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100 Things to do before you Die!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: Dagi on August 27, 2007, 06:54:48 am ---So many lovely ideas! You really inspired me a lot! Another thing I want to do before I die is to spend a week in the mountains running about with bare feet.....maybe I´ll do that in September......but I don´t have planned to die afterwards ;D.....
Dagi
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I hope you get your wish, Dagi. I'd like to do that too! :D
Kerry:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 27, 2007, 08:33:21 am ---I picked.....
Kiss a movie star
Love your body.
Travel from coast to coast across the USA
Do something you fear
Make love in a tent in Alberta
Smell snow.
Watch a lunar eclipse
Buy a cowboy hat in Wyoming.
Be an extra in a film
Shower under a waterfall.
Make a wish as you throw a coin into Rome’s Trevi fountain.
Spend the night in a haunted house.
Write a song.
Forgive yourself.
Go white water rafting
Yodel on a Swiss mountain
Meditate at Stonehenge.
Buy cowboy boots in Texas
Visit the Mona Lisa and smile at her.
Gallop a horse on a deserted beach.
Make love in a motel room in Wyoming.
Go on a fishing trip with your sweetie in the Big Horn Mountains.
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Good choices, Chuck! :D
I initially ticked 66 boxes (things I've never done before and also things I've done already and want to do again) but have since modified my list to just a few special things. :D
CellarDweller:
Kerry, I was actually pleased to see I had done a few things on the list!
Kerry:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 27, 2007, 10:59:29 am ---Kerry, I was actually pleased to see I had done a few things on the list!
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You make an interesting point there, Chuck. :D
It's prompted me to go through my responses and see how many I've actually done already. I was surprised with the result. :o
And it gave me a great idea for an extension to this poll. How about if we list all the things we've already done, and tell each other when/how we did them? :D
It's easy with cut 'n' paste! :laugh:
I'd love to read everyone's responses! :D
Here's mine:
* Love your body.
“Accustomed to my body” would probably be more accurate!
* Plant a tree.
Yep, and shrubs and bushes and flowers too!
* Watch a lunar eclipse.
I will be watching one this very night, right here in Sydney.
* Have your portrait painted.
It was a self-portrait. There have been several over the years.
* Go to the opening night of the ballet.
Went to the opening night of the Matthew Bourne (gay) production of “Swan Lake” in February. It was stunning and got a standing ovation. I won free tickets in a competition.
* Drink whisky straight from the bottle with your sweetie.
I’ve drunk a toast to Jack and Ennis by taking a swig straight from a whisky bottle. It was vile! I was trying to be like Jack and Ennis! There was no “sweetie” present!
* Be able to take compliments.
I’ve never had any difficulty in accepting compliments. It’s insults I can’t take!
* Shower under a waterfall.
Did this several times in childhood. There was a waterfall near the lake where I grew-up.
* Trace your family tree.
Only back a couple of generations so far.
* Sit for a day in the public gallery of Parliament House in London.
I’ve sat in the public gallery of Parliament House in Canberra! Does that count?!
* Read a book in one sitting.
Many times.
* Milk a cow.
A skill acquired in my youth!
* Learn CPR.
I hope I never have to use it, but I’m glad I learnt how to do it.
* Forgive yourself.
Let’s just say I’m still spending a lot of time in the confessional! Not as much as I used to, though!
* Talk to a stranger on the bus.
More likely it’s strangers who talk to me! If they’re not talking to me, they fall asleep on my shoulder!
* Ride a motorbike on the highway.
As pillion! It was exciting and scary at the same time.
* Collect something pointless.
I’m not usually a collector. I’m a firm believer in “less is more.” However, having said that, I have been collecting something recently, which is not pointless.
* Pick wildflowers in an alpine meadow.
I’ve picked wildflowers in a meadow, but it wasn’t an alpine meadow.
* See a killer whale in the wild.
Yep, and lots of other sorts of whales too, on their migratory path along the east coast of Oz.
* Walk in a rain forest.
