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Monday, July 25, 2011
So remember my overly-ambitious 52 in 23* list? It's looking like a big old pile of FAIL right about now. I've got just about three and a half months to crank out the rest of my list, and I'm currently at a whopping 30.7%. This project has major failure written all over it.
Maybe some of you are thinking, "Wow! What a downer! Three and a half months is still plenty of time to get these things done." Maybe you are thinking I'm being a Negative Nancy and just quitting, throwing in the towel. I wouldn't really argue with you on that, to be perfectly honest. There are some goals I probably could still accomplish, but I know that they're highly unlikely not to happen, so I figured I should just come to terms with that now and then I will have the next three and a half months to console myself and comfort myself with lots of french fries and ice cream (part of the reason why "Lose 10 pounds" is unlikely to occur).
Here's the list of things I've officially given up on (outside of the things I mentioned here that I would not be doing).
- Run the Boston Half Marathon. - I did this last year, and I know how much training it would require (damn you, rolling hills!), and with my schedule, I just don't have the time for it, so I didn't even sign up for it this year. The Chicago half is going to be bad enough.
- A side casualty to this is probably "Get my minute/mile pace under 10 minutes", but I'm not giving up on that one just yet. I will add a quantifier around this: run 5 miles in 49:59:59 minutes or less.
- Visit my penpal. - Sadly, she does not seem interested.
- Go skydiving. - No time, and I'd rather spend my money on football games.
- Go to a college football game.
- Take a road trip to someplace besides Indianapolis, Chicago, or DC.
- Visit my #2.
- Learn how to rollerblade.
- Learn Flash.
- Watch the entire series of Frasier, from beginning to end, in order. [Seriously...24 episodes per season for 11 seasons = 264 episodes x 22 minutes per episode / 60 minutes per hour = 97 hours. No.]
- Bake my favorite chocolate chip cookies (while living in New York).
- Organize my entire music library. (HA! HA!)
- Finish LEGO Star Wars with Marek (starting from the beginning).
- Lose 10 pounds. (HAAAAAAAA HA HAHAHAHA!)
- Set up my photography website.
5 comments :
If you are here in the Fall I'll take you to an MD football game to scratch that off your list. Though if you want to experience a true college football game I say head south, Clemsons football is serious, so road trip to SC and scratch two off your list. In fact I'd go with you! I have a Clemson Alum friend, he could get us tickets probably!
Ooooh, that sounds fun! I would love to do a real southern college football game some time. I'll e-mail you!
WOW WHAT A DOWNER!!!!
(hahahah, j/k)
I'm working on my 30 before 30 list and I can already tell i'm not going to accomplish half of it. I'm still going to make it though and then revel in my failures. HA!
I still want to know what could be a higher priority than Chick-Fil-A. Are you going to share this list when it's done?
Pretty sure I'm rethinking this list business (30 before 30, 1000 in 1000 or whatever it is), and I'll put "Visit Tanya in Seattle" on it so I can pre-emptively accomplish something. :)
Tom and I are going to visit Andrea some college football season and make a side trip up to Madison. I haven't been back since I graduated and I really want to take Tom to a football game at Camp Randall. We were supposed to go this year when Purdue was there, but it fell through. Whenever we go, we'll count you in :)
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