Today we went to the theatre in the afternoon. We have gone to the theatre twice before this year. We went to see “Wingfield’s Lost and Found” which was a comedy that we both thoroughly enjoyed and “Chicago” the musical that I loved and Ken thought was “good”, lol. I got the tickets to “The Glass Menagerie” through work. When I read about it the characters names were “Wingfield” so I thought that somehow it was related to the play we saw before. I’m still not sure if it is the same family in both of the plays or not but this play was not a comedy at all. It was actually quite heart-wrenching and tragic at times. One character in the play, the mother, was funny though. The actress in that role also did a tremendous job. “The Glass Menagerie” is a play by Tennesse Williams and even though I have limited knowledge of this genre of literature I did recognize his name from “A Streetcar Name Desire” so I was happy to finally see a play by him. I enjoyed the play but was not astonished by it like I was with “Chicago” or giddy after it like I was with “Wingfield’s Lost and Found”. It just didn’t leave much of an impression with me. I wouldn’t go see it again like I would with the other two.
Ken’s review: “I didn’t like it” He thought that it would have been better as a soap opera that went on for 20 years, lol.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Day 106 (April 16, 2010): I'm too old for this.......
Tonight we went to the Edmonton Rush game. We have season tickets and at every game they announce that the team is sponsored by the “Oil City Roadhouse” which is a popular country dance bar in Edmonton. It was the last game of the regular season tonight so we decided to head on down to Oil City Roadhouse after the game even though neither one of us is really into country music. With our game ticket stubs we were able to get in with no line and no cover charge so we thought, “what the heck, let’s go check it out”. This is REALLY different for us! It is not in line with any of our interests (other than the lacrosse team) or comfort zone, which I was about to find out. First I have to tell you what I was wearing. I had on a long sleeve black Edmonton Rush t-shirt, long black cargo pants, socks and shoes and I was also wearing a black hoodie over top of my shirt. When we got to the bar Ken had to go to the washroom and as I was standing by myself waiting for him I began to feel extremely uncomfortable. I mean this is no disrespectful way at all, but compared to what the other girls in the place were wearing I felt like someone who is part of a very conservative religion, perhaps Muslim. I felt like people were looking at me like I was a Muslim person in a bar, which is the last place that a Muslim person should be. Oil City Roadhouse is probably the last place I should have been, lol. The girls in the bar were dressed in the shortest skirts, lowest cut shirts and sleeziest clothes that I have seen in a very long time. And, they were all about 20 years old. There was the odd “cougar” who was older but they were dressed even more sleezy than the 20 somethings. Ken and I each got a pop, lol, that made us stick out even more because everyone else was either really drunk or on their way there. We sat a table for awhile, listened to the country music and people watched. The people watching was kind of entertaining but after about 45 minutes it got boring and we left. So that was our experience……..it certainly was different than something we would normally do! So, what did I learn from this.......I'm too old for that kind of bar and I am very happy with my life and glad that I don't have to dress up like that and try to run around from bar to bar in high heels while I'm half drunk!
Day 105 (April 15, 2010): Concert and Buying Flowers
I had to work late again tonight so Ken and I did separate activities. I bought myself flowers and Ken went to an Amon Amarth Concert.
Ken: Amon Amarth Concert: Hell yes, Amon Amarth pulled off yet another wicked concert. These guys play as good live as they do in the studio. Synchronized solo’s and everything, they just plain whoop ass. The opening bands were o.k. There was a metal/celtic band that played just before the opening act and the first band was like an Iron Madain/Judas Priest/80’s style mix band. They played pretty well. On the last song Amon Amarth song I went in the mosh pit and rocked out wickedly hard. It was just like I remembered it from when I was a kid going to punk shows. I am a little older now so I was worried of getting hurt but I made it out without injury. That is a good thing because I need to work and make money not like when I was a kid and mom was paying my way. Well I will be going again if they ever come back to Alberta.
