sNOw

It's just started snowing those giant, floppy flakes that in a few weeks will evolve into those giant balls of sludge hurtling from the sky that characterize springtime snow.  I honestly don't mind winter, but this part is inconvenient.

So, via Wende, a list of things that someone thinks I might have done by this point in my life.

1. Started your own blog (um...yeah)
2. Slept under the stars (I've never slept over the stars...)
3. Played in a band (does marching band count?)
4. Visited Hawaii (only for a few hours in the middle of the night)
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (I guess, sort of, part of one...)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped (I have no desire whatsoever to do this)
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a thunder and lightning storm (at every opportunity)
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (what's an art?  I taught myself to crochet, and to snake a drain...)
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning (surprising, but not that I remember)
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France (um, as opposed to the Mona Lisa in Zimbabwe?)
20. Slept on an overnight train (Rome to Paris...I think I was 13?)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (this really depends on how you define ill.  My conscience is clear.)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (Only part of one.  I got it at Safeway.)
26. Gone skinny dipping (yuck.  Just saying.)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice (no, but ridden every other form of Venetian transport)
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person (Once in winter.  There was a lot of ice.)
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (You mean Kentucky?  Well, I've been to Scotland, too.)
35. Seen an Amish community (there are several near my parents'.)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (I'm not sure what that means.)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke (I've never seen the appeal of being in a place where people are doing this.)
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant (Not on purpose.  I was given the wrong bill.)
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris 
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (I did spend part of my childhood in Guam...)
52. Kissed in the rain  
53. Played in the mud (I hate dirt.  I've always hated dirt.  Even as a child.)
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (my parents thought it would be a novel experience.  Then they couldn't get the audio to work.)
55. Been in a movie (I hope not.)
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 (never a Girl Scout.  But I ate some today.)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason (as long as "because I want them" doesn't count as a reason)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (ineligible, due to both medical issues and having lived in Europe during a mad cow disease scare.)
65. Gone sky diving (see bungee jumping)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp (I can do this when I visit the birthplace of the rest of my ancestors...)
67. Bounced a check (For someone who's good at math, I can sometimes be very bad at math.)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (assuming "fired" doesn't included layoffs)
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
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
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House (only outside)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (I'm sure the animal is never "prepared"...)
88. Had chickenpox (Never!  Even though my younger sister did when she was 3 and I was 6 or 7.  The vaccine came out around when I started college, and I got it then.)
89. Saved someone’s life (see #64)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (does the Pope count?)
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 (define "involved"...)
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee (I sat on the corpse of a wasp-like thing once.  I suppose it stung, but not by the creature's volition.)