Sanity Bakery

Should I be afraid? The memes are taking over the blog! Oh, well. It’s fun.

I will pass on the disclaimer that some of these are a bit icky, but we’ll leave ‘em in for completeness’ sake. Forgive me if they offend.

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins (I have swam with trained ones, though!)
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 in private 
11. Bungee jumped
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
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa (No, but I have seen it! It was closed.)
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper (Lots.)
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 (5th grade, in the middle of the teacher yelling. She looked reminded me of a duck. “Is something funny, B.?” And then the best line I’ve ever said: “Um…Nervous reflex?”)
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 (Oh, no. I can always go louder.)
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip (What about a midafternoon one? When I was a kid, of course.)
38. Taken an ice cold bath 
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse (I went to bed before it became total. Took too long.)
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
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 (Well, for a couple of hours.)
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
50. Loved your job for all accounts (Most of the jobs I’ve had with kids.)
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (Mainly back when all I wanted to buy was candy bars and tiny potted flowers.)
53. Had amazing friends
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
67. Bench pressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow (I watched, at least)
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
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 theatre
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 favour of something better. 
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken (So far, so good.)
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Sword fought for the honour of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
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 (Wanted to, but it was pricy and unnecessary.)
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
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
116. Bought a house
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 (Not fluently, but we used to switch between four languages in one conversation!)
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone (Not physical, though.)
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read – and understood – your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favourite childhood toy 
128. Followed your favourite 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 Member of Congress
132a. Had them write back
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. … more than once?
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 (Small, yes. TheOnionDome, anyone?)
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone’s heart (I’m sorry. I tried my best, Cue.)
146. Helped an animal give birth (Cat didn’t need my help.)
147. Been fired or laid off from a job (Well, sort of. In a way, yes.)
148. Won money on a TV game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle (Moped!)
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph
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 US states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi (Thank you, Mori no Ike)
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” (Only part. I didn’t like The Odyssey, beautifully-written though it was; I suspect I’ll be reading both in college.)
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 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 
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office (Not unless government class counts, or being a precinct secretary.)
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
200. Been arrested

If you read this, you’re tagged!

Veiled Glory has a giveaway, here: http://veiledglory.wordpress.com/book-giveaway/.

I’m very excited. Those books look very cool!

From Melanie’s blog, Akathistos.

What books have you read? Bold the ones you have read, italicize the ones you are planning on reading and underline the ones you loved. (In my case it’ll be a strike-through if I love them, because I can’t find the underline button.)

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen - I have indeed.
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – One of just a few books that took me a good month to finish. (I say “one” because my copy has all three bound together.)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – I alternately love and hate this one.
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling - But of course.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - A favorite
6. The Bible – Not nearly enough of it. 
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte - Tried. Failed.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell- I’m boycotting this because of the movie. It was forced on us in 8th grade government.
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – Picked it up at the godparents’ house.
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens - Depressing, as I remember it.
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – Loved it. Read quite a bit of the connected novels, too.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - Well, not Complete. But several, with the intention of reading more.
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – Sounds interesting…
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger - Ought to read it, I suppose.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger – I am not sure if I was impressed or not. Embarrassingly, I read a Harry Potter fanfiction based off this book first. I liked that better.
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – And the sequel, Scarlett, by another author.
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald - I am not sure.
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy-
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – Scott keeps trying to show me the movie!
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I may have tried once or twice.
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - I tried when I was in about sixth grade. 
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - Who doesn’t love Aslan?
34. Emma – Jane Austen - Took me several tries. Despised all characters until I figured out it was a spoof.
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini- I keep trying to!
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres 
38. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
40. Animal Farm – George Orwell - Have been studiously avoiding this one.
41. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 
44. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 
45. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 
46. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies – William Golding - Have been studiously avoiding this one.
49. Atonement – Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51. Dune – Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen - I’m not sure; I’ve seen the movie so many times I can’t remember if I ever read the book!
54. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
61. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 
64. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas - I know I at least read a children’s version.
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac 
66. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
71. Dracula – Bram Stoker – I may have read this!
72. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
73. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses – James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal – Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession – AS Byatt 
80. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web – EB White 
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery - An old favorite
92. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
93. Watership Down – Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas - I know I at least read a children’s version.
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
99. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
and adding a personal favorite:
100. The Alchemist – Paolo Coelho

35 out of 100. I need to read more!