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The Year of Adventure--what are your adventures???
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Sep 29, 2008 05:18AM
No shit Amanda?? That's fantastic!! Whatever in the world possessed you to do that? LOL My cousin takes skydivers up in his plane and I always wanted to do it but was too chicken.....you are SO COOL in my book!!!
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It's the Year of Adventure, Holli! Anything goes. :) You should go. Can you? My brother and sister went with me. My brother is a HUGE scaredy cat, but he decided he'd go at the last minute. I'm really proud of him for facing a fear, but you could see on his face that he was scared s***less. Anyway, I think, in the end, he was super proud of himself. My sister, on the other hand, wasn't scared, not even for 2 seconds, and now she wants to become an instructor! Skydiving was a great sibling activity.
That's so cool that you guys did that together!! I wish my brother and I had thought to do that pre-heart attack. I can't do it now post-heart attack and now I'm kicking myself for not going when I could!!!
Everybody should try something daring once. If you can. I'd like to hang glide, too. Maybe white water rafting? Holli, I'm sad for you.Emily, you gonna do it? :)
Eh...I did enough other crazy shit in the pre-heart attack days that I'm content. :)
i went white water rafting and by a freak accident got my right hip dislocated and am now in tracction for 5 weeks (im on week 3) and then crutches for 6 weeks. hows that for a great adventure?
Lauren~ So sorry...way to be out there, though, AND you now have more time to read????
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*SNORT* TERA! That's hilarious!Lauren, I am so sorry to hear about your white water accident. How awful! Can we send you books to read?
Holli you don't look anywhere near an age where you could even have a heart attack!
Yeah....I wish it was something that had never happened but when you don't take care of yourself and your diabetes....it can definitely happen. :( Massive heart attack at 29. Shocking it was..... its been almost 5 years ago now. Glad to still be here!!
Oh good lord! Traction? How suckeriffic!
hey there, unfortunately no dashing doctors, just the embarrASSing situation of male nurses checking for bed sores!my concentration is shot at the moment i cant seem to focus for longer than 5 min at a time. although im slowly reading "a thousand splendid suns".
thanks so much for the offer of sending books, i have a great big pile already (as we all do)so i do have plenty thanks!
Wrapping up my running adventures... I ran Milwaukee's Race for the Cure last weekend. I was one of 12000 participants. I finished the 5K run in just over 35 minutes. I was so proud! I trained all year for it... When I started training in January the goal was to run R4tC... and to run the whole 5K in memory of my husbands grandma who passed away 5 years ago. It was an AWESOME day!
Congrats sydney!!! That is awesome. I am still plodding away over here in Baking HOT Texas myself but I don't think I am ready for a 5K yet.I did take an adult Hip Hop class tonight. Felt dumb for about 5 minutes but it was really fun and something different.
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Paige I'm in Texas and I am waiting for it to cool down. I think I may be waiting until january at this rate though.
Skydiving - now that's something I always thought I'd like to do! That and bullriding - but I'd want to be sure that somebody would PROMISE me that I WOULDN'T GET HURT! Sydney, I went to Denver a couple of years ago and went on the 5K "WALK" for the Komen Race for the Cure. It was such an NEAT experience. I want to go again, but haven't been able to get to Denver in Oct. when they have it. When I was there, Komen Denver was the largest in the nation. Talk about AWESOME!
I applaud everyone who has taken on a new adventure! I think I'm too comfortable in my own little world to actually get out there are try something "daring". Like I say, I don't wanna get hurt!
Wow, I loved reading all of these. Very inspiring. Before I realized I had adventure in me I used to really enjoy reading about it. Not just any adventures but non-fiction written by women. It was an attempt to find the motivation to bring adventure into my own life. All along as we often do I failed to realize that not only did I possess the desire to be adventurous but that much of my life exhibited this I just didn't see it as such. I thought after reading your thoughts you may want to check out one of the books that I enjoyed on this topic...
Adventure Divas, Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine - Holly Morris
One more adventure to add............ I just mailed off my application yesterday to start a Nursing Doctorate program in Fall of 09....by then I will be finished with my masters...... ohhhh what was I thinkin.....
