The Faded Mirror

This looked like fun, although some of the questions were a bit … unsavory.  At the urging of my wife, I just removed them.  So, I added five more to make an even 200.

Thanks to Elizabeth at The Garden Window!

OK, things I have done are in bold.  Things I wish I could do are in italics.  Let’s have some fun….

1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
2. Swam with wild dolphins
3. Climbed a mountain
4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
6. Held a tarantula
7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
8. Said “I love you” and meant it
9. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights (from my house in Maryland on one wild night!)
16. Gone to a huge sports game (Ravens beat the Steelers at home in OT to make playoffs!)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (Just thinned some baby carrots yesterday)
19. Touched an iceberg (I suppose lettuce doesn’t count)
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne (I was ten years old at my Aunt’s wedding)
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy (Does LARPing count?)
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip (I was in the jungle, I was reallly hot, it wasn’t midnight)
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar (I offered him my bible, but he refused when I told him it was a present from my wife.)
40. Seen a total eclipse (I peeked with one eye.  I can still see.)
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (It runs in the family)
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day (We had all of King’s Dominion convinced we were British)
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer (How about four?)
49. Visited all 50 states (I think I’ve hit just about all the Continental States…)
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was drunk
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends (Still do…)
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (I think … details of that night are still sketchy)
55. Watched wild whales (Not yet.  Dolphins, however….)
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them (Only if college cafeteria counts)
66. Visited Japan
67. Bench pressed your own weight (This was a lot easier to do a few years ago…)
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud (Football!)
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theatre
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
83. Dropped Windows in favour of something better.  Messed around with Linux, but not enough time to learn….
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Sword fought for the honour of a woman  (LARPing again)
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight (Can’t do much in less than six hours….)
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie  (We were on screen in Home Makeover)
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Gone without food for 5 days  (Three days max)
97. Made cookies from scratch
98. Won first prize in a costume contest
99. Ridden a gondola in Venice
100. Gotten a tattoo
101. Rafted the Snake River
102. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
103. Got flowers for no reason
104. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
105. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
106. Performed on stage
107. Been to Las Vegas
108. Recorded music
109. Eaten shark (Ate pirhanna once)
110. Had a one-night stand
111. Gone to Thailand
112. Seen Siouxsie live  (After seeing Wierd Al Yankovic, nothing else could ever compare)
113. Bought a house (…from my parents, how geeky is that?)
114. Been in a combat zone
115. Buried one/both of your parents
116. Been on a cruise ship (walked uninvited onto a US Navy Aircraft carrier once)
117. Spoken more than one language fluently
118. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
119. Bounced a check
120. Performed in Rocky Horror
121. Read – and understood – your credit report
122. Raised children
123. Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy
124. Followed your favourite band/singer on tour
125. Created and named your own constellation of stars
126. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
127. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
128. Called or written your Member of Congress
129. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
130. … more than once?
131. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
132. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
133. Had an abortion or your female partner did
134. Had plastic surgery
135. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
136. Wrote articles for a large publication
137. Lost over 100 pounds
138. Held someone while they were having a flashback
139. Piloted an airplane (My parents bought us a one flying lesson for Christmas — the coolest gift ever)
140. Petted a stingray
141. Broken someone’s heart
142. Helped an animal give birth (I don’t think my wife wants to be classified as an animal)
143. Been fired or laid off from a job  (Laid off — one of the best things that ever happened)
144. Won money on a TV game show
145. Broken a bone  (Surprisingly never!)
146. Killed a human being
147. Gone on an African photo safari
148. Ridden a motorcycle
149. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
150. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
151. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
152. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
153. Ridden a horse
154. Had major surgery (Sinuses.  Needed to happen.)
155. Had a snake as a pet
156. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
157. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
158. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
159. Visited more foreign countries than US states
160. Visited all 7 continents
161. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
162. Eaten kangaroo meat
163. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
164. Been a sperm or egg donor
165. Eaten sushi  (ick.  Raw fish.)
166. Had your picture in the newspaper
167. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime (Only one, but it’s for a lifetime)
168. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
169. Gotten someone fired for their actions
170. Gone back to school
171. Parasailed
172. Changed your name (Well, for a while there I was known as Fr. Joel, then went back to being plain Tad)
173. Petted a cockroach
174. Eaten fried green tomatoes
175. Read “The Iliad”
176. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
177. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
178. … and gotten 86′ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
179. Taught yourself art from scratch
180. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (Trout.  Yummy.)
181. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
182. Skipped all your school reunions
183. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
184. Been elected to public office
185. Written your own computer language (Well, sort of.  It was a primitive scripting language for database installation)
186. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
187. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
188. Built your own PC from parts
189. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
190. Had a booth at a street fair
191. Dyed your hair
192. Been a DJ
193. Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
194. Written your own role playing game  (It’s called Flip — wrote it for my kids)
195. Been arrested
196. Adopted a child
197. Orbited the earth
198. Painted daisies on a big red rubber ball
199. Been to Boston in the Fall
200. Gone over Niagra Falls in a barrel