heathervescent: Checkmark: Kicking Ass in 2006

I had one goal for 2006: To Kick Ass.

That's a pretty big, not to mention vague goal. How would I know if I succeeded, and what were the SMART metrics for success?

Well, that was part of the challenge. Going so far above and beyond that is it completely obvious that I am kicking ass. When I first came up with this goal, I had been working with Susie at Superviva and spending a lot of time creating, doing and updating my life lists. Susie was inspired by my Kick Ass in 2006 goal that she surprised me by making one up and offering it on the Superviva CafePress store (yeah, that's me modeling it)! She also surprised me with one on one of our visits. It's a shirt I love, but I don't wear it often.

Here's the story of how I kicked ass in 2006.

So I'm on a camping trip with my boyfriend and 30 of my best friends out on a dry lake bed in the middle of the Mojave Desert. We've been out there two days and its Sunday morning. Saturday night I spent the evening playing with a flame thrower, off-roading, riding on an art-car and surviving a crash and dancing on the local stripper pole (with moves that I learned in my pole dancing class which was on my SuperViva life list).

It's the next morning and I'm sore and hungry. The boyfriend and another friend are hanging out in our shade structure and I'm starting to make breakfast. I happen to be wearing my Superviva Kick Ass in 2006 t-shirt. I haven't showered in two days. I'm boiling water on the back of the truck on our camping stove and making oatmeal and coffee for us. It's not too hard and I'm doing it quickly and efficiently as we making friendly conversation. I bring breakfast over and am about to sit down to eat when the boyfriend says, "Hey, can you bring me the sharpie from over there?" So I do and start to sit down again. Then he says, "Hey, can you come over here?" and I'm tired and all I want to do is sit down and eat my oatmeal and have a cup of coffee, but I'm still standing, so I go over. And before I notice what he is doing, he’s taken the cap off the sharpie and checks off the box on my shirt.

But seriously, I had been wondering if I was kicking enough ass. I mean, making my living as a blogger (yes, actually paying my mortgage blogging), bringing Streetwars to LA, Participating at BarCamp (and I'm talking like 3 different activities: 2 presentations and e-iron chef), not to mention keeping down the future, moving to West Hollywood, having the most amazing mind blowing boyfriend, not to mention the most ass kicking friends to spend time with. What more could I want? Oh yeah, I have all these additional goals. Well, at least I have something to work on for the rest of the year.

I'm watching to see if I can kick as much ass in the second part of 2006 as I did in the first.

Comments

Schweeet! That's such a cool gesture he did. And you really do kick ass. I wouldn't hang out with you if you were a boring ol' lump. I am waiting for my flight to NYC, yet another fun leg of a long and fabulous journey, but I can't wait to see you again...

Posted by: pinky the first | May 27, 2006 at 08:05 AM