meme time

(bold means I've been there, done that - italics are just comments)



1. Started your own blog.

2. Slept under the stars.

3. Played in a band. I used to play flute in the primary school band

4. Visited The Great Barrier Reef.

5. Stood under the stars in the outback, the real outback – think Uluru.

6. Given more than you can afford to charity.

7. Been to the Gold Coast’s theme parks – anyone, you take your pick. Dreamworld

8. Climbed a mountain.

9. Held a praying mantis.

10. Sung a solo.

11. Bungee jumped, jumped out of plane, been paragliding or hang-gliding, hot air ballooning – you get the idea, you’ve been hundreds of metres about earth in a seemingly flimsy contraption. None of these things, but I have done a fair bit of travelling both in light planes and tiny air-nuigini planes that felt pretty flimsy

12. Visited Paris.

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch.

15. Had a child. Raised a child. Worked with children. had 2 babies

16. Had food poisoning. and a stay in a third world hospital to prove it

17. Been to the Snowy Mountains.

18. Grown your own vegetables.

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France.

20. Slept on an overnight train or bus.

21. Had a pillow fight.

22. Been backpacking.

23. Taken a mental health day.

24. Been buried in sand with just your head and toes sticking out.

25. Held a possum, kangaroo or koala – or any other native Australian animal.

26. Gone skinny dipping.

27. Run a marathon does a half marathon count - I am saying yes!

28. Been on the Blue Mountain cableway.

29. Seen a total eclipse. and a famous comet

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset. both - over the ocean is the best

31. Played, or watched, summer cricket. bring back 'the hill'

32. Been to Niagra Falls on the Canadian side

33. Seen the Daintree.

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.

35. Visited an Aboriginal settlement or mission. Bathurst Island

36. Learned a new language. although out of practice, I used to be fluent in PNG tok pisin and could probably still hold a conversation

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied. I think so

38. Toured the Sydney Opera House.

39. Tried rock climbing (indoor or outdoor), abseiling or just simple bushwalking bushwalking for me - the other two are scary

40. Visit Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art

41. Been to the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

42. Sunbaked at Bondi.

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant.

44. Visited Broome.

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight.

46. Been transported in an ambulance. Twice - once with Kya and once with Mali

47. Had your portrait painted.

48. Gone fishing.

49. Seen Tasmania’s old growth forests.

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling. I did my PADIcertification in Alotau and the only diving that I have done is in the Pacific

52. Kissed in the rain.

53. Played in the mud.

54. Gone to a drive-in theatre.

55. Gotten a speeding ticket - yes, but only once

56. Driven the Great Ocean Road. a road trip with Kate and Jen during uni

57. Started a business.

58. Taken a martial arts class. I went to Yun Jung Do for a while

59. Visited Norfolk Island.

60. Served at a soup kitchen.

61. Sold Girl Guide biscuits.

62. Gone whale watching. I have seen whales on the northern beaches of Sydney, but have never been on a special whale watching 'cruise' or anything

63. Got flowers for no reason.

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma.

65. Gone parasailing.

66. Stayed the night in jail.

65. Cried so hard you threw up - yes… don’t care to revisit that.

68. Flown in a helicopter. and far too many VERY VERY small light planes

69. Saved a favourite childhood toy.

70. Visited the Australian War Memorial.

71. Eaten Caviar.

72. Pieced a quilt.

73. Stood in Federation Square.

74. Been on the Murray River.

75. Been fired from a job.

76. Travelled, or climbed, over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

77. Broken a bone.

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle.

79. Seen the Three Sisters at Echo Point, Katoomba.

80. Published a book.

81. Visited St Mary’s Cathedral, in Sydney.

82. Bought a brand new car.

83. Been to Litchfield National Park

84. Had your picture in the newspaper.

85. Read the entire Bible.

86. Visited Parliament 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. Saved a pet.

95. Been to the site of the Eureka Stockade.

96. Swum in The Whitsundays.

97. Been involved in a lawsuit. only through work, no juicy story here

98. Owned a mobile phone.

99. Been stung by a bee. and I am allergic

100. Read an entire book in one day those were the days

6 things meme

I have been tagged by Brazen, a Canberra on-line buddy to do a "6 things" meme.

6 things meme
1. Link to the person who “tagged” you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know your entry is up.

1. K is an amazing person, and I have learnt a lot from her strength over the last few years. Our youngest children are almost the same age, and she has flogged me a fair bit of tupperware (a lot of which is still unused in the cupboard lol)

2. see above lol

3. (1) every winter I wonder why I live in Canberra. It is freezing here and everyone seems to hibernate - I don't see my neighbours from about May until October
(2) I love planning and starting projects but I have difficulty finishing things. I have hundreds of quilts in my head, and many many cut out and in various stages of completion, but then I get scared. I have lots of tops and flimsys, all in bags with thier matching backings and bindings, but the machine quilting process terrfies me as I don't want to wreck anything, despite having done 2 free motion quilting classes. I have started to have my larger quilts professionally quilted so that I can actually get them used before I don't love them anymore!
(3) ditto above for my job (the loving starting projects thing - I actually have to finish things at work!)
(4) My house is a mess. I dream of living in an uncluttered 'show-home', but hey, where would the fun in that be?
(5) I joined the Australian Volunteers International Program in my early 20s and lived in Papua New Guinea for almost 6 years - I was supposed to go for 6 months!
(6) I love lemon crisp biscuits (you know the ones that are kind of a salty cracker and have lemon cream inside). Everyone else I know thinks that these are foul.

4. I'm going to break the tag (I think I always do this when I get tagged!) as I find it so difficult

5. see above

6. will do :D