Delayed March update!

Well, I’m a little late with my update this month. I’d honestly hoped to post more often than I have been, but this is what I’ve got and I’m not not making progress on my 101 things. So that’s something. Love the double negative, right?

Anyway, here’s what I’ve been up to.

Updates on already discussed things:

#13 – Travel to three states I’ve never been to before. The next state coming up is Illinois. I do not count stopping over in O’Hare while on my way to states west. This time I’m actually stopping in O’Hare and leaving it! Very exciting. This visit to Chicago is really needed as I’m getting rather burnt out at work and with life here. A few days when no one is able to try to plan anything with me will be very nice.

#14 – Memorize state capitals. – Not doing too badly with this, but I still need to work at it a bit more. I’ve got about 75% of them memorized (I think) and just need to test myself more.

#57 – Keep work desk clean for a month – this was completed but I did get a tiny bit messy again. But I’ve been regularly straightening it up, so it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be. I count that as an accomplishment.

#64, 65, 68 – Vitamins and Situps/Pushups has gone about as expected. Which is still sporadic. BUT that’s the idea is I need to spend a month where I focus down on doing just the one thing and making myself get into the habit of it. Tough, but doable.

New things!

#11 – Take a weeklong vacation alone somewhere restful by myself for contemplation. – This is happening! I’ve already got a week planned in a time share on Cape Cod for a whole week where I think I’m going to just go by myself and do my thing all alone. I’m not positive what all I’ll do, but I think I’m going to bring Euclid’s Elements with me (yeah, bringing #9 with me just in case) and my GRE book and a few other books and notebooks and sketchbooks and see what I feel like doing.

#80 – Eat lunch out only 5 times in one month. I’m very close to accomplishing this. I’ve gotten food in or eaten out for lunch 4 times since the beginning of this month. Almost there!

#85 – Cook a whole chicken – This has been done. AND it’s done me a lot of good in terms of not eating out. One chicken can feed me for a week or more. And the method I learned is slow cooking, but amazing.

#88 – Learn to make 5 kinds of soup – I already had curried butternut squash soup under my belt, but since then I’ve made chicken broth (from scratch), a tortellini, garlic, tomato soup in chicken broth and a guiness beef stew. All were amazingly tasty. I just need to learn 2 more kinds of soup! Maybe 3 if I decide the chicken broth doesn’t count. I do want to learn to make borscht but I may force my roommates out of the apartment while trying to make it.

Slowly but surely I am making progress in all my little 101 things. Hopefully I’ll keep going!