Planning my tasks

I know it’s not a race or anything, but I am well on my way to getting through the list. I have made an appointment to give blood in August, just need to ensure the alcohol level is low after the weekend – which by the way is a challenge in itself !

I plan to bake a cake tonight or tomorrow and endure the embarrassment of knocking on my neighbours door to offer them some for ‘love thy neighbour week’… then the real challenge is to avoid them for ever more out of sheer embarrassment, could be tricky in a flat within a converted town house!

I also did some research on walking dogs at Battersea dogs home… Due to my lack of love for the dogs, I was hoping on dropping by, offering to walk a dog (preferably one that fits in my handbag) and dropping it back after a swift walk in the park – job done! However that is not to be the case… Here is the information I have found out:

Main Activities include..

- Training and using enrichment techniques to stimulate mental activity

- Playing constructive games with the dogs

- Basic grooming

- Writing behavioral observations

Although I am not loving the idea of dog grooming, my concerns lie mainly with the below:

Experience & knowledge required..

- Good experience of handling dogs of all sizes and breeds. Confident and experienced to handle dogs that may be in a stressed state and/or of a nervous disposition

- Fit and mobile to walk for up to four hours a day and have sufficient strength and stamina to manage strong and boisterous or untrained dogs that may jump up

To summarize my experience of dogs is the following:

1) …

Let’s just hope I get a rat sized dog, which is sleepy and likes being on a long lead!

Suddenly not so smug..

Laura x

Laura's list

Sorry about the delay in publishing this post, I have been away in Dublin celebrating my cousin Paddy’s wedding – the amount of grief I got from my cousins for being mean for the list I gave to Nikki… well…. was not entirely deserved surely! It was certainly an interesting talking point at dinner ;)

So anyway, below is the list that Nikki gave to me, although she thinks she has gotten the shorter end of the straw, I think there is a fair few humiliating tasks on here that will occupy me for the next couple of months, particularly 5 (seriously!!) and I feel that 12 is going to be a complete stitch up now!!!

1.     Try a meat that you have never eaten before

2.     Stakeboard/rollerblade to work (I live in LONDON by the way… oh god..)

3.     Row a rowing boat

4.     Climb a mountain (Can this be an emotional one?)

5.     Ride a bucking bronco

6.     Stay awake for 48 hours

7.     Swim in English waters at night

8.     View a dream house that you cant afford

9.     Walk up to a stranger in a bar and give them a wink and your number

10. Go to Waterloo and get on the next train, staying on it till it’s final destination

11. Get drunk on Absinthe

12. Go on a blind date set up by Nikki

13. Go speed dating

14. Take a dance lesson  (hip hop or street dance was suggested L)

15. Get a free curry and kiss the waiter

16. Go vegetarian for 2 weeks

17. Crash a private party – preferably a wedding

18. Volunteer to dog walk at Battersea dog homes – or Dog sit for an afternoon (anyone who knows me well knows my love for dogs…. Not)

19. On a budget of £5 buy an outfit from a charity shop and wear it on a night out

20. Watch all the James Bond movies (there are 24……..)

21. Have your picture taken with a celebrity

22. Watch the sunrise on an English beach

23. Bake a cake for my neighbor because it’s ‘Love thy neighbor week’ (cringe)

24. Set a fire alarm off in a public place

25. Give blood

26. Play the centurion drinking game – have a shot of beer every minute for 100 minutes

27. Be at Big Ben when it strikes midnight and celebrate as if its new years eve

28. Get a letter/email published in a magazine/newspaper (fingers crossed that working for a newspaper may assist in this)

29. Or 12 hours comment on every single new status on Facebook

30. At Jade or Nikki’s 30^th birthday bash, come in fancy dress (costume will be provided)

Anyone able to help with task 21? Brad Pitt would be a fab start and totally piss Nikki off – haha!

Also about Nikki’s pledge to not jeopardize my career or life, I am pretty sure that task 24 is illegal…

Oh god, what have we started!!!

Next step, Nikki and I to start completing the dares!!! The easy bit right??!!

Lx

Nikki's list

From Nikki's last blog, you may have gotten the impression that she has been somewhat stitched up... This is correct :) Although I did apply the same rules as she did, not jeopardising career or putting her life in danger (I begrudgingly took out the flirt with your boss at a work event), I may have stretched the cringe worthy and humiliating factor a little to far! 

So Miss Garrett, I hereby challenge you with the following to be completed before the big 3 0..

