Amy Lu's View

I’ve been thinking about and preparing for my 50th birthday for a long time. I want to make the most of it. I want to do something special. 

I present to you: 50 Days of Blogging. 

Hmmm, that may not sound so special, but one thing I have learned from running is the love of “streaking”—challenging yourself to do something (running at least a mile) for X number of days. (There has also been and will continue to be drinking and socializing to celebrate my birthday, and hopefully a cruise).

While I do hope to do a 50 Day Running Streak for my birthday, I also wanted to do something different. Something that I love doing, but that would be a challenge. So I decided to challenge myself to blog for 50 days in a row, starting on my 50th birthday (today).

It’s like the Twelve Days of Christmas, but it’s 50 Days of Amy. The count starts on my Birthday  (today, March 3) and ends April 21. 

Blogging feels appropriate because not only do I enjoy it, it gives me a sense of accomplishment and makes me take at least a brief pause to stop and notice and contemplate. It makes me feel like I have some control over the crazy fast pace of the passage of time, which I am definitely aware of at 50.

For the purposes of this challenge I will cut myself a lot of slack. It’s not as easy to quantify as “post” as a “mile” so I will say a “paragraph” will count as a blog post. I had aspirations of having a theme for this challenge, but in order to accomplish this, the theme will just need to “Amy”—whatever I’m thinking about that I can manage to wrangle into some type of blog post. 

Including photos or images to accompany my posts will be optional (finding these can be surprisingly time-consuming). I will allow myself to have lame post titles and to chop big topics/rambles/rants up into several posts. I may not attempt to have snappy conclusions. 

And in that spirit, I wrap up with a simple, “Let the Streaking begin!”