1. Shared a womb.
2. Slept on a roof in barcelona. nothing but a blow up float, a blanket, the smell of the mediterranian sea and a million stars.
3. I have been offered two camels for my hand in marriage. this may sound nice, but the gentlemen offered well over 200 for each Leah, Misti and Robyn. in consolation i was told "its okay sarah, your worth alot of cows in Brazil."
4. i have spent so much time in the Lourve Museum that i laid down on a staircase. One should never try to take in all that the Lourve has to offer in one day. It is exhausting in every way imaginable.
5. My father has saved me from drowning in a pool at the holiday inn. He has also saved me from rattlesnakes while i was playing in the creek in our backyard. He has also saved me from dating a lot of losers by threatening them with the shotguns. (only the good ones stuck around after that)
6. I have been in CS Lewis's house, Anne Franks house, and Margret Mitchells house.
8. i have eaten at the eagle and child, where the inkings (CS lewis and JRR Tolkien) met, and at Elephant House, where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter.
9. ive climbed the tallest radio tower on the tallest mountain (Mt. Alto) in rome georgia. no rope, no harness, just me, afew great (crazy) friends, and a tiny, cold metal ladder in the dead of night. it was one of the scariest things ive ever done. i seriously thought i was going to die.
10. i have been in New York City for New Years Eve.
11. I have hiked up a mountain (Alps) in Switzerland with total strangers.
12. I have broken into an abandoned water park. this is where i lost my first snowball fight.
13. I have done a cartwheel on a frozen lake.
14. ive stood on the border of america and mexico with one foot in each. I have also been to mexico accidentally on purpose.
15. i conquered carlsbad caverns.
16. i love music but i am not a music snob. I like all genres. I can sing along to almost any song on the radio, this talent comes from my mom.. she is the same way.
17. i had my purse stolen in west hollywood. near the beginning of a road trip. all my money was in cash.
18. Dont stress about money, somehow it always works out.
19. If i am paired with miss Leah Robinson for a game of spades, there is no way we will lose.
20. I have seen the sun set over the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead.
21.Ive done a backflip off the bow of a multi million dollar yacht.
22. I met Santa in the form of a trucker once. But i know it was really Santa.
23. I can quote every line in the movie Almost Famous.
24. Ive slept on the beach so many nights i had a routine. Get off work, drive to the beach with a sleeping bag and a pillow. (wearing a swimsuit instead of underwear). Wake up with the sunrise and watch every second of it. Walk to get breakfast. Come back and start drinking margaritas as soon as possible.
25. I can say my alphabet backwards. This is because Anna and i had an alphabet border in our room, and when we were told we had to go to bed we would stay up with a flash light and go around and around the room backwards.
26. These days we memorize the lyrics to ridiculous pop/rap songs.
27.I love to water ski. I learned to wakeboard this summer, i got up on my second try!! i loved it too.
28. The first time i went snow skiing i started going really fast down the hill, but when i got to the bottom i didnt know how to stop!... so I skied right through one of those bright orange mesh fences. i didnt get hurt at all, but i laughed so hard i thought i was going to die.
29. Ive never broken a bone.
30. but i have almost cut my thumb off trying to cut a very thick rope with a pair of kitchen scissors.
31.I started 6th grade looking like twoface because i was going too fast down a hill on my bike, and i hit a brick house. yes. i hit a brick. house. face. first. i scraped up the entire right side of my face.
32. I really enjoy turbulance on airplanes.
33.I passed out on the sidewalk once walking to catch the school bus. I busted my chin open, but mom and i didnt know it until about 4 hours later. I will never forget the conversation.
Mom: "Let me take another look at that cut.."
Me: "alright.."
(this is apparently when the skin under my chin QUOTE 'gaped open like a second mouth')
Mom: "yeah.. you know what.. (hands me a paper towel) hold that on there, maybe we should to to the doctor after all.."
I got 12 stiches.
34. I have permed my hair.
35. I have drank absinthe, aftershock, and moonshine. they each made me terribly drunk. and then terribly hung over.
36. i have driven a car, a truck,a motorcycle, a dump truck, a Rv, a boat, a tractor, a four wheeler, a six wheeler, a 16 passenger van, and a car in scotland (on the 'wrong side!')
37. I drove the RV from Memphis to Little Rock when i was 14. everyone but Anna fell asleep. My entire family claims i almost took out the gas station when i tried to stop for gas. I thought i did a great job. Those gas station attendants needed some excitement!
38. I have had some of the best conversations with my family sitting on the bridge that goes over my Aunt Butches Pond.
39. I have gutted trout.
40. I have artificially inseminated a cow. I have also helped birth a calf.
41. I have only taken Amtrak once, but i ask me about the Eurail and BritRail. I've spent many many hours with them.
42. Epcot is the one Disney Park i have been to. I still want to go to the Magic Kingdom!!
43. I grew up on a creek that was stocked with Rainbow Trout, spent countless hours at a lake brimming with catfish, been deep sea fishing twice, and yet, to this day, i have never caught a fish. (catching bait doesn't count!)
