End of Summer Update

[glinda]

Summer is most definitely over here, so I guess that means it's high time to make my quarterly update post! I didn't get as many things finished as I'd hoped to, but I've been making steady progress on several of my ongoing tasks so hopefully next update will see more progression. I'm now at the point where I've essentially got a year left of this challenge, so I probably need to have a good re-assessment and focus my efforts on things I can actually finish before then. My best result from all my lists so far has been 36 things done. At my current rate of progress I should be able to get to 40 with realative ease. (I finished 14 things during 2017, so far this year I've finished 10, another 4 in the next quarter would keep me on track for the same.) Can I make it to 50? Half the things? *rolls sleeves up* Let's do this thing.

No. Items Completed: 24

Completed
Donated Blood
Tried Bubble Tea
Went on a picnic
Grew some herbs
Tried 10 different types of tea
Did the 30 day song challenge
Wore nothing black for a whole week
Attended an academic conference
Gave up alcohol for a month
Read a book in Gaelic
Eat at 10 new restaurants
See a ballet
Gave up alcohol for 3 months
Read 10 Non-fiction books
Make 5 new soups
Take Vitamin D daily for 3 months
Saw an Opera (Carmen)
Visited a distillery
Travelled on a Steam train
Donated 20 books to charity or bookswaps
Eat at another 10 new restaurants
Visit 10 Museums/Galleries I've never visited before
Grow some vegetables (spinach and spring onions)
Watch 25 documentaries

Progress Made
Expand my Gaelic vocabulary by 100 words (40/100)
Do the 50 books poc challenge (22/50)
Ask 20 friends to suggest one film, and watch them all - (watched 2/20)
See 26 films I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (18/26)
Go to 25 gigs (18/25)
Watch a movie from every year I've been alive (14/34)
Listen to a new artist every month
Bake something new every month for a year
Listen To The Observer’s 50 Albums That Changed Music (9/50)
Read more books than I buy over the course of the challenge
Read 10 books of poetry (9/10)
Finish 10 craft projects that are lingering about half-finished (3/10)
Complete the A-Z travel challenge - (5/26)
See at least 7 UNESCO World Heritage sites (3/7)
Complete a big cross-stitch project
Enter 5 writing competitions/Submit 5 short stories (1/5)
Watch 5 children's films not in English (1/5)
Read 10 new-to-me SF Masterworks (1/10)
Donate blood another 5 times (1/5)
Cook with a new ingredient every week for a year
Contribute to 5 collaborative sound projects (1/5)
Do the 12 films poc challenge (1/12)
Learn some basic programming (started a Javascript course)
Don't eat fried food for a month (tried and failed, need to try again)
Read another 10 non-fiction books (3/10)
Watch 5 DVD boxsets I already own (1/5)
Listen to 5 Radio/Audio Drama Serieses (1/5)

1 more month to the 2 year point.

[peaceful_sands]

Start date October 1, 2016 End date June 29, 2019

Current count : 701 days (01/09/18)

I'm somewhat late posting my end of August progress but with just the one month to go to reach the two year point and only 300 days left something tells me I really need to get a move on with some of these goals.

Goals finished this month :
• Read 10 non-fiction books about historical events (10/10, 24/08/18)
• Visit 5 World Heritage Sites (Tentative Heritage Sites are also acceptable) (5/5, Tower of London, Cathedrale d’Amiens, Kinderdijk Windmills, Gardens at Versailles, Monet’s House and Garden 29/08/18)
• Visit 5 museums/art galleries or similar (5/5, British Museum, V and A, Escher in h/et Paleis, The Hague, Museum of Impressionism 29/08/18)


( 101 in 1001 List – Take 3 )

101/101 tasks set, 50/101 tasks complete, 93/101 tasks started