But I haven’t totally wasted my time. There are lots of things on Earth that I have done. In fact, I’ve done some pretty awesome things.
Click below for another list, hopefully also forever partial, of cool things I HAVE done. If you have an unlisted favorite memory of me/us, you let me know.
- I have sang along to “Rock the Casbah” blaring through iPod speakers while looking at an actual casbah in the moonlight from a hotel rooftop in Tangier, Morocco.
- I have waded in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- I have taken midnight road trips to Graceland Too, several times. One time, another time, lifetime membership time.
- I have graduated college with honors.
- I have ridden in planes, trains and automobiles. And cruise ships, speedboats and rafts.
- I have hiked up a mountain. Mt. Washburn in Yellowstone Park, to be exact.
- I have snorkeled off the coast of Mexico.
- I have climbed onto the rooftops of several University of Memphis campus buildings.
- I have eaten a baby octopus in one bite.
- I have received standing ovations after karaoke performances.
- I have acted in plays, delivered speeches in front of hundreds of people, and sang in county talent shows.
- I have skipped a grade (kindergarten).
- I have visited North America, Europe and Africa.
- I have been feet from buffalo, elk and moose. And not in a zoo.
- I have survived an interstate car wreck.
- I have cried while listening to music.
- I have seen Pope John Paul II. We were in the eighth row. After he spoke, thousands of people stood on their chairs in the Vatican City, cheering and chanting “Viva Il Papa!!” as he rode through the crowd in the Popemobile.
- I have placed my ear directly against a wall of thumping speakers at a rave.
- I have mended fences, laid laminate flooring, spackled walls, painted trim and planted flowers.
- I have been stopped in my tracks by guys who only wanted to tell me I am beautiful.
I like #11 bestesness
That’s a helluva list, and while I do want to tell you that it IS indeed a great list that includes more than a few things I’ve never done, my first instinct was to try and “one-up” you by mentioning things I’d done.
I’m a dick like that.
To Stephen: Thanks. That was all before I turned 18, but still.
To RGR: Well, go on and one-up me! Isn’t that what this kind of conversation is subtly all about?
yay for number one. nobody ever believes that
I’d say that you’re pretty well rounded, and most of those things more than make up for the things you haven’t done yet. Seriously, you’ve had more adventure than most “normal” folks have in an entire lifetime, so don’t worry about it. Long as you’re sucking wind, I know my FGwD will be doing awesome stuff!
It’s not exactly a one-up, but two guys and I did stand in the lobby of a Russian hotel and sing The Humpty Dance to a group of girls from (the former) Yugoslavia. They sang some national song to us and sadly, it was the only American song we all knew.
RGR, you’ve been to RUSSIA?!?
And Gwen, why, thank you, FG. You make me blush.
Yeah, my trip to the USSR is one of the biggies on mys list of things I’ve done. It was a ton of fun and I grew up a lot on that trip.
One might call it ‘formative’.
If I still had the pics from that trip, it’d make a great blog all of its own.
“Keep suckin’ air”
Oh! Nice pics…
They’re a suerb addition to the entry.
Muy bien!
I have that EXACT same buffalo pic. I swear. I’ll find it and show ya. I guess everyone who goes to Yellowstone ends up with one of those. I have a similar Mt. Washburn pic. And a moose pic you can borrow since you seem to missing one of those. Damn moose was like 20 ft. tall. Didn’t get the grizzly pic though cause I was running the other way. What an amazing place that is, where humans can feel like they’re on the bottom of the food chain.
I don’t even remember kindergarten. I wanna go to Morocco…cool!
Michael…. I worked at Yellowstone for a summer. We’ll have to trade stories and pictures. I never got a great picture of a moose, but I do have an amazing, precious memory of hiking alone (tsk tsk) to a pond. I sat on one shore and watched a family of moose drink water from the other shore. Stayed there probably half an hour. Felt like I was a million miles away from any problem that could ever arise.
RGR, thanks about the pictures! And I am MUY jealous of your trip…the USSR…damn.
Those chains make your ass look great!
Dude, I know! There’s a reason I posted that picture…
hey you still haven’t visited ohio, what’s up with that
and yet no back to the future. jesus, kerry, live a little.