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20. read 30 new graphic novels
- Man, I love graphic novels. I read the last 13 I needed for the list this month. My favorites this month were Best Friends by Shannon Hale and LeYuen Pham, and the March series by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. You can see my all the graphic novels I've read on my shelf on Goodreads here. If you've never read a graphic novel, please consider picking one up. If you have read some, read more! :)
62. complete Yoshi's Crafted World with Garrett
- We did it! We got all the gems! This was the cutest game because it was designed to look hand-crafted. We loved looking at all the levels to see what they were made of. An extra bonus was the capsule machine in each level where you could trade your coins for unique costumes - I really could have played longer to get them all. It also has a mellow mode so I didn't have to worry about dying or falling (I am notoriously bad at platformers). I highly recommend this one!
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2. digitally transcribe my journals
- I did finish doing another, but it was the shortest of all of them. It will be harder work from here. Oh, dramatic past Sara.
4. read 100 books in a year
- So technically I'm at 111 books for 2019 as of today, but I didn't read all of those during the list, so I'm not counting it for this year. This is the first time since I started using Goodreads (which was in 2010) that I've broken 100, though, so it's still cause for celebration!
11. study 12 famous chefs and cook 5 of their recipes each
- I chose my first 2 chefs: Molly Yeh and Samin Nosrat. I squeezed in 4 of the 5 recipes from Molly (marzipan scone loaf. tater tot chicken pot hotdish. heck.), but I'm still learning about Salt Fat Acid and Heat from Samin. She is so wise.
- We visited Crater Lake!! It was so. beautiful. heck. We just drove around - we missed the boat tours by a few weeks, so there wasn't much else to do. But it was so worth it just to drive around and view the lake from all sides. We also visited the Newberry National Volcanic Monument while we were in the area and I can't recommend that enough - obsidian flow, lava tube hiking, cinder cones, it's got everything you could ever want.
21. read 30 new Newbery award or honor books (16/30)
- Chugging along on this one - I got 4 read this month. My favorite was The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin. Studio Ghibli's Tales of Earthsea kind of turned me off of reading these books, so I'm glad I had to read this one for the list. It's way better than the movie, haha. And I had to read the first one, too, (A Wizard of Earthsea) so I wouldn't be lost even though it wasn't nominated, but I don't regret that read, either. I might just have to read the whole rest of the series!
23. see 30 new animated films (9/30)
- We saw 4 this month! Penguin Highway, Okko's Inn, A Letter to Momo, and Missing Link. Okko's Inn was definitely the best of the 4, and I liked Penguin Highway, too. Unfortunately the other two weren't so great, but I sat through them nonetheless. I wanted to like them so much more. :(
35. watch 10 anime series (1/10)
- I finally introduced Hubster to My Love Story!! He loved it. He started affectionately calling the characters cuties and asking if I wanted to watch cuties. It's probably the fastest we've finished a series because he seriously wanted to watch it like, every night. I'm so glad.
56. make and give 10 art gifts (1/10)
- It was also Hubster's birthday this month, so I got to make him something! I took a chalkboard art class back in May, so it was nice to finally use those skills. Ephemeral gifts totally count!
73. get ourselves in financial shape for the future
- We have a friend who is training to be a financial coach, so we lucked into getting to help her as she learns. We are on track to take charge of retirement savings, get wills made, and arrange for life insurance. (I know we should have had these already...that's why I put it on the list!) We will be all set soon, hopefully!
Alright! It's now 18 minutes til bedtime, so I better wrap this the heck up. October is looking to be busy, as usual, but I'm on track to make some good progress on things. The weather is finally cooling off and it makes me happy to sit in my studio and work on things. Happy fall to you all!
