{"id":909,"date":"2004-10-07T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/07\/i-want-to-be-able-to-cross-off-some-more\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T13:09:00","slug":"i-want-to-be-able-to-cross-off-some-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/10\/07\/i-want-to-be-able-to-cross-off-some-more\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to be able to cross off some more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>meme from <a href=\"http:\/\/kevasangel74.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">kevasangel74<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more a life worth living--><\/p>\n<p>01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink<br \/>\n02. Swam with wild dolphins<br \/>\n<b>03. Climbed a mountain<\/b><br \/>\n<i>living in Vancouver certifies this one<\/i><br \/>\n04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive<br \/>\n05. Been inside the Great Pyramid<br \/>\n<b>06. Held a tarantula<br \/>\n07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone<br \/>\n08. Said &#8216;I love you&#8217; and meant it<\/b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>09. Hugged a tree<\/b><br \/>\n10. Done a striptease<br \/>\n<i>I&#8217;m fairly certain that eventually this one will happen<\/i><br \/>\n11. Bungee jumped<br \/>\n12. Visited Paris<br \/>\n13. Watched a lightning storm at sea<br \/>\n<\/b><b>14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise<\/b><br \/>\n15. Seen the Northern Lights<br \/>\n16. Gone to a huge sports game<br \/>\n17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa<br \/>\n<b>18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables<\/b><br \/>\n19. Touched an iceberg<br \/>\n<b>20. Slept under the stars<br \/>\n21. Changed a baby&#8217;s diaper.<br \/>\n22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon<br \/>\n23. Watched a meteor shower<\/b><br \/>\n24. Gotten drunk on champagne<br \/>\n25. Given more than you can afford to charity<br \/>\n<b>26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope<br \/>\n27. an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment<\/b><br \/>\n28. Had a food fight<br \/>\n<i>another I wish<\/i><br \/>\n29. Bet on a winning horse<br \/>\n30. Called in sick when you were not ill<br \/>\n<b>31. Asked out a stranger<br \/>\n32. Had a snowball fight<\/b><br \/>\n33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier<br \/>\n<i>do people really do this?<\/i><br \/>\n<b>34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can<br \/>\n35. Held a lamb<\/b><br \/>\n36. Enacted a favorite fantasy<br \/>\n<i>37. Taken a midnight skinny dip<br \/>\ndoes it count if it was daytime?<\/i><br \/>\n<b>38. Taken an ice cold bath<br \/>\n39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar<\/b><br \/>\n40. Seen a total eclipse<br \/>\n<b>41. Ridden a roller coaster<br \/>\n42. Hit a home run<br \/>\n43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days<br \/>\n44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking<br \/>\n45. Adopted an accent for an entire day<\/b><br \/>\n<i>I can&#8217;t help that one. I pick it up from people<\/i><br \/>\n46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors<br \/>\n<b>47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment<\/b><br \/>\n48. Had two hard drives for your computer<br \/>\n49. Visited all 50 states<br \/>\n<i>50. Loved your job<br \/>\nhalf point<\/i><br \/>\n<b>51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced<br \/>\n52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied<br \/>\n53. Had amazing friends<\/b><br \/>\n54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country<br \/>\n<i>I could find some way to make this one work, but it would be a tangled web, so I&#8217;m not going to bother. Suffice to say that I&#8217;ve danced with strangers in some pretty damned strange places<\/i><br \/>\n55. Watched wild whales<br \/>\n<b>56. Stolen a sign<\/b><br \/>\n57. Backpacked in Europe<br \/>\n<i> this would solve so many of these. *sighs*<\/i><br \/>\n<b>58. Taken a road-trip<br \/>\n59. Rock climbing<br \/>\n60. Lied to foreign government&#8217;s official in that country to avoid notice<br \/>\n61. Midnight walk on the beach<\/b><br \/>\n62. Sky diving<br \/>\n63. Visited Ireland<br \/>\n64. