People have lists of things they want to do, but I wanted to do a list of things I have done.
What about you?
1. Attend at least one major sporting event:
Dodgers vs. Astros, Fiesta Bowl, KC Royals Game, a few Atlanta Braves games.2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends:
I’ve had a few of those.3. Be an extra in a film:
I was an extra in a commercial. Does that count?4. Make love on a forest floor:
In the woods, beside the lake.5. Learn how to take a compliment:
Why, thank you.6. Be a member of the audience in a TV show:
The Price is Right and A Different World.7. Get to know my neighbors:
I miss my old neighbors.8. Plant a tree: I
have planted many trees!9. Learn not to say yes when I really mean no:
I have amazed a co-worker with this ability.10. Write a fan letter to my all-time favorite actor or actress:
Wrote a fan letter to Tom Hanks when he was on Bosom Buddies. He sent me a postcard thanking me for “the lovely letter”!11. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works:
I went to Girls’ State and learned all of this, but I have been to the Oklahoma Capitol and experienced this first hand.12. Fall deeply in love:
Did it!13. Be someone's mentor:
I had a couple of students I mentored. I miss them too.14. See a lunar eclipse:
These are really cool.15. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it:
I was on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters here in town for four years and was Executive Vice-President for one term.
16. Make a complete and utter fool of myself:
Who hasn’t done that?17. Write my will:
Done it. Need to revise it.18. Sleep under the stars:
Did it until the storm rolled in.19. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!:
Sheez. I complain in my sleep I’m so good at it.20. Spend a whole day reading a great novel:
I was sick last week. I read three.21. Learn to juggle with three balls:
I can do this for a short period of time.22. Find a job I love:
I have had two of those.23. Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want:
We had ours built like we wanted it and have made it entirely ours.24. Grow a garden:
Would be nice to have one the deer didn’t get into.25. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring:
Shuh. My first car out of college was a convertible. Then I got a family.26. Accept myself for who you are:
I accept, but don’t really like it from time to time.27. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public:
Yuck.28. Attend one really huge rock concert:
Dave Matthews Band and The Rolling Stones.29. Be able to handle: my tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, my banker, telephone solicitors:
Done, done and done.30. Give to a charity – anonymously:
All the time.31. Fart in a crowded space:
No comment.32. Make love on the kitchen floor:
Again, no comment.33. Create my own web site:
Here you are!34. Visit the Holy Land:
Tried to…
Heh. Just kidding.34. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile:
Dang kid looks just like me.35. Be interviewed on T.V.:
I make TV for a living so I have found my way on screen from time to time.36. Get married:
13 years, 7 months ago.37. Have a family:
8 years, 3 months ago.38. Go to a Broadway stage show:
We saw Phantom of the Opera last year.39. Watch a sunset with someone special:
The Commander and I used to go and sit on the dock and watch the sunset at least once a week.
40. Fill up my bookshelf with books:
Overflowing!41. Own a house:
I own #3 and #4 right now.42. Help build a house for a homeless family:
I volunteered with Habitat one weekend.43. Pay off my student loan:
I only had one student loan for $200 during my college years. I paid it off right away.44. Publish a book of my photos:
I did this with iPhoto for my MIL and The Commander.45. Air travel in first class:
It was a short trip, but I managed to down a couple of Bloody Marys.46. Learn how to eat properly with chopsticks:
Still prefer a fork.47. Develop a roll of film from my own photographs:
I took a photography and darkroom class years ago.48. Visit a pub in London:
Awesome experience.49. Visit the Alps in Switzerland:
Totally awesome experience.50. Help someone get into or through college:
Do your kids count? This crap is hard.51. Go peach picking and make cobbler:
Oh yeah.52. Meet someone famous:
Gordon Jump – WKRP and the Maytag repairman.53. Take tap dancing lessons:
When I was in Kindergarten.54. Tithe:
Every month.55. Go to religious services other than my own:
Catholic, Seven Day Adventist and Latter Day Saints.56. Rewire a lamp:
I am Ms. Electrician. You have a ceiling fan you need hung? I’m there. Your outlet doesn’t work? I can fix it.57. Have a family portrait taken:
It is tough, but it can be done.58. Be bold and take my action figures out of the box:
Value be damned!59. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower:
Loved it.60. Know where my things are at a banquet:
BMW. Left to right – bread, meal, water.61. Become an editor and get paid to correct other people's grammar errors:
Heh, I get to do that from time to time.62. Get a tattoo:
My tattoo will turn 21 years old on the 19th of this month.63. Get my belly button pierced:
For three weeks. My pants kept snagging it.64. Dye my hair an outrageous color:
Um, let’s not talk about that.65. Play Laser Tag:
Did it in February. Fun!66. Ride a motorcycle:
Been doing it since I was little. Currently own two of them.67. Take a picture in a photo booth:
I miss photo booths.68. Hold a bear cub:
These guys are so cute.69. Stay awake for 24 hours:
38. I don’t recommend it.70. Watch a movie being filmed:
Did for a short time, but someone from the crew got all bent out of shape.71. Get a book autographed:
I got to meet Debbie Macomber last May.72. Get something published in a newspaper or magazine:
Some of the photos I have taken at work have made it.73. Ride in a helicopter:
I was nervous at first, but once I was up there, it was great.74. See a movie at a drive-in:
It has been a while.75. Get a professional massage:
You betcha!76. Draw on a wall:
My wall at work has a large chalk drawing of a hibiscus flower.77. Donate blood:
It is hard for me because I have wonky veins.78. Be on the front page of the Sunday paper:
Did it! The Daily Oklahoman had a large, color photo of me and the Commander at an Oklahoma State/Iowa State football game.79. Get a college degree:
BA in Radio/Television/Film Production and Performance with a Minor in English.80. Rescue a dog from the pound:
His name is Cooper and he has been with us for 2 ½ years.81. Win at a Bingo Hall:
Bingo!82. Crash a tailgating party:
They didn’t know me, but I still got beer.83. Catch something and eat it:
Crappie and bass. Yum.84. Take my son on a toy shopping spree:
He got a lot of cash for his birthday one year. He spent loads.85. Win an award:
Scholar Athlete in high school.86. Go to State in an athletic even:
4th place in the Discus my Freshman year.87. Process inmates into jail:
Crazy, but yes, I have done this.88. Sip a Tequila Sunrise while at the horse track:
My dad bought it for me.89. Eat a doggie treat:
Just once. I was curious.90. Watch the movie Grease 13 times:
It was when it first came out on HBO. I’m a fan.
91. Eat Bison, Elk, Emu, Ostrich, Deer or other wild animal:
I have had them all in Jerky form. Tasty.92. Have a smiley face inlaid into my porcelain crown:
It broke, but now I have a paw print and Saturn.93. Learn to correctly make chicken gravy:
It took a while, but I got it down.94. Reconnect with a high school friend:
In the process right now. I got in touch with her dad and he is passing the message along.95. Sit and listen to nature:
Frogs, geese, and birds (including woodpeckers and wild turkeys) are making up the majority of the ambient noise at my house right now.
96. Get high blood pressure:
Not funny.97. Get high cholesterol:
Still not funny.98. Get TMJ:
Funny? Not at all.99. Get Carpal Tunnel:
Shut up. 100. Live 40 years:
Done.