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Brief Update

 Slowly but surely, I've been making progress on my 101 in 1,001.  Not a lot has been fully checked off but there's a lot that's in progress.


I started writing my 100 Things That Make Me Happy.    I'm putting it in my BuJo for a safe place to keep it.  I like the layout design that I'm making with it.  When I finish, I'll post it all here.  In the meantime, here's a couple of pictures of the BuJo pages so far.




I'm still keeping up with my cleaning schedule.  There are some false starts and changing things up every once in awhile, but it's been two weeks and I haven't stopped yet.  I'm keeping my motivation by posting to a Facebook group that I started and I have a friend that's encouraging me as I send him before and after pictures.

I've been working on my About Me book as well.  It's interesting to remember things that I'd forgotten thanks to the prompts in the book.  I'm hoping to get into a routine of doing a couple pages a night at the same time I do my Gratitude books.

The other day, I decided that I was going to work on putting my DVDs away.  I thought I'd gotten them all and then found another pile I'd missed.  I'm hoping to finish it one day this week, though I've got a fairly full week ahead.

Yesterday, I started watching Stranger Things.  I had it on while putting together my new desk and managed to get through the first season.  I'm enjoying it a lot and part of me wonders why I never watched it before.  Being a child of the 80s, it's nostalgia on high.  Generally, I'm not big on horror and horror adjacent.  But this isn't freaking me out as much as it would have 20 years ago.

I also wrote my letter to myself to be opened on at the end of the 1001 days.  Like my 100 Things that Make Me Happy, I put it in my BuJo so I know where it is.  Hopefully I'll remember it's there!

My self-care for the last two weeks has been giving myself permission to not do anything for a day.  It's not a huge deal but it's something I have trouble with.  I always feel guilty when I'm taking a day off, but I'm trying to get better about that so I'm considering this self-care.

This week I'm hoping to finish my happy list, work more on my About Me, watch more Stranger Things and write a letter to a friend.  I'm very pleased with my progress so far!

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