August Dare Count

To date,
Dares received: 23
Dares completed: 11

1. Create a blog
2. Wake up everyday and smile and stretch
3. Get highlights
4. Relax and sample new adventures (on the cheap)
5. Go to a drag show
6. Complete this puzzle
7. Fund-raiser walk
8. Paint a portrait of someone I love(d)
9. Read a fiction classic of at least 300 pages
10. Become a raw food believer for one week
11. Visit my parents in Bellingham

Dares busted: 2

1. Visit Wenmiao/The Ghost Market in Shanghai 
2. Dance on the Bund with a local Shanghainese

Dares in progress: 2

1. Run a 10K
2. Join Match

Dares on deck...

• Skydiving (OMFG)

While it wasn't a dare... 

I celebrated a birthday this month! 

I am happily 31 and celebrated with great friends, food and dancing. My birthday highlights:

• A hair appointment with people that know the wash and head massage is the best part!
• Chocolate avocado vegan cupcakes baked by Jessica
• Goat "head meat"... yeah I know... at African Cuisine
• Clandestino
• Tequila
• Dancing, dancing, dancing at the Enormous Room and Middlesex
• And more chocolate avocado vegan cupcakes

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! I am so lucky to have wonderful people in my life. Y'all have made this birthday and the entire year so special for me. 

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

July Dare Count

To date,
Dares received: 21
Dares completed: 11

1. Create a blog
2. Wake up everyday and smile and stretch
3. Get highlights
4. Relax and sample new adventures (on the cheap)
5. Go to a drag show
6. Complete this puzzle
7. Fund-raiser walk
8. Paint a portrait of someone I love(d)
9. Read a fiction classic of at least 300 pages
10. Become a raw food believer for one week
11. Visit my parents in Bellingham

Dares busted: 2

1. Visit Wenmiao/The Ghost Market in Shanghai 
2. Dance on the Bund with a local Shanghainese

Dares in progress: 1

1. Run a 10K

Dares on deck...

• Skydiving (OMFG)

REVELATION OF THE MONTH: It was very fitting that I had this revelation as I was working on two dares. I was running (Dare - Run a 10K) through the trails in Bellingham, Washington (Dare - Visit my parents). In one of my loops, I passed a group of four women. I said, "Good morning."

One woman said to me, "Good for you. I couldn't do that". 

My quick reply was, "Oh I can't either." and I trotted away. 

 

I realized how silly I must have sounded to her. However, I realized for me, when I think about it, I really can't do it. Often, I can do it when I just go ahead and do it. 

 

Sometimes I have to take my head out of this. I feel like accepting these challenges has given me the opportunity to not think about it and just go ahead and do it. The amazing thing is through this process I find that I can do anything, and I stop spending time questioning less whether I can or cannot.