in their territory, and I can’t seem to convince them to move.

  8. Kat — I’ve eaten friend grasshopper, chocolate covered ants, squid, octopus, frog, alligator … I haven’t eaten the cockroaches — shudder but I’ve murdered a good many of them. (Not enough, though. Not nearly enough.)

  10. When love goes wrong what is left but madness? And I am not certain alcohol is any better excuse than another — or anymore painful. Broken promises, broken expectations, broken trust — it wounds no matter what guise it wears.

    I wasn’t the only injured party. I failed my husband by overcoming my shyness and developing a self-confidence he found very daunting. He said I didn’t need him enough. I couldn’t make him understand that want should have more value than need.

  11. Interesting. You “failed” in precisely the way that would, I think, have saved our marriage if my partner had adopted it. Dude must have been really insecure – a failing with which I am all too intimately familiar, and never mind anyone else.

    Such experiences build walls. I hope you have allowed yourself a loophole or two through which you may peek from time to time.

  12. Two years ago I actually stepped out from behind my walls and trusted — and I’ll sum that experience up by saying, I don’t seem to choose men very well.

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