Experience Challenge 52

I was thinking earlier this week that I need to challenge myself more. Do more things, try stuff that I have never done before. I don't feel like I've experienced enough in this life. I'm 23 and I feel like I've done very little with those years. I want more.
I decided that every week I will try something new. Whether it's a new food, personal challenge, activity, event or location, I'm sure it will vary. Think of it as a bucket list, but with more options! At first I wanted this to start at the beginning of a year because, well, it would feel more organized in a way but screw that. I'm starting today! I will forget about it by 2014 if I waited.I'll post every week (In addition to my other random blog postings) to record what I did to challenge myself that week.
 

To start off this 1 year of challenges I'll be doing something that's been stressing me out for the past month. I preemptively said yes to an in-home dog sitting venture without hearing how long they plan on being away. Normally I would be ok with this but I'm currently on a month long dog-sitting stint and while only 6 days in, I'm really missing my bed and not to mention my SO. He passed up a great out of town work contract so we wouldn't be apart for 3 months or more but now I've taken on so many out of home dog sitting jobs that he might as well have taken it! Oh the guilt! There would only be a week or so between the two sitting jobs and a portion of that I will be camping with friends. I just really want to take a month off but I said said and once I'm committed I like to think I will stick with it. Unfortunately this time it's just stressing me right out. This dog is reactive so I can't bring him everywhere with me without me thinking he's going to flip out at every turn.  I have it in my mind that they will be so disappointed but in all honesty, they haven't been working hard enough to make this easier on him anyway. Training is not something I'll be getting into. Training people is the hardest part. I digress though.
This will be my experience challenge Number 1. Grow a Backbone!