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Monday, December 18, 2006
To-Do List, Done List

I am obsessed with making to-do lists and this interesting one has a whopping 150 items on it. I flicked this meme off Terra Shield’s blog. The items in bold are the ones checked done.

P.S: I am posting the second meme in a row because I have just written my exams and can't be bothered to tax my brains further and come up with a brilliant post. (So what if i cheated big time. An exam is still an exam.)

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain {It was just a hillock. I am such a lazy bum that all I can climb is Mt. Ever-rest. }
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
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables {Bitter gourds only}
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 {A gazillion times}
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment {more than once}
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger {Today, that stranger is one of my best friends!}
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse of the moon.
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
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
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
{My personal library too, is well catalogued.}
57. Pretended to be a superhero {superheroine}
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain {by the sea!}
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 {Nope, it wasn’t a crash diet or some insane weight loss program}
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
{ Alright, third prize.}
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage {in school}
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date {That first date went on to become a serious relationship.}
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 {The third toe of my right foot.}
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol {Rifles & pistols but not shotguns}
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. {Sickness}
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 {You must have seen it on Page 3 }
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 {For all my talk of being an incurable romantic, I can’t even spell nstlgia.}
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
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 {Not human lives but tree lives. Plants are people to me :-) }

If you are inclined to do a hundred and fifty things, tag yourself.
I tag Keshi, Silver Sabre, H.


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8 Comments:
Blogger Prometheus responded:
Awrite, now its Prometheus' turn to go hmpf, pfft and other such.

He is J of 07, confuzzled about 29 and shocked at 88. And he loves the 17s, the way his momma makes it.

Blogger Julia Scissor ;-) responded:
Now Prom, I read your meme again and I see you have done 7 too.

As for 29, the stranger was a friend's friend. He and I spoke over the phone by a quirk of fate. And we ended up asking each other out. We are great chums now.

With regard to 88, that happened with my ex. (He was a sea warrior.)We had known each other for a month before he asked me out.I was hoping for 'it' to happen coz we really liked each other. Nuff said.

Blogger Prometheus responded:
Waayyll, Jules. Ya know this species called MCP right? Well, Prometheus ain't no MCP at all, but that Y chromosome thinger in him kinda talks sometimes ya know.

Yust kidding, girl. Prometheus has a checkered past and an open mind. Ya don't hafta explain nothing. Hey, Prometheus means "explain nothing about the PAST". So now don't go about 2 IC555-ing him. Refer Gazette vide GoI/MHA/whatever.

Blogger Julia Scissor ;-) responded:
@ Prom: Yeah, your response was typically Indian male. I wasn't trying to EXPLAIN my past. All the 'backgrounding' was simply FYI.
;-)

(After all, one should all be able to take one's lover's past with a pinch of mirchi.)

Blogger Keshi responded:
hey great many things u hav edone in ur 20yrs Julia...WOW!

**Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived

sounds scary.


U tagged me LOL! U'll have to give me some time sweetie. Ok?? I will def do it...but give me time, tnxx!

Hugggggz!
Keshi.

Blogger Julia Scissor ;-) responded:
Yeah sure Keshi, take your time. Doing a 150 things came be tedious work. This is your welcome tag. :-)

I have almost died on two occasions. First I fell into a tub of water when I was an infant. I don't have any memory of it. The second time I fell off the first floor balcony when I was probably 4,5 or 6. So this life I am living is a bonus!

Hugs.

Anonymous Srinivasa Ramanujam responded:
That's a pretty big list !!!

Anonymous caveblogem responded:
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I have done a sort of statistical study of responses to this meme, and that yours was one of the blogs chosen for the sample. (I tried to let the unwitting participants know through trackbacks, but apparently the spam-filters caught all but a few of these).

The first of the results are posted on my site here.

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