New Thing # 52

Date:- 31st December 2009
New Thing:- Try Mikado

So it's 8pm on new year's eve when I remember that I've only done 51 of my 52 New Things. I think for a while about what to do, and since Neil won't have a how-many-M&Ms-can-you-fit-in-your-mouth competition with me, I dash over to Tesco to find a food I've never tried before. I end up with this.



It's just milk chocolate on very skinny crispy fingers, but they reminded me of the Pocky my Role Playing friends used to eat, and I've never had them, so I got some. I brought them home, opened the box, took out the foil packet, scissored it open and promptly chopped the little crispy ends off.



Anyone else hearing the word "doh"? But they were yummy anyway.

And.... 52 New Things complete! I realised after I'd munched some of the Mikado, that actually completing a New Year's resolution could have been my 52nd one. I've never done it before. I'm ridiculously chuffed with myself.

I'm going to continue the New Things in 2010, but with a twist. I'm going to do a challenge per week. For each challenge I complete I put £5 in a savings account to spend at the end of the year, and if I fail a challenge I donate £5 to charity. The first challenge is to ask 15 people what one film I should definitely see before I die, and to watch all fifteen in the week. I already have a few, but if anyone is still reading and wants to suggest something, feel free.