Yes, I mean balls. But if I could grow a pair of boobs without growing a baby, I’d be all over that too. And as a side note, yes, I’m happy to take referrals for a good plastic surgeon. Ahem.
But to get back to the matter at hand I’m baring my soul to share with you how much of a big fat chicken I am.
Nicole at moments that define life has prompted us to talk about 5 Things I Wish I Had the Guts to Do.  After my last post, I’m still thinking about my younger days. I think my list, if written 10 years ago, wouldn’t be too different.
1. Snow skiing, mountain biking, driving downhill on a gravel road… all these things send chills down my spine. Â I’ve done them all and never want to again!
2. The next thing…whether that’s a full marathon, a longer triathlon… I can still remember the bone-deep fear I felt at the starting line of my last two events. The high of finishing without crying only takes the edge off so much.
3. Start my own personal training business. I don’t have much in the way of business sense and don’t have any interest in sales but if someone asked me to train them, I would so be on it! (Any excuse to work out, right? And to get paid, oh hell yes!) But to pursue this full time and walk away from a great paying job with a incredibly entertaining boss would take balls of steel.
5. Let go and let Adonis DO WHATEVER HE WANTS TO ME Â AHEMÂ I realize that is more of a trust issue but there is some serious fear of facing who I would be/become. Â Yeah, this is topic that needs its own post….when I get my mojo back.
5. Take more control of my life. I’ve been listening to my standard response to a variety of stresses lately and I sound like a victim. And it makes me sick. So, yes, I’ll take a pair and a spine to go please!
So what about you? What are you afraid to try? Â Sushi? For the record, Â eel scares the hell out of me.
I will not try sushi either. Gross. seriously gross. I am a wuss, in general though and will never sky dive. Just not on my list to do-EVER!
Eel is tough and quiet chewy. I don’t care for it. My fear would be skydiving. I’ve rode out a typhoon in a ship the length of a football field that scared the bejesus out of me, but I would do it again before I would jump out of an airplane.
The what am I not afraid of list would be much shorter!
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Public speaking always makes me nervous. But I’m way better at that than I am at confrontations, be they public or private.
Sushi and Eel are serious contenders for the worst food ever.
Mind you, I used to think that way about spaghetti, curry(any kind) and porridge & mint sauce sandwiches, but they are so delicious once you get stuck into them!
Take more control of my life.. Actually, I can relate to this.. There are a lot of things that I cannot have control so maybe i should start changing..
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You would look great with a big pair of balls. Go get them.
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Oh, woman, I love this post, with big pink puffy hearts.
I will not allow myself to ski, at all. I’m not as clumsy as I once was, but I could really hurt myself heading down a slope, I’m sure of it. Driving downhill with ice is bad enough.
About the mojo — she’s not dead, you know it and I know it, and you & she will work their way together and you’ll have toe curling results.
Personal training business? There are days that I just want to leave this job and do just that. Seriously. Just walk out the door, send an email from my personal email account informing the powers that be that all of their stuff was left on my desk, and just start telling people how to get themselves in shape. Even better would be if people could pay me to work out, and I’d give them the benefits. But, that’s physically impossible. So, being a personal trainer is the next best thing — I can find people’s limits, and I can push them (though that sounds like the start of a “do whatever to whomever in bed discussion). I know this. What I don’t know is if I can make it profitable enough to keep food on the table and the bank away from foreclosing on the house.
I actually think, some time, I’m going to head back to school to become a physical therapist . . . that would include a lot of the benefits of being a personal trainer while adding a steady salary. But, I don’t know – I apparently have a following of people who try to figure out when I’ll be at the gym, so that they can watch me to get inspiration. I make things look “too easy.” While it’s a bit stalkerish, it’s kind of cool that people look to me for stuff like that — if I could get them to pay me to join their workouts, all the better. But, yeah, that’s a great big leap . . . maybe, if I ever truly start working out on a regular schedule, I can talk to someone who seems to be trailing me around the gym.
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I love you and your list. The things I fear now that I *never* did as a younger person make me kinda sick. Among those would be heights. Never bothered me until I had children. Barf. I wish we could train for a race together. THAT would be awesome.
i like rollercoasters, but upside down anything freaks me out…..i think i have an imbalance in my head…oh yeah that’s right i do…
I will never try Zumba. I will fall on my face.
There are 2 lists, really. Stuff like, karaoke (yes, I sang on stage, but I’m scared to death of karaoke), and deeper, more dangerous stuff not for the internets. Maybe that should be an item? Admit the dangerous truths?
I love you, your lists, your dormant (but far from dead) mojo, all of it.
And eel? Ain’t no thang, but you’re not missing much. Give me a raw tuna or an aji mackerel any day…
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At least you’ve attempted a marathon and triathlon! That’s kind of a big deal…just sayin’
As for Sushi – found my love of it when we lived in Hawaii, although I don’t do Eel.
Thanks for linking up!!
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To tell someone that they have no testes (balls,gonads,fluff balls,milk machine,wables, or the things your mom sucks on)
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In regards to #5, have you read 50 Shades of Grey?! Talk about sexy sexy!
And you my friend are fearless as far as I am concerned and I amy need to borrow some of your balls and spine.
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You should talk to me mom about working at her studio one night a week. Or see if you could not work your current job one morning a week and work at the studio instead.
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