# 25 (Do something that scares me)

I didn't think this would be a hard one to do.  Lets be honest sometimes just waking up in the morning and crawling off the top bunk of my bunk  bed scares me.  Also I am at the beginning of a new job so there are plenty of scary exciting things that are happening.  The one that I think was the scariest for me was during training.

I am at the bottom of a huge redwood tree, about to climb 75 feet up staples on the tree and jump off of a platform at the top.  I am harnessed in of course, but when I am at the bottom I get really nervous.   I know I have to do it because I am being trained, but part of me just wanted to opt out of it and stay on the ground, couldn't someone go twice or three times, I thought.  Yet it became my turn and I was put into a full body harness, strapped in everything was quadruple checked.  I started my climb.  The ladder was fine, no problem then you get to the staples that wind around the tree, almost like someone just  shot them up randomly.   So I am climbing and cracking jokes because that is what I do in situations I am uncomfortable in.  Everyone is really encouraging, and then I look up which was a mistake.  It looked like I was never going to make it.  I thought I had been climbing for ten day and I wasn't even halfway there.  Then I decided just to focus on the hand held right in front of me and before I knew it I was at the top of the leap of faith.  75 feet in the air and I was going to jump.  I think at that time most people say a prayer and I was defiantly one of  those people.  There is always the struggle in your mind that maybe something might go wrong.  I mean what if the tree fell over.  So I stood on the platform and grabbed for the trapeze that was really close to me.  Maybe a  little to close but I was really frightened. 

So the time came to jump and I stood on the platform, not sure if I could do it.  It was called the leap of faith for a reason.  I was about to take the leap.  All of the sudden I had done it, and I was being lowered to the ground.  I felt amazing, like i was flying. 

A lot of times it is the little things that scare me and I realize once I face those fears they aren't really that bad.  Its just facing the fears part that is hard.

oops

So I am looking for my next goal option.  What do I want to do next? 

28 things to do before I turn 29

28 things to do before I turn 29

1.  Get one of my photos on a Jones Soda bottle
2. Go on a backpacking trip
3. Take my friends out to dinner
4. Make something out of wood
5. Win a game of Dutch Blitz
6. Walk a half mile with my shoe strings tied together
7. Go to my brothers wedding
8. Hug a redwood tree
9. Go paint balling ( I have never done this before)
10. Get an Autograph from someone famous
11. Watch Casablanca (can you believe I have never seen this movie)
12. Give blood. ( I have done this before but it has been a long time)
13. Send my book idea to a publisher
14. Go to a dance
15. Have a meal with an old friend
16. Write a fan letter to one of my favorite authors
17. Give to charity
18. Help raise money for a cause that I believe in.  
19. Get a pedicure
20. Go to a play
21. Live in California
22. Go skiing
23. Host a party
24. Play Frisbee at night
25. Do something that scares me
26. Eat Pie
27. Climb a tree
28. Tell someone I haven't told before, that I love them.

This is how far I have gotten so far.  Wahoooooo.

#8 and #21

So I knew that these to I probably would do at the same time.  I hugged a redwood tree today.  The trees are so big and amazing and beautiful.  I will post a lot of pictures soon.  I hiked around California today.  Everything is just so different here.  I feel like I am on another planet or country.  Yet it is cool.  Well it might take longer than I expected because I forgot my chord in Missouri.  Oops. 

# 1

This is the one I am currently working on.  To get my picture on a Jones soda Bottle.  I have submitted several pictures.  You can check them out at www.jonesoda.com.  For all of you that know me know how much I really really love Jones soda, a lot.  So hopefully they like one of my pictures and you can vote on them as well.  Just look up my name and my pictures are under landscape.  Oh good times.  I love the possibility of another goal being done.  It is not crossed off of the list yet, but it is in the process. 

Wahoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# 15

I have one goal down 27 to go.  On January 13th, I had a meal with an old friend. Anthony, from my college days.  I hadn't seen him in five years.  I was in the Chicago area and we drove up to meet him.  Eating at Chipolte, which is an awesome place to eat.  It was so good to catch up with him.  I have also been staying with my amazing friend Emily, in Chicago.  We made Sweet Potato stew, which was awesome potatoes.  Ohhhhhh and homemade brownies.  My friend Amy also came over.  So in One day I saw a friend I had met in Missouri, One I had met in North Carolina, and one I had met in Pennsylvania.  Yeah it was an amazing time, full of good food memories and a lot of laughter. 

So I am ready to do another goal.  The decision is which one to do next?

Birthday!

