Ok, I'm really going to have to try hard at this stuff as I'm notoriously shit at keeping up with blog and social networking type things, and I really struggle to take them seriously. I know it's fashionable to vent your spleen for all the world to see or to blog and Tweet work-related stuff, but I have to confess I love posting photos of dogs that look like cocks. What can I say, it brightens my day. But I promise, I will at least try to behave.
The List So Far...
With the help of my buddies I've started putting a few ideas together for ways to torture myself over the next year, which you can find below. I have to say that I'm really excited about most of them, but I feel my fear of heights and spiders may induce an anxiety attack on a couple of them.
- Eat sushi
- Go fishing
- Abseil
- Win a pub quiz
- Crowd surf (last enjoyed circa '99)
- Get a feature published in a national magazine or newspaper
- Rollerskating (not done since around 1990)
- Tandem bike ride
- Hold a tarantula
- Paintballing
- Sphereing
- Speed dating
- Snowboarding (only had one lesson)
- Horse riding*
- Smoke a cigar
- Give blood
- Urban exploration
- Make a mixtape of my favourite 20 tracks of my 20s - yeah, that's right, a TAPE
- Do a Dear Photograph
- Do a Sleeve Face
- Planking
- Headless Horse Manning*
- Play a round of golf
- Complete Zelda (this project has been on and off since I was 10-years-old, but never completed)
- Learn new slang the kids are using these days and use it in everyday speech (lookout for 'peng' and 'sket' coming your way soon)
- Read a Charles Dickens (it's his centenary after all)
- Go ten pin bowling (again, not done since around 1990)
- Watch the original three Star Wars films in one sitting
- Do some night time photography
- Visit a museum or art gallery I've never been to
- Visit a town or city I've never been to
- Cook something new
- Eat an entire meal with chop sticks (anyone who's seen me eat spag bol with a knife and fork over the course of about two hours will know this one is going to be tough)
- Use my limited sewing skills to make something new out of old clothes I no longer wear
- Go vegan for a week
- Seven day cheese nightmare challenge
- Fly a kite
- Take part in the A to Z Blogging Challenge
- Get a new tattoo
All thoughts and suggestions on other stuff I can do are very welcome. Also, I may need my hand holding for some of these so please volunteer your services! Think of it like helping an old lady cross the road.
