My challenges for 2006

Ok, so it’s new a year, new beginnings, blah, blah, blah. Well i see it as a new year and new challenges! This year, I have set myself 25 things to do before the year is up! Ok, it’s not many but I think some of them may be quite hard.

Matt’s 25 Tasks For 2006

1. Shake a celebrities hand (The more famous the more points!)
2. Get my name in a newspaper (preferably national)
3. Win on the lottery (added bonus if I can do it without buying a ticket!)
4. Try sushi (real sushi, not M&S sexed up bland rubber fish) COMPLETED!!
5. DJ in a club (Haven’t done that properly in a while)
6. Learn to play an instrument (can restart the Cello cos I still remember it)
7. Learn a new language and speak it in it’s country of origin (French and German not allowed)
8. Have a poo on an aeroplane (a lower class form of the Mile High Club)
9. Chat a stranger on the bus/train/plane (bonus points if I collect a phone number/email address or home address)
10. Go skinny dipping (must not get arrested)
11. Put the silent ‘P’ into swimming pool (bonus points for blaming it on an incontinent elderly person)
12. Break the law in a novel way! (Ooo… i am feeling naughty! Must also avoid arrest)
13. Do an eskimo roll in a kayak (last attempt was 2 years ago in Devon. Almost drowned)
14. Text, email or call at least one person a day
15. Be Barry Lovechild for a night (Live the dream!)
16. Get a tattoo (i hope it doesn’t hurt)
17. Get fat!!! (I’ve been skinny for 21 years)
18. Make a mix CD without any cheesey songs on it (This is the easy one, so at least I’ll have a chance of completing something on this list!) COMPLETED!!
19. Get a 1st in my degree (best start revising for that one!)
20. Have an operation (Preferably nothing to serious. Also, can not be from self-inflicted injuries just to cross this off the list)
21. Go on a blind date (I’ve never had one! Anyone wanna help with this one let me know. Best done whilst I’m single)
22. Wear pink for a day (I’m umm-ing and ahh-ing over whether a pink shirt counts. Bonus marks if hit on by a gay guy whilst wearing it. Extra bonus mark if hit on by a girl whilst wearing it)
23. Score a goal in a football match (Must be at least 5-a-side)
24. Go on TV (Bonus marks if any of the above are completed whilst on TV)
25. Make someone cry with joy! (Finish on a happy note!)

I’ve also come up with a few rules for myself to give myself a useful way to reflect on the event (what a load of crap). Here are the initial rules:

• The game starts at 00:00 1st January 2006. Any tasks completed before then are counted as practices.
• Once midnight strikes on 31 December 2006, the game is up (and I may start a new one if I had enough fun!)
• I shall keep my blog updated of all completed tasks.
• Completed tasks must have proof, e.g. photo’s, written witness statements, video footage.
• I shall also be giving myself a score out of 10 for how I well I feel I succeeded in the task at hand.
• Any task can be completed more than once.
• Combined tasks have their score combined and multiplied by the number of tasks. For example, if I were to do number 1, 8 and 24 at the same time (have a poo on a plane whilst shaking Judy Finnigans hand on TV) I would get:

• 3 x sum of points for success of each operation

If anyone else wants to have a go aswell it would be interesting to see how you do! So let me know!!! This message will self destruct in *boom*