My adventure:I have decided that I want to get my adminstrators license and become either a principal or special ed director. I am now working madly on my next to the last class. I am in the process of writing an agonizing end paper. After this course is over, (first weekend in December) I will have one more course left. Then, tada.....I will be licensed.
It was a long hard road, with lots to learn. But I am gonna do it, the end is near.
Congratulations Meg! That is really something to be proud if....I'm happy for you!
My big adventure this year was a 3-week trip to Europe this summer with my husband to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary and impending empty nest (our youngest went off to college this fall). I was a little worried that after traveling alone together for 3 weeks we'd run out of things to say or start sniping at each other, but we had a GREAT time and remembered how much fun we could have, just the two of us, without the kids. I blogged about the trip to Kent, England, Nice, France, and Malaga, Spain on my author blog at http://bethgroundwater.blogspot.com/ . If you go there and click on the "July 2008" Archive, you can see photos and read a summary of our adventure.
Congrats, Meg! You'll do great!So, it looks like 2009 will be my year of adventures - motherhood! Yikes!
And that's a lifelong adventure Emily....the grandest one of all :)
My adventure for the next year is dating a guy with custody of identical twin 8 year old boys. First experience with dating a guy with kids, should be interesting.
That IS an adventure Kristen!!! I've been there....well not with twins and boys but one girl. It was hard enough. I ended up liking the kid better than the guy!! LOL
Wow congratulations to everyone with the big new dreams and goals - terrific stuff!Oh Emily you are in for an adventure. The adventure of a lifetime. You may be like the Grinch "His heart grew 3 sizes that day."
Really really. Yes.
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CoL will be a year old in a few months. I would have to say all of you have been one of my biggest adventures this year. Thanks for that!
We should be thanking you, Miss! This group is responsible in large part for me feeling more and more healthy all the time. YAY!
What shall we do for our birthday/anniversary??? Pick a time that day for everyone to eat a dessert in harmony or make a silent toast to the chicks? ;)
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hehehehe I love birthdays!
Kristen, patience is the key word I think! And Holli, I can so relate! I also dated a guy with kids and wound up falling in love with the kids, not the guy!! It's so hard to break it off with someone when kids are involved. and Laura, you said it so nice...what I'm feeling for Emily! Motherhood is such a blessing and I am so happy for you Emily!
I am so happy I found this group and Tera I can't wait to see what you have planned.
Beth, your England adventure sounds fantastic. I'll definitely check out your blog! and Meg congratulations on your license; what an accomplishment!
I'm thinking I won't have the "fall in love with the kids, not the guy" problem. I've never been a "kid" person. Yes, I know, it's strange. I'm more afraid of hating the little rugrats...
Well, I haven't done much in the way of adventure, but I have moved out of my comfort zone. I went through 2 bad marriages. One ended in divorce and one he passed away(That's a whole other story in itself, but complicated due to the circumstances). It's been 4 years now and I haven't opened myself up to a new guy or any guy for that matter. I have been talking to a man on my writing site online. He made me believe that I was beautiful and worthy of love and attention. Since then, guys have been coming out of the woodwork. The change in my attitude about myself is the start of my adventure, and I hope it continues for a long time to come. The possibilities are endless.
Good for you Margaret! I am sorry for what you have been through with your marriages, but with your "new" attitude, your right, the possibilities are endless! I haven't had any great adventures this year, except taking my 2 year old granddaughter mushroom hunting with me in the spring for the first time! That was an adventure!!
I just got a new book from the library called Adventure Divas by Holly Morris. I think someone on here recommended it! It looks good, has anyone read it?
From the sounds of it, it may get me in the "adventure mode"!!
I've never read it Cindy, but let me know if it does get you in adventure mode, because that's something I need to really do more of.Congrats to you also Margaret. That is really good news for your future - it's all about how you feel about yourself I think. It's not always easy to have those healthy attitudes, esp. when you've been thru something traumatic, but I'm glad you're "coming out of the dark" so to speak.
Teri - sounds like you should write a book!
The year of adventure is almost over, gals. It makes me kind of sad... But at the same time, I'm a little bit encouraged to keep it going through 2009.Any last minute adventures for you?
Not for me....but I would love to see a new thread for our 2009 adventures Amanda ;)
