Happy Fourth of July!

7. Watch all movies on AFI's top 100 (27/100) - in progress

I watched "On the Waterfront" on Friday, which I may or may not have fallen asleep during. But just for a few minutes. Some movies on the list make me wonder why they, out of the millions of movies made, would be put on a list of the top 100. But I guess if you think about it, if they resonated with the time period... and that was my conclusion with On the Waterfront. Maybe every dock got shaken down by the mob in the 1950s.

I also just realized I need to get crackin' on my movie-watching, because even watching one a week is going to be cutting it close to missing my deadline.

8. Read 50 books (41/50) - in progress

I finished "A Year of Living Biblically" by A.J. Jacobs last weekend after I posted, and I also powered through on "Buy-ology" by Martin Lindstrom. Then at work the next day, very nerdily might I add, I explained to my co-workers why we cringe at the thought of maggots being found in an overhead bin in an airplane. (Mirror neurons, if you were wondering)

30. Use my library card to take out 25 books (13/25) - in progress

I took out "Night" by Eli Wiesel and "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy on... Thursday maybe? I dove right into Anna Karenina, and it's not too dense yet. I just feel like it's one of those books you're supposed to read.

72. Attend at least 10 free community events (3/10) - in progress

I went to the parade and fireworks on Friday and Saturday nights, which I'll just count as one because the fireworks were quick. I had friends in for the weekend, so it was fun to show them the town and such. And then today we had the greatest experience ever, also known as Anything Floats. Essentially you can enter your contraption in this competition / race, and then you stick it in a lake and paddle it out to a buoy & back. One team just stuck an air mattress in the water, but one team created this ridiculous thing that had a real truck bed in back and was buoyed by plastic barrels, and then they constructed the front of the truck out of cardboard, and they lit stink bombs in the "pipes" so it looked like the truck was smoking. It was just a ridiculous event overall, and fun to watch.

97. Added April 19, 2010: Journal every prompt from www.journalingprompts.com, one a day, for 365 days - in progress

I've been trucking along in the journaling. The past few days have been fun prompts, so I'm feeling better about it and happier that I'm doing it. One month down, 11 to go!

-- Till next time.