Weird & Random Goals

[Waldo]

I'm always amused by the some times odd, silly, bizarre or down right funny goals that people have.

I was just today reminded of a friend who has a decidedly naughty goal of having sex with someone on every continent. I might add that this person only has one continent left in order to complete this life long goal.

Whether they are long term and take years or are ongoing daily goals - what are some of your stranger goals?

Some of mine:


I really try hard to get my first name, which is fairly common, at all of the new web services as they open up their beta program.

I want to have a paper note of currency from each country I visit (damn the Euro for screwing this up for me!).

I endeavor to fill my passport with stamps before it expires in 2015.

I would like to speak on five continents. (Three down, two to go!)

I would like to bank one million frequent flier miles.


I'm strange. What can I tell you?

[Queerasfck]

My goal right now, maybe it's not weird but it is sorta random, is to be in the best physical shape of my life by the time I hit 50 which is four years from now.
I would like to be able to run a marathon or at least a half marathon.
I did something similar when I hit 40, I was in the best shape I ever had been physically. I was at a healthy weight, was able to accomplish a lot of particular goals with the help of a personal trainer. I also was in a really good emotional place and was working on my mental health with therapist. I think it helped me grow personally.
Now that I am approaching 50 I would like to up the ante a little and get even stronger physically and improve my cardio endurance to be able to do some long distance running without losing the muscle mass.
Random.

[Waldo]

My goal right now, maybe it's not weird but it is sorta random, is to be in the best physical shape of my life by the time I hit 50 which is four years from now.
I would like to be able to run a marathon or at least a half marathon.
I did something similar when I hit 40, I was in the best shape I ever had been physically. I was at a healthy weight, was able to accomplish a lot of particular goals with the help of a personal trainer. I also was in a really good emotional place and was working on my mental health with therapist. I think it helped me grow personally.
Now that I am approaching 50 I would like to up the ante a little and get even stronger physically and improve my cardio endurance to be able to do some long distance running without losing the muscle mass.
Random.

Sooooo not weird, nor random, but certainly worthwhile.

I'm in a similar spot. I just hit a big birthday. I'm not super concerned with dropping weight, although that happens, but I'm interested in getting in better shape again.

But I can put a weird spin on my fitness goal:

I want to be able to run up the steps at Red Rocks Amphitheater without stopping.

[Chancie]

I just turned 49, and I have a list of goals for myself for the next year.

I want to have earned both a CAGS in Math, Science and Learning Technologies (http://www.umass.edu/education/academics/degree_programs.shtml#cags) and my professional license.

I want to have started a viable robotics program at the public high school where I teach math.

I want to have long curly hair to my waist.

And, I want to be good to my precious body and get into better physical shape.

[SuperFemme]

I want to have a normal blood count.

I have very strange and short term goals, marked by odd milestones. I make deals with unseen gods for things like making it to my grandchilds birth or my sons graduation from eighth grade. I do things like promising to feed the hungry/homeless more often if I could just live "this much" longer....

So I guess it is all relative. I'm no longer asking for a cure, but I am begging, borrowing and stealing time. :moonstars:

[Gemme]

Random

I want to be happy. Genuinely. No more of this fake it til you make it crap or relying on my years in CS to help me put a lovely mask on for the sake of others. I want to wake up in the morning and not think, "Shit! I gotta go to work today." I want more; deserve more.

I just need to find the directions to this holy grail. :blink:


Weird

I like visiting weird and/or odd and/or novelty places. Largest ball of ear wax kind of things. I want to visit a new weird/odd/novelty thing a year for the rest of my life.

[~Bo]

Random

I want to be happy. Genuinely. No more of this fake it til you make it crap or relying on my years in CS to help me put a lovely mask on for the sake of others. I want to wake up in the morning and not think, "Shit! I gotta go to work today." I want more; deserve more.

I just need to find the directions to this holy grail. :blink:


Weird

I like visiting weird and/or odd and/or novelty places. Largest ball of ear wax kind of things. I want to visit a new weird/odd/novelty thing a year for the rest of my life.






Weirdo :raspberry:

[Gemme]

Weirdo :raspberry:

Takes one to know one.

[~Bo]

Takes one to know one.





Says who?

......

[Gemme]

Says who?

......

Everyone but you.

[~Bo]

Everyone but you.





Of course.

[SuperFemme]

Random

I want to be happy. Genuinely. No more of this fake it til you make it crap or relying on my years in CS to help me put a lovely mask on for the sake of others. I want to wake up in the morning and not think, "Shit! I gotta go to work today." I want more; deserve more.

