Just To Say I Did

I was thinking the other night about things I've done, and I realized a lot of them were because I just wanted to be able to say I'd done them. There might have been more motivation later on (or not), but the original driving force was simply to say I did. Some are big things, most are not. Some are closer to confessions than "just to say I did" activities, but after you read them, you're sure to think I'm cooler ;-)

1. I got corn rows done in my hair on the island of St. Thomas (in the U.S. Virgin Islands). But I couldn't afford to pay them for my entire head, so I just had the parts right around my face done.

2. I went spelunking in the middle of the night at a place called the Nutty Putty Cave when I was in college. These were not caves you walk into through the side of a mountain. To get in them, you go vertically down an opening and then have to slither through another tiny horizontal opening to get into the open areas. I get claustrophobic easily, so I don't know what I was thinking. And you had to rely solely on whoever said they knew the way and hope someone had left a rope or something for you climb to the various areas with. With places called "The Birth Canal" and "The Big Slide", I'm surprised I didn't die in there...

3. I was an Especially For Youth (EFY) counselor. I had attended EFY for three summers as a teenager and it made a big impression on me. When I became old enough to be a counselor, I thought it'd be cool to do and cool to say I had done. It rocked!

4. I ran in the St.George marathon. Notice the singular on that. It was purely to say I had done it.

5. Once when I was probably 10 or so, I went into a bathroom at Grandy's and while I was in there I decided I should see why people graffiti bathroom stalls. So I scratched a heart that said Jay + Heather inside of it.... Whew. I'm glad I got that off my chest.

6. I rode a camel at the Phoenix Zoo, just to say I've ridden a camel.

7. In 5th grade, I was one of the ring leaders in sinking the sub. If you've ever read the book "Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub" you'll know what I'm talking about. I read that book, and thought I should try it. At the end of the day, I went bawling to her to apologize because I felt so bad. Yeah, I'm tough like that.

8. I hiked the Y my first week as a freshman at BYU. Then I did it on numerous other occasions for fun. But the first time was just to say I had been there.

I'm sure I have more, but they'll have to be another post. What things have you done just to say you've done it?