Image by Getty Images via @daylifeWhat a great idea from PJ, Dominique, and Sue! (Their sites are at the bottom.)
My accomplishments are in bold. (comments in parantheses are my own additions!)
How about you?
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars (camping in France and Switzerland)
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Gave more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland (World counts, right?)
8. Climbed a mountain (not a big one)
9. Held a praying mantis (are they now extinct or something?)
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris (despite living in Germany for 3 years, irrationally avoided)
13. Watched a lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (Watercolor, beading, gem-setting, playing guitar)
15. Adopted a child (Does it count via CCF?)
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grew your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train (to Berlin in '65)
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (ah, remember those days?)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (and raised a goat)
26. Gone skinny dipping (Lake George)
27. Ran a marathon
28. Rode in a gondola in Venice (not as much fun at low tide or in a drought)
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (7 sweet days around Greece)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (German and failed attempts at Spanish, Italian, and French)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (ah, remember those days?)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person (avoided for some irrational reason)
39. Gone Rock climbing (or was that the mountain?)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sang 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 (though everyone thinks the oil study I own is of me)
48. Gone deep-sea fishing (off both coasts of Florida)
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling (St. Vincent and the Mediterranean)
52. Kissed in the rain (ah, remember those days?)
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (a rite of passage in my youth)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (twice)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone Whale Watching (and saw dolphins)
63. Got flowers for no reason (ah, remember those days?)
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
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
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle (and owned two of my own)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car (ah, remember those days?)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper (And finally digitalized it from '69)
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on NYE (back before Universal Precautions)
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (a deer)
88. Had chickenpox (smallpox, mumps, and measles, one after another one Spring/Summer)
89. Saved someone’s life (doesn't really count since that was my career and was seldom alone for long)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club (Remember Book of the Month?)
93. Got a tattoo (back when it was illegal in most states)
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit (do divorces count?)
98. Owned a cell phone (My first one was in my car and the size of a shoe box)
99. Been stung by a bee (and almost died)
(If you have the time and the clear head to actually count my accomplishments and come up with a different number, please know that I've counted them innumerable times and each had different sums. Feel free to correct me!)
Living the CFS Lifehttp://living-the-cfs-life.blogspot.com/2010/06/49-things-ive-accomplished.html
Lyme is Crazyhttp://lymeiscrazy.blogspot.com/2010/06/67-things-i-have-accomplished.html
Learning to Live With CFShttp://livewithcfs.blogspot.com/2010/06/50-things-i-accomplished.html
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