Have you or haven't you?

I, too, stole this idea from my friend Julie who stole it from her friend Sarah's blog.
It's a list of 200 Have or Have Nots.The things in BOLD are the things I have done.The others I have not...
1. Touched an iceberg

2. Slept under the stars

3. Been a part of a hockey fight (when I was a cold little kid in Canada)

4. Changed a baby’s diaper (wish I had a dollar for every time)

5. Watched a meteor shower (yes and from hills in Laguna Hills)

6. Given more than you can afford to charity ( if you count 'donations' to St. Catherine's school in Laguna)

7. Swam with wild dolphins

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a tarantula

10. Said “I love you” and meant it ( of course )

11. Bungee jumped (and never will)

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Stayed up all night long and watched the sun rise

15. Seen the Northern Lights ( hundreds of times in Canada...breathtaking!)

16. Gone to a huge sporting event

17. Climbed the stairs to the crown of the Statue of Liberty (been there but didn't go up)

18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (yup)

19. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope (at ten years old I had a 3" refracting telescope...Sunny also has one )

20. Laughed in church (Catholics are good at this)

21. Had a pillow fight (hasn't everyone?)

22. Bet on a winning horse

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (never in a hundred years)

24. Built a snow fort (in Canada? ya think?)

25. Held a lamb (do lamb chops count?)

26. Gone skinny dipping (I can't remember)

27. Taken an ice cold bath ( people who say they've taken cold baths lie about other things too)

28. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar (not counting children, right?)

29. Seen a total eclipse (moon and sun)

30. Ridden a roller coaster (ONCE)

31. Hit a home run (at a park? No)

32. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (Bum made me do it)

33. Adopted an accent for fun

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (only my mom's, in Montreal)

35. Felt very happy about your life, even for just a moment ( when children were born, wedding day, grandchildren's birthdays )

36. Loved your job 90% of the time

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Watched wild whales (when they cruise by Laguna and in Maui)...are there 'tame' whales?

39. Gone rock climbing (why?)

40. Gone on a midnight walk on the beach (last time we went to Hawaii and with a full moon)

41. Gone sky diving (again, why?)

42. Visited Ireland

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited India

45. Bench-pressed your own weight

46. Milked a cow

47. Alphabetized your personal files (one day I will)

48. Ever worn a superhero costume (not counting honeymoon night?)

49. Sung karaoke

50. Lounged around in bed all day

51. Gone scuba diving

52. Kissed in the rain...(probably, but I am not a duck...when it rains I go to a bar)

53. Played in the mud (my mom didn't allow it)

54. Gone to a drive-in theater (years ago and I LOVED it there)

55. Done something you should regret, but don’t

56. Visited the Great Wall of China (was going to go but not now with all those earthquakes)

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class ( I didn't but Sarah did and after I asked her once to show me what she learned...(below the belt and hurt like hell!) I never asked her again...

59. Been in a movie

60. Gone without food for 3 days

61. Made cookies from scratch (don't they come in boxes?)

62. Won first prize in a costume contest

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Been in a combat zone

65. Spoken more than one language fluently (in French speaking Quebec)

66. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone

67. Bounced a check (not in a long time)

68. Read - and understood - your credit report

69. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood thing

70. Found out something significant that your ancestors did ( grandfather on my mother's side was a mail man and he never went postal)

71. Called or written your Congress person (about landscape architectural licensing)

72. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over

73. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge (not crazy about driving on it)

74. Helped an animal give birth

75. Been fired or laid off from a job

76. Won money ( a few bucks in Las Vegas, but not a lot)

77. Broken a bone (collarbone when around twelve...fell off a swing...I hate those things)

78. Ridden a motorcycle

79. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph ( my '86 911 at 130)

80. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

81. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing

82. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

83. Eaten sushi (arigato)

84. Had your picture in the newspaper (only wedding announcement)

85. Read The Bible cover to cover

86. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about (no luck with that in my household)

87. Gotten someone fired for their actions

88. Gone back to school (to UCI years ago for certificate in planning)

89. Changed your name (this is a secret...when we came to America I changed it from Pierre to Pete)

90. Caught a fly in the air with your bare hands

91. Eaten fried green tomatoes (with a wife from Arkansas, ya think?)

92. Read The Iliad (waiting for the movie)

93. Taught yourself an art from scratch

94. Killed and prepared an animal for eating ( fish are animals, aren't they?)

95. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt

96. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (sign language! happens all the time when I visit my Mom at the 'home')

97. Disappeared on me...

98. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream (still waiting for that day)

99. Had to put someone you love into hospice care (my Dad early last year)

100. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you (do Landscape plans count?)

