All These Things That I've Done ...
I suppose I should explain this section before anything else is said. A while ago I received what I thought would be one of those horrendous chain emails from a friend. Although usually accustomed to throwing them away, I decided to give this one a chance. In it was actually a very interesting game. There was a large list of activities, and your friends would place an 'x' near all of the things that they had done. I thought it was kind of a clever idea and made up a whole bunch of my own, which can be seen here, with the original email items, as well.
Thanks Karolina!
I have ...
- gotten drunk with a good friend
- been in love
- cut my hair with kitchen scissors
- been in a fist fight (sort-of)
- wept over Christmas carols
- seen a psychiatrist
- rolled down a grassy knoll
- built a closet shrine
- been known to over-dress for casual events purposefully
- had red spraypaint put on me by an animal rights activist for wearing a fur hat that did not belong to me ... and I do not condone the killing of animals, for Pete's sake!!!
- mucked out countless stalls
- snuck out of my parent's house
- skipped school
- seen something die
- been to Canada (that's a bit of a no-brainer)
- been on a plane
- tacked up more horses than I can even hope to remember
- done slave labour at a stable for the past 3 years
- sung 'Touch Me' with 2 friends standing on a pile of boulders at the end of a pier half a kilometer out to sea ... with the sun setting, the wind blowing, and the waves crashing. I was scared shitless.
- told people that I " 'aint no square with my corkscrew hair", but no one would believe me ...
- danced like no one is watching. I do that a lot.
- sung "Light of Love" in public until I was given odd looks.
- fancied myself to be in love with Jerry Lewis. (I was 6!)
- held a candlelit vigil for Kenshin Himura. There was incense.
- been to more funerals than have I cared to attend
- been 'Public Enemy No. One' many times at school. They say it was all in my head, but I know it wasn't!
- lit a nail polish bottle on fire
- bought many things from eBay
- yet to find a guy who isn't just after some 'Solid Gold Easy Action'
- purposely set a part of myself on fire
- eaten Sushi
- been moshing at a concert (sort of)
- taken painkillers
- loved someone
- missed someone
- laid on my back and watched cloud shapes go by
- made a snow angel
- napped in a field of flowers with the sun on my face
- wept over the sheer joy and beauty of life
- stayed home from school for 2+ weeks
- communed with nature
- had an impression of myself in the mirror that is sadly not emulated in real life
- had pairs of massive sunglasses (and still do)
- sung songs at the top of my lungs in public (Laura, you'd remember those ... 'Friday I'm in Love' *cough*)
- had a tea party
- flown a kite
- built a sand castle
- gone puddle jumping
- played dress up (and still do it weekly)
- jumped into a pile of leaves
- gone sledding
- cheated while playing a game
- been lonesome (often)
- fainted in school
- fainted upon discovering that a manga character dies horribly and stayed in that state for 20 minutes afterwords
- been painfully attached to fictitious figures
- been painfully attached to real figures that might as well be fictitious
- dressed up like Marc Bolan
- had sadistic tendencies
- enjoyed yaoi (and still do!)
- teased my hair à la Robert Smith
- fancied that I could be a model (with no job offers, surprisingly ... :P)
- watched the sun set
- swam to the moon
- climbed through the tide
- penetrated the evening that the city sleeps to hide
- touched a snake
- slept beneath the stars
- been tickled
- been robbed
- been misunderstood
- pet a reindeer
- won a contest
- fallen off of a horse (countless times)
- had braces
- eaten a whole cherry pie
- had a life-changing experience
- seen something of consummate beauty
- had deja vu
- danced in the moonlight
- liked the way I looked (maybe once ... )
- questioned my heart
- driven on a one lane dirt road through the rolling countryside
- been to Disneyworld
- seen the Rolling Stones in concert. The boys are still fab.
- never been stung by a bee
- swam in the ocean
- felt like dying
- stalked an English kid
- stalked an English teacher
- been tempted to do crazy and beautiful things because of a song
- been in a Cure-induced trance
- been late for class
- not studied for tests and gotten a good grade
- run alone through a forest in winter
- known the warmth of a good friend
- been obsessed with Post-It notes
- been "Lost in a Forest"
- cried myself to sleep
- played cops and robbers
- recently coloured with crayons
- paid for something with only coins
- done something I told myslef I wouldn't
- made prank phone calls
- laughed until some kind of beverage came out of my nose
- become high on a song
- caught a snowflake on my tongue
- danced in the rain
- danced in the rain singing a T.Rex song ("I'm gonna dance in the rai-ai-ain for yoooo-oo-oooou!!!")
- blown bubbles
- watched the sun rise
- seen a yellow moon
- written a letter to Santa Claus
- done a dance and sung to a Motown song to the utter horror of my friends and classmates
- been told to 'Shut the fuck up' by Julian Casablancas (okay, so it wasn't me personally ... but it was all of us!)
- made a bonfire on the beach
- gone roller-skating
- worn pearls (all the time!)
- told a complete stranger that I loved them
- kissed a mirror
- sung in the shower
- had a dream that I married someone
- glued my hand to something
- sat on a rooftop
- screamed at the top of my lungs
- talked on the phone for more than 6 hours
- stayed up all night
- not taken a shower for a week
- picked and eaten an apple off of a tree before (pears too!)
- climbed a tree
- gone doorbell ditching
- jumped into a pool/hot tub/lake with all my clothes on
- been told that I was hot by a complete stranger, but didn't quite agree
- been easily amused
- fallen off of the back of a cart hurtling down a cow-path
- caught a butterfly
- laughed so hard I cried
- cried so hard I laughed
- cheated on a test
- forged a signature (Fraud - bah!)
- owned a Britney Spears CD
- forgotten someone's name
- gone skinny-dipping in a large body of water
- done a dare
- been threatened to be kicked out of my house
- been kicked out of my house
- run away for 2 hours
- worn my parents' shoes
- wanted to be thin (and still do)
- 'dance-dance-danced 'till the crack of dawn'
- 'dance-dance-danced 'till my shoes were worn'
- realized that I must stop quoting T.Rex songs ...
- written this thing for no apparent reason
