A few friends are reaching significant birthdays, so they've been making lists of the things they have done and lists of things they'd like to do. Maybe a "Bucket List"-type concept. Although my upcoming birthday is not significant, in my head 25 has always been kind of a significant age, so I thought I'd steal the idea and make a list of my own -- a few of the things I've done in my 25 years:
- Walked the Great Wall
- Had ridiculously long hair and ridiculously short hair
- Been published in a book
- Purchased my first house (well, townhouse)
- Been flooded, blown, or pestered out of almost every Lake Powell camping spot
- Learned how to play the recorder
- Been the "executive producer" on a few short "films"
- Had vampire-shark-bat teeth
- Slept on a park bench -- like a homeless person -- in a foreign country
- Made up my own cookie recipe
- Gone skydiving
- Been a musical street performer
- Ridden a camel
- Handed out around 50 lbs of stickers to African children
- Been among the first handful of people to wear a pair of gold Mickey Mouse ears around Disneyland
- Eaten turtle, rabbit, ostrich, buffalo, two-thousand year old eggs, chicken feet, and some sort of beetle
- Been asked to be in pictures with the leader of a Tibetan monastery and an Iraqi
- Made draperies
- Celebrated Epiphany in front of the Duomo in Florence
- Learned to build a lamp
- Kept the same mechanical pencil since 5th grade
- Had a middle-eastern man email my boss with expressions of admiration and love for me, based on my employee picture on the work website
- Voice-acted
- Created a 6-foot paper snowflake
- Managed to break my own finger with a blow-dryer
7 comments:
WOW! I don't think I could have come up with half as many awesome things. I enjoy you. let's have dinner again soon.
Hey, I think I have used the pencil mentioned in number 21... score!
Tammy, I believe you were also a participant in number 12 -- when we decided to bring our violins out to my neighborhood fair/street party. I believe someone requested "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. And we groaned and made up a duet of it on the spot.
25 has to be the best though. I doubt anyone else in the world can claim that, the rest just seem plain compared to that. hah :) love you dear
How on earth did you manage to break your finger with a hair dryer and why have I never heard this story? =)
I like your list. it is so well rounded as are you!
You managed to break your own finger with a blow-dryer! Wow.
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