First of all, I finally have my list of 30! But I'm reserving the right to swap out up to three things in case someone has an amazing suggestion that can knock out one of my less-creative items.
#28 was added to my list on a whim - and I did it last night so I am officially crossing one item off my list. I thought my first crossing off would be for something at least minutely meaningful, but that is definitely not the case here. C'est la vie.
Sorry to be so vague up to this point. While my post about it will be G-rated, the activity itself was not. So grandmas and other relatives should stop reading now.
Eddie and I were having dinner with a new group of friends last night. One mentioned going to the Acropolis Steakhouse & Strip Club sometime after dinner to celebrate his friend's birthday. I semi-jokingly said that I have never done that and that it had potential to be a bucket list item - and naturally we were invited to attend. Portlandia is said to have more strip clubs per capita than San Francisco or Las Vegas. So you see where this is going now...
All I will say is that it was an interesting evening.
So now in a futile attempt to redeem myself, I have to tell you that I am working on #15 as I compose this. I thought it would be fun to listen to the 30 best-selling albums of all time. Appropriate for me, no? I'm going off of Wikipedia's list which conveniently has exactly 30 albums that have sold 30 million units or more. I'm not too jazzed about the fact that this list includes compilations and greatest hits, but that will be fine.
I decided to start at the bottom with Nirvana's Nevermind. I can't believe this thing is 21 years old - that's crazy! I don't remember when I last listened to it all the way through so it's been fun hearing it all tonight. Such a great album! A couple of these songs have consistently been on my gym playlist for the past ten years - "Lithium" takes the cake in that department with "In Bloom," "Breed," and "Polly" right behind.
I don't have a real clear first memory of Nirvana, but definitely remember that my mom bought this album when it came out - when CDs were in the longbox packaging. My cool mom saved all of her CD boxes and tacked them up in our garage. It was a really cool display of some albums from the late 80s / early 90s. Anyhoo. As a kid, this album cover always made me laugh since the photo is of the naked boy in the pool.
One down and twenty-nine adventures to go!
