Sunday, October 10, 2010

Fifty Things

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.
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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