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Kimberly Hula 5:37 am on January 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply

It’s 10 in the p.m.. Where’s YOUR mother?
Wow! You guys are just cooking with gas! I’m having the loveliest time reading about your extraordinary adventures.

At present Jen has eaten an Ethiopian feast, Jane went pantless on the T (and was consequently photographed for the Boston Herald), Chris survived a sandstorm, co-admin Rebecca’s mom survived a slew of 1st graders, Dawn drove hundreds of miles solo, I participated in my first poetry reading and SO.MANY.MORE. If this is just the start of week 2, I have absolutely no idea what to expect for the rest of the year. But I do know this: 2010 is full of so much crazy promise. And to think, we still have another 50 and some weeks of fabulous adventuer to look forward to!

Keep doing what you’re doing. You do it so well!

xoxo

Kimberly

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Kimberly Hula 2:52 pm on January 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Club 52 ( 2 ), design contest

If you are so artistically inclined
Do you have a repressed urge to design a logo? Have an intense need to let your inner designer fly? I would just love to enlist your help!

I plan to present any and all adventurers who successfully complete 52 adventures a “Club 52” sticker and t-shirt and the close of the year. (I’ll make an abridged version for those who choose to complete a different # of adventures)

It makes this something of an exclusive club! How fun!

But I’ve disastrous design skills, so I’m calling on YOU. Let’s see what you’ve got!

Submit all entries to: Kimberlyhula@gmail.com, subject heading: Club52 logo submission

xoxo

Hula

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Kimberly Hula 2:27 am on January 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply
Tags: 1/52 ( 21 ), Polar Bear Plunge ( 6 )

ADV. #1: Baptism by Ice
2 ex-boyfriends of mine walked into a 2009 New Years Eye party I was attending. Only one left unharmed.

This is not how I hoped to jumpstart my year of 52 adventures.

However, as a saving grace, it was the sage word(s) of the unharmed ex who really lent credence and gave meaning to adventure #1: The Polar Bear Plunge. See, after my fist met the shoulder of the harmed one, I put down my drink, found Mark (of the unharmed) and sighed. And sighed. I said how I always chose the wrong men and spoke how how I never learned and reminded him that I had punched someone! Punched him! Like a spoiled child. My racing words did little to suggest maturity and I was lothesome, near tears and without a drink. (More …)

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cupcakeemergency, yearof52adventures, and mjperry1 are discussing. Toggle Comments
- mjperry1 3:22 am on January 7, 2010 Permalink
  
  I love this, but for the life of me I can’t htink of the new vocabulary term you taught me – something about ritual washing? I think it started with an “A,” but I don’t think it was ablution. What was it.
  
  PS – thanks for not punching me.
- yearof52adventures 4:30 am on January 7, 2010 Permalink
  
  apotheosis!
- cupcakeemergency 7:53 pm on January 7, 2010 Permalink
  
  love it! So kicking myself for missing it. 2011?
Kimberly Hula 3:41 pm on January 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Chicago Tribune, WGN News

Adventure for All: Surviving the cutting room floor!
It is with great pleasure I direct your attention to this article, re: the year of 52 adventures, in none other than the Chicago Tribune! (see it here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-talk-52-resolutionsjan06,0,2694118.story)

I am also OVER THE MOON to report that Chicago WGN News did a segment on our adventure blog!

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- JScribe 7:20 pm on January 6, 2010 Permalink
  
  Soooo Awesome!
Kimberly Hula 7:04 am on January 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply

WEEK ONE: And we’re off!
A longer post, doing the deed its due service is forthcoming, but I wanted to report that I, along with the Chicago contingency of Mark, Shawna and Dan participated in the Polar Bear Plunge with a recorded temperature of 11 degrees farenheit and 1 degree with the wind chill (isn’t 1 such a cute little degree?).

Pictures will soon be posted, including a video (CELEBRATE!).

In the interim keep posting your adventures for WEEK 1. If you need authorship status contact Kimberlyhula@gmail.com and we’ll get you straight up-set up.

Happy New Year and good luck in/on/at your enviable adventures.

You are so good, You!

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Mark Perry, Jane Showalter, and Kristina Bulik-Hocum are discussing. Toggle Comments
- Kristina Bulik-Hocum 2:19 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink
  
  Life is adventure. So to appreciate it, part of my adventure to notice and appreciate them as such. Early on January 1, 2010 in the still dark of the night, I went outdoors to observe what was being called the full, blue moon. Stood in the cold of the Colorado night and took in the view of this wonderous moon. Below unlike during day hours the snow smarkled as if interlaced with diamonds. The beauty and wonder of it all started my year of 52 adventures.
- Kristina Bulik-Hocum 2:57 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink
  
  Adventure #2 on 01/01/10:Attended New Year’s Day Party at Lori & Chris’ in Windsor. Colorado. It is always an adventure to get to know people on their home turf. Learned of their dream to open a bed&breakfast. Observed that they are terrific host. They have decorating, preparing the best nibbles. . Lori has a terrific collection of tea pots. She plans to have one for each of her rooms in her bed & breakfast. My favorite of her tea pots was the one that just says Believe. Yes, it is an adventure to Believe. Believe in life and the adventures it brings. If only we believe.
- Jane Showalter 3:38 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink
  
  Good on you! I’m glad it went well and that there was no long-term freezing to be had. Looking forward to that video.
- Mark Perry 8:03 pm on January 2, 2010 Permalink
  
  The good news is that I don’t have frostbite on right foot toes #2 & 3. The better news is that my left knee has a 3″-diameter bruise from running into an ice berg.
  
