Sunday, August 8, 2010

My Gumption List

The title of the post sorta implies a Bucket List doesn't it? Well, my Gumption List is anything but a Bucket List. I saw a quote this weekend that said, "Life begins outside your comfort zone." That's the philosophy I want to apply to my Gumption List.

Thank you everyone for all your suggestions. Most of them are currently rolling around my brain. But let's recap the bulk of them:

Skydiving - I had a feeling Uncommon Blonde would recommend this one. She tells me it's exhilirating. I don't doubt her one bit. But I still stand by my belief that I shouldn't jump out of perfectly good aircraft.

Recipe Roulette - Wendy, everyone loves this idea! We only added one rule... the kids asked that if a recipe invovled eggplant that I re-spin. Today all four of us ate Swiss Chard for the first time. Yummy!

Scuba Diving - Believe it or not, I used to be an avid scuba diver until I got married the first time. That's when I found out that what's-his-face didn't like the water. My gear got dusty. By the time I met my Sweetie (also a diver) my back hurt so bad that I sold all my gear.

Gropius Adventure - Gropy, I'm ready whenever you are! By the way, when is girls' night at the baseball game? Did I miss it?

Volunteer/Service Vacation - Yes, I'd like to do this. I need to do some research.

Learn to Surf - Unfortunately, the surf parf in Orlando hasn't been built.

Paintball - Mr. A suggested this and it sounds like fun!

Salsa Dancing - I ask my Sweetie if he would take dancing lessons with me and he didn't think I was serious until I ask Mr. A if he would do it with me.

Other ideas include: going back to school, take up painting/drawing, and write a book.

The thing I realized is that once I started thinking about any activity I immediately started throwing out excuses of why I wouldn't be any good at that particular activity. That's my biggest hurdle that I need to get over. I think I need to start off small and work my way up to the bigger things. OR maybe I need to stop thinking so much and just get out there and do!

I did a couple of things this weekend in addition to cooking Swiss Chard. Mr. A and I had a Nerf sword fight in Wal-Mart and I sewed up pillow covers out of the Dutch Wax fabric.





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6 comments:

Gropius said...

I have 2 extra tickets to the StoneCrabs game on Friday night...are you and Husband available? If not, we can plan a Rays game soon. And we need a fall Girls adventure. I'll do any of the above with you...except sky diving. I wish I could get up the nerve, but long before I made it to the ground, I would no double suffer from a fatal stroke or heart attack.

Wendy said...

Nice pillows! We love Swiss chard at our house! Now you make me want to play recipe roulette here! Goodness knows all I have to do is walk to the cookbook rack in my house and pick! Good the guys enjoy the "game"!

Heather said...

I really like that idea of recipe roulette, gonna have to see about getting some cookbooks.

Those pillows look great, actually better than I expected. Nice!

TKW said...

Recipe roulette? Sounds intriguing! going back to find out what that's all about!

The Absence of Alternatives said...

You didn't ask for a vote. But I am going to vote anyway because I am rude like that. Scuba diving! Makes perfect sense all things considered. Then you can move on to the other things.

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