Progress

I'm pretty sure I called it that my mom was going to be most devoted/only? reader.  She just asked me how my list was coming along.  So here's an update, Mom. 

While I have only been able to add two goals to my Finished! list, I have been making lots of progress on the long term goals on my list.  So far I have really enjoyed it and would highly recommend the process.  A few of the things I've been working on:

-This morning I read about 20 Robert Frost poems- I meant to read one but I sort of couldn't stop.  He's a genius.  I'm not a person who loves poetry, but him, I love.  (#8 Read every Robert Frost poem)

- You may not believe that I don't love poetry since I have another goal about it, but I looked up the poem I want to memorize the other night and now I almost have it, just because I wanted to read it over and over.  And it makes it easier that it rhymes-all my favorite poems do, I'm like a 5 year old (#57 Memorize a poem).  I've been using a printout of it as a bookmark in the book I'm reading right now.  And because it's always handy (and so good!) I keep making everyone at work read it over and over.  At first they were polite, but now they have started telling me no. 

-I've been taking lots of pictures of progress on longterm goals (#24 Take a picture of every goal achieved)

-I have applied for a few teaching jobs! (#39 Get a teaching job)  Even submitting an application has seemed incredibly exciting to me, so it feels like progress, but it's a little bit out of my hands. 

-I got a list of some of my family members favorite books (#9-14 Read the favorite book of each person in my immediate family), still missing a few, but I've put them on reserve at the library so they'll be ready when I'm done reading this book...

It is about a homeless man and a wealthy art dealer who forge a friendship.  It's right up my alley (one time my mom had to act out "right up my alley" in charades- it was a massive failure that involved a lot of emphatic pointing to herself followed by a lot of frustration when we kept guessing "me".  I actually laugh out loud now anytime that phrase comes to mind).  I got the book from my friend Julie from work.  She said I'll love it, and she spends 40 hours a week with me, so I trust her.  Please also note the poem sticking out the top! 

-I've seen 2 sunrises (#20 See 10 sunrises)

-I now have a prescription for glasses! (#3 Get glasses)  I even tried to pick out some frames but I don't know anything about vision insurance and they laughed me out of the store when I asked if they could just look up my insurance? But still, I have the prescription.

-I have a flickr account now and I'm working on uploading all my pictures to it (#96 Get a flickr account and keep it up to date) that'll be a while.

-And I just bought photo corners and 2 albums (#35 Make an album of old family pictures I have)

So this is a lot of progress for a procrastinator!  Agreed?  Agreed.