Saturday, February 12, 2011

30 things to do before 30

In exactly 150 days I will be 30. I will be considered old enough to be nearing the end of my career if I was a professional athlete, more than old enough to become a Father and little bit too old to go to Magaluf dressed as a Smurf. Before I embrace man boobs and going to Ikea every Saturday I have set myself thirty challenges to tick off. I will be happy to get to July 12th healthy and with all my limbs intact but if I can do this it may slow down my descent into middle age and crown green bowling. Have just worked out that it amounts to doing a challenge every five days so I had better get cracking. I will complete them in random order and try to record some video or photo evidence to upload on here. The challenges are:

  1. Do a sky dive
  2. Learn more about the middle east.
  3. Run marathon distance.
  4. Swim in Hyde park in speedos
  5. Write to five people I admire.
  6. Learn how to juggle
  7. Climb a British Mountain
  8. Sleep rough for a night.
  9. Do 5000 push ups in a week
  10. Run the 100m in less than 15 seconds
  11. Learn basic sign language
  12. Get an article published
  13. Grow something and eat it
  14. Learn one impressive magic trick
  15. Learn and remember the capital cities of 50 randomly selected countries.
  16. Bench press 100kg once
  17. Do something nice for someone who genuinely deserves it.
  18. Do a charity shop pub crawl
  19. Watch the godfather trilogy back to back
  20. Cook a three course meal and get marked on it.
  21. Learn one impressive magic trick.
  22. Hold a friends baby
  23. Get a good tattoo
  24. Give blood
  25. Host my own pub quiz
  26. Make a baked alaska
  27. Put a 50 quid bet on
  28. Make a video for my song male pattern bald
  29. Do some voluntary work
  30. Do a one hour stand up show based on this list
I ummed and aahhed about trying heroin but thought it would be a bit pricey. If you're reading this and can juggle, are up for climbing Ben Nevis or Snowdon, want to run a bit of the marathon with me or have a certainty for the bet give me a holla.

Thanks for reading, have a good Saturday. Slaters xxx
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7 comments:

  1. MDFebruary 12, 2011 at 7:04 AM

    You can hold my baby Andy. This is funny.Good luck.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    I used to give blood. I should give blood again. And when I do, I'd like you to bleed with me.

    Rocket

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  3. iFebruary 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM

    Hi Andy! are you the same Andy that writes for The Pale Blue Dot?

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  4. andyFebruary 15, 2011 at 3:09 PM

    Hey I yep thats me, trying to keep my more self indulgent posts for this blog and write some more general interest stuff on pale blue dot!

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  5. 2haunyFebruary 16, 2011 at 2:07 AM

    That's number 7 taken care of, fella.

    http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=171191092926720

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  6. iFebruary 16, 2011 at 4:49 PM

    I really like what you write. Actually that's how I ended up here, I googled you. Congrats on the articles and the website is very nice too :)

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  7. stuartaken.netFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    Had you realised that 14 and 21 are the same?
    At 62, I've achieved nos, 2,5,8,10,12,13,17,22,24,26 and 29 and half done 3. Of course, that was all over a number of years. Good luck with your list and keep up with the blogging.

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