I just need to find the directions to this holy grail. :blink:


Weird

I like visiting weird and/or odd and/or novelty places. Largest ball of ear wax kind of things. I want to visit a new weird/odd/novelty thing a year for the rest of my life.


I want to get an RV and do a big gay tour of the USofA. We shall stop and see the biggest ball of string, the white cow, the two headed pig....and leave gay rainbow stuff everywhere.

[suebee]

My Sweetie and I want to do a "Mom and Pop Diners" tour: an RV towing a motorcycle, doing all the small towns and secondary roads. We want to do all the little local spots to eat and collect as many diner T-shirts as we can. "Eating Across America" we'll call it!

[Medusa]

I want to get an RV and do a big gay tour of the USofA. We shall stop and see the biggest ball of string, the white cow, the two headed pig....and leave gay rainbow stuff everywhere.


The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas ;)
And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

[SuperFemme]

The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas ;)
And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

want to go for a ride?

[betenoire]

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text01/enterpriseAL.jpg

You should all have a goal to get your photograph taken in front of the above monstrosity. I did it.

God, I need to scan that picture!

[Gayla]

The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas ;)
And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

Been there. Took creepy pictures of the creepy Jesus. They came out all weird and shadowy. That was the one and only time I stopped.

An ex and I took a two week vacation to travel to the east coast and back by car one year. Our goal was to stop at all the weird McDonald's we could find. The world's largest on the OK turnpike. The riverboat McD's in St. Louis. There were a few more.

One random/weird goal I still have is to take pics of all the weird stuff I see when traveling down a major interstate and put a book together with the stories behind it. Like the hot & cold water towers I saw somewhere along I-40 I think it was. Well, these days it might just be a website.

[Enchantress]

I want to have coppery red long(ish) hair.

Strangely that's all I've got this evening.

[Medusa]

Been there. Took creepy pictures of the creepy Jesus. They came out all weird and shadowy. That was the one and only time I stopped.

An ex and I took a two week vacation to travel to the east coast and back by car one year. Our goal was to stop at all the weird McDonald's we could find. The world's largest on the OK turnpike. The riverboat McD's in St. Louis. There were a few more.

One random/weird goal I still have is to take pics of all the weird stuff I see when traveling down a major interstate and put a book together with the stories behind it. Like the hot & cold water towers I saw somewhere along I-40 I think it was. Well, these days it might just be a website.

I LOVE weird McDonalds and have been to that one in St Louis!

Have you by chance visited the one that's in a caboose in Arizona?

[Write14u]

The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas ;)
And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

want to go for a ride?

Just outside of Montgomery, Ala., there is a place with probably the world's most crosses. I had a journalism prof who moonlighted for the National Enquirer and did a story on it. I've been there many times. Dude has crosses made out of all kinds of stuff and LOTS of them.

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text01/enterpriseAL.jpg

You should all have a goal to get your photograph taken in front of the above monstrosity. I did it.

God, I need to scan that picture!

OMG! That's the boll weevil statue. It's the only town statue in the country dedicated to an insect (at least as far as I know). I've been through there a million times. Gotta love Enterprise. It was erected as a tribute because if it hadn't been for the boll weevil, the stubborn Southerners wouldn't have diversified crops from cotton.

Sweet!

[Gemme]

Just outside of Montgomery, Ala., there is a place with probably the world's most crosses. I had a journalism prof who moonlighted for the National Enquirer and did a story on it. I've been there many times. Dude has crosses made out of all kinds of stuff and LOTS of them.

Been there. It is kind of eerie.

[betenoire]

OMG! That's the boll weevil statue. It's the only town statue in the country dedicated to an insect (at least as far as I know). I've been through there a million times. Gotta love Enterprise. It was erected as a tribute because if it hadn't been for the boll weevil, the stubborn Southerners wouldn't have diversified crops from cotton.

Sweet!

Yeah, me and some friends drove all the way to Alabama like 10 years ago because we wanted our pictures taken with that statue so badly. It was a fun trip.

But then we were like....."so now what?"

*shrug*

[Waldo]

The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas ;)
And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

You mean this?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/283301856_d480c802f9.jpg

Cause it's no longer the biggest. The largest is now is Effingham, IL (who names these places??)

http://www.worldslargestthings.com/easterntour/cross.htm

Why do I know this? Cause when I moved from NM back to Chicago I took that photo (at 65 mph, no less) and HAD to know if it was, indeed, the largest. Imagine my surprise to find out that it was not.

