1. Don't Die before 40: This is a practical and essential start to the list. If I am to achieve the remaining 39 then Number 1 must be achieved.
2. Read 40 books: I am not a reader. I was but am not now. The challenge is to find the time and the content that will allow me to read 40 books.
3. Lose 40 lbs: or lose enough weight to return to the same weight and BMI when I was 30.
4. Run a Marathon: As readers of my other blog will know I started exercising recently.
5. Become a Vegetarian for one month: I am a carnivore. I snack on meat. Going one month without the flesh of a dead animal will be hell but a little suffering is meant to be good for the soul.
6. Quit drinking coffee for one month: it won't be the same month that i give up meat otherwise I won't achieve Number 1 above.
7. Win the lottery: any amount at all would be good. Since I don't play this may prove difficult
8. Play a full competitive Hurling match again and be on the winning team.
9. Do a sponsored parachute jump for charity
10. Try colonic irrigation once: Everyone needs a spring clean once in their life
11. Visit a casino and play roulette: I have always felt like James Bond, wanting to break the bank. I expect the bet will be something small and meaningless but who knows I might even rent a tux for the night
12. Go to an opera: A little culture in my life may not be a bad thing.
13. Weekend break in Paris with my wife: Raising 3 monsters takes its toll on you.
14. Take a Gondola ride at night with my wife in Venice. 2 weekends aways from the monsters in next 3 and a bit years is not too selfish. Is it?
15. Watch Limerick play hurling and Gaelic football in Croke Park. Hurling in HQ should be a gimme. Football should be ok as well after the progress made this year
16. Watch WWE live:
17. Watch a premiership football match live:
18. Learn to juggle with 4 balls: Juggling with 3 balls was mastered a long time ago. Now for 4, then knives and chainsaws. Actually, I think I might just stop with the 4 balls.
19. Bake a cake and eat it: Perhaps I should try this last in case this causes me to fail Number 1 on the list
20. Make my own wine and drink it: At the very best I may have a new career. At worst I may have paint remover. Who knows, in years to come people may toast with a Chateau de Fukk
12. Go to an opera: A little culture in my life may not be a bad thing.
13. Weekend break in Paris with my wife: Raising 3 monsters takes its toll on you.
14. Take a Gondola ride at night with my wife in Venice. 2 weekends aways from the monsters in next 3 and a bit years is not too selfish. Is it?
15. Watch Limerick play hurling and Gaelic football in Croke Park. Hurling in HQ should be a gimme. Football should be ok as well after the progress made this year
16. Watch WWE live:
17. Watch a premiership football match live:
18. Learn to juggle with 4 balls: Juggling with 3 balls was mastered a long time ago. Now for 4, then knives and chainsaws. Actually, I think I might just stop with the 4 balls.
19. Bake a cake and eat it: Perhaps I should try this last in case this causes me to fail Number 1 on the list
20. Make my own wine and drink it: At the very best I may have a new career. At worst I may have paint remover. Who knows, in years to come people may toast with a Chateau de Fukk
21. Visit the Guinness Brewry: Muslims go to Mecca, Jews to the Western Wall. Irish people make that pilgrimage to the home of Guinness
22. Learn to play guitar: A new career may beckon as I tour the world
23. Drive 5 cars worth more that 50k: With the economy as fukked as it is, I will have to get a move on before there aren't even 5 cars in Ireland worth 50k
24. Grow a beard and leave it for one month: I'm undecided between a Ronnie Drew, a Santa Claus or an Osama. I've done the Miami Vice 5 o clock shadow look. This will be more of a drunk, homeless drunk on varnish and window cleaner look.
25. Make photo diaries for all my children: Embarass them at future family events. A parents revenge. Stories on what they used to do when they were smaller.
26. Go fishing and eat what I catch: I have tried fishing once before and all that i caught was a cold. I might have to try harder this time.
27. Turn off cell phone and lap top for 40 hours: I have argues this one with my better half nd she insists the 40 hours should be consecutive.
28. Teach youngest son to ride a bike: 2 down one more to go. An absolute cert for Father of the Year I think
29. Do 40 push ups on my 40th Birthday: I'm going to add to this. 40 on 40 with my youngest son on my back.
30. Play one round of golf. I hate the game but everyone wants me to play. So for my sins I will suffer
31. Have one cosmetic procedure done that requires an overnight stay in hospital: Oh the choices, boob job, liposuction, frontal lobotomy. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
32. Give up alcohol for 40 days: I feel very biblical all of a sudden.
33. Visit 40 historically/ religiously significant sites and write one interesting, not well know fact about them on a blog.
34. Watch one stage of the WRC rally live
35. Meet someone I've only ever spoken to on the Internet for a coffee: I think this might have to be in a public place for my own safety particularly with the kind of people I chat to online.
36. Manage a hurling team to victory in a meaningful competition
37. Go 40 days without touching a television remote control
38. Visit all 32 counties in Ireland and post one picture unique to that county on a blog.
39. Celebrate my 40th with a bottle of wine, my wife and a comfortable bed: I could be more explicit here but won't in case any children are reading
40. Make a list of 50 things to do before I'm 50
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