Chose My Own Adventure
Okay friends. So adventures usually find me. I’ll get lost someplace and follow where the spirit takes me, meeting people and making plans as I go. So planning adventures in advance is a bit of a new thing for me. As a result, I’m not very good at it. The first 20 that I’ve come up with are below. The rest, dear friends, are up to you.
I am hereby committing to engaging in any and all suggestions that you offer that are legal, adventurous, feasible, and at least arguably safe. Come friends, we have 32 more adventures to discover.
1) Polar Bear Plunge – Chicago Illinois – January 1, 2010
2) [Redacted]
3) Fire a handgun (non-wimpy)
4) Appear onstage sober
5) Learn to cook a French dish
6) Host a dinner party – and actually cook things, having removed the sweaters from my oven
7) Redo counters and floor in Kitchen/bathrooms
8) Find a job
9) Complete the 300 workout
10) Finally found my foundation
a) Develop a way to avoid unnecessary alliteration
11) Design that second tattoo I’ve been imagining for years.
12) Get it – from a tattoo artist with a scary name – paid with tips.
13) Memorize 1 Corinthians: 13
14) Memorize the last monologue from Jumpers
15) Build a fire, spend all night tending it and watch the sun rise
16) Learn to do a standing backflip.
17) Go on a squad car ride-along.
18) Take nephew to attend his first play
19) Snowball fight
20) Poetry slam
mjperry1 7:59 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink
Okay, wordpress is a tricky minx. It totally changed my number 8 into an emoticon. You should all just know that I didn’t do that on purpose.
Jen 8:16 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink
Okay I keep hearing about this 300 workout. What is it?
mjperry1 8:26 pm on January 3, 2010 Permalink
Well, the guys in the movie 300 worked out many hours a day, many days a week, for several months before shooting began (sidenote: they also ate a diet of wild game). The 300 workout was originally conceived as a test for those guys. I think it was something like they had to pass this fitness test in order to actually be on screen. Or something. But it wasn’t an actual workout that they did regularly. The list for the test is:
25x Pull-up +
50x Deadlift @ 135# +
50x Push-up +
50x Box Jump @ 24” box +
50x Floor Wiper @ 135# (one-count) +
50x KB Clean and Press @ 36# (KB must touch floor between reps) +
25x Pull-up
you can find more about it at http://www.gymjones.com/knowledge.php?id=35
Jackie 10:51 pm on January 4, 2010 Permalink
Ok, I couldn’t figure out how to start my own comment, so I’m replying to yours. But pretend like this is a new comment altogether. (Although I enjoyed reading your list)
This is what I have so far, not necessarily to be done in this order:
1) Get accupuncture
2) Take a “hot” yoga class
3) Get a Brazillian wax
4) Take the kids to Medieval Times
5) Spend a weekend with the kids in Amish country
6) Volunteer with the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans
7) Take a pole-dancing class
8) Let my friend Jon teach me how to knit
9) Eat only raw food for a week
10) Milk a cow
11) Visit an Indian reservation, sleep in a teepee
Looking forward to completing some of these 🙂
mjperry1 12:32 am on January 5, 2010 Permalink
To create your own posts, you have to (1) register for an account with wordpress, and then (2) email kimberlyhula@gmail.com. She’ll set you up as an author.
ps – I love that wordpress keeps changing the number 8 to a smiley.
yearof52adventures 2:54 am on January 5, 2010 Permalink
Jackie, let me know if you need me to set you up as an author. We would love to have you. AND, do all the aforementioned adventures! They are wild and awesome. I’m all about the teepee.