A Monday Roundup

I keep looking through the list of stuff that I have to do, and I'm pretty sure that I need to start saving up a fair bit of money to donate to charity; I'm trying to imagine finishing all of these goals, and it's not easy!

1. I unfortunately had to rip out the last afghan panel (there was a mistake), and so I'm redoing it right now. I'm hoping, though, that it'll be finished this upcoming week! It's an exciting thought.

2. After that, I get to start playing with the yarn bin. I think I may have an idea for a scarf for a friend of mine, who heard me mentioning crochet and was like "make me something -- just kidding". However, I'm totally down to make her something, especially if it helps me use up some stash!

5. I'm pretty sure that there's no way the green cookbook will get finished, even if I copy down all the recipes I have to copy down out of cookbooks. There's just SO many pages (and honestly, some that I'd like to remove out of there, because they don't deserve to be kept forever!).

13. Oh the dish cooking. Sigh. I honestly don't remember what I've cooked recently. November has, so far, been full of a lot of frozen spanakopita -- I've been getting home well after 7 several nights a week, and have to be asleep by 10, which does not leave much time for complex dinners. I think I'm going to have to count this goal as broken, simply because I don't remember having cooked anything new. I tried so hard! I'm still planning to keep track of new dishes from now until the end, though.

21/22. I'm renewing my "be healthy" plan -- it's one of these things that works for a while, then I fall off the bandwagon, then I have to try again.

24. Dentist happened. That was grand.

31. Got more CMV, which means that I have even more to read, oh no! She's too prolific for me to keep up.

34. I've been listening to a ton of 8tracks and Songza recently, so I've heard a TON of new music -- but haven't been listening to it on my computer much. Alas and alack! I'll have to get back to going through some of it. Perhaps I'll get started with that now...

43. I've gotten three new books in the past few months:

108. The Melancholy of Mechagirl, Catherynne Valente
109. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
110. Best American Essays 2013, ed. Cheryl Strayed

As far as previous books go, I've again read one more that I own (I've been digging on library books recently):

• Catherynne Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

So, I've now read six out of 110 books -- leaving me with 104 to read. I'm working on a few right now; I think my goal will be to get it to 95 by the end of the year.

49. Although my road-trip goal has not yet been completed, it is going to be made much easier by the fact that I now have a car. 2003 Hyundai Accent GL by the name of Hugo. Very exciting!

79. Which also gets me 79.