[betenoire]

http://www.photopia.tyo.ca/photos/the-big-apple-along-highway-401-ontario-canada.jpg

In Ontario, near Colborne. Apparently it's the biggest apple-shaped structure in the world.

Aim high, Colborne. Clearly you are a people who had a dream.

[Waldo]

Dear god. :|

[Jett]

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text01/enterpriseAL.jpg

You should all have a goal to get your photograph taken in front of the above monstrosity. I did it.

God, I need to scan that picture!

"Lady Justice" about to bring about a smack down?

[BullDog]

Finish putting up websites on my 117 domains. 49 more to go. :|

That's just the beginning of the fun.

[Waldo]

Finish putting up websites on my 117 domains. 49 more to go. :|

That's just the beginning of the fun.

I gave up on that goal. I really wanted to. I did. But I make more money without them being developed. Go figure.

[BullDog]

I gave up on that goal. I really wanted to. I did. But I make more money without them being developed. Go figure.

I hope to sell most of them off. Not sure if it will be worth it given the amount of time it is taking me. I got a little carried away. No way I can keep up. My older sites are starting to make some money.

[betenoire]

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/kenora.jpg

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/nolalu.jpg

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/maman.jpg

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/upsala.jpg

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/varney.jpg

[Waldo]

http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/maman.jpg


That's not a roadside attraction. That's a well respected piece of art by renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/01/BALH1DO5SA.DTL).

[betenoire]

That's not a roadside attraction. That's a well respected piece of art by renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/01/BALH1DO5SA.DTL).

I stand corrected. I came across it on a website of weird stuff you can see from the road in Canada (like, just now) and the site didn't include anything other than pictures and locations - so I had no idea.

Too bad it's not a permanent fixture. I like it better than the seven zillion giant lumberjacks and geese.

I do not, however, like it better than the giant Adirondack chair. Because I don't like anything better than that.

[Waldo]

I stand corrected. I came across it on a website of weird stuff you can see from the road in Canada (like, just now) and the site didn't include anything other than pictures and locations - so I had no idea.

Too bad it's not a permanent fixture. I like it better than the seven zillion giant lumberjacks and geese.

I do not, however, like it better than the giant Adirondack chair. Because I don't like anything better than that.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound snippy. I just love the work and wanted to share the info.

[betenoire]

Sorry, didn't mean to sound snippy. I just love the work and wanted to share the info.

You did sound a little snippy, but I forgive you. ;)

I just did a bit of googling. Seems it is in Ottawa permanently, but isn't the actual original. It's one of about a dozen replicas, apparently? I like the eggs.

[Gayla]

I LOVE weird McDonalds and have been to that one in St Louis!

Have you by chance visited the one that's in a caboose in Arizona?

I have not been to the caboose! I must find that before my next desert trip!

I'm currently fascinated by the McDonalds they put in convenience stores. Like this little 76 gas stations with like a full McD's complete with two drive up windows. They're all over the place up here. It's like the clown car of fast food.

Effingham, IL. :| I've actually been there, too. On that trip we took. We stopped there and ate at a Bob Evans kinda place right at dinner time. That's the very first time I remember walking into a crowded restaurant and it going dead silent. As if controlled by one brain, a huge restaurant full of very, very, very white people (most all wearing John Deere caps) turned in unison to stare at me with gaping mouths as I walked to our table. I tried to convince K it was her they were looking at because she was so beautiful in that little sun dress. I did not go to the bathroom there.

[Queerasfck]

Waldo, being the traveler that you are I am guessing you've seen this. I've been here many times and some of you might recognize the t-rex from one of my favorite movies "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."
Found near Palm Springs, CA.

http://www.popcoast2coast.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/clip_image002.gif

[Waldo]

Waldo, being the traveler that you are I am guessing you've seen this. I've been here many times and some of you might recognize the t-rex from one of my favorite movies "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."
Found near Palm Springs, CA.



Sadly, I've never been to Palm Springs, but I do adore that big guy. and PWBA.

[chefhottie25]

I want to buy a mini van. Then glue a bunch of little buddha statues on the dashboard. Paint buddha on the hood...and call it the buddha van. I did this before, but the transmission went bad. I would like to take buddha van on a serious road trip...meeting enlightened people along the way.

