New Year Musings

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Nabbed from here.

Things you've already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven't done and don't want to - leave in plain font

1. started your own blog
2. slept under the stars 
3. played in a band
4. visited hawaii
5. watched a meteor shower
6. given more than you can afford to charity 
7. been to disneyland/world
8. climbed a mountain
9. held a praying mantis 
10. sang a solo 
11. bungee jumped 
12. visited paris 
13. watched a lightning storm at sea 
14. taught yourself an art from scratch
15. adopted a child
16. had food poisoning
17. walked to the top of the statue of liberty
18. grown your own vegetables
19. seen the mona lisa in Italy 
20. slept on an overnight train
21. had a pillow fight
22. hitch hiked
23. taken a sick day when you’re not ill 
24. built a snow fort
25. held a lamb 
26. gone skinny dipping 
27. run a marathon 
28. ridden a gondola in venice
29. seen a total eclipse
30. watched a sunrise or sunset 
31. hit a home run
32. been on a cruise 
33. seen niagara falls in person
34. visited the birthplace of your ancestors 
35. seen an amish community 
36. taught yourself a new language
37. had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. seen the leaning tower of pisa in person
39. gone rock climbing 
40. seen michelangelo's david in person
41. sung karaoke
42. seen old faithful geyser erupt
43. bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant 
44. visited africa 
45. walked on a beach by moonlight
46. been transported in an ambulance
47. had your portrait painted
48. gone deep sea fishing
49. seen the sistene chapel in person
50. been to the top of the eiffel tower in paris
51. gone scuba diving or snorkelling

52. kissed in the rain
53. played in the mud 
54. gone to a drive-in theatre 

55. been in a movie 
56. visited the great wall of china
57. started a business
58. taken a martial arts class
59. visited russia
60. served at a soup kitchen
61. sold girl scout cookies. 
62. gone whale watching
63. gotten flowers for no reason
64. donated blood
65. gone sky diving
66. visited a nazi concentration camp
67. bounced a cheque
68. flown in a helicopter 
69. saved a favorite childhood toy 
70. visited the lincoln memorial
71. eaten caviar
72. pieced a quilt
73. stood in times square 
74. toured the everglades 
75. been fired from a job
76. seen the changing of the guard in london 
77. broken a bone
78. been on a speeding motorcycle 
79. seen the grand canyon in person 
80. published a book
81. visited the vatican
82. bought a brand new car
83. walked in jerusalem
84. had your picture in the newspaper 
85. read the entire bible 
86. visited the white house
87. killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. had chickenpox 
89. saved someone’s life
90. sat on a jury
91. met someone famous 
92. joined a book club
93. lost a loved one
94. had a baby 
95. seen the alamo in person. 
96. swum in the great salt lake. 
97. been involved in a law suit
98. owned a cell phone
99. been stung by a bee

It's good to reflect.  Maybe I'll have done a few extra things by the end of this year.  I will certainly have watched my children grow and grow - a year brings so much change especially in a baby heading towards toddlerhood.

I am hanging out to kiss in the rain.  Rain down please!!!