Tuesday, 27 March 2012

My 'YES MAN' day



A quick update on the progress of some of my list. Although I can’t officially tick them off yet, I’m now one step closer to:
2. Sky dive
7. Visit Wales
8. Run a half marathon
9. Do three peaks challenge

After umming and ahhing about the sky dive and three peaks and how and when best to do them, I figured these were good events to fundraise some money for charity so today I sent off my application forms to do a sky dive in May and the three peaks challenge in September (which will also mean I visit Wales) with MIND, a charity that provides advice and support for people with mental health problems.

I’ve also been umming and ahhing about whether I actually want to do another half marathon. I did consider a marathon but given the knee issues I had training for my last half marathon for the sake of my sanity and being able to continue to exercise beyond the age of 30, a half marathon would be more appropriate so today I also signed up to do Run to the Beat on my 29th birthday, neatly marking the half way mark from starting this list to my 30th.

Because that’ll be the half way mark time-wise, I figured that I need to make sure I cover at least half my list by then so am scouring my list to decide which ones I want to do, but which they are you’ll have to wait and see.

For those of you wondering about the title of this post, 'YES MAN' is a book written by Danny Wallace about the time he decided to say yes to everything. Danny Wallace is an awesome writer and I highly recommend the book (but read his Join Me book first!).

And Danny, this is shameless of me, but if you happen to read this, you would count as a major celebrity so if we could arrange a place for me to have my photo taken with you that would be amazing :)

Thursday, 15 March 2012

My fab sister

My fab sister has sent me a little gift that will continue to build as I tick items off my list, I won't reveal anything further right now, but she's amazing and also I have to admit I hate her at the same time as this means it will be very difficult for me chicken out of doing this list! Love you JO!