Today my list starts again.  I am now 28, when I get older I feel that birthdays are not as a big of deal.  It wasn't that today was a bad day.  It just was different than my past 2 birthdays.  It was hard not being surrounded by so many friends like I am used to.  Though it was good to be with my family.

Right now I stare at my birthday cake as I am sitting alone,  It is uneaten.  I am tempted right now to eat the whole thing.  Also to open up the sprinkles and eat them as well.  Oh that would be good.  That is something that they do on cheesy sitcoms, and then I would cry.

On the plus side I do have a family who loves me, and I do have so many friends that God has blessed me with.  That I miss dearly right now.  I just wish I could hug you all.  That would be an amazing birthday present to transport everyone I love to one place.  Wow that would be crazy and loud.

 I have a good feeling about this year and these goals.  As always a new year brings new excitement and adventure.  No super secret goal this year.  I know this might be shocking to those who have known me since I first made my goals.  This year if I do my super secret I get to cross off any of them at the end of the year.  This is what I decided.

Tomorrow I fly to Chicago.  Ready for an adventure, full of anxiety excitement and a little craziness wrapped in the mix.




 

28 things to do before I turn 29

1. 1.  Get one of my photos on a Jones Soda bottle
   2. Go on a backpacking trip
   3. Take my friends out to dinner
   4. Make something out of wood
   5. Win a game of Dutch Blitz
   6. Walk a half mile with my shoe strings tied together
   7. Go to my brothers wedding
   8. Hug a redwood tree
   9. Go paint balling ( I have never done this before)
   10. Get an Autograph from someone famous
   11. Watch Casablanca (can you believe I have never seen this movie)
   12. Give blood. ( I have done this before but it has been a long time)
   13. Send my book idea to a publisher
   14. Go to a dance
   15. Have a meal with an old friend
   16. Write a fan letter to one of my favorite authors
   17. Give to charity
   18. Help raise money for a cause that I believe in.  
   19. Get a pedicure
   20. Go to a play
   21. Live in California
   22. Go skiing
   23. Host a party
   24. Play Frisbee at night
   25. Do something that scares me
   26. Eat Pie
   27. Climb a tree
   28. Tell someone I haven't told before, that I love them.
   
   All right so I have 28 things that I want to do before I turn 29.  I have a little time to change it if I need to.  I am excited.  Will this be the year I complete all of my goals?  Man I hope so.  

other ideas

So I think of more things I want to do as I am driving down the road, and then I forget what it is.  So here is the ones that I can remember.

• Do something that scares me
• Eat pie (yeah this one is what I like to do anyway)
• Get one of my photos on a Jones Soda bottle
• Go on a backpacking trip
• Ride in a limo
• Take my friends out to dinner
• Win a game of dutch blitz
• Make something out of wood
• Fly first class
• Walk a half mile with my shoe strings tied together
• Go to my brothers wedding
• Hug a redwood tree
• Go paintballing ( I have never done this before)
• Get an Autograph from someone famouse
• Ride an elaphant

Allright now I think I have all my ideas.  I think I have too many now, I have to edit a few and get my final list!!!

more goals

So I have ten goals and I was thinking about a few more.  I need 28 goals.  When I get to be 50 I am either going to have done everything I ever wanted to do in life. (lets hope that is not the case) or have to be really creative.  Which I think I can do.  Oh I could have a goal to make a circle out of pipe cleaners, to eat breakfast, to comb my hair.  Yes Yes all of these things would be exciting and adventurous when I am 50.  All right back to reality.  I am in my twenties not fifty so I have to think about this year.  So here are some other ideas.

• Watch Casablanca (can you believe I have never seen this movie)
• Give blood. ( I have done this before but it has been a long time)
• Send my book idea to a publisher
• Go one day without talking
• Go to a dance
• Make a new friend
• Get a passport

my goals

When I was about to turn 24 I had decided that nothing really exciting happens at the age of 24.  So  I wanted to change that so I made a list of things that I wanted to do before I turned 25.  I am now almost going to turn 28 and it in my four years of doing this I have never completed all of my goals.  I have always been three or four shy.  So this year I really want to complete all of my goals.  I am going to write about my adventures in completing my goals on my blog.  I am currently thinking about what to do when I am 28.  Here are some current ideas.

• Have a meal with an old friend
• Write a fan letter to one of my favorite authors
• Give to charity
• Help raise money for a cause that I believe in.  
• Get a pedicure
• Go to a play
• Live in California
• Go skiing
• Host a party
• Play Frisbee at night

 This is just a beginning I am working on a few more.  I have 11 days until my list has to be complete.