In a rut...maybe #59 will help. Answer the 50 questions that will free your mind.

Hmm. Blogosphere, I'm in a rut, I think. I just feel all blah and like I need something different. Like my brain needs something new to think about.

So, before I start my no computer weekend, I decided to print out the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind" and work on them tonight and tomorrow in my free time. Some of the questions look really great, so I'm excited! I plan to answer them in my journal...so that will help with the task of filling the journal up, I guess!

So, by Monday, I should have lots to write about!

I really like going through this list. I know I'm just doing the small stuff now...but it's fun and gives me things to think about and motivation to do things I normally wouldn't do. The short of it is, it makes me happy :)

#8. Spend a whole weekend without using the computer

Start Date: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:00 pm

End Date: Monday, August 2, 2010 7:30 am

So, I'm cheating just a tad on this one!

My boyfriend and I are dog/house sitting from Friday night-Sunday night at a house that doesn't have internet anyway. But I figured that it wasn't cheating that much because no computer doesn't only mean no internet, but it also means no Sims 3! If I let myself, I could literally waste my whole weekend away playing Sims.

My plans for the weekend are to finish up one or two of the books I'm currently working on and to get a good chunk of my journal filled up. I also have some friends in town for a bit that I will be seeing!

It will be hard not to obsessively check my facebook/email/blog. And it will be even harder not to play Sims late into the night. But sometimes I feel like my reading amount was severely cut in half when I got my own computer. So, it should be a relaxing and fun weekend!

My first victory!

Alright gang, here is the deal.

I kind of picked the WRONG week to not be negative. There were lots&lots of crises and I'm also...umm....well, let's just say I'm on my way to being a bit...."under the weather" next week (you girls get me, right?)

So, this week was challenging, to say the least. I almost gave up. And I almost extended another day onto my No Negativity sentence.

But I took a bit of time and thought about what not be negative really means. So, when things kind of blew up in my face yesterday and today at work (I will save you the tear filled details :P) I did get worked up, I may have complained a few times, and I admit that I felt sorry for myself for a few minutes. But even then, I really did try to have a really positive attitude. I just kept thinking "All right, you can do this. Don't let it phase you." And after a few tears, I got up and put on my best game face. Instead of just sulking and letting the drama and bad feelings run my whole day (which I tend to do sometimes).

So I am gonna rule this task COMPLETED! My very first one!

And one of the tasks on my list is to save $7 for every task completed. So, I'm about to add $7 to my savings account! Woot!

Ah, defeat.

Hmph. <--That about sums up yesterday evening. As you know, yesterday I was smack in the middle of my Don't Be Negative for Three Days challenge. Well, it all was going really great until I got home from work. I just turned incredibly crabby and could not quit whining/complaining/ and saying super negative things. Yuck. I don't know what got into me!

And the whole time, I felt guilty because I knew that I was messing myself up! But when I get into one of those negative funks of a mood, it's hard to pull myself out of it!

So, I'm going to extend my End Date for this challenge to Thursday until I go to bed. That tacks on more hours to make up for my negativity.

On a separate note, I started writing in the journal I got yesterday. When I was in that super crummy mood, I wrote a bunch, and it did make me feel a little better, cause I could sort out all my feelings and physically look at them. So, I'm glad I picked yesterday to start that!!

#6. Try a new recipe every month for a year and #67. Fill a notebook with writing

#6 Start Date: July 2010

End Date: July 2011

#67 Start Date: July 27,2010

End Date: Whenever it is finished

Well, I'm still trying to stay positive! It has been very...challenging...to say the least. But in the mean time I wanted to update about two new projects I'm starting.

If you know me, you know that I absolutely adore cooking. I'm Italian, so we have family recipes I love to make, and cooking has always been a big part of family for me. When I cook for my boyfriend or my friends or family, it's me putting care and love into something to nourish them and show them my love. So, a lot of my 101 goals are cooking related, which is exciting!! This month, I made fried chicken for the very first time! It was a really basic recipe, but I spiced it up a bit, and you know what? It came out pretty darn good! I was proud :) So fried chicken was July 2010's recipe of the month. Next month I'm hoping to make bacon wrapped shrimp with cilantro lime rice!

Okay, and so onto the second goal that I'm starting. When I was in middle school and the beginning of high school, I always carried around a notebook. It was bursting with drawings, doodles, poems, stories, secret, random lists and anything else I could think of. I always had it, and it was like I was carrying around my creativity. I loved it! I haven't had one in a long time, and college life has been so crazy that I barely have time to sleep, let alone fill up a note book. But this is the challenge I'm starting today! I'm going to go out and buy an awesome notebook and start writing! I'm pumped for this one. When I'm done, maybe I'll put up before and after pics of the notebook ;)

Okay, on to keep being positive! :)

#78. Don't say anything negative for three days

Start date: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:30 am

End date: Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:30 am

Alright, this is going to be tough! No criticizing, complaining, or anything negative for three days! I put this on the list because I often find myself being really negative and missing the sweet little moments in life! All right, here it goes! I can do it! <---That's a good start ;)

Edit: Oh my goodness! This one is hard! I stubbed my toes 3 times in 10 minutes (even I don't know how I managed that one...) and some "expletives" may have slipped out! Doesn't count!! Right? :P

To begin...

So yesterday I started my list on the day zero project website. I made my list of 101 Things To Do in 1001 Days. I'm pretty excited, because I can get so busy and so crazy that I don't do the things I'd like to. You know, the little spontaneous or adventurous things.

The thing about me though, is that I'm not very good at finishing something when I start it. In fact, I usually get really excited about projects like this at the beginning, and then gradually forget about them.

I'm starting this blog documenting my progress for a few reasons. One is that it will be easy to keep track of something once I start it; i.e. I will know both my beginning date and the end date. Also, hopefully writing a blog will keep me committed to the list! And lastly, at the end, I can have the blog to look back on so I can remember the details about all the crazy stuff I did :)

So, my start date for the entire project was yesterday July 25, 2010 and my end date is April 21, 2013!

You can visit my list here.