I’m sure everyone is aware that 2012 is a leap year. That is, 2012 has 366 days – 1 day more than the common 365 day year. Generally speaking, the extra day corrects for the fact that the earth takes a little longer than 365 days to circle the sun. Personally, I look at it as extra time to accomplish things on my Not-So-Bucket-List list. It’s also an extra 24 hours where one can be awesome, or slack off, or spend time with friends, or do pretty much anything.
The point is, 2012 has 24 extra hours and they probably shouldn’t be wasted doing things that aren’t awesome. Of course, what I consider awesome and what you consider awesome might be vastly different. I don’t consider spending quality time with a giant eight-legged-nasty awesome. Someone who spends their life studying such eight-legged-nasties might clearly disagree with me. Awesome really is in the eye of the beholder. But 2012 has 24 extra hours, so that means we each get 24 extra hours to do things that we find awesome.
With that in mind, I thought I would write a list of things that I want to try to accomplish this coming year – a list of things that I think will be awesome should I manage to complete them. To make things extra crazy, I thought I’d add a specific timeline to each of them. I’m not saying that I have to hold myself to these timelines, but I always work best when a due date is involved. Also, because I’m efficient, some of these items come from my Not-So-Bucket-List.
January
- Visit Matt in Ottawa (which makes 14 trips in 13 months – crazy!)
- Submit 2 papers to 2 different journals
- Start training for marathon #1 & #2 in May
- Start training for 160 km bike ride by end of year
- Start the push-up challenge
February
- Visit Rick in Calgary, and go ice-climbing (15 trips in 14 months – w00t)
- Start the pull-up challenge
March
- Run 30 km Around the Bay
- Paint the kitchen or bathroom (or both)
- Raise $1000 for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowlathon
April
- Submit 2 papers to 2 different journals
- Submit grant application to CFI
- Do the CN Tower Climb (for WWF) twice
May
- Run Toronto Marathon
- Run Ottawa Marathon
- Travel with Rob
June
- Attend & present at the Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada
- Teach Geo-spatial Epidemiology
- Visit Rick to go mountain climbing
- Start a 30 day challenge at yoga
July
- Bike 80 km
- Visit Rick to go mountain climbing
August
- Submit 2 papers to 2 different journals
- Unicorn run with Carolyn
- Travel to New York
- Bike 100 km
September
- Bike 120 km
- Paint the guest bedroom
October
- Run Toronto or Chicago Marathon
- Bike 160 km
- Learn to make dairy-free pumpkin pie
November
- Learn to make Goulash
- Learn to make coque-au-vin
December
- Submit 2 papers to 2 different journals
- Travel off continent for Christmas
Related articles
- Best. Christmas. Ever. Part II: The Re-Christmasing. (consumedbywanderlust.wordpress.com)
- Proposed New Calendar Would Make Time Rational (wired.com)
- 31 Day Reset – Day 18 – My Bucket List (luvndanaturalme.wordpress.com)
- How about if time stopped for four hours? (simplifiedstories.wordpress.com)
- Going To Sleep In My Forever Box (consumedbywanderlust.wordpress.com)
- Vacation Starts Now (consumedbywanderlust.wordpress.com)
- 365 Day Photo Challenge (teresahewittphotography.wordpress.com)
- New calendar developed which does away with leap years – Mirror.co.uk (mirror.co.uk)
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YES. Unicorn Run. We have nine months to figure out the horns. This is assuming we don’t injure ourselves in the pursuit of marathon awesomeness. If we do that we’ll just sit around dressed like unicorns and drink.
YES! And I’m completely okay with sitting around and drinking while dressed like a unicorn – assuming we are drinking scotch or unicorn tears. Both are magical and have healing properties, or so I’m told.