Potpourri Blogging

I don't usually post when I don't have pictures or something personal to share, but I just don't have anything right now. Things have been beyond crazy right now. Life has been unreasonably out of sorts for a few weeks now, so my brain has followed suits and is terribly out of sorts. Thus, I haven't been in any shape for trying to right. I'm posting this as a form of blogging without having to think too much.

Instructions:
Copy the list, bold the ones you've done (with explanations if needed), share with friends.
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (in a tent near the Grand Canyon was my most recent adventure)
3. Played in a band (I was a bank geek as a teenager. I played the trumpet and was even a majorette for a few years. I know, what you're thinking and I can't imagine me in sequins and twirling either!)
4. Visited Hawaii (even better, I lived there!)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity (obviously not more than I can afford, but have a regular tithing habit)
7. Been to Disneyland (went with my Mom and sister when I lived in San Diego)
8. Climbed a mountain (smaller mountains in New Mexico as a kid and then a dormant volcano in Hawaii)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a thunder and lightning storm (I live in TX. 'Nuff said)
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (sewing)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables (I was just telling Daniel yesterday that I want to do this. I'm starting with tomatoes this week!)
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 (Don't get any crazy ideas. I was a kid.)
27. Run a Marathon (that's just ridiculous)
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset (the best are in West Texas)
31. Hit a home run (only an in-park)
32. Been on a cruise (only whale watching)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (Does the exit sign count? I didn't think so. I'm still mad at Daniel that we couldn't stop for just a few mibutes to see it.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (Does the mancode 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
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser 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 (if those caricatures count)
48. Gone deep sea fishing (No, but I love laughing at my husband when he gets disgustingly sick while deep sea fishing. He's a sailor for goodness, sakes!)
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (Snorkled in Hanauma Bay, Oahu, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico)
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 (in San Diego, Oahu and Maui)
63. Got flowers for no reason (those are the best kind of flowers!)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (many, many moons ago. I was a terrible money manager as a teenager and when in college)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy (my rocking chair I got when I turned 1, all of the books I owned as a child and my wooden toy box are now bequeathed to my children)
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial (I've been three times and am always in awe)
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 Guards in London
77. Broken a bone (it's lame, but my nose has been broken three times)
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (I've had two - my 2001 Jeep Liberty and 2006 Chevy Suburban)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (many times while playing softball)
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
(I had a great opportunity at Presidential Classroom when in high school)87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. had chickenpox (twice!)
89. Saved someone’s life (Does giving life twice count?)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (When I was a reporter, I did this on a weekly basis. It's not that impressive.)
92. Joined a book club
93. Got 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

How about you?