A new adventure Hobbes?

I was reminded this morning about my adventure plans by my new partner in crime...Hobbes...

Hobbes and I have passed each other in random locations for 2 years...we were at a music festival in 2010 and a medieval festival in 2012...probably passed each other and smiled politely, as you do with strangers. We laugh about this...as well as the million other things that we have in common...no one else in my universe can recognise Gaiman quotes quite like Hobbes. 

Anyway...back to adventures...I consider life itself to be one adventure after another.  This is not a pollyanna outlook...I have been in very dark places where I could not see the light, only shadows.  I think this is why I see life as one huge adventure, happiness is part of the journey, not the end location....should I stop now...hmmmmm...

I had been planning solitary adventures.  When Chaos and Mayhem are those well balanced adults I am trying to get them to, the payoff for having babies when I was young is I will have two adult children at the ripe old age of 42...this is what Douglas Adams means in HHGTTG...and my life is mainly my own.  My bucket list quivering with excitement, the major adventures ready to commence.

My adventure plans are big and small.  There is a mountain or two I want to climb (please cue Sound of Music-esque singing), musical instruments I want to learn (noise cancelling earphones people!), shoes that I want to own (mmmm shoe porn), people I want to meet (Hilary get ready to apply for that restraining order), and a million places on earth I want to visit. 

I know there is a universal scoffing of bucket lists but I think they are wonderful.  When the shadows lurk around me, I look at my bucket list.  I add stuff, I tick stuff off and sometimes things become redundant (not often!). Shrug off your distaste and write your 'adventure list', if that name makes it somewhat palatable.  The darkness crept into my life when I stopped thinking about or planning adventures.  Even the littlest ones.  Life was slipping past me as I wished my life away so I could be free.  So foolish of me.

Hobbes...dust off your list...synchronise with mine...sure some stuff will wait a little longer, but what fun we will have while we plot, strategise and experience.