Intro

The backstory...

NYE 2009 came and went. It was a wicked party (thanks Mel and Lou) however there wasn't anything particularly 'new' about 2010, not for me anyway. I went back to work, the January diet began, I started banging on about the deluded notion of abstaining from alcohol for the month, yadda yadda, you can see where I'm going here. I needed change!

So Jan 1st, a little bleary eyed with the occasional "Oh my god, did I really do THAT?" feeling filtering through I decided on my new year's resolution. Apart from the year I resolved that I wouldn't make a new year's resolution I failed on Jan 2nd every year. Not this year! I was going to run a 10k, sorted! I signed up for the Bristol 10k and train liked a possessed Sonia O Sullivan for the next four months. (And, just incase you're interested, on May 9th 2010, I finished the 10k in 64 minutes and earned myself a medal and the inability to walk for four days.)

But the want for something new didn't end there, following an insightful 4 hours with Matthew Hussey at a Get The Guy seminar in April (www.gettheguy.co.uk) I decided to put the wheels of change in motion, proper like.

I suppose I'd better start with explaining my presence at the seminar shouldn't I? Well, alright then. I'm single and, although I'm having a great time being the only 30 something spinster left in my family (I have a feeling there'll be a glass case in a museum somewhere in Cork with my name on it), I wouldn't mind trying my hand at being a social butterfly.
The seminar was divided into three sections: Find the guy, get the guy & keep the guy. The secret behind getting and keeping all seemed to boil down to being confident, true to yourself & sassy. Great, I think I can handle that. Now, the finding bit, that's where inspiration struck me. I had a moment of clarity - I'm not getting out there and trying new things enough!! The phrase "I've always wanted to.... but..." always came up in one form or another. Excuses, excuses. I felt a challenge coming on.

So, I'm doing something new at least once and, at worst, I'll have a few interesting stories to tell the grandkids...