September Review

The big news for this month is we have completed No. 96--pay off second mortgage! It's so exciting to think that even while I've been unemployed, we've been able to keep up with our obligations. I guess that's what comes from living within your means. (Well, if we did that truly, we wouldn't have had a second, but whatever.) So happy.


The other day our neighbor was on the roof helping us fix a leak and while he was up there, he completed No. 32-- take the antenna off the roof. Forever more I will remember the celebration of paying off the second mortgage as taking the antenna off the roof, after nearly five years(!) in this house.


I also completed No. 44--finish current WIP—Scared Silly. You can see it here, as soon as I photograph it and blog it. As for the more regular undertakings:

• 22. Take a cookbook out of the library every other month and make dishes from each--nope.
• 77. Write a note to my grandmothers each month--sigh, I'm bad.
• 79. Go OUT on a date once a month with the dude--yup we went to see a play on September 18th.
• 86. Try to be more positive-- At the end of each day, take five minutes to write down in a journal every good thing I did or experienced that day--I did start back up but fell off the wagon again just as quickly.
• 100. Talk to my mother on the phone—or in person—weekly--yes
• 101. Post updates about this list once per month--yes.