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In Progress: Daily and Monthly Challenges, Week 5

 Another week, more progress made.  It's actually been a fairly good week for many of my goals.  I've been keeping up the reading train and am, so far, at 21 books read this year.  I'm still relistening to the Guild Codex series for bedtime, but since I'm not counting those...

I did, however, finish listening to Whispers Underground and Broken Homes.  Now I'm waiting for Foxglove Summer to come in so I can listen to that next.  I also read and listened to Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire.  It was also one of my Friend Recommendation reads, so I'm making my way through that goal as well.  I finished all of the trade paperbacks of Undiscovered Country (which is through volume 5), and I've started on a series that's intrigued me for awhile, Locke & Key by Joe Hill.  I've finished the first three books and will probably dive into the fourth tonight.  The good thing with graphic novels is that they move quickly.

For writing, I've been somewhat successful.  I've written a few thought pieces, and yesterday I wrote some poetry.  Today, this counts as my writing so I'm still doing well.  I've been using an app called Habit Kit, which is a handy way for me to keep track of what habits I'm working toward.  It's free, and it lets me see at a glance how well I've done with my goals.  With my old-lady memory, it's easy to forget when I have and when I haven't done something, so looking back on it today, I'm able to see that I've actually written every day this week.  So go me!

Fast food has, once again, been a relatively easy one to avoid.  I fell a little on Monday, since I was out getting food for the eldest on the way back from class.  I'm going to see if I can try again next month to complete this the whole month through.  I'm also going to work toward getting out to exercise more.

As always, my pictures have been the easy part.  I've taken not just selfies, but pictures of other things as well.  But it's my selfies that I'm going to want to look at over the year and see how I've changed.  Nothing terribly exciting this week, but I'm happy to share them anyway.

Resting in bed, almost having
forgotten to take the picture

Ready to sleep in my coffee
pajamas!

Bright day, but I look a bit
washed out

One of my few pics with glasses
this week, ready to game

Another later night, but I've got
smiles

Taking a picture at an odd
angle

I have several Dr Pepper shirts...


...In all different colors

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