[Waldo]

I want to buy a mini van. Then glue a bunch of little buddha statues on the dashboard. Paint buddha on the hood...and call it the buddha van. I did this before, but the transmission went bad. I would like to take buddha van on a serious road trip...meeting enlightened people along the way.

Be sure to stop in Santa Fe with it. It would fit right in with the Sea Shell car:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/43680347_246f33c072.jpg

[gotoseagrl]

Waldo, being the traveler that you are I am guessing you've seen this. I've been here many times and some of you might recognize the t-rex from one of my favorite movies "Pee Wee's Big Adventure."
Found near Palm Springs, CA.

http://www.popcoast2coast.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/clip_image002.gif

they are a few hours from me, very cool to visit. loved that movie too lol.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WnCJlq_kUA8/R0ZnSauVJGI/AAAAAAAAGfg/Z9VlnprbAac/s320/dinosaurs_in_palm_springs2.jpg

[Gemme]

http://www.photopia.tyo.ca/photos/the-big-apple-along-highway-401-ontario-canada.jpg

In Ontario, near Colborne. Apparently it's the biggest apple-shaped structure in the world.

Aim high, Colborne. Clearly you are a people who had a dream.



There's an orange-shaped building in Florida.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/salad/orange.html

[afixer]

a few of 'em...

to complete the entire AT with out any major breaks.
to walk from coast to coast in north america.
and to figure out my earthly purpose.

[Mister Bent]

I want to get an RV and do a big gay tour of the USofA. We shall stop and see the biggest ball of string, the white cow, the two headed pig....and leave gay rainbow stuff everywhere.

I've called this my Kitsch Tour of America for years, so let's go. I'll drive.

I want to hit Graceland
Cadillac Ranch
Giant balls of twine
Houses made of tin cans
Water tower smiley face
Coffee pot architecture
Muffler men!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/mrbent/bfd/ALBIRmufix2.jpg

I've seen this sucker a couple of times recently:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/mrbent/bfd/gaffney-peach.jpg
We call it the peach butt.

[little man]

My Sweetie and I want to do a "Mom and Pop Diners" tour: an RV towing a motorcycle, doing all the small towns and secondary roads. We want to do all the little local spots to eat and collect as many diner T-shirts as we can. "Eating Across America" we'll call it!

you could always do pics of you two eating at the diners and call it "eating lesbians". you could sell it in a plain brown wrapper. (just an odd little fantasy of mine...it's all about marketing)

oh oh oh...or call it "girls eating out" or somesuch.

[suebee]

you could always do pics of you two eating at the diners and call it "eating lesbians". you could sell it in a plain brown wrapper. (just an odd little fantasy of mine...it's all about marketing)

oh oh oh...or call it "girls eating out" or somesuch.

You want pitchers of your wives in a book called "Eating Lesbians"? :|

Hey! Why don't you come along and take the aforementioned pitchers? :)

[little man]

I've called this my Kitsch Tour of America for years, so let's go. I'll drive.

I want to hit Graceland
Cadillac Ranch
Giant balls of twine
Houses made of tin cans
Water tower smiley face
Coffee pot architecture
Muffler men!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/mrbent/bfd/ALBIRmufix2.jpg

I've seen this sucker a couple of times recently:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a293/mrbent/bfd/gaffney-peach.jpg
We call it the peach butt.


i have the RV. y'all are welcome to use it. of course, i'd like to come along, just for documentation purposes. not as if i like diners and geegaws.

[little man]

You want pitchers of your wives in a book called "Eating Lesbians"? :|

Hey! Why don't you come along and take the aforementioned pitchers? :)

you know, if we were to organize enough folks for this tour, we could call it the "gypsy queeravan".

i smell potential here. bent and adele could do the writing and i'd be happy to work the cameras.

who has the sign up sheet?

[suebee]

i have the RV. y'all are welcome to use it. of course, i'd like to come along, just for documentation purposes. not as if i like diners and geegaws.

Whatsa geegaw? :|

[little man]

my immediate goal:

to be semi-retired in 2.5 years. that allows me a couple of years to pay off all debt i currently have, and to redo the inside of the RV to suit my needs. then, it's off to hit the road. i plan to spend the rest of my life traveling and shooting (hopefully, i'll find a picture pimp to help me subsidize the traveling with picture sales).

today, this is my entire life's goal and plan.

[little man]

Whatsa geegaw? :|

something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.

[suebee]

something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.

The geegaw and diner tour! I like it! I like it a lot! :)

Count da :floatbee: in!

