Weird & Random Goals

Waldo · 06-03-2010, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by EzeeTiger

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 · 06-03-2010, 06:14 PM

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 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 · 06-03-2010, 06:23 PM

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.

Gemme · 06-03-2010, 07:16 PM

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.

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 · 06-03-2010, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Gemme · 06-03-2010, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ~Bo

Weirdo

Takes one to know one.

~Bo · 06-03-2010, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemme

Takes one to know one.

Says who?

......

SuperFemme · 06-03-2010, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 06-03-2010, 08:12 PM

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!

little man · 06-05-2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by cybersuebee

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.

Medusa · 06-03-2010, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperFemme

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 · 06-03-2010, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Medusa

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?

Gayla · 06-03-2010, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Medusa

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.

Waldo · 06-03-2010, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Medusa

The biggest cross in the western hemisphere is in Texas

And it has a shitload of the CREEPIEST Jesus statues EVER!

You mean this?

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

http://www.worldslargestthings.com/e...tour/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.

Mister Bent · 06-05-2010, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperFemme

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!

I've seen this sucker a couple of times recently:

We call it the peach butt.

little man · 06-05-2010, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mister Bent

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!

I've seen this sucker a couple of times recently:

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.

Chancie · 12-27-2013, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by 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 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?

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