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love<br \/>\n<b>65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger&#8217;s table and had a meal with them<\/b><br \/>\n66. Visited Japan<br \/>\n67. Benchpressed your own weight<br \/>\n68. Milked a cow<br \/>\n69. Alphabetized your records Well, CDs.<br \/>\n<b>70. Pretended to be a superhero<br \/>\n71. Sung karaoke<br \/>\n72. Lounged around in bed all day<br \/>\n<\/b><i>only with company<\/i><b><br \/>\n73. Posed nude in front of strangers<\/b><br \/>\n74. Scuba diving<br \/>\n75. Got it on to &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get It On&#8221; by Marvin Gaye<br \/>\n<b>76. Kissed in the rain<br \/>\n77. Played in the mud<br \/>\n78. Played in the rain<br \/>\n79. Gone to a drive-in theater<br \/>\n80. Done something you should regret, but don&#8217;t regret it<\/b><br \/>\n81. Visited the Great Wall of China<br \/>\n82. Discovered that someone who&#8217;s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog<br \/>\n<i>my mum read it once and confronted me &#8220;you think I&#8217;m flaky?&#8221; &#8220;yes mum, a little&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better<br \/>\n84. Started a business<br \/>\n<b>85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken<\/b><br \/>\n86. Toured ancient sites<br \/>\n<i>I take it websites don&#8217;t count&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n<b>87. Taken a martial arts class<br \/>\n88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman<\/b><br \/>\n<i> because my own honour better count<\/i><br \/>\n89. Played D&#038;D for more than 6 hours straight<br \/>\n90. Gotten married<br \/>\n91. Been in a movie<br \/>\n<b>92. Crashed a party<br \/>\n93. Loved someone you shouldn&#8217;t have<br \/>\n94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy<br \/>\n96. Had sex at the office<br \/>\n<\/b><i>does in a theater tech booth count?<\/i><b><br \/>\n97. Gone without food for 5 days<br \/>\n98. Made cookies from scratch<br \/>\n99. Won first prize in a costume contest<\/b><br \/>\n100. Ridden a gondola in Venice<br \/>\n101. Gotten a tattoo<br \/>\n102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on<br \/>\n103. Rafted the Snake River<br \/>\n104. Been on television news programs as an &#8220;expert&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>105. Got flowers for no reason<\/b><br \/>\n106. Masturbated in a public place<br \/>\n107. Got so drunk you don&#8217;t remember anything<br \/>\n108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug<br \/>\n<b>109. Performed on stage<\/b><br \/>\n110. Been to Las Vegas<br \/>\n<b>111. Recorded music<\/b><br \/>\n112. Eaten shark<br \/>\n113. Had a one-night stand<br \/>\n<i>I tried this once. It took me a week to go through with it, then I ended up living with the chap for two months. I imagine that counts as a flunk.<\/i><br \/>\n114. Gone to Thailand<br \/>\n115. Seen Siouxsie live<br \/>\n116. Bought a house<br \/>\n117. Been in a combat zone<br \/>\n118. Buried one\/both of your parents<br \/>\n119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off<br \/>\n120. Been on a cruise ship<br \/>\n<b>121. Spoken more than one language fluently<br \/>\n122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone<\/b><br \/>\n123. Bounced a check<br \/>\n<b>124. Performed in Rocky Horror<\/b><br \/>\n125. Read &#8211; and understood &#8211; your credit report<br \/>\n126. Raised children<br \/>\n127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy<br \/>\n128. Followed your favorite band\/singer on tour<br \/>\n<b>129. Created and named your own constellation of stars<\/b><br \/>\n130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country<br \/>\n<b>131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did<\/b><br \/>\n132. Called or written your Congress person<br \/>\n<b>133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over<\/b><br \/>\n<i>sort of, more moved because I could.<\/i><br \/>\n134. &#8230;more than once?