Sixty-two things I have done in my life in no order because my storytelling mind doesn't work that way:
1 lived on a farm
2 went crabbing
3 Danced two twenty-four hours dance marathons
4 -5 Worked in an ice cream parlor and got fired for being "a dirty Portugee" said the boss to me.
6 became a mother of two
7 -8 married a French Man and moved to France, first Paris and then Provence.
9 grew up in a large loving family
10 lived in a monastery
11 became a vegetarian when I was 18
12 sang out of tune
13 cheated a lot in cards
14 dealt with ovarian cancer
15 hiked the Grand Canyon
16 caught butterflies
17 fasted for nine days
18 had a butch haircut
19 as a child and teenager too, in the still of the night, when everyone was asleep I would open my Christmas gifts before Christmas and then rewrapped them.
20 bloomed late
21 had mice cleopatra and mark anthony, they had babies
22 accidentally got drunk as a kid from spiked punch
23 walked part of the Great Wall in China with a severely sprained ankle
24 became a grandmother
25 made cinnamon buns for fifty or more people without a recipe.
26 missed a plane to Greece while eating Pizza with my cousin
27 posted a blog every day for fifteen years
28 rode a motorcycle with my husband for three weeks with just two sets of clothes.
29-30 had a C-section and then a natural birth
31 did the Chinese splits
32 witness four births not counting my own
33 dance without a routine with a marching band on a football field
34 stayed up sixty-some hours
35 made dinner for dinner guests dropped it and called for Pizza
36 taught catechism when I was fourteen
37 shattered my wrist while wallpapering
38 was a matchmaker three times
39 read Les Miserables throughout Paris
40 learned French
41 laughed until it hurt
42 fell asleep at the wheel and didn't crash
43 crashed on a motorcycle
44 entered a pie-eating contest what a mess
45 loved
46 became a French Citizen
47 entered a long hair contest
48 skinny-dipped
49 Snuck into a movie with my dad and Chelsea
50 lived in a haunted house
51 took ballroom dancing, don't remember much
52 sat in a full lotus yoga posture for hours on end
53 has always been my favorite number oh that is not something I have done, so I can say I have been sidetracked.
54 held the ancestry family book while in the azores that dated from the 1500s with the names and birthdates of our family
55 while driving on the freeway hit a herd of boars
56 sunbathed on a roof while at the monastery
57 was in a choir in school though I cannot sing
58 planted a garden, had tomatoes until December
59 jumped off the high dive with three massive inner tubes
60 climbed to the top of saint peter's and celebrated mass in saint peter's basement
61 met Mother Teresa
62 looked deeply into the eyes of those I have loved.
Tell me about yourself…
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