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19th May 2011 – my first blood donation …

Nothing special really, Y’all should donate blood!

Click here to find out more about blood donations

I’d wanted to donate blood for a long time, especially after signing up to the Organ Donor list when I got my provisional driving license. I mean that does show that they think people are likely to die while driving and thus ask them to sign up to the donor list.

Anyway, there was a petite woman also donating blood and half way through her donation she fainted. No not because she was scared/nervous, etc., but from what I heard because she was too small and her body couldn’t cope with blood loss.

Imagine if it was somebody like her in an accident? Somebody who’ll need blood immediately. . .

Do something amazing today. Give Blood!

This completed number 41 off my things to do before I die list.

 

Things to do before I die . . . The Bucket List

I made this list a few years ago, since then I’ve added a lot of things to it. I’m making it public so that I really follow through and do it all and of course to write a post about each thing I’ve done so far and end up doing.

Here’s the list:
1. climb everest
2. publish autobiography
3. become a multi-millionaire
4. visit every continent
5. visit both poles
6. collect 365 ties – one for each day
7. release a music album
8. publish a book
9. go sky diving
10. create my website – Completed Feb 2011
11. build a web-service – Completed 1st Jan 2012
12. do charity work for a good few weeks in an unknown place
13. visit grand canyon
14. visit amazon rainforest
15. build a PC – Completed sometime in 2009
16. make a mobile phone app and sell ten thousand copies
17. build a swords and knives collection
18. act in a film/or be an extra
19. find an amazing stranger and tell them my life story from scratch
20. go around a world cruise
21. be on a live tv show
22. visit the space
23. walk the great wall of china
24. visit sahara desert
25. sit in a jury
26. dramatically change someones life
27. open an orphanage or adopt upto 10 kids and change their life
28. have a lot of things to give away in my will
29. go rafting in grand canyon
30. go up in a hot air balloon
31. win big in vegas
32. give a huge donation to charity – anonymously
33. run to the top of statue of liberty
34. go skiing
35. create a family tree
36. run a marathon
37. visit a disaster struck area to help out
38. build a house for homeless people
39. visit the 7 wonders of the world
40. dunk a basketball
41. give blood – Completed 19th May 2011 – regular donor since then
42. find a firefly and put it in a jar
43. go tornado hunting
44. go on an international bike ride
45. own an island
46. own a yacht
47. climb an active volcano
48. must visit italy
49. do deep sea diving/scuba diving
50. get a pilots license
51. learn how to juggle at least three balls!
52. fire a gun
53. fight in MMA
54. be able to do the splits
55. break a world record
56. do the rubic’s cube in less than 15 seconds
57. own a talking parrot
58. Sit on the floor when a perfectly good chair is available in an important meeting
59. watch the launch of a space shuttle live! – be there
60. go bungee jumping
61. adopt an animal from an animal shelter
62. release an internationally recognised computer program
63. build a mirrored ceiling
64. see the northern lights
65. join a bowling league for a season
66. restore a classic car
67. get a PhD
68. open a Swiss bank account
69. Learn to program in Brainfuck and Piet =) for fun
70. create a turing complete programming language