Monday, October 8, 2012

The Shovel: Scoop [2]




10/77 COMPLETE 12.9% TRIUMPHANT 



The Shovel: Scoop Two 26/09/12



1. Go snowboarding again

2. Take a ten-day Daniel Fast
3. Take a pottery class (slash, make and bake something out of clay)
4. Find the ruins and caves I visited as a child and explore
5. Eat a meal at Renee’s CafĂ© on the way to Mikisew
6. Take a professional icing class
7. Publish a story
8. Find and attempt a pogo-stick
9. Memorize the poem “Ladies [Ladles] and Jellybeans [Jellyspoons]”
10. Have a picnic and watch the clouds change shape (like in Up)
11. Walk around a city dressed like a superhero. Eat super-sized french-fries.
12. Learn Disney’s “Scales and Arpeggios” on the piano
13. Go to the African Lion Safari in Carlisle; get attacked by monkeys
14. Audition for a stage play or musical 17/11/12
15. Borrow somebody’s children and rock out at Santa’s Village
16. Eat a new sort of tropical or foreign fruit 30/10/12
17. Join a book club
18. Make a scavenger hunt of awesome and hand off the first clue to a complete stranger
19. Have that one conversation I've been putting off the last seven years. 08/12/12
20. Live one day completely blind
21. Pick up a hitchhiker 27/10/12
22. Volunteer to read a book for Librivox
23. Spend three consecutive days in an English accent
24. Find out if anything besides corn will pop in the microwave
25. Explore an abandoned amusement park/theatre/castle/town with Polo 14/11/12
26. Complete the story birthed from my study of Leviticus
27. Play hide-and-seek in somebody's cornfield
28. Bury a time capsule
29. Make and use tin-can-telephones
30. Go to a karaoke bar and sing a sober song
31. Go to a decent sports game of any kind. Learn how to care about sports.
32. Read through a whole newspaper
33. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
34. Baby-sit for someone I don't yet know
35. Buy a candy thermometer and use it successfully 06/12/12
36. One new, spontaneous experience
37. Visit St. Joseph's Island and walk across the bridge with Marsena
38. Roast chestnuts over an open fire
39. Play a game of chess against myself in a park - like that Pixar short :)
40. Develop a convincing Irish accent
41. Tie a swing to a tree. Swing on it.
42. Learn to juggle
43. Go skating (blades or wheels) under the stars... or city lights, depending on where I am
44. Hit the bull’s-eye on an archery target. Or a dartboard. Not picky.
45. Sell something I've made on Etsy
46. Spend one day in total silence
47. Join a yoga class
48. Write an encouragement letter to the Queen of England
49. Read every Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in my collection
50. Have someone draw a caricature of me
51. Quilt 01/11/12
52. Eat only plain oatmeal for as long as I can (to appreciate the manna experience)
53. Do something that feels impossible 29/09/12
54. Go to Catholic Mass at the huge Cathedral in Hamilton
55. Canoe from MYW/MBC to Huntsville for ice cream
56. Read the book of Philippians 100 times
57. Temporarily transform the giant tomato of North Bay into Bob
58. Go to TIFF with Missa next year
59. Write a "short, true" story to Stuart McLean (of the Vinyl Cafe)
60. Get a job doing something new or unexpected 01/12/12
61. Hunt for fossils with Justin, way down south in Windsor
62. Create some art with oil pastels
63. Buy a second-hand puzzle and find out if it has all the pieces
64. Give someone working Drive Thru a CD - like that random guy did for me
65. Handwrite all of my collected recipes onto recipe cards (find/make a cool box)
66. Mail the explosive part of a Christmas cracker to somebody as a surprise
67. Decorate a random (un-cut) tree (in a park, or in the woods) for the Holidays
68. Record a cover song and post it on YouTube, potentially with collaboration
69. Get strong enough to do "several" chin ups and not die
70. Call in to a radio show and request or dedicate a song
71. Learn more about (appraise?) my Egyptian heart scarabs
72. Build a snow quinzhee
73. Finish editing Will Author's book. Don't charge him for it.
74. Mail a double batch of cookie to Ryan out west 25/10/12
75. Help make Lor's "washing machine" dream come true
76. Push a slinky down an escalator
77. Find somebody whose favourite movie I've never seen, and watch it with him/her

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