200 Things About Me

I’ve seen this meme in sev­eral dif­fer­ent places. I finally decided to heck with it and that I’d do it myself. The items in bold are the ones I’ve done and the rest are view­able after the jump.

01. Bought every­one in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dol­phins
03. Climbed a moun­tain
04. Taken a Fer­rari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyra­mid
06. Held a taran­tula.
07. Taken a can­dlelit bath with some­one
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease

11. Bungee jumped
12. Vis­ited Paris
13. Watched a light­ning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the North­ern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Lean­ing Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own veg­eta­bles
19. Touched an ice­berg
20. Slept under the stars

21. Changed a baby’s dia­per
22. Taken a trip in a hot air bal­loon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Got­ten drunk on cham­pagne
25. Given more than you can afford to char­ity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a tele­scope
27. Had an uncon­trol­lable gig­gling fit at the worst pos­si­ble moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a win­ning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill

31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snow­ball fight
33. Pho­to­copied your bot­tom on the office pho­to­copier
34. Screamed as loudly as you pos­si­bly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fan­tasy
37. Taken a mid­night skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion with a beg­gar
40. Seen a total eclipse

41. Rid­den a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run I never got into base­ball, but I used to be able to kick a soc­cer ball from one end of the field to the other. Does that count?
43. Fit three weeks mirac­u­lously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was look­ing
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day Arrgh!
46. Vis­ited the birth­place of your ances­tors
47. Actu­ally felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard dri­ves for your com­puter. Only 2?
49. Vis­ited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts

51. Taken care of some­one who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly sat­is­fied
53. Had amaz­ing friends Over the years, I’ve been blessed with sev­eral of them.
54. Danced with a stranger in a for­eign coun­try
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Back­packed in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climb­ing
60. Lied to for­eign government’s offi­cial in that coun­try to avoid notice

61. Mid­night walk on the beach
62. Sky div­ing
63. Vis­ited Ire­land
64. Been heart­bro­ken longer then you were actu­ally in love
65. In a restau­rant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Vis­ited Japan Just this past sum­mer
67. Bench­pressed your own weight Came awfully close a cou­ple of times
68. Milked a cow
69. Alpha­bet­ized your records
70. Pre­tended to be a superhero

71. Sung karaoke I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I sing like a dog gar­gling with rocks but Japanese-style karaoke rocks!
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba div­ing
75. Got it on to “Let’s Get It On” by Mar­vin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in the­ater
80. Done some­thing you should regret, but don’t regret it.

81. Vis­ited the Great Wall of China
82. Dis­cov­ered that some­one who’s not sup­posed to have known about your blog has dis­cov­ered your blog
83. Dropped Win­dows in favor of some­thing bet­ter Cur­rently using SuSE 9.0 Pro, but think­ing about upgrad­ing to 9.2 once it hits the stores
84. Started a busi­ness Not yet, but I think about this every once in a while. Par­tic­u­larly as some days I loathe the idea of going to work
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart bro­ken
86. Toured ancient sites I saw some beau­ti­ful tem­ples in Japan
87. Taken a mar­tial arts class Not yet, but I’ve thought about doing so in order to get into shape.
88. Sword­fought for the honor of a woman Does offer­ing to thrash some­body who hurt the feel­ings of a female friend count? Par­tic­u­larly if you have swords and would have used them given the oppor­tu­nity?
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Got­ten mar­ried Not yet, but May’s com­ing up fast

91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved some­one you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed some­one so pas­sion­ately it made them dizzy
95. Got­ten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone with­out food for 5 days
98. Made cook­ies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a cos­tume con­test
100. Rid­den a gon­dola in Venice

101. Got­ten a tat­too
102. Found that the tex­ture of some mate­ri­als can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on tele­vi­sion news pro­grams as an “expert“
105. Got flow­ers for no rea­son
106. Mas­tur­bated in a pub­lic place
107. Got so drunk you don’t remem­ber any­thing Not that I can recall…
108. Been addicted to some form of ille­gal drug
109. Per­formed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas

111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thai­land
115. Seen Siouxsie live Never heard of them
116. Bought a house Not yet, but I really want to.
117. Been in a com­bat zone
118. Buried one/both of your par­ents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship

121. Spo­ken more than one lan­guage flu­ently Nope, but I’d like to and I did receive sev­eral com­pli­ments on my Japan­ese while I was over in Japan (though I think they were just being nice to me)
122. Got­ten into a fight while attempt­ing to defend some­one
123. Bounced a check But it wasn’t my fault. I sent a $50 check to my credit card com­pany and they processed it as though it was $500.
124. Per­formed in Rocky Hor­ror
125. Read — and under­stood — your credit report
126. Raised chil­dren
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite child­hood toy
128. Fol­lowed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Cre­ated and named your own con­stel­la­tion of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicy­cle tour in a for­eign country

131. Found out some­thing sig­nif­i­cant that your ances­tors did
132. Called or writ­ten your Con­gress per­son
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. — More than once? — More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew some­one was look­ing
137. Had an abor­tion or your female part­ner did
138. Had plas­tic surgery
139. Sur­vived an acci­dent that you shouldn’t have sur­vived.
140. Wrote arti­cles for a large publication

141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held some­one while they were hav­ing a flash­back
143. Piloted an air­plane This is some­thing that I’d like to do some­day
144. Pet­ted a stingray
145. Bro­ken someone’s heart
146. Helped an ani­mal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Bro­ken a bone An arm and a leg. For­tu­nately, it wasn’t at the same time.
150. Killed a human being

151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Rid­den a motor­cy­cle
153. Dri­ven any land vehi­cle at a speed of greater than 100 mph No, but I’ve come close to it
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shot­gun, or pis­tol
156. Eaten mush­rooms that were gath­ered in the wild
157. Rid­den a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a mov­ing train
160. Had a snake as a pet

161. Hiked to the bot­tom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: take­off, flight, and land­ing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Vis­ited more for­eign coun­tries than U.S. states
165. Vis­ited all 7 con­ti­nents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days (Raft­ing, but close enough)
167. Eaten kan­ga­roo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan bur­ial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi

171. Had your pic­ture in the news­pa­per
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy roman­tic rela­tion­ships for over a year in your life­time
173. Changed someone’s mind about some­thing you care deeply about
174. Got­ten some­one fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Para­sailed
177. Changed your name
178. Pet­ted a cock­roach
179. Eaten fried green toma­toes
180. Read The Iliad

181. Selected one “impor­tant” author who you missed in school, and read
182. Dined in a restau­rant and stolen sil­ver­ware, plates, cups because your apart­ment needed them.
183. — and got­ten 86’ed from the restau­rant because you did it so many times, they fig­ured out it was you
184. Taught your­self an art from scratch
185. Killed and pre­pared an ani­mal for eat­ing
186. Apol­o­gized to some­one years after inflict­ing the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions. They lost track of me and I never get invited. Then again, I didn’t like high school all that much, so I might not have gone even if they hadn’t.
188. Com­mu­ni­cated with some­one with­out shar­ing a com­mon spo­ken lan­guage
189. Been elected to pub­lic office
190. Writ­ten your own com­puter language

191. Thought to your­self that you’re liv­ing your dream
192. Had to put some­one you love into hos­pice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own art­work to some­one who didn’t know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out some­one was going to dump you via Live­Jour­nal
199: Writ­ten your own role play­ing game Close. I was help­ing a friend write one; once upon a time.
200: Been arrested

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