[Kätzchen]

This might sound really strange, but...

In the past, I've always had a plan and after reading your forum thread here, I'm thinking that this might be the way for me to go - from now on - just make a random (or weird) goal to work toward and then see if anything seems to happen as planned.

[ravfem]

my goal for today is to sit up straight

[foxyshaman]

I want to study OM :praying:... the symbol, the meanings and the philosophy behind it. 3's have been a central part of my spiritual searches :detective: and understanding. I think I could learn it and apply the knowledge in wacky and wonderful shamanic ways... or that is my odd goal for now... who knows I could want to collect beer caps...oh wait I hate beer... scratch that idea!!!

[little man]

I want to study OM :praying:... the symbol, the meanings and the philosophy behind it. 3's have been a central part of my spiritual searches :detective: and understanding. I think I could learn it and apply the knowledge in wacky and wonderful shamanic ways... or that is my odd goal for now... who knows I could want to collect beer caps...oh wait I hate beer... scratch that idea!!!

you could collect other people's beer caps....no ingesting required!

[Mister Bent]

something gaudy and useless; trinket; bauble.


I think you just described me.

[chefhmboyrd]

just to be sure...... this isn't the fuck target thread? right?
boy did i get that one all wrong....... jeez.....
hope i didn't offend anyone..... well besides target.....
lol

ok weird goals......
Hug everybody in LR that will let me!
ha!

[little man]

I think you just described me.

dude...you are *so* not useless. you make a great doorstop and a dandy paperweight. oh, and you have used words i do not know...so you've increased my vocabulary (or my dictionary useage at the very least).

[ravfem]

-sit up straight :computer:

-don't ignore my phone when it rings :phonegab:

-say "hey" to a stranger :hangloose:

-start dinner before 6 pm :goodluck:

-ride my trike :girlonatv:

:hippie:

[Gemme]

Random Goals for Today

* do not eat any more Circus Peanuts
* vacuum when Organic goes on lunch
* make another box disappear
* stop sweating between my boobs :blink:

[Enchantress]

I want to go to the Chock Full O' Nuts on West 34th street. They serve date nut bread sandwiches. I must have one. Must.

[StillettoDoll]

my goals today
Need to find a new book to read.
make a soap delivery.
get my car washed!
Keep getting things organize packed and donated!

[Gemme]

Finish my zombie cards.

[katsarecool]

I am so glad that someone included the Giant Peach in SC. And our family has always called it the Peach Butt as well.

Years ago I had the goal of hiking the Applachian Trail and it's sister trail up mountain from Ridgecrest CA; forgetting the name at the moment. And I did it.

My latest goal is to matt and frame every single completed painting and get them either hung up or sold!!!!

[cinnamongrrl]

Hike the A.T.

and

Have an alpaca farm....

and

become fluent in Spanish

[Smiling]

Juggling.
Riding a unicycle.
Backflips.

lol, maybe I should run away and join the circus. My life is a little bit of a clown car right now....

[Kätzchen]

Long range (within a year): update my passport

Mid-range (within half a year): go visit my family

short-term range (with a few weeks): go shopping for anything other than grocery store items; I would love to have some new spring and summer clothes, shoes too.

[Bèsame*]

Enjoy a Merry little white Christmas...one day :)



http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00429/travel-graphics-200_429699a.jpg

[Chancie]

I just turned 49, and I have a list of goals for myself for the next year.

I want to have earned both a CAGS in Math, Science and Learning Technologies (http://www.umass.edu/education/academics/degree_programs.shtml#cags) and my professional license.

I want to have started a viable robotics program at the public high school where I teach math.

I want to have long curly hair to my waist.

And, I want to be good to my precious body and get into better physical shape.

I have reached all of these goals.

How about that?

[Daktari]

Juggling.
Riding a unicycle.
Backflips.

lol, maybe I should run away and join the circus. My life is a little bit of a clown car right now....

All relatively easily achieved apart from the backflips (I could do those in m'youth but no longer). If you lived closer I'd give you lessons :cheesy:

[Smiling]

All relatively easily achieved apart from the backflips (I could do those in m'youth but no longer). If you lived closer I'd give you lessons :cheesy:

Aww, well now I'm just gonna spend the rest of the day cursing my English ancestors for throwing their stupid tea in the harbor! They screwed me outta my juggling, unicycle, and backflip lessons, damnit. Bastards!

They should've just paid their taxes already.

:badmood:


lol