Mel: Buy myself flowers: Today I was supposed to buy myself flowers. I recognize the importance of spoiling yourself every once in awhile. I think that it’s nice to give myself something now and then because I often give a lot of myself to others, in my job and in my personal life. With that said though I found it a bit uncomfortable to buy myself flowers. Even as I was going to the flower shop I got thinking about what I would say if the staff at the store asked me who I was buying them for. Would I proudly say, “for myself” or cowardly make up some lie about who I was buying them for. I didn’t make a firm decision on which route I would take if I got asked. Luckily I didn’t. I kept thinking about it though as I walked around the shop looking for what I would buy.
The second time that I felt a bit unnerved during this activity was when I looked at the prices of the flowers. I had planned on buying myself a nice bouquet of spring flowers to put in my office at work. I thought it would cheer up my office a bit. When I looked at some of the prices I thought “if I have to look at these everyday they are just going to remind me of the money I wasted on them”. Don’t get me wrong, I know flowers are expensive but I had a hard time justifying spending that money on myself, especially when they are going to die in a few days. So, after a lot of thought, and paranoia that if I didn’t hurry up someone was going to ask me who I was buying flowers for, I decided to buy myself the flower in the picture…….
Ken: Amon Amarth Concert: Hell yes, Amon Amarth pulled off yet another wicked concert. These guys play as good live as they do in the studio. Synchronized solo’s and everything, they just plain whoop ass. The opening bands were o.k. There was a metal/celtic band that played just before the opening act and the first band was like an Iron Madain/Judas Priest/80’s style mix band. They played pretty well. On the last song Amon Amarth song I went in the mosh pit and rocked out wickedly hard. It was just like I remembered it from when I was a kid going to punk shows. I am a little older now so I was worried of getting hurt but I made it out without injury. That is a good thing because I need to work and make money not like when I was a kid and mom was paying my way. Well I will be going again if they ever come back to Alberta.
Mel: Buy myself flowers: Today I was supposed to buy myself flowers. I recognize the importance of spoiling yourself every once in awhile. I think that it’s nice to give myself something now and then because I often give a lot of myself to others, in my job and in my personal life. With that said though I found it a bit uncomfortable to buy myself flowers. Even as I was going to the flower shop I got thinking about what I would say if the staff at the store asked me who I was buying them for. Would I proudly say, “for myself” or cowardly make up some lie about who I was buying them for. I didn’t make a firm decision on which route I would take if I got asked. Luckily I didn’t. I kept thinking about it though as I walked around the shop looking for what I would buy.
The second time that I felt a bit unnerved during this activity was when I looked at the prices of the flowers. I had planned on buying myself a nice bouquet of spring flowers to put in my office at work. I thought it would cheer up my office a bit. When I looked at some of the prices I thought “if I have to look at these everyday they are just going to remind me of the money I wasted on them”. Don’t get me wrong, I know flowers are expensive but I had a hard time justifying spending that money on myself, especially when they are going to die in a few days. So, after a lot of thought, and paranoia that if I didn’t hurry up someone was going to ask me who I was buying flowers for, I decided to buy myself the flower in the picture…….
……as you can see this one will not die in a few days AND it was only $5.25!! Yay me! I am very happy with it and it makes me smile every time I look at it and think back on the experience of buying it.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Day 104 (April 14, 2010): Carve our initials into a tree
Tonight we went for a walk down to the river valley and carved our initals into a tree. I'm not telling you where it is but we landmarked it so we will be able to find it again. Perhaps we will post some pictures of it again in the future.
Ken is just getting started.
The angles on the "K" and "M" were a bit tricky.
The "K" is almost done.
Yay, it's done. I think he did a great job. Sorry Tree:(
I like this picture because I like how the trees in the background look.
Day 103 (April 13 2010) Spend no money for one whole day
Today Mel and I did not spend any money. This seems easy but it was not planned. We decided it in the morning. I was about to go out and get milk because I was low and wanted to buy a shake at the gym. Good thing I did not haha. It was interesting due to the amount of commercialism that goes on in this world. WOW. We made it the whole day without spending a penny.
