10 on the 10th - Things I won't do this year

The 10 on the 10th are back!
When I read Marsha's prompt, however, my first thought was that this could prove to be more difficult than I could handle. Let me explain why.
I could, for example, list things like "I won't be eating as much carbs as last year.". Sounds like a resolution, doesn't it? Resolutions can be worded either way, "I want to buy less ...." or "I don't want to buy as much ...". I don't do resolutions, so those things are out.
Let's try something else. "I probably won't be visiting a museum this year." Hm. "I probably won't be taking a class in person this year." Like that I'm either going to depress myself by listing things that I would like to do, but can't anymore, or I'm going to sound incredibly negative, whiny, and annoying.

So what are my options?
Marsha replied to my comment "Have fun with all the wild and weird things you won't do." Oh Marsha, a challenge, eh?

This year, I probably won't ...

1. ... participate in a winter expedition.

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Yeah. No. You gotta be kidding me, people, look at that. Haven't you seen "The Gold Rush"? Shoes, I'm just saying shoes!
Seriously, though. I really don't like snow and I could happily live completely without it.

2. ... go deep sea diving.

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Do you know what those helmets do to your hair? 😜
I love watching documentaries about the ocean, but whenever I was at a beach and saw the vastness of the ocean, I felt strangely overwhelmed. Calling it thalassophobia would probably be too much, but I never went into the ocean further than ankle deep.

3. ... climb Mount Everest.

None of the translation apps have Yeti on their list and what other reason should I even have to climb up there?
Ok, so these days I have problems with a simple hill, but I don't have that gene of needing great adventure in my life, either. I'm fine with tiny adventures.

4. ... read "Ulysses" by James Joyce.

Can you believe a family member once suggested a read along and discussion of "Ulysses"?
If you read it, good for you, but my ten brain cells founded a union and threatened to quit. Can't have that.
There are things I don't need to have done to prove myself. Struggling through "Ulysses" is one of them.

5. ... go to a rave.

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I can hear and feel this picture and both isn't good for me.
Of course I wasn't even a fan of discos when I was young. Can you tell I was never a dancer? 😂
I managed one dancing class (thanks to peer pressure and I didn't enjoy it), but while I like to move with a rhythm and occasionally danced with some of my cats, I preferred doing so in the privacy of my home or from a chair.

6. ... eat snails.

A friend of mine, a polymer clay
artist, made this little beauty for me.

Too bad I'm a vegetarian, isn't it?
I have never been a very adventurous eater even before I was. I wouldn't want to try ants in chocolate or mealworms. How about you?
I did try my rabbits' vitamin pellets once, though, to see why they were SO crazy for them. Kind of dry. I guess you had to be a bunny to appreciate it.

7. ... keep my cats, but foster a bunch of dogs instead.

"Could someone make her stop
talking, please? Can she get any
more embarrassing?"

Ok, you didn't believe that, did you? Neither did my cats.
I really love dogs, but I would be a terrible dog mom because I'm notoriously bad at setting limits, so I would probably be eaten up in the first week or dragged into the streets.
Once I told friends that I would gladly babysit their two smaller dogs for a few hours in their own home, but that I had to draw the line at taking them for a walk.

8. ... take up playing the violin again.

No one, absolutely no one, would want that. It just has been too long.
I played the violin for about 5 1/2 years until I was 16. I wasn't bad, but I don't think I was good, either. My heart wasn't really in it and the violin hadn't been my own choice (long story).
I tried again in my 20s, but unsurprisingly, my motivation was even less.

9. ... become a 3-star chef.

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More like -10. I just don't find any joy in cooking or baking and love everyone dearly who does it for me.
There was quite a short phase when the ex and I moved in together and it felt that cooking was just a part of it. I even tried out things then.
I would happily blame my lack of motivation on the ex and his love for his mother's food which I could never match (I liked it, too), but that just wouldn't be true. I simply don't like to cook, no matter how good recipes sound to me.

10. ... write the great German novel.

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(a recipe, not a novel, I just liked the picture)

Maybe next year ... 😉
I never had the ambition to write a book and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the patience to do it. I told myself stories on walks back home, for example after the violin lesson when I had missed the bus, to make them less boring, but never wrote any of them down.

That was really random and completely unplanned, but in the end you learned a bit about me after all. Not sure you wanted to learn it, but there you are.
It's practically a miracle I made it to 10!