Taking the Plunge

I'm 24 years old, and I've pretty much been drinking every weekend for the past nine years.  Well, not exactly every weekend, but I'd say the bulk of them.  It wasn't that I felt like I always had to be drinking.  It was simply that that's what my friends and I had always done for fun.  It became what I knew.  When Friday came, I'd buy alcohol.  It was just the norm.  

So, I was thinking there are probably a lot of other ways to have fun that I've been ignoring. I had a conversation back in January with a friend of a friend about her friend's New Years Resolution.  So, the conversation was about a friend of a friend of a friend.  This conversation obviously took place at a bar.  Anyway, this guy's resolution was to do something he had never done before once a week for all 52 weeks.  I thought that was genius, and planned to do that for 2010.  But, now I figure why wait?  Why not start now and make my own year?  The Earth is still going to make a full revolution back to this point, right?  That is the definition of a year, so that works.  There is no finish line that the Earth passes on December 31.  So, I'll do it now, and it's got to start with a bang.  So, to start- I went bungee jumping. 

There's this place in the Angeles Mountains called the Bridge to Nowhere.  You hike five miles there, bungee jump off the bridge, and hike back.  A friend of mine, Sean, and I did this on May 10th, thus making May 10th my New Year's Day.  

The hike takes your through the mountains, across the San Gabriel river 10 times or so, and finally to the bridge.   I'm not going to lie, I was scared as all hell for the last mile of the hike.  Then, at the bridge, they go over like 115 ways that you can make yourself look like an idiot.  So, now on top of being scared, I'm worried that I'm going to forget to do something correctly and look like an idiot.  Once I got on the platform, I blacked it all out of my mind and just jumped.  It went all right.  Good times.  Here's the video of my jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtL5B_4hBU

And of Sean's jump.  Sean jumped with a camera in his hand and I filmed it from the bridge, so it's split screen of the two vantage points.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RRnaY-pZwM&feature=channel_page

I also saw the Shins in concert that night, so does that count for 2 in 1?  Because, I went home the next weekend to Saint Louis and didn't do anything new.