It turns out saying yes to everything proved to be an abysmal failure. What I thought might result in a non-stop adventure of unusual dares and rampant sex instead unfolded not unlike any other week. With the exception of giving colleages more lifts to the pub than usual.
And so, it is with much pleasure that I have moved on to following my horoscope for a month.
Friday – 1st August 2008
‘What’s Up Tonight’ told me it’d be a good idea to go bowling. After all, bowling is fun right? Wrong! My last known* memory of bowling sends me back to 2001 when I was young and relatively unashamed. I earned the covetted wooden spoon award in a bowling party of over 30 people. My bowling was such that you could easily be forgiven for confusing my bowling and golfing scorecards.
Where I had previously earned my wooden spoon with a fantastic golf score of 72 – on Friday I hammered this previous best and rewrote the record books with an astounding 54! That’s like a birdie on every hole. If only it was golf!
Was it fun? Yes! And I can be forgiven for part of the score as I was made to bowl through my legs at one point.
Saturday – 2nd August 2008 & Sunday – 3rd August 2008
Partly cheating here, but I fulfilled the same requirement on both days but taking in a midnight movie! Still not long awake after a 6am post-bowling poker night, bf readily agreed to check out film times for Wall-E sometime around 11pm. After finding a midnight show, any debate on whether to go or not was cut short by my insistence on him checking on both my horoscopes. He read:
Horoscope 1 (Sun***): I can’t get back-dated ones but this suggested I watch a fun movie.
Horoscope 2 (Sat): “…This is a good time to take in a good movie. … The creative project you have been working on will get a big boost.** …”
Bf’s face was priceless and the decision was made. So we saw a midnight movie. It was good. And I did the creative thing.
This week, from what I can see already (some only exist on the day), I am most looking forward to selling some art on E-Bay. Might put it on tonight to close on Wednesday.
* There’s a good chance I may have subconsciously repressed addition memories of bowling.
** True. I finished knitting a collar. The whole project was in fact just a collar, not meant to be attached to anything but rather worn on its own.
*** It seems they switch to the next day a bit early which is why we picked up Sunday’s one.
Well, despite that there are only 3 of you reading this – I was hoping you could help me choose which horoscope I should follow for the next month. I’ve run through about a million and summarised them for you with examples of my readings. You can find the full version with the actual horoscopes HERE.
Summary:
Horoscope 1
Pretty accurate but not great for telling me what to do.
Horoscope 2
Less accurate but much better for telling me what to do.
Horoscope 3
Daily, weekly & monthly. Seems reasonably accurate and pretty good for telling me what to do.
Horoscope 4
Daily & monthly horoscopes. Seems reasonably accurate and incredibly good for telling me what to do. The best thing about this one is the What’s Up Tonight section where it actually suggests what you should do with your evening. Loads of extras – couples, love, career, lucky, prophetic,…
Horoscope 5
Incredibly accurate and reasonably good for telling me what to do.
Horoscope 6
This one’s not that great but the yabbering on about making accurate assumptions and fully testing them made me laugh since that is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing at work!
So nothing else of interest has happened. I have committed to having my parents and aunt & uncle visit next month. And to go to a birthday party in two weeks which has put bf in the position of finally experiencing a gay bar. And maybe a cricket test. So, yes, this is getting me out more but I’m getting incredibly bored. I figured by now someone might have asked me to run down the street naked or dress myself in chicken feathers but nothing near as exciting as that has occured.
Instead now I’m thinking of next month’s task. It starts in 3 days. I’m thinking the horoscope following would need to be done for a month so let’s go with that and I’ll prepare over the next 3 days by finding a horoscope that is fairly instructive and not just vague mumbo jumbo. Like the one that told me to dance to Kylie once. Much better than “you may feel slightly restless today” and not telling me what to do. Ho hum. Recommendations welcome.
Apologies for the change in theme but I noticed the last one didn’t look so good in IE. Ho hum.
Anyway, I finally get to posting the rules for this challenge.
After much deliberation, the rules state that I can say no to something if:
- Saying yes is likely to jeopardise my relationship;
- Saying yes is likely to jeopardise my job;
- Saying yes is likely to cause trouble financially;
- Saying yes goes against morals, basic decent humanity or is likely to hurt someone;
- Saying yes incurs a clash with something I have previously said yes to; or
- Saying yes makes me do something which is physically impossible.
Easy!
So, now I’ve been doing this for nearly 2 full days. You’d think something interesting might have happened. Not so.
Apart from a backlog of emails yesterday morning causing me to agree to after-works drinks next Monday, a spot of paintballing and a houseparty in London next month; the list of things I have done upon being asked is pretty boring.
So far I have watched way too much tv, had a nap, gone for a walk to the shop for 2 lunchtimes, drank some water, drank some coffee, fetched teas, turned some lights on, taken some dishes to the kitchen and fetched some cakes. I also had to twist my body about to cause my (now slightly too small) top to pop open. I was wearing this over another top. So far this is the most boring thing I’ve ever done! I’ll try get some photos if I ever get around to doing anything even vaguely interesting.
Today I went to PC World. As a result of a misunderstanding with regards to what came included with my laptop when I bought it, they gave me a 10% discount on a lightscribe drive (lightscribe = 3 minutes of pure unadulterated childish excitement for every half hour of waiting for semi-geeks like me). And – this is where I become just a little strange – once I’d picked one out, I couldn’t make myself go back to the service desk and ask for the 10% discount on the drive. Yes, that may be a little weird (or a lot) but I have a bit of a nervous disposition when it comes to matters of talking to strangers in certain situations (you should see the things I do to avoid making necessary phone calls!).
Fortunately, bf was there to return to the counter and process the actual purchase, while I tried my hands at the drumkit in the new rockband game. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a shrinking violet by any measures, but this pitiful moment in my life is just one in a string of stupid things that I’m scared to do.
So I’ve decided to break my mould and try a few things to help me do just that.
I’m going to set myself monthly challenges. I don’t know yet what I’ll do but since there are only 10 days left this month I thought I’d start with something I can’t see myself continuing for long. It’s hardly original, but I‘m going to say yes to everything for the rest of this month.
I did set this blog up about 5 hours ago. It’s taken me this long to get around to writing anything because I started saying yes as soon as I set up the blog.
Saying yes has so far subjected me to a chinese takeaway, one enthralling episode of “Don’t Forget The Lyrics”, the latest “Top Gear” episode, a “Big Brother” catchup and far too many puffs of a joint. Hell, I’ve just dragged myself from a near encounter with TV-enduced evening dozing to come back and write all this. I must admit, I thought saying yes would prove to be a little more eventful.
Challenge summary and rules to follow…
