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In Progress: One Month and One Year Challenges

 It's been a week since my last update, and it's actually been a pretty good week.  I've stumbled a little but stumbles can happen.  It's more a matter of getting back up after I stumble.  And that I've done.

Starting with the reading, I finished Midnight Riot and am on to reading and listening to the next book, Moon Over Soho.  I fully expect to be finished with this one today and I'm going to start Beauty by Robin McKinley.  I also listened to The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, which was a suggestion from a friend as part of my read 10 books from friends challenge to myself.  I picked up a few books from the library, including The Graphic Canon, Volumes 1-3.  I may add that next.  These books will help me with more than a few of the challenges.  I'm planning on going into my challenges and add books as to read to lists so I have an idea of what fits where. I did add one more challenge to my list: an audio book challenge that has times marked for listening to different length audio books.

Writing is one of the things that I stumbled with.  There's only been one day that I didn't get any kind of writing done, which was yesterday.  It was a busy day that threw off a lot of my usual things.  I'm still proud of what I've done so far.  My writing has been a couple different things: my My Life writing prompt book, updating on a message board that I participate on, and writing a couple of poems.  Today, this will be counting for my writing.  We're supposed to get a bunch of snow this weekend, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to get plenty of writing and reading done.


Yesterday was also a stumble for the No Fast Food.  To be fair, I was out of the house most of the day, having to drive from one place to the next and knowing that I needed to get food in my system.  But I did notice that I'm not able to eat as much as I used to, just being a week into my attempt at ignoring fast food.  I got a chicken sandwich from Burger King and only was able to eat half.  So I'm thinking that this will be a positive in the long run.


I've been very good at taking pictures though.  So far, I've been really good with getting a selfie a day.  I haven't taken a picture yet today, but that's partly because my hair is a mess and I'm feeling shlubby.  But I have no doubt that, before the end of the day I'll be able to get my picture taken.  Here's what I have for the week:


January 3, 2025
It's been a chilly few days, hence my jacket.
January 4, 2025
Thea and I, out spending some time with errands

January 5, 2025
Just a bog standard day
January 6, 2025
I am actually wearing something.

January 7, 2025
No glasses, doing side quests
January 8, 2025
The last picture at Dad's

Progress forward, that's the important thing.

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