1. Get c**t pierced - I am guessing this will be the veto, but not to worry, got a fab back up!

2. Volunteer in an old people's home

3. Go to church on a Sunday

4. Give a man a love bite on the neck

5. Go on a date with a man older than 50

6. Randomly start dancing in a clothes shop, get your friends around you to pretend they dont know you but then start clapping and cheering you on

7. Perform karaoke in a bar getting really into it, maybe even shedding a tear of emotion at the end

8. Eat rabbit

9. Order food in a French restaurant with a French accent

10. Apply for a job and go for a job interview in a fast food restaurant (this is my favourite)

11. Get a tattoo on your toe

12. Try to negotiate the price of makeup in a department store (cringe!)

13. Test drive a boat or a Jaguar car

14. Attend a protest

15. Kiss a girl in public - avec la tongue

16. Go for a drink in a gay bar with a rainbow t-shirt on and an I heart gays hat

17. Be on a float at a carnival/procession

18. Go to a sex addicts clinic (or something similar - didn’t fancy Googling this at work to see if they existed in the UK)

19. Get Botox

20. Write a song and perform it at your 30th

21. Try on a wedding dress pretending you are getting married (just to rub in the fact that you are not and nearly 30)

22. Go on a donkey ride at Blackpool beach

23. Try to blag your way into a nightclub for free stating 'don't you know who I am!?'

24. Buy a chocolate bar from a news agents, then go back 5 minutes later and ask for a refund

25. Host a dinner party and cook a 3 course meal - inviting me :)

26. Organise your 30th birthday bash - I imagine that this is going to be the hardest one for you, those who know Nikki would agree

27. Approach a person on a busy tube and act like you know them and haven’t seen them in ages, reminding them of that last time you went out, re-living an embaressing story

28. Tell a guy you fancy them.. sober

29. Start a new hobby - not drinking or smoking

30. Tell your parents that you are bi-sexual - let them think it for 24hrs

Well there you go, you will now see why I haven't been able to stop laughing over the last couple of days. I cannot wait to watch Nikki attempting to do all of the above, I have a captain's hat ready for number 13! 

 Best get started, not long to go!

Lx

The exchanging of lists and a test of friendship!

So last night was the big exchanging of the lists....how did it go?? ... Well... the thing is when I first came up with this idea I told cavano i would make sure no task would jeopardise her life or her career... I wish I could take that back! This is obviously just my point of view but I feel i very much have the raw deal. I am now wishing all the things I didnt think I could ask her to do were top of her list!!!

To show an example  in the difference, before the lists were exchanged we both decided we could have 1 vitto. Laura has decided from her list she can't be arsed to walk up a mountain. From my list I'm not so hot on getting a very personal part of my female anatomy pierced!!!  Althoigh i do have a very irrational fear of karaoke... So obviously this is one of my 30.. and at one point I actually did have to think about which would be worse. Im yet to do either but I'm pretty sure it's the piercing??

As horrendous as nearly every task is i think we have both have loved every minute so far. Yeah we are going to make tits of ourselves but thats what your 20's are for!! I think Laura will post both lists soon. We are both away this weekend. So Ireland and York better watch out. There may a random girl trying to give a stranger their number, a lovebite... Blag a free curry, test drive a boat or get some Botox... (hmm wonder who got stiched up with that one!!)

The idea......

Nikki and I are single girls, living in London and fast approaching 30.... Fuck! Nikki suggested we make the next couple of months interesting so instead of dreading the big 3 0, we enjoy the last months of our twenties, this involved creating a list of 30 things we have to do before we are 30. What makes this interesting you say? We are creating lists for each other :) Stich up time!

Now, the rules are yet to be ironed out, but we have agreed we are only allowed 1 veto each, therefore any task not completed will have a forfeit (again, yet to be determined). All the tasks have to be completed with witnesses before our birthdays, mine is October 3rd, but Nikki's is earlier - September 18th.  

I can honestly say that creating Nikki's list of tasks has been hilarious! I don't think I have been too cruel - all are achievable, but some are super cringe worthy! As we dont have a lot of time, most things you should actually do before your 30 aren't going to be achievable ie. travel the world, swim with dolphins, blah blah

We have scheduled a meeting tonight (location pub) where we will exchange our lists - laminated of course - and agree rules and forfeits. I think a large Pinot will defiantly be required. I will publish what my list is and link to Nikki's list soon.

Over the next couple of months I will post a blog for each task completed, with photographic evidence (if appropriate). Stay tuned.... x