Got the idea today from a trend on YouTube to write down 50 things I have done in my life. So, here goes!
1. I have read an entire book in a single sitting. A few times.
1. I have read an entire book in a single sitting. A few times.
2. I have been to Alaska.
3. I have seen over 7 Broadway musicals
4. I have kept a journal named Prudence on and off for the past three years.
5. I have read...well, I have no idea how many, but just take my word for it: I've read a lot of books.
6. I have eaten green pancakes.
7. I have been to Vancouver.
8. I have learned the same facts about the American Revolution in six consecutive grades.
9. I have bitten through my upper lip. If we went further into that story, it'd become apparent that I have a pathological fear of dolphin shows.
10. I have read a poem that I wrote in front of a crowd.
11. I have played a poppy flower in the Wizard of Oz.
12. I have read one book and loved it only to find out years later that it was part of a series. Oops.
13. I have occasionally misspelled my own name.
14. I have competed in a writing contest, and won.
15. I have successfully edited a friend’s story.
16. I have been to over a dozen funerals and unveilings.
17. I have changed my career plans over a dozen times.
18. I have made fake blood, vomit, and scars at summer camp.
19. I have created a catapult out of paper and duct tape.
20. I have overheard way too many secrets in the girls’ bathroom.
21. I have been head butted by a goat.
22. I have read the same book annually since I was eight. Chasing Redbird, by Sharon Creech.
23. I have built a castle out of Styrofoam pieces.
24. I have seen every single episode of Scrubs. At least twice.
25. I have tried to knit a square, and had it come out a circle.
26. I have attempted to ski. And failed in that attempt.
27. I have learned how to say I like hot dogs in Spanish. Me gusta los perritos calientes.
28. I have memorized Ode to Joy for the piano.
29. I have put up with something I hated to appease someone.
30. I have written a vast amount of completed stories. In my head, at least. On paper? Not so much.
31. I have done my homework in the hallway five minutes before it’s due.
32. I have loved every one of my math teachers, and hated their subjects.
33. I have been on a cruise.
34. I have petted an alpaca.
35. I have had entire conversations with people that I’ve supposedly met before, and yet can't remember them in the slightest.
36. I have been CPR certified.
37. I have let my pierced ears close up by accident.
38. I have been thrown off a horse.
39. I have edited published novels, and found a lot of mistakes.
40. I have told friends that I like something they’ve made, when truthfully, I thought it was really bad.
41. I have made friends with an 80 year old woman named Dorothy at a retirement home.
42. I have helped clean up a pond.
43. I have sang songs that I do not know the words to.
44. I have slept for three days straight.
45. I have cut my own bangs. Horribly.
46. I have seen friends move away.
47. I have taken a haunted city ghost tour.
48. I have written to Santa.
49. I have used up entire pens in one sitting.
50. I have lost over a dozen pairs of prescription glasses. Whoops.
Here's to another (better) fifty sometime soon! *Raises celebratory goblet*
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