<br \/>\n<i>does allowing myself to be kidnapped to san fransisco by jazz musicians count? I was there about a month&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge<br \/>\n<i>cycled it because I&#8217;m insane<\/i><br \/>\n<b>136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn&#8217;t stop when you knew someone was looking<br \/>\n137. Had an abortion or your female partner did<\/b><br \/>\n138. Had plastic surgery<br \/>\n<b>139. Survived an accident that you shouldn&#8217;t have survived<\/b><br \/>\n140. Wrote articles for a large publication<br \/>\n<i>wrote articles for tiny publications in multiple countries<\/i><br \/>\n141. Lost over 100 pounds<br \/>\n<b>142. Held someone while they were having a flashback<br \/>\n143. Piloted an airplane<\/b><br \/>\n144. Petted a stingray<br \/>\n<b>145. Broken someone&#8217;s heart<\/b><br \/>\n<i>multiples. I can&#8217;t help it that I never like anyone&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n146. Helped an animal give birth<br \/>\n<b>147. Been fired or laid off from a job<\/b><br \/>\n148. Won money on a T.V. game show<br \/>\n149. Broken a bone<br \/>\n150. Killed a human being<br \/>\n151. Gone on an African photo safari<br \/>\n<b>152. Ridden a motorcycle<\/b><br \/>\n153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph<br \/>\n<i>been in one, many times<\/i><br \/>\n154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced<br \/>\n<i>*passes over the obvious &#8220;I&#8217;m no longer a virgin&#8221; comments<\/i><br \/>\n<b>155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol<br \/>\n156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild<br \/>\n157. Ridden a horse<\/b><br \/>\n158. Had major surgery<br \/>\n159. Had sex on a moving train<br \/>\n160. Had a snake as a pet<br \/>\n161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon<br \/>\n162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing<br \/>\n<b>163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours<\/b><br \/>\n164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states<br \/>\n165. Visited all 7 continents<br \/>\n166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days<br \/>\n167. Eaten kangaroo meat<br \/>\n168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground<br \/>\n169. Been a sperm or egg donor<br \/>\n170. Eaten sushi<br \/>\n<b>171. Had your picture in the newspaper<br \/>\n172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime<br \/>\n173. Changed someone&#8217;s mind about something you care deeply about<\/b><br \/>\n174. Gotten someone fired for their actions<br \/>\n175. Gone back to school<br \/>\n176. Parasailed<br \/>\n177. Changed your name<br \/>\n<i>planning on it. It&#8217;s severely annoying to have the government know you by two names<\/i><br \/>\n<b>178. Petted a cockroach<br \/>\n179. Eaten fried green tomatoes<br \/>\n180. Read The Iliad<\/b><br \/>\n181. Selected one &#8220;important&#8221; author who you missed in school, and read Shakespeare<br \/>\n<i>I don&#8217;t think I understand this one<\/i><br \/>\n<b>182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them<\/b><br \/>\n<i>if you like heavy silverware &#8211; I recommend Earls.<\/i><br \/>\n183. &#8230;and gotten 86&#8217;ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you<br \/>\n<b>184. Taught yourself an art from scratch<br \/>\n185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating<br \/>\n186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt<\/b><br \/>\n<i>this is what happens when they skip town right afterward<\/i><br \/>\n187. Skipped all your school reunions<br \/>\n188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language<\/b><br \/>\n189. Been elected to public office<br \/>\n190. Written your own computer language<br \/>\n191. Thought to yourself that you&#8217;re living your dream<br \/>\n<b>192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care<\/b><br \/>\n<i>because I&#8217;m that good baby<\/i><br \/>\n193. Built your own PC from parts<br \/>\n<b>194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn&#8217;t know you<br \/>\n195. Had a booth at a street fair<br \/>\n196: Dyed your hair<br \/>\n197: Been a DJ<\/b><br \/>\n198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal<br \/>\n199: Written your own role playing game<br \/>\n200: Been arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meme from kevasangel74<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}