  Kristina, I love your blue moon adventure. Adventure doesn’t always scream – sometime it causes quiet contemplation. Looking forward to further details.
Kimberly Hula 4:39 am on December 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

And when we see it/
…we’ll do what is natural/ we’ll take our burned hands/ out of our pockets/ and clap/ – Tony Hoagland

So now, what’s on the docket? I’m jumping in an icy frozen lake. We needn’t be competitive, but I would just LOVE to compliment you on your forthcoming fun risk-takes.

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Kimberly Hula 5:56 pm on December 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply

At This Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I want to remind you that now, in the thick of the holidays and a new year and resolutions, that you are so much more than an itemized list sequence. You are unique and brave and a great source of inspiration. So I would like to extend an adventurers salute and wish you and your loved ones the happiest of holidays. Here’s to an awe-inspiring 2010. Keep doing what you’re doing. See you on the adventure trail!
Kimberly Hula 7:04 pm on December 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
Tags: Polar Bear Plunge ( 6 )

2 Adventurers ((see: cupcakeemergency & Shawna Bailey)(with a potential 3rd!: I’m looking at YOU Sarena Johnson)) have agreed to jump into the icy waters of Lake Michigan on January 1st. I encourage all you Chicagoans without heart conditions to join us. I’ll pack a picnic!

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- cupcakeemergency 7:20 pm on December 23, 2009 Permalink
  
  yikes. I’m majorly scared already.
Kimberly Hula 5:45 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
Straight from our cranium glove box, to yours
I’m fortunate to have a Rebecca-neighbor. Not many people are so fortunate. Not only is Rebecca the neighbor to borrow from, cry to, embarrass yourself before, but, BUT, she’s also an adventure chaser! What are the odds!?! So, with unlikely odds in our favor Rebecca and I collectively assembled the following list of future adventures and chances. Join us in all and any.

Things.Are.Happening!

(In no particular order and with no particular preference)
- Polar Bear Plunge
- All the Single Ladies Dance performed at a Boston night club (gulp!)
- Read my poetry to an audience at a poetry reading (Kim)
- Play guitar and sing in the subway (Kim)
- Visit and gun shop & potentially fire a weapon
- Touch a bird (Rebecca)
- Pet a spider, or do something eerily spider related (Kim)
- Hot air balloon ride in VT during the turning of the leaves
- Bike ride across state lines
- Camp (build a fire, assemble a tent)
- Get hypnotized
- Gamble in Atlantic City
- Participate in a Civil War re-enactment
- Visited a Haunted Sighting, at night, in Salem, MA
- Go sailing
- Run a 1/2 marathon in the winter in Hyannis
- Pick apples in New England
- Eat Lobster in Maine (first time for Kim!!!)
- Travel from Boston to California on public transport
- California Adventure (Jen N, fellow adventurer, chooses our adventure)
- Fishing, including baiting, hooking, unhooking (yuck! – Kim)
- Single woman bar crawl
- Protest passionately for something I believe in (Kim)
- Perform a professional dance at my sister’s wedding (Kim & Brad)
- Wear a bikini (aye yi yi)
- Ride a roller coaster with a loop (Kim’s first time!!!)
- Visit a bat cave
- Be an extra on a movie set
- Shut it off day (no electronics, no phone, nothing!)
- Overnight walk for suicide prevention
- Meet Louise Gluck (Kim)
- Zipline in New England
- Visit Presidential Libraries
- Get on NPR
- Adventure Piercing (Kim is thinking…. nose?)
- Adventure “52” tattoo (Kim)
- Host Thanksgiving Dinner (Kim)
- 1 day of speaking ONLY Japanese in Japan (Kim)
- Glass shelf of the Sears Tower in Chicago
- Empire State building on Valentine’s Day (there’s a longer explanation involved)
- Naked Run in Boston (Kim)
- Be a mall santa
- Be a balloon holder for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
- Audition for a play
- Learn and perform belly dancing
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Jen, Anonymous, and adventurechaser are discussing. Toggle Comments
- adventurechaser 5:53 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink
  
  Woohooo!!!!! Let’s go!
- adventurechaser 6:36 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink
  
  BTW – I wanna sing in the subway too. You’ll have to be completely in charge of the guitar though.
- Anonymous 9:20 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink
  
  Ok, I don’t have a list yet, but I already have one adventureompleted!!
  I’m fostering the ugliest-cutest dog (yes the do exist) on the face of the earth.
  So far, he has crapped on the floor, chewed up a blanket, and molested my cat.
  I’m thinking about keeping him 🙂
- Jen 3:20 am on January 5, 2010 Permalink
  
  You’re Cali adventure could be being an extra in a move if you don’t get the chance in Boston. Otherwise save it up and we’ll do one together that week. BTW- one of mine is to visit 5 US cities I’ve never been to. That includes Boston, so we’ll have an East Coast adventure that week.
Kimberly Hula 2:07 am on December 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
Tags: chance ( 2 )

“The Sky Was as Blue as the Ribbon of a Prize Winning Lamb”
What would YOU do???

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- adventurechaser 1:42 pm on December 22, 2009 Permalink
  
  I JUST bought that card and sent it to a friend!
- Ella 1:06 pm on May 5, 2011 Permalink
  
  Fell out of bed feienlg down. This has brightened my day!
- goervtz 11:25 am on May 9, 2011 Permalink
  
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