The Fall Top Ten
Last year I started my summer with a top ten list. I made a list of all the things I wanted to accomplish inside that ten-week period, and ended up knocking seven off the list. Pretty impressive.
I made no written list this year. No, this year I was too chicken to face only a 70% success rate after committing something to the written word. I did, however, have a pretty front-end heavy mental list, which included:
1) Ride Blue from San Francisco to LA
2) Take my boys to Peru
3) Triathlon in July, August and September
That was it. I had intended to continue down the path of reading, learning a new language and finding my dream job, but time and bad television intervened, and my self-improvement goals ended when I got back from Peru.
In fact, instead of continuing down the work-out path, I ate like 2 pounds of hot dogs. Maybe 5 pounds, I donno. It was a huge sack from Costco and OH MY GAWD were they good. Old fashioned ones, in the casings even, so I'm cutting myself some slack. At least I had good taste in the matters of my nitrate consumption. I also ate almost an entire lemon pound cake (got the cake the same day I got the hot dogs). I am telling you... just mentioning those hot dogs even parenthetically-- I'm jonesing for them. They were like crack. Crack dogs. My mind says, "No, no-- I don't need them, I can stop anytime I want," but my body screams, "I just don't want to right now!!" and responds with the sweats and the shakes. GAWD they were good. I even ate them for breakfast. Once I drove home and had two for lunch. No buns, no condiments, just ate them like carrots.
Okay so enough about the hot dogs. (I loved them.)
My list.
I've decided that maybe I should make a list for the school year. See, last year I signed up for the AIDS Ride, and that kept my work-out goals somewhat focussed. This year... this year has no such goals. Just immense consumption of all-beef-encased goodness, and that should not be a goal.
So I enshrine my top ten herein. Things I want to do.
10) Start learning to play the piano.
9) Try to pick up Spanish again.
8) Read a book every 2 weeks.
7) Sell my house.
6) Get back to riding my bike regularly.
5) Have a Halloween Party
4) Go surfing.
3) Go to Yosemite.
2) Take a rock climbing class.
1) Go camping.
Okay. Reachable. My deadline is Yule (the start of Winter). Let's see how I do.
I made no written list this year. No, this year I was too chicken to face only a 70% success rate after committing something to the written word. I did, however, have a pretty front-end heavy mental list, which included:
1) Ride Blue from San Francisco to LA
2) Take my boys to Peru
3) Triathlon in July, August and September
That was it. I had intended to continue down the path of reading, learning a new language and finding my dream job, but time and bad television intervened, and my self-improvement goals ended when I got back from Peru.
In fact, instead of continuing down the work-out path, I ate like 2 pounds of hot dogs. Maybe 5 pounds, I donno. It was a huge sack from Costco and OH MY GAWD were they good. Old fashioned ones, in the casings even, so I'm cutting myself some slack. At least I had good taste in the matters of my nitrate consumption. I also ate almost an entire lemon pound cake (got the cake the same day I got the hot dogs). I am telling you... just mentioning those hot dogs even parenthetically-- I'm jonesing for them. They were like crack. Crack dogs. My mind says, "No, no-- I don't need them, I can stop anytime I want," but my body screams, "I just don't want to right now!!" and responds with the sweats and the shakes. GAWD they were good. I even ate them for breakfast. Once I drove home and had two for lunch. No buns, no condiments, just ate them like carrots.
Okay so enough about the hot dogs. (I loved them.)
My list.
I've decided that maybe I should make a list for the school year. See, last year I signed up for the AIDS Ride, and that kept my work-out goals somewhat focussed. This year... this year has no such goals. Just immense consumption of all-beef-encased goodness, and that should not be a goal.
So I enshrine my top ten herein. Things I want to do.
10) Start learning to play the piano.
9) Try to pick up Spanish again.
8) Read a book every 2 weeks.
7) Sell my house.
6) Get back to riding my bike regularly.
5) Have a Halloween Party
4) Go surfing.
3) Go to Yosemite.
2) Take a rock climbing class.
1) Go camping.
Okay. Reachable. My deadline is Yule (the start of Winter). Let's see how I do.
posted by @traciAWESOME
1 Comments:
I don't have a top three, much less a top five.
Sheesh - now who's the big fat loser.
ME me me! hehe.
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