101. Had a booth at a street fair

102. Dyed your hair (I've been dying it silver for years)

103. Been a DJ

104. Rocked a baby to sleep (a favorite thing to do)

105. Ever dropped a cat from a high place to see if it really lands on all fours

106. Raked your carpet

107. Brought out the best in people (I constantly try to and have succeeded)

108. Brought out the worst in people (I'm afraid so...)

109. Worn a mood ring

110. Ridden a horse

111. Carved an animal from a piece of wood or bar of soap (I carved a snake out of a tree branch once)

112. Cooked a dish where people asked for the recipe

113. Buried a child

114. Gone to a Broadway play

115. Been inside the pyramids

116. Shot a basketball into a basket (but not my favorite sport)

117. Danced at a disco

118. Played in a band

119. Shot a bird (as a young lad and don't tell my grandkids)

120. Gone to an arboretum? ( used to be a favorite pastime for landscrapers like me)

121. Tutored someone

122. Ridden a train (from San Juan to San Diego)

123. Brought an old fad back into style

124. Eaten caviar

125. Let a salesman talk you into something you didn’t need (once or twice)

126. Ridden a elephant

127. Published a book

128. Pieced a quilt

129. Lived in an historic place

130. Acted in a play or performed on a stage

131. Asked for a raise

132. Made a hole-in-one (not yet)

133. Gone deep sea fishing (it's the main reason I love golf...fishing is not a sport, it's something you do when you're hungry)

134. Gone roller skating (as a kid)

135. Run a marathon

136. Learned to surf

137. Invented something?

138. Flown first class

139. Spent the night in a 5-star luxury suite

140. Flown in a helicopter

141. Visited Africa

142. Sang a solo (in the shower, does that count?)

143. Gone spelunking (too claustrophobic)

144. Learned how to take a compliment (all the time)

145. Written a love-story (poetry to a special wife)

146. Seen Michelangelo’s David

147. Had your portrait painted

148. Written a fan letter

149. Spent the night in something haunted (our old El Caballo house was haunted with a friendly ghost)

150. Owned a St. Bernard or Great Dane

151. Ran away

152. Learned to juggle

153. Been a boss (I love it)

154. Sat on a jury ( and sent the perp up the river)

155. Lied about your weight (on my driver's license)

156. Gone on a diet (tried the low carb diet and it worked great for a few weeks...then I got hungry again)

157. Found an arrowhead (in the desert...found two)

158. Written a poem (see # 145)

159. Carried your lunch in a lunchbox

160. Gotten food poisoning (driving to Calif from Canada our whole family got it... in Albuquerque... from chicken fried steak)

161. Gone on a service, humanitarian or religious mission (in our young Catholic Club we once went to Pala mission and helped build adobe houses)

162. Been to the southern hemisphere (maybe, gotta check where Hawaii is)

163. Sat on a park bench and fed the ducks (we sit on boulders and watch ducks in lakes around our subdivision...not allowed to feed them tho) so I guess the answer's no)

164. Gone to the opera ( thankfully hasn't happened yet)

165. Gotten a letter from someone famous

166. Worn knickers (as a dorky little Canadian kid until I saw myself in a mirror, and told my Mom WTF)

167. Ridden in a limousine (on our 40th Annivesary gifted by the girls)

168. Attended the Olympics (1964 in L.A., Boxing)

169. Can hula or waltz

170. Read a half dozen Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys books (still have a complete set of the them)

171. Been stuck in an elevator

172. Had a revelatory dream

173. Thought you might crash in an airplane ( on the way to Las Vegas fifteen years ago, to a golf tournament, the rear exit door seal broke and down came the Oxygen masks...thought I was gonna die...)

174. Had a song dedicated to you on the radio or at a concert

175. Saved someone’s life ( rescued Sid last year in Hawaii when he fell into the jacuzzi...he tells everyone)

176. Eaten raw whale (no and not cooked either)

177. Know how to do needlepoint

178. Laughed till your side hurt (at Gina's blogs!)

179. Straddled the equator

180. Taken a photograph of something other than people that is worth framing

181. Gone to a Shakespeare play

182. Sent a message in a bottle

183. Spent the night in a hostel

184. Been a cashier (in high school working at a garden nursery)

185. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt (and with the kids too)

186. Joined a union

187. Donated blood (three or four times a year...and platelets too)

188. Built a campfire (when Julie was a Bluebird and a Campfire Girl...I may blog it one of these days)

189. Have a blog (at about 125 now)

190. Had hives

191. Worn custom made shoes or boots

192. Made a PowerPoint presentation (many times to clients)

193. Taken a Hunter’s Safety Course (took a power boat class when we had a boat)

194. Served at a soup kitchen

195. Conquered the Rubik’s cube (never could do it)

196. Know CPR

197. Owned a convertible (my very first car was a 1949 De Soto convertible...bought it in 1957 for $50)

198. Found a long lost friend (Nope, but still looking for him)

199. Helped solve a crime

200. Fallen in love (many times with the same woman )

OK...that took a while..now tagging Gina and Glee, and Ange too, and Heather...