SO HERE IS RACHEL'S CHALLENGE... AND VIDEO...
The challenge officially started on Wednesday, May 29, exactly four weeks
after my surgery. So far I have completed *Drink a whole cup of tea – a horrendous experience and I don’t know how
people drink it on a daily basis YUCK; *Take a life drawing
class – a slightly humiliating but eye-opening experience and *Join a Book Club – more fun than I ever
imagined and I don’t know why I never did it before.
It’s all about
having fun and helping others to understand this illness. If you are feeling
down today because of your ostomy or Crohns/UC just stop and think a second of
all the things you have gone through, all the pain, all the injections, all the
hospital visits, you are a brave and strong person, and better times are ahead.
If I can do this SO CAN YOU :-) so wish me
luck and why not start your own list and join me on my crazy adventure?
Twitter: @thestomabaglady
THE BIG STOMA BUCKET LIST
101 adventures of a bag lady
SKILLS/
JOB
1. Learn to speak (and write) French fluently –
currently trying and failing
2. Run a small business
3. Write a poem and read it at an open mic night
4. Take a night class in something random
5. Learn to play the guitar
6. Get nominated for an award and go to the ceremony in a show
stopping dress
7. Work for the BBC
8. Get
1,000 Twitter followers – please follow me!!! @thestomabaglady
9. Learn to say hello in 10 very different languages – trying
and failing
10. Write
a column
11. Learn
to parallel park and do it on a main road (thanks Andy!)
12. Live
and work abroad
13. Host
a radio show
14. Learn
to draw a tree properly
15. Write
and illustrate a children’s book
16. Learn
about the economy and stock market
17. Write
a blog with worldwide followers – well I have achieved that but not ticking it off yet
18. Work
for a national newspaper
19. Have
a novel/ short story published
TRAVEL
1. (20) Eat snails in Paris
2. (21) Go to Disney Land and wave a wand in Hogwarts
3. (22) Visit Prague and see a concert
4. (23) Walk on the Great Wall of China
5. (24) Pose for a picture in Times Square
6. (25) Drink a whole pint (yes a whole one) of Guinness in
Dublin
7. (26) Go to Wales hiking and rent a cottage with hot tub and
roaring fire
8. (27) Get on a random plane to a random place at the airport
9. (28) Climb the Millennium Dome
10. (29)
Take a trip on a gondola in Venice and sing Just One Cornetto
11. (30)
Have a night out in Birmingham/Liverpool/Edinburgh/ Manchester
12. (31)
Go to an outdoor cinema
13. (32)
Camp at a festival
14. (33)
Complete 30 Visit England 101 things to do before you die (can’t be in this
list) – doing bit by bit
15. (34)
Go on a really scary roller coaster
CRAFTS
1. (35) Design your own clothes/ accessories and make them
2. (36) make a funky and a sexy stoma bag cover
3.
(37)
take a life drawing class – see blog for hilarious story & pics
4. (38) sell a piece of art
5. (39) make a Christmas present – which is a quality gift
6. (40) take a professional photograph
7. (41) learn to cook – take a cookery class
FOOD
1. (42) make a perfect cake (three tiers)
2. (43) eat at a Michelin starred restaurant
3. (44) throw a themed dinner party
4. (45) make the perfect soufflé
5. (46) host a fondue and cocktail party
6. (47) go strawberry picking and make jam
SPORT
and GAMES
1. (48) Sit on Murray Mound eating strawberries and drinking
Pimms
2. (49) Go to a basketball match and eat a pretzel
3. (50) Ride a horse
4. (51) Play a round of golf
5. (52) Complete an army assault course
6. (53) Run the Santa Dash
7. (54) Learn the perfect serve
8. (55) Cimb the three Peaks
9. (56) Learn how to play chess
10. (57)
Play a full set of tennis
11. (58)
Learn how to skip
12. (59)
Shoot a gun
13. (60)
Drive a classic car
14. (61)
Learn how to play poker
15. (62)
Walk the Sandstone Trail
16. (63)
Compete in the Chester to Liverpool Bike Ride
17. (64)
Go Fishing
18. (65)
Learn the off side rule
19. (66)
Go cheese rolling
CHALLENGES
1. (67) Volunteer for charity
2. (68) Raise £1,000 for NACC
3.
(69)
Sell something on Ebay (I know lame that I have never done this) –
doing now
4. (70) Read a book every week for six months –
read reviews on my blog
5. (71) Do something just for the hell of it (more outrageous
the better)
6. (72) Go skinny dipping
7. (73) Get a tattoo
8. (74) Take part in a protest
9. (75) Blag your way into a VIP section
10. (76)
Be an extra in a tv show or film
11. (77)
Sunbathe topless on a beach
12. (78)
Wear false eyelashes (I know pathetic but my lashes are false virgins)
13. (79)
Bounce down a road on a space hopper
14. (80)
Sleep under the stars
15. (81)
Live off £10 for a whole week (no cheating)
EXPERIENCES
1. (82) Be part of a TV audience
2. (83) Sit in the Commons for a debate
3. (84) See Michael Buble (I know needs accent) live
4. (85) Buy a designer handbag or shoes
5. (86) Wear a stunningly expensive piece of jewellery
6. (87) Stand for election
7. (88) Rent a must-have designer handbag
8. (89) Join a book club – done: read about my cultural
evening on my blog
9. (90) Drink a whole cup of tea (how I go through 25 years
without doing this?) YUCKY BUT DONE
10. (91)
Milk a cow
11. (92)
Read Pride and prejudice (I never have!!)
12. (92)
Have a 24hr movie marathon
13. (93)
Wear a onsie in front of others!
14. (94)
See a Broadway show (I know should be in travel)
15. (95)
Jump out of a plane (arrghhh obviously with a parachute)
16. (96)
Ride the London Eye (probably should be in travel)
17. (97)
Get a pen pal – write for a year and then meet up somewhere really cool
18. (98)
Read 50 autobiographies in a year – done about 7
19. (99)
Campaign for something that matters – and win
20. (100)
Do something that scares the shit (sorry mum) out of you!
21. (101)
And FINALLY this one has been left open to you guys – think of something cool –
not too dangerous please
Anyway…here
we go - WISH ME (& Winnie) LUCK!!!
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