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(From [livejournal.com profile] chaptal)

25 things I have not done:

1) Taken a train across Canada
2) Bought a Porsche
3) Drank a Zima
4) Been scuba diving
5) Driven a semi
6) Joined the “mile high club”
7) Been to Disney World
8) Been to New York City
9) Fathered a child
10) Gotten divorced
11) Sang in a Karaoke bar
12) Skydived
13) Owned my own business
14) Tried to push over one of the big heads on Easter Island
15) Cut the soles off my shoes, climbed a tree and learned to play the flute
16) Seen the Grateful Dead
17) Made amends for everything I’ve done to harm others
18) Owned a live pig
19) Eaten fish eyes
20) Cheated on my wife
21) Changed the oil in my car
22) Learned Latin
23) Been to the Philippines
24) Plowed a field
25) Written a letter to a celebrity

Things I have done:

1) Delivered a baby
2) Saw the Pope
3) Swim in the waters of Tahiti
4) Knocked the door handles off my mom’s car
5) Purchased a home
6) Been on the news
7) Had my breath taken away by something beautiful
8) Spent time in a recovery house
9) Eaten “chocolate meat”
10) Been arrested (see#11)
11) Streaked
12) Lived in Germany
13) Received $1000 for an essay I wrote
14) Danced at my wedding
15) Heard bad news standing up
16) Had espresso in a café in Italy on a warm fall evening
17) Played a pirate in a school play
18) Talked to Ed Asner on the phone
19) Found an old friend via the internet
20) Experienced what my wedding vows really meant
21) Walked over a lava field
22) Attended the World Series
23) Been a thurifer
24) Some things I had previously vowed never to do
25) Loved and been loved in return

Date: 2003-08-18 08:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barebspool.livejournal.com
These lists tell me a little more about you :) I've done 1234789 of what you haven't!

Date: 2003-08-18 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
You fathered a child???? (#9)

Date: 2003-08-18 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barebspool.livejournal.com
oops!! I mothered a daughter. Sad thing is, and this is my big heavy cross, she is completely estranged from me. She is an adult. It's like a death every day for me. I have not seen her in over two years. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I'm sort of having one of those "coming unglued' days.

Date: 2003-08-18 10:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
I have had those days. I am always grateful that they eventually pass.

Date: 2003-08-18 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barebspool.livejournal.com
Indeed they do and I suppose that is what keeps me going. I shouldn't even be telling you my problems when i compare them to what you are traveling through. It's strange that the day I came across your site, quite some time ago, I was having a horrific day, and I was Ljournaling just to get my mind somewhere else, when suddenly I read your story and I told myself to shape up. I started instead to pray for Arlina who I didn't even know.

Date: 2003-08-18 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
You know, I don't think you can compare one person's bad day to another's. Things like that are so subjective and personal, that it almost denys the reality of what you are experiencing. We do the best we can with what we get, and pray that tomorrow is a little better.

Date: 2003-08-18 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] barebspool.livejournal.com
Very true. I hope you have a good day. :)

Date: 2003-08-18 08:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melanie.livejournal.com
"chocolate meat"

???

i'm almost afraid to know.

Chocolate meat

Date: 2003-08-18 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
A filipino favorite--pork cooked in blood. They didn't tell me that until after I tried it.

Re: Chocolate meat

Date: 2003-08-18 10:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melanie.livejournal.com
ah, i see. well, i've had blood sausages in new orleans, so i guess i know what you mean in general. it's a nice, rich taste...but finding out it's blood *does* tend to give one pause, doesn't it.

Date: 2003-08-18 09:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gurdonark.livejournal.com
I had been tempted to make just such a list. Thanks for sharing yours.

Date: 2003-08-18 10:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
You're welcome. I'll bet your list will be quite interesting!

Comments on "things you haven't done" :)

Date: 2003-08-18 09:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serratia.livejournal.com
1. Might be nice someday.
2. Overrated.
3. Yuck. NO.
4. Meh.
5. Why?
6. Might be considered a "suspicious activity" by flight crew. Better not.
7. Disney sucks. No.
8. Ill-tempered crowds and smog, yippee! Why not?
9. It's more fun practicing.
10. Expensive and annoying- unless you really need to.
11. Fun! Just make sure you're good and drunk.
12. Can be a thrill if you're into that sort of thing.
13. Major. Excedrin. Headache. Read my hubby's journal for details.
14. You could achieve similar results by shaking a vending machine. In other words- bad idea.
15. I'm sorry...? Where did you say you buy your crack?
16. Go to a Phish concert. Close enough.
17. Impossible- you'll drive yourself crazy trying. Find solace in the fact that ain't nobody else is gonna to make amends to *you*, either. That evens out the karma.
18. See #15.
19. Why not just stick your finger down your throat now and eliminate a step?
20. Cheaters never prosper (or so I've heard...)
21. Overrated + ruins your clothes.
22. Unless you're a doctor or lawyer, you probably won't miss it much.
23. Me neither, but I've heard it's an interesting place to visit.
24. You're not a mule, so it's OK not to have that skill on your resume.
25. You *should*! With email it's so easy. Sometimes they even write back, and that's always cool...

Thurifer

Date: 2003-08-18 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrmustard.livejournal.com
Do you get to claim the title of "thurifer" if you just hold the censer until the priest or deacon takes it or do you have to actually do the dusting? I was called "thurifer" when I was an altar boy. It was one step below "master server" in our altar boy hierarchy. I made master server I'll have you know.

I'm up for number 14. What do you think the fine is if you get caught?

Re: Thurifer

Date: 2003-08-18 01:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
I think you only get to claim the title of "thurifer' if you are able to pull the gleaming sword from the altar. Either that or by demonstrating the ability to swing the censer a full 360 without spraying glowing coals all over the place.

As far as # 14, I say let's find out!

Date: 2003-08-18 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chaptal.livejournal.com
What's a thurifer?

Date: 2003-08-18 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
The person who swings the incense thingie in a church service

oooo

Date: 2003-08-18 06:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ms-priestypants.livejournal.com
I'm so jealous about you being a thurifer- thuribles scare the poo out of me, I'm afraid I'll douse myself in glowing coals.

Re: oooo

Date: 2003-08-18 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
At our Easter Vigil service last year, the spanish deacon tried to get fancy with it and ended up lighting the carpet on fire!

Date: 2003-08-18 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zhenzhi.livejournal.com
i don't think about what i haven't done! (now that i think of it!)

you've delivered a baby? that's awesome!

Date: 2003-08-18 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
I have delivered two on my own, and assisted in the delivery of about 400. All little miracles!

catch in throat

Date: 2003-08-18 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
ahhh Mick, sometimes you just take my breath away.
Suzy

Date: 2003-08-20 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hippyone.livejournal.com
Well, on your have not list I have done 5 of those things but plead the 5th as to which ones. And 6 on the 2nd!

Date: 2003-08-20 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
Ahh, now you have me curiously looking at my lists and guessing!

Date: 2003-08-21 05:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hippyone.livejournal.com
Curiosity killed the cat. You might twist my arm!

Firesign Theater

Date: 2003-08-22 04:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] etroutski.livejournal.com
Great essay,M. I aspire to # 15 on the not done list. I do practice extreme light-weight backpacking, which involves only flip-flops, a water-bottle, and thong. Does that count?
-----trout

Re: Firesign Theater

Date: 2003-08-22 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myasma.livejournal.com
You caught the reference! I should have known.
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