Mel: I had a meeting in the morning with a group of colleagues that I meet with once a month and we meet at a coffee shop. I had to make my own tea in the morning and take it to the meeting. (insert very sad face) I would have rather bought one but oh well. Then the meeting ran late and I had drank all of my tea so I had nothing to drink and I couldn't spend money. I have pills that I need to take 1 hour before lunch and I couldn't take them until I got home at 12:00 so by 1:00 I was starving and really ready to eat my lunch. Those were the only two times of the day that I wished I could have spent money......oh well. I guess I saved about 5 bucks from not buying the tea or a water bottle so I could take my pills.
Mel: I had a meeting in the morning with a group of colleagues that I meet with once a month and we meet at a coffee shop. I had to make my own tea in the morning and take it to the meeting. (insert very sad face) I would have rather bought one but oh well. Then the meeting ran late and I had drank all of my tea so I had nothing to drink and I couldn't spend money. I have pills that I need to take 1 hour before lunch and I couldn't take them until I got home at 12:00 so by 1:00 I was starving and really ready to eat my lunch. Those were the only two times of the day that I wished I could have spent money......oh well. I guess I saved about 5 bucks from not buying the tea or a water bottle so I could take my pills.
Day 102 (April 12 2010) 50 questions that will free your mind
1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Ken: 25
Mel: 30
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
Ken and Mel: Never Trying
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
Mel: I do things for other people. If I did everything that I just wanted to do it would be selfish. I think we also do these things for our future, ie: kids. We want to have a better life for them.
Ken: the pressure of society
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
Mel: Probably
Ken: I hope not
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
Ken: The fact that we have to spend more time working than playing.
Mel: poverty, the fact that everything costs so much money.
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Ken: Weightlifting
Mel: I would probably continue doing what I do, but I would do it for 6 months a year and then take 6 months off.
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
Ken: currently settling, but I am in the process of making changes towards my future goals.
Mel: Doing what I believe in.
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
Ken: I wouldn’t
Mel: travel more
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Ken: All of it
Mel: I believe that there is a balance between fate and creating your own destiny. For example, I went to University not really having a clear idea about what I wanted to do with my life but through different classes and experiences I figured out that I really liked the field I was studying and I could make of it what I wanted. Fate has definitely played a part in my life like when I met my husband but I also believe that I met him at that time because I was ready to meet him and settle down. If I had met him a few years earlier I might have passed him by.
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
Ken: doing things right
Mel: doing the right things
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
Ken: Tell them to $%&# off and leave it alone.
Mel: I would stop the conversation very quickly and tell them that they should know that her and I are friends and its okay for them to feel like that but I am uncomfortable being there when they are talking about her.
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Ken: Learn what you love early and stay with it.
Mel: Trust your instincts! Usually when things go wrong for me it is because I am trying to spare someone’s feelings or just go with the flow (ie: group decision ) and so I don’t listen to my instincts. I always kick myself after when I am saying “I knew that was going to happen, I should have said something!”.
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one
Ken: yes
Mel: YES!!
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Ken: In music
Mel: all the time, I work with kids!
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
Ken: eat healthy and attend the gym on a daily basis
Mel: not sure
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
Ken: because we are all different
Mel: because not everyone is the same
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
Ken: Join MMA gym but it is very expensive.
Mel: Get my Masters degree………money is holding me back.
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
Ken: no I did that when I was young
Mel: people in my life who have addictions problems and it will never change but I still wish it would. I also resent them for it so I hold on to that too.
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
Ken: I would move to Montana because of the small amount of people to the area and they were very nice people.
Mel: back to Saskatchewan
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
Ken: yes and then no
Mel: yes, I push it more than once and No, I don’t think it will go faster, it just makes me feel productive, lol.
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
Ken: joyful simpleton
Mel: joyful simpleton
22. Why are you, you?
Ken: I like me and my wife likes me(most of me) haha
Mel: Because I am Assertive! YAY!!!!
