28th of June 2014

So here it is! The first ever dice decided adventure. The first EVER.

Well, not EVER, but first for me.

So I will start with some constraints for the weekend, if there are any (there are) and then the list, and then with a handy photo of the dice, and then, when I have done the thing that the dice chooses I will blog about it!

CONSTRAINTS!
This weekend I will be doing 2 things: looking after my friends dog (who is very cute) and going to my aunts for a barbecue to celebrate my cousin returning from Australia and New Zealand (not that I don't know the difference, or that he was split in half and half was in one place and half in the other. He was in one first and the other afterwards). My funds are also slightly limited. This means that the 6 things will need to be free, able to do with a small dog, or in a small village in Kent, or during the week.

THE LIST
So bearing all that in mind I created this list of 6 things:

1. Build a fort
2. Read 1984
3. Write a letter and post it!
4. Make Jam
5. Watch the sunrise
6. Do a finger painting

Now, some of these I have done before, but not for a very, very long time, so I've decided they count!

THE DICE ROLL

So I rolled the dice and...

I got a 1. I would have posted a photo, but the internet is being weird, so I am going to paint you a verbal picture of what the photo looked like.

a white cube, sort of like a dice, was on a brown table, sort of made out of wood (not sort of, it is made out of wood), it had black spots on it. The side of the cube that was facing up had one spot on it.

(I'll post a photo when the internet isn't breaking!)

PHOTO!!

The Start

Hello!

Let me tell you a story (it's not about me)

Once upon a time there was a girl who was actually a woman. She'd just turned 25, and was three days away from finishing a course that would allow her to have a career. She was going to be a teacher and it was going to be scary, and it was probably something she was going to do for a long time. It felt like the end, but also sort of like the beginning. Everything was going to change. She wasn't ever really very good with change, but this change seemed less like a change and more like a giant step into sameness (sameness is a word). 

The problem was, as much as she didn't like change, she also didn't like sameness. She found sameness sort of... samey (samey is not a word, but it should be). She wanted to do something that would make everything a little bit different, but that meant she wasn't wasting her training, and could still have a job to earn money to do the things that were different. Also, she liked helping kids.

It was about this time, when she was just pondering how to make her life a little bit more... not-samey that she was bought this magazine:

She then took a while to read it. But when she did she found this article:

Which then led her to this:

And so she decided that every month she would write down a list of 6 things that she hadn't done before, or hadn't done in a long time, and would then number them from 1 - 6 and then she would roll a dice and would then do the thing that she hadn't done before that the dice had chosen for her to do. And then she would write about it, in her blog.

And so, this 25 year old woman from London, on the edge of the rest of her life started her blog with a story.

Ok, so the story was about me.