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Friday, August 10, 2007

A Meme

Here's a meme I stole from HolyGirl427...

Simply bold the things you have done and give us a total count at the end...

Bought everyone in the pub/bar a drink -- Well, actually, WHH did, but I was with him!
Climbed a mountain
Held a tarantula
Taken a candlelit bath with someone -- Why do you suppose I call him Way-Hot Husband?
Been in love -- For the past 30+ years!
Broken someone’s heart
Had my heart broken
Done a striptease -- I can be a tart that way
Bungee jumped
Watched a lightning storm at sea
Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise

Seen the Northern Lights
Gone to a huge sports game -- Many, but Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans 2002 was the biggest and most exciting for me. New England 20 St. Louis 17. Paul McCartney performed pre-game and U2 was half-time.
Grown and eaten my own vegetables -- One summer we had so many tomatoes that we were sick to death of them. Jim and Patrick had a big food fight in the yard with tomatoes. It was so much fun to watch them having fun together.
Slept under the stars --
After a hayride one crisp October night, WHH and I slept next to the camp fire. It was so romantic, but we woke up in the early morning chilled to the bone! Changed a baby’s diaper -- I'm a MOM!
Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
Watched a meteor shower -- I've seen a shooting star a few times, but never a shower of them.
Gotten drunk on champagne -- Every year on our anniversary for the first few years. That stopped when I got pregnant with Jimbo, and we never really did that again because champagne hangovers are painful!
Given money to charity -- Our favorite charities are Alzheimer's Association, Habitat for Humanity, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and NAMI
Looked up at the night sky through a telescope -- Saw the Hale-Bopp Comet in 1995 with my friend, Peg, at the Walters State Community College Observatory
Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
-- When I was in junior high my friend, Brenda, and I giggled throughout church services for probably an entire year. I'm very ashamed of that, but we did have fun.
Had a food fight
Bet on a winning horse
Taken a sick day when I wasn’t ill -- Usually because one or both of the boys was sick. Had a snowball fight
Photocopied my butt or any other intimate body part -- only my face
Held a lamb
Gone skinny dipping -- WHH and I climbed the fence of the Carlinville Country Club pool more than a few times to go skinny dipping.
Taken an ice cold shower
Seen a total eclipse -- of the moon
Ridden a roller coaster -- When I was in high school, my friends and I loved going to King's Island near Cincinnati to ride "The Racer" roller coaster. We would ride it, then get right back in line to ride again trying different seats each time.
GOOD TIMES! I think that's probably when I screwed up my neck!
Hit a home run -- Never in a million years, I'm such a klutz!
Been arrested
Visited all 50 states
Taken care of someone who was shit faced
Stolen a street/highway sign
Backpacked in Europe
Taken a road-trip -- Many
Taken a midnight walk on the beach -- Many, and I love those walks
Gone sky diving
Milked a cow
Alphabetized my records/CDs
-- I also like to alphabetize my spices. Hey, my first job was in a library shelving books. It gets in your blood, that alphabetizing thing does!
Sung karaoke -- With my sisters. We always love singing together!
Lounged around in bed all day -- I love to do that on rainy days, watch movies, or read, or something even more entertaining
Gone scuba diving
-- in the deep-end of a swimming pool
Danced in the rain -- I love dancing anytime, a little bit of rain isn't going to stop me!

Gone to a drive-in theater --
I LOVE the drive-in!
Started a business -- Brooks TV Sales & Service, I was a "financial backer" :-)

Gotten married -- April 1, 1978

Been in a movie

Crashed a party

Gotten divorced
Had sex at the office
Made cookies from scratch --
I make an excellent chocolate-chip cookie!
Gotten a tattoo
Been on television -- I spoke up at a school board meeting (or something like that) to protest the deplorable conditions of the Alpha Elementary School in Morristown, TN. A Knoxville news camera showed me for 3 or 4 seconds. Morristown finally built some new schools.
Had sex in a public place

Got so drunk I don’t remember anything
Recorded music --
High school band and jazz band
Had a one-night stand

Bought a house

Shaved or waxed off my pubic hair

Been on a cruise ship

Spoken more than one language fluently
Bounced a check

Called or written my Congressperson and Senators -- Many times! I've also signed so many petitions in the last 7 years, I've lost count.

Picked up and moved to another city to just start over --
When I was 18, I moved to Carlinville, IL
Sung loudly by myself in the car

Written articles for a large publication
Piloted an airplane
Helped an animal give birth
Been fired or laid off from a job -- Laid off from Brunswick Corporation in Skokie because some nasty guy was attempting hostile take-over in 1982. They called me back to work, but I couldn't go because I'd just given birth to Jimmy. Apparently, they forgot that I was 5 months pregnant when they laid me off.
Won money on a TV game show
Broken a bone
Ridden a motorcycle

Had a body part below the neck pierced
Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
Ridden a hors
e
Had major surgery
Had sex on a moving train
Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
Visited all seven continents
Eaten sushi -- Jimbo brought some home and said, "Mom, you've gotta try some. Put a little Wasabi on it, you're gonna' love it!" Yes, indeed, I did love it!
Had my picture in the newspaper
-- Band stuff and I got engaged and married
Parasailed
Changed my name --
Only my last name, I have always loved my given names. My Mom is cool that way!
Dyed my hair -- If you count highlights

Been a DJ

I've got 55 out of 90, am I cool or a dork??? You tell me!

1 comment:

FrancesDanger said...

Apparently you are way cooler than me. I've got to get out more.