Don’t worry, I am working tonight, like I do every Wednesday night. I just happen to have some time during the day shift today to pop out a blog post, and I have some 101/1001 progress to report!

2. Read 100 books I finished #4 last night – The Last Lecture. Short, cute, enjoyable. More relatable to me than any Mitch Albom’s stuff along the same vein.

11. Buy a camera My darling husband bought me my first DLSR as a belated wedding present. I haven’t actually received it yet, but he should be bringing it home tonight

22. Bake something new once a month So I did this last month without really realizing it. I started using a new recipe for my standard bread machine bread and it’s delicious.

62. Buy a pedometer Woot.com had a set of nice ones on sale yesterday, so that’s ordered!

95. Update my CV I’m applying for a part time second job, so last night I updated my CV with my last name change and most current abstracts.

6/101 items complete! That actually puts me on track for all of August, though I may try to get ahead a bit so I don’t have to worry about getting behind when the holidays creep up in a few months.

Update on 101/1001 project

Days: 29/1001
Tasks Completed: 2/101
Tasks in progress: 8/101

In progress:
2. Read 100 books Finished book #3, American Wife, which is based on Laura Bush, former First Lady. It’s fiction, but depending how much is based on truth, I can’t believe she married W. I’m currently on book #4, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, which is really good.

27. Join Postcrossing.com and send 10 postcards I’ve joined Postcrossing, and Moo was having a sale on postcards (and mentioned Postcrossing in their newsletter), so I ordered some postcards.

28. Pay off all credit card debt Still working on paying the try to pay it off in 3 years amount on each of my cards. This one is going to take most of the challenge, if not all of it to accomplish unless I find a much better paying job.

29. Research and explore online/digital scrapbooking and decide which I want to pursue – and then make scrapbooks I imported wedding photos and started a Scrapblog account last night, haven’t had a chance to play with it yet.

52. Beat 5 video games I’ve been playing lots of Puzzle Quest. I think I’m up to level 25.

72. Watch every James Bond film I’ve watched 10 out of 22. Waiting to get to two of them in our Netflix queue since the older Bond films (at least) aren’t on streaming.

75. Participate in a worldwide cultural item exchange at www.worldswapping.com I made an account on worldswapping, but it looks like no one has been active on there for awhile. This goal may not be achievable and may need to be changed.

83. Save $10 for every task completed I’ve moved $10 for each of the 2 tasks I’ve completed over to my savings account, which right now is going towards saving up for a Mac mini and an iPad to replace my laptop since the Apple Care will be up for it around Halloween. Plus the mini makes more sense since I want to get more seriously into photography, and the iPad would be for traveling and times I would normally bring my laptop.

There was a discussion on the thread about this project on The Nest today how we should be completing one task every 10 days or so to stay caught up, and how most of us have some catching up to do! So here’s one I can knock out:

90. Make a list of cities I want to visit.

San Diego
Seattle
Portland
Chicago
Atlanta
Boston
New Orleans
Dublin
Sydney
Amsterdam
Berlin
Rome
Montreal
Vancouver

So now I’m at 3/101, which is a bit closer to where I should be almost 30 days in!

When I’m not doing work for school, or for Girls Gone Geek, I love photography and baking. If the whole grad school thing doesn’t work out for some reason, I’m either going to become a photographer or open a bakery for people with food allergies and intolerances.

Along the photography lines, check out Thomas Waters’s Photo Blog. I “met” Thomas through Twitter, since I was tagging along with my boyfriend to Filemaker DevCon this past July. He has some fantastic work up there!