For the past few weeks my wife and I have been doing these free youtube workouts from Fitness Blender.  They’re pretty awesome and you should check them out.  Anyhow, at the end of every nearly barf-inducing workout it will say “WORKOUT COMPLETE” on the screen and it feels like you made it.  Then you want to eat a whole pizza.  I’m just kidding. 

Anyhow, it feels good to accomplish something, whether it’s a workout, assignment, or a big project.  In my last post I wrote about my 32for32 Project: I was going to do 32 acts of kindness for my 32nd birthday in order to educate people about Congenital Heart Defects.  Well I did it!  PROJECT COMPLETE! 

I worked pretty hard to plan out this project, choosing where I would go and when, and I  did a lot of early legwork to download wish lists and contact the people I needed to contact.  I did a really awesome interview with the Union County Weekly, who posted a wonderful article on their front page, and I even did a quick radio interview with New Life 91.9.  As we got closer to the 14th, the day the project was to start, I ran into some problems…SNOW.

No, not him.

So the Charlotte area decided to have the most snow in a decade.  A whopping 8 inches.  Now where I’m from in Connecticut, that’s child’s play…but here?  Freakin’ APOCALYPSE.  There’s no snow plows and everyone just gets stuck at home.  Well of course, the snow was still on the ground on Thursday, so I got several messages from my 32for32 stops that they would be closed on Friday.  Great.  I ended up having to be really creative with changing my schedule around to accommodate everything or even add new things.  In the end it all worked out.

So on Friday we decided to brave the snow together as a family (it was pretty melty by then) and hit the ground running.  By Monday the 17th at 4:30pm, I was DONE with the project.  Here’s the list from 1 to 32: