101 update

So it's been two months since I started my journey with 101 in 1001 and it's going alright. I have realized a little to late that a lot of the things on my list are multiples 25 of this, or every month of that but it's okay. I can do it!

So the one thing that I've completely done is

1. Publish this list

Done! This list is published (it's the first post of this blog)

however I've started or kept on doing things:

6. Write 25 poems (1/25)
I bought myself a magnetic poetry calendar and while I was assembling it I came up with this little poem

It is a day
and I fall off of time
and float like a song
whipering dark truths

TA-DAH!!

9. Send and receive 101 postcards from www.postcrossings.com Sent: (29/101) Received: (27/101)

14. Journal 101 quotes/poems/passages (61/101)

I enjoy this so much! I even found a quote for every president. I tried to make them relevant to nowadays more than just famous quotes.

16. Read 101 new (to me) books (5/101)

I've read a couple others but they were re-reads. I think two of the top ones were The Lovely Bones and Odd and the Frost Giants. I'm also currently reading 6 books right now, only one of which is a re-read.

17. Read 5 biographies of people who inspire/interest me (0/5)

Yes, it's still at 0 but I'm currently reading Eleanor Roosevelts autobiography and have a biography about Amelia Earhart in the wings so I count this one as being worked on.

32. Lose 25 lbs.

This is more about a healthy life style (my family has more than one genetic disease that goes hand in hand with or is exaserbated by obesity) and being about to go on a grand adventure and run away from bad guys more than looking good. I haven't lost any weight as of yet but last week I joined a gym so I'm counting it as worked on. Also I should translate it to kg seeing as that's what the scales here are in.

39. Fill my froggy bank with change.

About half way there. Sure, I head a head start, it wasn't empty two months ago but it's grown.



44. Have a cooking experiment once a month (2/33)

I'm going to cheat a little bit on this one but it's good. For December I tried extra cinnamon in my cinnamon bun flavored instant oatmeal. It was unneccessary and I couldn't really taste the difference. For January, while I was visiting my aunt in L.A. I mixed goat cheese with Newman's Own Vinagrette Dressing. I used it as a dip and it was delightful. I suppose technically mixing cheese and dressing isn't an experiment but...eh...it'll work.

46. Watch 101 new (to me) films. (10/101)

Yay!!! I think I'm doing great here. Avatar (and in 3D but it still only counts as one), Sherlock Holmes, Burden of Proof, The Hangover, Return of the Outlaw, Julie and Julia, Kate and Leopold, Tango and Cash (Holy Cow what a wonderful movie!!!), The Fantastic Mr. Fox
I've started in on a few tv shows that are new to me Leverage, Moonlight, Dexter, etc...

60. Get a new stamp in my passport

Now I could put this one in my finished section but the stamp I got is another living in Korea stamp for a year. So I don't know if I should count it or not. Probably not, especially since I'm planning on going out and about more this year