Someone asked me how old I was last week. Without thinking I said 24. Then I did the maths and realised that I am actually 25! Obviously my last birthday wasn't that memorable - I was ill and spent 4 days sleeping, emerging only to make myself some birthday pancakes. I feel that I'm too young to be forgetting how old I am, so I'm setting myself some goals before I reach my 26th birthday - one for every year I've lived so far. Hopefully this will help me remember when someone asks me the age-old question. So without further adieu, here they are:
- Sleep in a yurt
- Roadtrip around New Zealand
- Spend New Year's eve in Sydney
- Hand in my confirmation report
- Pass my confirmation viva
- Finish reading the Hobbit
- Watch all LOTR and Hobbit films
- Buy a food processor
- Collate recipes into one place
- Bake carrot cake
- Juice everyday for 1 week
- Cook a food I've never tried to before
- Plant something
- Do 1 chin up
- Do 25 pushups in a row
- Get lead jammer in an open bout
- Get rid of 25 items
- Buy a new bike
- Buy a camera
- Get a tattoo
- Learn to weave
- Learn to play 5 songs on the ukulele
- Learn how to solve a rubik's cube in under 5 minutes
- Send a postcard to Postsecret
- Blog 25 times
Some goals are adventurous, some are necessary for me to move on in my PhD (I'm looking at you confirmation report and viva) and others are just plain fun. I think you get a sense of my personality with the selection - lots of the goals are food or exercise based.
I plan to complete each goal by writing a blogpost about it, so expect to see 25 posts about this feature coming your way before March 4th 2015.
Has anyone else set them self some challenges to meet before their next birthday? I'd love to hear from you!
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