What was I thinking?!?

On Thursday, the 28th I did the Ice Bucket challenge for ASL. What was I thinking? I don't like participating in water fights and I'm not a fan of being in the spot light. I don't even like praying in church. So why did I do it?

It could be because I got caught up in the craze. I am reminded of the note a parent wrote the principal "Excuse Jane, she was following the crowd." I enjoyed watching the videos on Facebook, especially those of my friends. And then my boss got challenged by a friend of his. Joe went thru the office looking for victims among his Facebook friends. I'm not one of his Facebook friends, but he did get a co-worker, who is also one of my friends on Facebook to accept.
So as I searched for his video on my co-worker page and nothing. But while I was searching, I started noticing negative posts about the ALS challenge. One said that a very small piece of the pie went to research with the biggest piece going to the executives at the ALS organization. I had heard that argument shortly after 9-11 about United Way. Even the Red Cross got that accusation leveled at them. Most of what I saw posted on Facebook was positive. One post was a blog that a friend shared which was about a woman whose mother suffered from ALS. The woman mentioned that ice bucket challenges were making a difference. Those posts made me more determined to accept the challenge if I was nominated.
While I waiting to be challenged by my co-worker, I emailed and texted family and friends if they wanted to be challenged. I wanted to nominate my good friend and adopted niece, Crystal. Since she is on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I asked some of her brothers if they would do it in her honor. Crystal would have jumped for a chance to get a ice cold dunk. I got only one response and it was "No way Jose". (BTW I did like the answer; it made me chuckle.)
On Monday, I got challenged by a former co-worker. I asked Jerry if I could nominate him, but he was doing it that night and I was waiting to do it later in the week. (On Sunday, I was challenged by a different co-worker who nominated close to twenty people, including the co-worker who waiting to be challenged by Joe.) I accepted and donated.
Originally, I wanted to do it Tuesday, but it was cloudy and I wasn't sure if my brothers would be home in time to video me before it got dark. My iPad doesn't have flash on it and pictures in the dark tend to have a grainy texture to them. And because I was getting cold feet about the being dunked and being videoed.
So Thursday came and I was determined to get it over and done with. Enough of the procrastination and being a scaredy cat. I promised myself that I was going to do and I gave my word to Jerry. Jay bought the ice and I gave John a crash course in videoing with my iPad. We had to do it twice because John hit "stop" when he thought he was doing "pause". There is no pause button on my iPad. Maybe on later updates there will be. But it was a good thing because I had more confidence in the second take. I remembered my niece's name and I remembered to call my cousin "Coach Jackson"
Glad it is over. I doubt I will do that again. What was I thinking?!?