| 100 in 1000 |
- Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
- Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
Hold a conversation in Czech (only)- Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
PilsnerStaroprammen- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
GambrinusKrusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)Travel across the AtlanticReturn to South America- Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
- Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
Have my nose pierced- Have my next tattoo drawn
Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)- Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
- Bake Viv's cheesecake
Make David's casserole Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut StirfryInvite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner- Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
- Attend a book group for at least two books
- Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
- Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
- Take an architecture appreciation course
Join an all-girl group and sing a soloPublish in a scientific journal (top two authors)Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'. Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary PractiseHave a pedicureMaintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser- Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
- Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
- Don't eat out for one month
Find a flat and flatmate- Purchase one Joseph sweater
- Purchase one of the following pairs of
designer shoes (they MUST also be COMFORTABLE, and be able to be worn with 4
different outfits and 2 types of occasion): Jimmy Choos, Manolo Blahniks,
Christian Louboutin (Ebay or 2nd hand are acceptable)
- Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
- Go hanggliding
- Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
Moll FlandersEverything is illuminatedMadam BovaryZen & the Art of Motorcycle MaintainanceCatch-22OdysseusOn the Road
- Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
- Send Christmas Cards on time
Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wallBuy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in itGo to AfricaHost an 'event' (classified as and when)Organise a 30th Birthday PartyWear a costume- Sing on stage
- Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar- Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
Win something- Draft a will
- Take a roadtrip
Go to Italy already- Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
Get plantsTake a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.- Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
- Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
Go to a dentist. *sigh*- Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
- Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
- Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
- Marvel over lack of tiredness
- Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
Bet on the nags- Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
- Walk along the Champs Elysee
- Do 100 sit ups in a row
- Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
- Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
- Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
Find a mentorBe a mentorLearn what mentoring is all aboutMeet an online person in real lifeResist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)- Send a care package to someone
Get a Tata Bojs CD- Take a French/German/Dutch course and SPEAK THE DAMNED LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES ME SOUND
LIKE AN IDIOT!
- Order new contact lenses.
Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions- Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
Back up the blogPut everything onto an external hard drive- Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
- Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
- Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
- Join the Municipal Library of Prague
- Move to another country
Go to a live concert of a band I actually like- Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).- Get an agent (literary or theatre)
- Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a snake
Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!) |
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| Instructions for craziness |
| Monday 26 June 2006 |
When organising Mojitos in the Park, - Choose a cocktail wisely. Pick one you don’t ever want to drink/make again. At least not for the entire summer. Now, what will I do with the 2L of leftover Havana Club….?
- Buy more ice. Even though this is the Czech Republic, and purchasing ice is a new concept, buy more than you think you’re going to need. We had warm mojitos at the end of the night, and though we didn’t care, it does seem a little less…well…proper.
- Establish ‘getting home’ routes well in advance (i.e. while sober!). Thus NOT leaving your visitors stranded from a night tram. Especially when they SHOULD’VE been on the one that goes past your own house!
- Take protection. Or at least friends who will swap places when over-amorous strangers start evaluating how close a shave your Venus gives!
- Put a jumper in your bag. Not for cold breezes. More for the mid-mojito-madness nap!
- Make room in your cupboard. At the end of the evening, everyone leaves their glasses behind. This is how you increase your glass collection. Hoorah!
- Change nickname to ‘Mojito Madame’. Enlist a Mojito Macgyver and a Minister of Mojito. Make everyone badges. All participants are thus Mojito Minions. Rule decisively.
- Take photos like a paparazzi. Most will have strangers gawping in amazement at the audacity of this crowd of fools mixing cocktails on a 45o slope. And gawping strangers are sometimes hard to crop.
- Take food. Sausages are an awful ‘cocktail’ food. Wholly necessary, but awful; at the time, the next day, and in memorandum. Bleargh! The paprika crisps, however, were divine.
- Take alternative glasses. Mojitos are NOT to be made in pint glasses. That brings a stream of vindictive behaviour from this Mojito Madame, and she’ll mix you a HORRIBLE tasting (ie. Very VERY strong!) mojito. Of course, if you successfully down that one, and request another, you shall win her favour forevermore, and be further rewarded with strong drinks. This goes for vases too (BEN!!!).
- Plan your answer to the question: “will you have another one?” This way, your answer will not vary (entirely correlated (r2 = 0.999) with time and mojito consumption) from “what do you take me for? A mad masochist with a penchant for lugging 20kg of ‘stuff’ uphill for 20mins?” to “yeah, but possibly something even MORE complex to make!”
It was a great evening – I can’t think how it could’ve been any better. Eight hours of slope-sitting-cocktail-sipping-gossip-swapping-tale-telling fun. Complete with sleeping flatmates, friends hooking up (FINALLY), “sorry I’m late - the trams!” dinner avoidance excuse making, a two-voice rendition of Java (and And So It Goes) and a Herna Bar pitstop on the way home. Perfect. |
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