100 things meme about me-me-me

Gacked from selkie_b. The usual deal -- bold the ones you've done, post in your own LJ if you want. I've added parenthetical comments here and there, so remember to delete those if you use it for yourself.

1. Started your own blog (assuming LJ counts)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (for smallish values of "mountain") 
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola
29. Seen a total eclipse (someday...)
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (one that was intended for tourists)
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been inside an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia.
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (they don't want me any more, though)
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (assuming a family cookbook counts...)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White 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. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake (but I have swum in the Dead Sea)
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Happy birthday to no-longer-kittens!

I think they were actually born a couple of days later, but February 1 is the observed birthday of Morwen and Random, the left-hand kittens in the photo above, who are now one year old.

Random is the one with incipient Siamese markings, and Morwen is the small black one. The ones on the right are Gir and Serendipity, who stayed with trochai and went with daedala, respectively -- though I can't tell which is which of those two.

Random has turned into a thumping large Siamese cat with slight tabby markings who has a propensity for sitting on my chest, kneading my carotid artery, and drooling happily. He failed to inherit the Siamese voice, and in fact has almost no voice at all, just a little peep. It's very unnerving to have dinnertime roll around and not have cats meowing at my feet -- they just swarm, like a small warm-blooded school of piranhas.

Morwen is the SBC (small black cat) who has no bones most of the time. She sleeps next to me on the bed and purrs thunderously when I pet her. (Random sleeps on or next to my feet, which is very useful for someone who suffers from cold feet.) She's the acrobatic cat (acrocat?) who can jump from the stereo speaker to the mantelpiece to the ceiling beams to the cat tree on the other side of the room. It alarmed me when she first started doing that, but now I'm inured.

While I still miss Gandalf and Pyewacket (I knew them 17 times as long!), these two are a fine houseful of cats.