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Feck it list.com (Series 1, episode 2)

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So apparently good intentions are not actually enough!

I started this blog late 2015 with the idea of having the list set up and running by 2016 and well, I didn’t. But it’s not over yet!

I started this project for very certain reasons –  I needed to keep really busy, I needed something to distract me from the fact that the entire axis of my earth had shifted. I needed something positive to focus on, to help me find my feet and the Feck it list did all of those things!

It started so many welcomed conversations with friends and family, near and far. You came up with some brilliant ideas and some quite frankly, terrifying ones! It was funny how different people wanted different things for me, like my Dad who very kindly suggested ‘knit a scarf’ or ‘read a challenging novel’ and the girls at work who were all about – ‘go buy a leather mini skirt’, ‘ask a hot guy in the gallery for a date’ (thank you for that!) to friends who wanted me to join them doing things they already love that I had missed out on. One of my absolute favourites is a friends Mum who on her 70th birthday was asked what did she wish she had done by the time she was 40 but hadn’t and now I’m signed up to jump off the Forty foot in Sandycove for her.

Funnily, nobody EVER suggested ‘have a day to yourself at a spa’ or ‘spend a day in bed with a great book/wine/netflix’, ha!

Then 2016 came and life kind of took over. Rory and I moved into our own home and I just slowed right down and nested for a while. But the project never went away and I’m really excited to come back to it now for totally different reasons.

Now the Feck it list is about doing lot of awesome things, a year of documenting challenges/missions/tasks and adventures for myself and Rory and sometimes just for myself and hopefully sometimes with friends.

And that is were you come back in….the list is only up to 18! I am going to start cracking through it again now (while I am still 40) but I need 22 more challenges/missions/tasks and adventures to make my list of 40. The parameters are still the same..things that will challenge me, some that will involve Rory and if there is anything that you ever wanted to do but you want somebody to do it with….add it to the list….email me at feckitlist@gmail.com or leave a comment! All suggestions will be considered.

So it’s still Series 1, just episode 2!

Thanks x

(and if you missed episode 1, just see below)

Feck it List.com

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“Just start” Those words have annoyingly been spinning around in my head for the last couple of weeks – so here it is, the blog has begun! Thank you for taking a few minutes to read it and I’m afraid you’re not going to get off that lightly, hopefully you will get involved too.

This is the start of my ‘Feck it List’.

And this is why I’m doing it:

A year ago I started running and during what unexpectedly became a very tricky year, running has kept me sane. I run when I need to clear my head, I run when I need space and I run when I need to remember that the chaos doesn’t last forever and before I get too preachy/or turn into a hallmark card, it was that or a bottle of wine a night!

A year to the day after my husband left (that was the tricky part) I ran my first proper 10km race and did it in just over 55 min, something which I never would have imagined doing before the chaos, every cloud eh! I felt great after it, the support of family and friends was just amazing and I managed to raise some funds for One Family http://www.onefamily.ie a great charity who support single parent families. I’d have to say, it has been life changing for me and now running is something I will just always do.

Roll on a couple of weeks later, my amazing sister-in-law asked if I’d do a tandem sky dive with her to help raise funds for Tinylife (don’t worry, chasing you for more sponsorship is not where you have to get involved but feel free :o)) and obviously still high on adrenaline, my immediate response was ‘feck it, why not? So she got me signed up before I had a second to actually think it through.

And that’s where the idea started – I never ran before and ended up loving it, I’ve never tandem sky dived before, what if I end up loving it? Doubtful, I know. But what if over the next year I said “feck it, why not” to every challenge that I’m asked to do?

Well, simple really…I know my friends too well and riding a unicycle naked around Stephens Green is not my idea of fun.

So with your help (yep, this is where you come in) I’m going to compile a list of 40 challenges, tasks, missions and adventures and complete them over the next year when I’ll be turning 40. All your suggestions are greatly welcomed and all will be considered.

I’m looking for things that will challenge me and also some that will involve my gorgeous boy, Rory as I’m also just finding my feet becoming a single Mum to a brilliant, kind, dinosaur crazy boy whose favourite word is poopypants! Things that we can do together and things that I might not have considered doing on my own and if there’s anything that you’ve wanted to do and have been looking for somebody to do it with, now is your chance!

So to start – please leave a comment or email all ideas you have to me at feckitlist@gmail.com and come back to see how it’s going.

Thanks for reading,

Becs x