Many times. One of my favourite places to be. Last summer, on a blisteringly hot day, I walked down a steep, mountain path, to the floor of a rainforest valley. It was so quiet and cool there. Just the sound of birdsong and waterfall. Magic!
* Memorise a poem.
Done it, but I don’t find it an easy thing to do.
* Subscribe to the opera.
Haven’t subscribed as such ‘cause you have to see the operas you hate when you subscribe, along with the ones you love. So I just prefer to attend the opera when they’re doing something by Puccini, my favourite. Oh, and when I can afford it!
* Gallop a horse on a deserted beach.
I was on a sedate trail ride, not a deserted beach, when my horse took off unexpectedly. We were on a circuitous, heavily wooded path and I was last in line. I was later advised that my horse panicked when he lost sight of the horses in front. When he took off, I panicked too! But I soon got into the rhythm, standing up in the stirrups (something I shouldn’t have done). It was very exhilarating while it lasted. My horse calmed down when he caught up with the other horses.
* Chant Gregorian plainsong in Chartres Cathedral.
I’ve chanted the Divine Office (that’s what it’s called!!!) in a Carmelite monastery. Does that count?
* Learn to paint solely so you can paint your sweetie’s portrait.
I have painted my soulmate’s portrait but could paint already, before I did so.
* Drink tequila in Mexico.
I drank tequila in a Spanish restaurant in Sydney’s gay ghetto one night, with a rowdy group of friends. We got very drunk and I was soooo sick the next morning!
* Learn the harmonica but vow never to play it.
I had a harmonica when I was a child and used to blow on it (never really could “play” as such, in the formal sense), just to hear my poor long-suffering pet German Shepherd howl!
* Become a vegetarian.
I’m forever in the process of “becoming” a vegetarian. I don’t eat a lot of red meat, preferring to get my protein from chicken and fish.
* Write your autobiography and have it published.
I’ve kept a journal most of my life, but I doubt that it will ever be published.
* Make love in a motel room in Wyoming.
I’ve made love in various motel rooms in New South Wales, but never in Wyoming!
* Own original works of art.
I only own originals. Don’t own any prints. They’re mainly painting I’ve painted myself but I do have a small collection of paintings by other artists also.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: Kerry on August 28, 2007, 02:12:14 am ---And it gave me a great idea for an extension to this poll. How about if we list all the things we've already done, and tell each other when/how we did them? :D
It's easy with cut 'n' paste! :laugh:
I'd love to read everyone's responses! :D
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Here ya go, Kerry!
Love your body.
I'm learning how do do this.....no easy, but making gains
Plant a tree.
did this years ago in the front yard of the house.
Do something you fear.
Jan 1st, 1997, when I came out
Learn to tango.
Took some dance lessons many many many years ago.
Smell snow.
do it each winter
Watch a lunar eclipse.
watched both lunar and solar eclipses.
Have your portrait painted.
Done by a friend's mother, and she died a few years after.
Be able to take compliments.
Once again, a learning process.
Read a book in one sitting.
Haven't done that in a while, but used to do it all the time with Stephen King books.
Learn CPR.
Did it two years ago.
Forgive yourself.
Probably about two years ago....when I started my exercising.
Talk to a stranger on the bus.
That's actually not unusual for me. I've a big mouth. ;D
Collect something pointless.
I have a ton of Super Friends memoribilia.
Create a cult website.
Had my own website for a while that was for Freestyle artists and fans. The guest book was signed by many of the artists who perform the music.
Walk in a rain forest.
On a summer vacation to Puerto Rico.
Memorise a poem.
In school, for an English class. I also have a few of my own memorized as well.
Shoot a short film.
Done in my college years, in my film making classes.
Get a tattoo.
Have three tattoos now.
Meet someone with your own name.
I know a few Chucks. Met a cool one in Co. at the last Brokie BBQ.
Gallop a horse on a deserted beach.
Well, kinda sorta. Not on a beach, but went horseback riding the first time ever, also at the Brokie bbq.
Own original works of art.
I own two paintings done by an artist that I got from the Jersey Shore
Grow your own vegetables.
Have a garden out back.
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