#sorryforbeingnegative That said, I'm in for part 2 and hope to start digging it more.That hurts man. I'm enjoying this shit and everyone should try new things!
I love that you made the leap to me not wanting to try new things. I do something new every day by design, ever since that conversation with asvdveen. I'm enjoying this bookclub too, it's great. It's just hard when you have maybe an hour of free time a day to know that you're going to be filling it with a novel you aren't super jazzed about. That's all, nothing personal. That's part of being in a book club though. I'm simply suggesting a shorter book for our next endeavor. I've read plenty of 900+ page books, I just don't think they are ideally suited to a book club.
Took a bit of sounds_sound's philosophy of always saying, "yes." We have a lot of work to do around the house this weekend, but some friends asked us to go to a new restaurant today that we've not been to. I said, "yes" even though I really didn't want to. We had a blast. Now I'm going to go a neighborhood pool with my daughter that we've never been to. Both are new things. I'm not a big "pool" guy, but I know she'll love it. We were asked to go to the NC Zoo with some friends tomorrow and our first inclination was to say, "no" because it's supposed to be a hot day and again, we have a lot of work to get done, but what the hell?... we said "yes". Just like sounds_sound. edit: I also plan on cooking tomorrow night. Per this suggestion of doing "something new," I will attempt a new dish. Not sure what yet, but it'll be new to me.
Sounds great! It looks to me like you're not only overcoming the natural tendency to take the easiest road but also doing more activities for others. I, for instance, helped a good friend move to a new apartment. Even though it was four stories up and had no elevator, we got all his heavy wooden furniture up there with good teamwork. And I'd do it again in a heartbeat, because I know it means something to him to have people who can help him out, even with something superficial as moving furniture.