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
Ken: Yes
Mel: not always, but I am now.
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
Ken: Losing touch who lives close to you
Mel: losing touch
25. What are you most grateful for?
Ken: My wife
Mel: My husband and our simple life
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Ken: lose old ones
Mel: lose all of my old memories
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
Ken: no
Mel: isn’t that what faith is? I guess for some people it might be possible but not for me.
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Ken: no and I hope it never does
Mel: no, but I worry about it sometimes.
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
Ken: No but it still bothers me haha
Mel: nope! That is what I always tell people in the anger management groups that I facilitate.
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
Ken: Playing hockey on the ice on the farm we lived at, because I was the best player on the ice haha
Mel: I have so many and they all involve family. I remember spending time with my grandparents, watching hockey while laying on the living room floor with my dad, playing WWF with my brothers, building forts with my brother Brent, when my brother Trent got home after a summer away working,
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
Ken: when I got married and went on our honeymoon.
Mel: After I have a good workout. I have been really consistent with it lately and I am making progress. It feels great!
32. If not now, then when?
Ken: Never if not now
Mel: never I guess?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
Ken: nothing
Mel: nothing
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
Ken: yes
Mel: yes, that happens a lot with my husband
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
Ken: because they are different and sometimes different people fight. It just happens to be a large mass of people that believe these things and they do not like each other.
Mel: because people are so passionate about what they believe that they can’t take criticism or be open to other ideas. They will defend their ideas as being right no matter what.
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
Ken: No because without one you would not know the other. If there was no cold you would not know how to gage heat.
Mel: only for those people who truly have faith. I don’t so I will always question that.
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
Ken: Yes and go to school and get a career without the worries of finances and concentrate on school.
Mel: probably not. I might try to do something like my job part time though, or take a couple months of holidays a year instead of just 3 weeks.
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
Ken: more work that I actually enjoy doing
Mel: I like my work so just like I said in #37 it would be nice to have a bit less to do though.
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
Ken: yes I have asked myself these questions a hundred times before in my head and with my friends growing up.
Mel: nope
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
Ken: 2 years ago when I started my own company.
Mel: When I went to Korea without knowing a word of the language. I just knew that I needed a new experience.
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
Ken: no but I might call some of them to let them know.
Mel: Just my husband. I would want to spend every second with him that I could. If I tried to see everyone else then I wouldn’t have enough time to spend with any of them.
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
Ken: no
Mel: NO WAY!
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
Ken: to live on the edge i.e. extreme sports and the other is to merely exist
Mel: Doing a 365 day challenge of course!
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
Ken: All the time
Mel: We should live like that all the time.
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
Ken: because of our pride
Mel: because we might hurt others in the process
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
Ken: nothing I so not care if people judge me except my mother and wife.
Mel: I can’t think of anything.
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
Ken: last night when I went to bed and actually this morning at the gym because I got a bit heavy.
Mel: yesterday at my BodyFlow class we did a relaxation exercise at the end of the class. They told me to pay attention to my breathing and listen to it to see if it was shallow or deep.
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
Ken: I love my wife, everyday I try to help with dinner or helping with the lunches, and just calling her or texting an I love you
Mel: I love my husband and my cats. I tell him I love him all the time. I give them all hugs and kisses……yes, even the cats, the just love the hugs, lol.
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
Ken: Some of the days I will remember because I lift weights and I remember when I hit a milestone and most of the time if I think about it, it sometimes feels like yesterday
Mel: Well, since we are blogging our entire year this year I will be able to look at that and see but in an average year, no I wouldn’t have a clue.
50. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?
Ken: I am making them for myself with my wife in mind.
Mel: both
Ken and I had a bit of a debate about this activity. I won't tell you who thought what but I will tell you about the debate so you can give us your opinons on our poll on the side of this page.
The debate is, would it be okay to answer questions 1-25 on one day and then questions 26-50 on another day and count them as two different activities since they are different questions. Here is another example: What if we were to take an art class over a span of 3 days and one day we learned some techniques then the next day we learned different techniques and the third day we made our finished product. Could we count all three of those days as our activity for each day or should we only count that once?
