96. Complete 10 items on the list.

It only took me over 500 days to complete 10 tasks. I really procrastinated here. Heck I still haven't finished MAKING this list at this point. I don't expect to complete all the tasks, but at I do intend to get a good start on the list. I'll probably start making another list and attempt this for a third time.

56. Give up soda for a month.

Soda, sweet, sweet soda. I don't drink a lot of it (probably less than once a week), but when I get that craving...it's over. I went most of the month okay with not having any, but towards the end the craving hit hard. I really wanted a root beer. As a substitute I drank a lot of sweet tea. I'm not sure which is worse. I ended up having a soda today and was a little disappointed. :(

11. Give up candy for a month.

Giving up candy was actually pretty easy. I think giving up chocolate was much harder. I don't really eat a lot of candy, but when I do I tend to binge and then I'm good for awhile. I did miss my free chocolate from Godiva though. Good thing they give those out once a month. Bags of candy seemed to pop up all over our stockroom at work this past month. I shook my head and thought of course these folks would bring in candy THIS month.

3. Make and sell 150 hats and scarves.

It's crazy to think that I've sold that many hats and scarves already, but then it seems like I should've sold more than that by now. I'm kinda on the fence about that. I'm a little disappointed by this holiday season. I didn't sell nearly as many as I thought I would have. I need to work harder. I need to get my name out there. I can to do better. I'm glad to be able to mark another item off my list though. Slowly but surely. I want to do at least twice as much by the end of next year. I've got a lot of work to do.

two for one special

On Sunday I began working on task 11 and task 56, hoping that they help me accomplish task 66. Giving up soda should be easy peasy since I don't drink soda much anyway. Now candy on the other hand. Ugh. It didn't help today that there was a big bag of candy sitting around at work. I swear the Universe does that on purpose.

progress

I was checking out my sales log on how many hats/scarves I've sold...almost at 100. A little over a  year and I'm more than half way to the goal I set. Crazy. I'm sure I'll surpass that 150 before the end of Winter. I can't believe it.

57. Give up coloring my hair for a year.

It was actually a little easier than I thought it'd be to not color my hair for an entire year. Part of that is because I'm not allowed to have an unnatural hair color at work. So no red...not even a red rinse. That made me sad as I love, love, love the red. Tomorrow I go back to black. Cover up any grey that might be hanging out. I'm not sure I could give up coloring my hair indefinitely. I like being able to change it.

10. Give up chocolate for a month.

For the month I September I gave up chocolate and pretty much everyone I talked to about it thought I was crazy. It really wasn't that hard, I still had fruity candy and other sweets to fall back on. My cravings weren't too bad, they were mostly for things that had just the tiniest bit of chocolate. But I got through it. The first day that I was able to eat chocolate again I proceeded to eat a WHOLE sleeve of Thin Mint cookies and then passed out for two hours. All that sugar and chocolatey goodness. I think giving up candy for a month is what's actually going to kill me, but then again there are always all the yummy baked goods I can have since that's not candy. Maybe I just need to go ahead and give up sweets. Now THAT would be hard.

cravings

I'm working on 10. Give up chocolate for a month and today I'm REALLY craving a Snickers bar and some fresh chocolate chip cookies. Otherwise I think I'm doing pretty good. I just need to make it 19 more days. No problem. Ha!

working on it

I think I've made a pretty good dent in my goal to make and sell 500 cards. The making part is easy...it's the selling part that will be the hard part.

I need to get to work on more items on my list. I've been dragging my butt big time.

Now that I'm unemployed again maybe it's time to start making a bigger dent on this list. I also still need to finish this list. I'm not sure what else to put on it.

Suggestions?