Project 52 ~ 2 Month Update

It has been a two months since I made my list of 52 things to do this year.  I figured it would help hold me accountable if I shared both my successes and failures works is progress.  As you can see, some have been going much better than others.

Success!

• Attend trainings for work (MACC Conference; Intro. to Leading Others, Intro. to Fiscal Management)
• Try one new recipe a month (I even bought a new cookbook to make this even easier)
• Be a better friend to my girls - more calls, e-mails, etc. 
• Create an emergency fund so we don't need to rely on our credit cards (We have not only created an emergency fund, but have had to use it)
• Read one classic novel (Read Jane Eyre)
• Learn how to separate work and home 
• Start "The Great Escape" with my college girlfriends instead of just talking about it (Trip is planned for August)
• Get new glasses (Sooner than I planned due to necessity of eye allergy, see earlier post
• Use my crock pot once a month

Work In Progress...

• Pay off the Malibu 
• Pay off our credit card debit
• Go camping at least 4 times (We haven't gone yet, but we have two trips set up)
• Visit 5 new restaurants (We tried out JC Bogars and loved it.  Only 4 more to go!)
• Make and follow a budget (We made a budget, but we are still getting used to following one
• Take a daily multivitamin (Most days I am pretty good, but still working on it)
• Read 12 new books (Read 2 so far, 10 to go)
• Do a walk/run for charity (Set up a Relay for Life team and the event is in June)
• Start a One Line a Day journal (Started, just haven't been keeping up with it)
• Have a date night once a month (Haven't been very intentional about this one, even though we have done some things just the two of us)
• Make the bed every morning (Started out strong but the last two weeks have been an "Epic Failure")

Left To Complete 

• Work on scrapbooks once a month
• Read a book on management
• Get my passport
• Grow an herb garden
• Drink 8 glasses of water a day
• Learn to juggle
• Take a Segway tour
• Host Brunch
• Travel somewhere I have never been before
• Work out three times a week
• Write one Thank-You a month
• Purge our place of useless clutter
• Start doing yoga again 
• Go to a drive-in movie theater with A
• Buy a new piece of furniture 
• Go fishing with A at least once 
• Stop being so critical of myself and others
• Make bread from scratch 
• Make our faith a greater priority
• Make homemade granola
• Eat healthier - more fruits and veggies and less processed food
• Eat dinner at the table with the TV off most days of the week
• Watch less TV
• Pray Daily
• Learn to knit
• Get pregnant
• See a live performance (play, musical, concert)
• Go golfing with A at least once 
• Complete 5 random acts of kindness
• Laugh Daily
• Have more patience 
• Donate $5 for any item not completed