We are interested in knowing your opinions on this project.
Ken: 25
Mel: 30
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
Ken and Mel: Never Trying
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
Mel: I do things for other people. If I did everything that I just wanted to do it would be selfish. I think we also do these things for our future, ie: kids. We want to have a better life for them.
Ken: the pressure of society
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
Mel: Probably
Ken: I hope not
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
Ken: The fact that we have to spend more time working than playing.
Mel: poverty, the fact that everything costs so much money.
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
Ken: Weightlifting
Mel: I would probably continue doing what I do, but I would do it for 6 months a year and then take 6 months off.
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
Ken: currently settling, but I am in the process of making changes towards my future goals.
Mel: Doing what I believe in.
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
Ken: I wouldn’t
Mel: travel more
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
Ken: All of it
Mel: I believe that there is a balance between fate and creating your own destiny. For example, I went to University not really having a clear idea about what I wanted to do with my life but through different classes and experiences I figured out that I really liked the field I was studying and I could make of it what I wanted. Fate has definitely played a part in my life like when I met my husband but I also believe that I met him at that time because I was ready to meet him and settle down. If I had met him a few years earlier I might have passed him by.
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
Ken: doing things right
Mel: doing the right things
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
Ken: Tell them to $%&# off and leave it alone.
Mel: I would stop the conversation very quickly and tell them that they should know that her and I are friends and its okay for them to feel like that but I am uncomfortable being there when they are talking about her.
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
Ken: Learn what you love early and stay with it.
Mel: Trust your instincts! Usually when things go wrong for me it is because I am trying to spare someone’s feelings or just go with the flow (ie: group decision ) and so I don’t listen to my instincts. I always kick myself after when I am saying “I knew that was going to happen, I should have said something!”.
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one
Ken: yes
Mel: YES!!
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
Ken: In music
Mel: all the time, I work with kids!
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
Ken: eat healthy and attend the gym on a daily basis
Mel: not sure
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
Ken: because we are all different
Mel: because not everyone is the same
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
Ken: Join MMA gym but it is very expensive.
Mel: Get my Masters degree………money is holding me back.
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
Ken: no I did that when I was young
Mel: people in my life who have addictions problems and it will never change but I still wish it would. I also resent them for it so I hold on to that too.
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
Ken: I would move to Montana because of the small amount of people to the area and they were very nice people.
Mel: back to Saskatchewan
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
Ken: yes and then no
Mel: yes, I push it more than once and No, I don’t think it will go faster, it just makes me feel productive, lol.
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
Ken: joyful simpleton
Mel: joyful simpleton
22. Why are you, you?
Ken: I like me and my wife likes me(most of me) haha
Mel: Because I am Assertive! YAY!!!!
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
Ken: Yes
Mel: not always, but I am now.
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
Ken: Losing touch who lives close to you
Mel: losing touch
25. What are you most grateful for?
Ken: My wife
Mel: My husband and our simple life
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
Ken: lose old ones
Mel: lose all of my old memories
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
Ken: no
Mel: isn’t that what faith is? I guess for some people it might be possible but not for me.
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Ken: no and I hope it never does
Mel: no, but I worry about it sometimes.
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
Ken: No but it still bothers me haha
Mel: nope! That is what I always tell people in the anger management groups that I facilitate.
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
Ken: Playing hockey on the ice on the farm we lived at, because I was the best player on the ice haha
Mel: I have so many and they all involve family. I remember spending time with my grandparents, watching hockey while laying on the living room floor with my dad, playing WWF with my brothers, building forts with my brother Brent, when my brother Trent got home after a summer away working,
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
Ken: when I got married and went on our honeymoon.
Mel: After I have a good workout. I have been really consistent with it lately and I am making progress. It feels great!
