Eek the 40 challenges are set! - BLOG 2

Okay so I am now 39 years old and I have completed and set my 40 challenges, here is the final list...

1. Write 40 blogs
2. Get 40 people to pledge £10 to charity
3. Run 40k over 4 days
4. Swim 40 lengths of pool 
5. Ride 40 miles on bike
6. Do 40 sit ups every day
7. Learn a 40 move dance routine 
8. Score 40 on a dart board with one dart
9. Fast for 40 hours 
10. Take 40 photos with a 40 theme 
11. Read 40 books
12. Volunteer for 40 hours 
13. Give up chocolate for 40 days 
14. 40 dates with my husband
15. Learn a top 40 hit on the ukulele
16. 40 hour sponsored silence
17. Visit 40 pubs
18. Turn my phone and computer off and have no Facebook or Twitter contact for 40 hours 
19. Put £1 in charity tin for all swear words I use in 40 hours 
20. Party with 40 friends
21. Put £40 on black in a casino
22. Adopt an wild animal
23. See a play on the West End 
24. Have Afternoon Tea at the Ritz
25. Give blood
26. Lose 14 pounds
27. Complete a Chocolate challenges competition with at least 2 people
28. Commit a random act of kindness to 12 strangers.
29. Walk across a high bridge 
30. Apply for a game show
31. Complete the Big Zipper in North Wales
32. Enter a Mudrunner event 
33. Try drinking vodka
34. Attempt to break a World record
35. Cook a new recipe each month
36. Listen to all the CDs I own from beginning to end
37. Get 40 retweets from one personal tweet I do
38. Hula hoop for 40 revolutions
39. Record my own music single
40. Get 40 people involved in challenges to do with me!

It was difficult to come up with the final list and I had lots of ideas from friends and family that were very entertaining and some downright stupid!. The final list is a mixture of simple things, things that will take time, some that will scare the life out of me and some will test my endurance but hopefully all achieveable.

Some of the other suggestions that didn't make the final list were; GET AUTOGRAPHS OF 40 PLAYERS,(which was just an excuse to chat up lots of rugby players) DRINK 40 SHOTS OF TEQUILA!! (which might have hospitalised me!), TRY 40 FOODS (Im way too fussy!) Learning to clap on the one (which I do already know Thank you Winchy!) and a NIGHT OUT IN A BLONDE WIG (Kath we can do that anytime!. So on with the first challenges...

No.1 - I have set up this blog and will update on progress of challenges as I attempt them.

No.2 - I have also set up a Just Giving page for my second challenge. I have chosen the RSPCA Cardiff branch as I think the small amount of money I hopefully will raise will have a big impact there rather than a large charity and I have seen first hand all the good work that they do as I currently volunteer for them. So if you would like to donate then here is the address; http://www.justgiving.com/Michelle-Reed-perez1 If you would rather donate some money to your own chosen chairty then please let me know and I can add you to the list of 40 people!

So now onto the next challenges and look out friends, colleagues and family I need (willing?!) volunteers to do some of these challenges with me!