44. I have been to a topless beach.
45. ive been frog gigging.
46. i love seeing shooting stars. i would really love to see the northern lights.
47. i have spent days trying to get red georgia clay out of my hair because of going to dirt track races.
48. I have (with the instruction of my dad) taken the transmission out of my jeep. It took FOREVER. but i will never forget how proud i was when i finally did it.
49. Anna and i have run out of gas in the middle of nowhere Indiana (we've ran out of gas a LOT of places..) and had to call the police because we were so far from civilization.
50. i played roulette in Vegas before i was 21. I suppose they didn't care because i didn't win ANY money.
51. I have stolen road signs, Welcome to " insert city name here" signs, road cones, and car tags.
52. I have seen a stealth bomber in real life at a very close distance.
53. I have ridden on the handle bars of bikes far too many times to count.
54.I have been a full time nanny. It was BY FAR the best form of birth control.
55.During my first week of work as a full time nanny i had to take the youngest to the emergency room. He had to get stiches under his eye.
56. I have also spent extensive time babysitting for 2 year old triplets. And an 8 year old with autism. I have learned so much about life from these experiences.
57. ive played beer pong, flip cup, quarters, chandiliers... well, let just say i've played every drinking game i've ever heard of.
58. ive driven across the 7 mile bridge.
59. Ive gotten a (quite large) tattoo while visiting Barcelona. I was going to go to the beach that day, but it was raining.. so we decided, pretty spur of the moment, to get tattoos instead.
60. The guy who did my tattoo wasn't even spanish. He was hungarian. He spoke no english and a little spanish. I speak no hungarian and very little spanish. Needless to say we communicated like cave men with grunts, points and drawings. What he ended up drawing (and tattooing) for me was absolutely beautiful and i love it.
61. I have eaten the freshest sushi from fish that my cousins, my sister and i caught, before we even got off the boat. let me tell ya honey, i have never had anything better.
62. I have fallen asleep on the net of a sailboat, after a long day of snorkeling around John Pennicamp State Park in Key Largo.
63. I have been to the Superbowl.
64. I have jumped off cliffs, quarrys, bridges and buildings.
65. I have sat in the kitchen with my mamaw making biscuits and listening to all her amazing stories. That time is priceless to me.
66. i have taken a class in belly dancing.
67. I love to swim, Any body of water is acceptable. pool, pond, creek, river,quarry, lake, gulf, ocean, if none of those are available, put me in a bath tub.
68. I prefer bare feet to shoes any day.
69. I have shot A LOT of guns. But i have no desire to shoot anything living.
70. I have the gift of the gab. Sometimes i talk way too much.
71. Sometimes when im talking to strangers at work, i will just start making up crazy stories to see if they will believe me. No one has ever called me out on it.
72. Anthony Bourdain has my dream job.
73. When i read Where the Red Fern Growns i cried for about an hour. It is one of my very favorite books.
74. Whenever i hear the song 'Pirate Looks at Forty' i immediately think of my dad.
75. I hope to someday be half the woman my mother is.
76. I have climbed half the fire escapes in Chicago.
77. I love the church i grew up in. I do not love the SBC.
78. I have been baptized. and i slipped in the 'tub.'
79. sometimes i feel like I sing too loud in church.
80. I have picked up a hitch hiker (well, really he was a guy whos truck broke down. I saw his truck start billowing smoke, he wasn't lying!) BROUGHT HIM HOME to my parents house, went to bed, and let my parents deal with him. I was horrible!
81. i love all rollercoasters and fair rides. every single one.
82. my first concert was NSYNC. hahahahaha.
83. I really really enjoy coffee.
84. i was voted friendliest in my senior class!
85. i got caught cheating on a final exam in spanish class by the school principal who was just walking by. I should have failed the class. Mom SOMEHOW convinced the school to let me re take it the next day. (Saturday) and i got an A!
86. Ive totally peed in the pool.
87. I have had my heart broken and broken hearts. I dont know which is worse.
88. I have stayed up until 5:30 am trying to get this list finished!
89. I am HORRIBLE at math. I dropped college algebra three times.
90. I was selected as one of the best writers in my english dept. in college after doing a short story about the red back porch at my parents house. I really wish i knew where that was.
91. I have travelled all over the south east for over a week with friends of mine who were in a band, while i should have been going to school.(college). I had so much fun.
92. I try very hard to get along with everyone. To think the best of people, even when they aren't acting their best.
93. I love accents. (most) all of them.
94. I bought my first car when i was 16. I paid it off the month i graduated from High School.
95. i have never been to jail. But i have thought i was going to go to jail.
96. I finished first in a 5k race for MS. my name was in the paper and everything!
97. i think my all time favorite movie is Its a Wonderful Life.
98. I have travelled Europe with some of the most beautiful, smart, talented, compelling, and FUN women you will ever meet in your life.
99. in two days in going to Costa Rica. Where i will hopefully be able to add Surfing and zipline-ing through the rain forest to this list.
HOLY COW ONE FREAKING HUNDRED.
i am blessed with great family and great friends.
love yall. Goodnight!
-s
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