32. If not now, then when?
Ken: Never if not now
Mel: never I guess?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
Ken: nothing
Mel: nothing
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
Ken: yes
Mel: yes, that happens a lot with my husband
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
Ken: because they are different and sometimes different people fight. It just happens to be a large mass of people that believe these things and they do not like each other.
Mel: because people are so passionate about what they believe that they can’t take criticism or be open to other ideas. They will defend their ideas as being right no matter what.
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
Ken: No because without one you would not know the other. If there was no cold you would not know how to gage heat.
Mel: only for those people who truly have faith. I don’t so I will always question that.
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
Ken: Yes and go to school and get a career without the worries of finances and concentrate on school.
Mel: probably not. I might try to do something like my job part time though, or take a couple months of holidays a year instead of just 3 weeks.
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
Ken: more work that I actually enjoy doing
Mel: I like my work so just like I said in #37 it would be nice to have a bit less to do though.
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
Ken: yes I have asked myself these questions a hundred times before in my head and with my friends growing up.
Mel: nope
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
Ken: 2 years ago when I started my own company.
Mel: When I went to Korea without knowing a word of the language. I just knew that I needed a new experience.
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
Ken: no but I might call some of them to let them know.
Mel: Just my husband. I would want to spend every second with him that I could. If I tried to see everyone else then I wouldn’t have enough time to spend with any of them.
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
Ken: no
Mel: NO WAY!
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
Ken: to live on the edge i.e. extreme sports and the other is to merely exist
Mel: Doing a 365 day challenge of course!
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
Ken: All the time
Mel: We should live like that all the time.
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
Ken: because of our pride
Mel: because we might hurt others in the process
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
Ken: nothing I so not care if people judge me except my mother and wife.
Mel: I can’t think of anything.
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
Ken: last night when I went to bed and actually this morning at the gym because I got a bit heavy.
Mel: yesterday at my BodyFlow class we did a relaxation exercise at the end of the class. They told me to pay attention to my breathing and listen to it to see if it was shallow or deep.
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
Ken: I love my wife, everyday I try to help with dinner or helping with the lunches, and just calling her or texting an I love you
Mel: I love my husband and my cats. I tell him I love him all the time. I give them all hugs and kisses……yes, even the cats, the just love the hugs, lol.
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
Ken: Some of the days I will remember because I lift weights and I remember when I hit a milestone and most of the time if I think about it, it sometimes feels like yesterday
Mel: Well, since we are blogging our entire year this year I will be able to look at that and see but in an average year, no I wouldn’t have a clue.
50. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?
Ken: I am making them for myself with my wife in mind.
Mel: both
Ken and I had a bit of a debate about this activity. I won't tell you who thought what but I will tell you about the debate so you can give us your opinons on our poll on the side of this page.
The debate is, would it be okay to answer questions 1-25 on one day and then questions 26-50 on another day and count them as two different activities since they are different questions. Here is another example: What if we were to take an art class over a span of 3 days and one day we learned some techniques then the next day we learned different techniques and the third day we made our finished product. Could we count all three of those days as our activity for each day or should we only count that once?
We are interested in knowing your opinions on this project.
Day 101 (April 11 2010) Went to see a movie in the theater
Today we went to a movie……AT A THEATRE! LOL It has been a very long time since I have been to a movie theatre. It is really expensive and with the ability to download movies it doesn’t seem like it is worth it to spend the money. We were lucky enough to have a gift card that we got from a friend. Thanks Premo if you reading this. It covered the cost of our tickets so we just had to buy snacks. Since I can’t eat any of the food there it wasn’t very expensive. Even though going to the movies is costly I think that it is a nice treat every once in awhile. It is a totally different experience than watching a movie at home. The big screen, booming sound system and ambiance that is created by the bright colours in the corridors make it more fun and exciting. AND if you are not on a diet, the snacks are great too!
The movie we went to see was The Green Zone. It was sort of a controversial take on why the war in Iraq started. We both like action movies so we really enjoyed it.
The movie we went to see was The Green Zone. It was sort of a controversial take on why the war in Iraq started. We both like action movies so we really enjoyed it.
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