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- This is all I've got for you this month. My sincere apologies.
Updates:
4. read 100 books in a year (73/100)
- Super on track! I got 7 read this month. The most important reads were Me and White Supremacy and Untamed, but I enjoyed most of all of them!
16. visit 3 new National Parks (2/3)
- We visited Mt. Rainier! It was so nice to escape the desert and have cooler weather as well as mountains and trees. Such a nice escape. It wasn't too crowded until Saturday afternoon, so we just left then and chilled at our treehouse cabin and went back later. It's been hard being cooped up, so it was nice to take a social distancing vacation. :)
23. see 30 new animated films (22/20)
- I took advantage of Disney Plus to watch some classics I missed as a child: The Sword in the Stone and The Black Cauldron. They were okay? I know The Black Cauldron would have terrified me as a child, so it's probably better I missed that one.
31. a year of (silly) holiday celebration
- This month we had Gingersnap Day, Video Game Day, No Bra Day, and French Fry Day! But really, every day lately has been no bra and video games...
- Disney Plus also brought documentary options. Into the Unknown: the Making of Frozen II and The Imagineering Story in particular were AMAZING. I love seeing how things are made and creative processes (and I love Frozen II and theme parks so they were perfect fits). Also a shoutout to Spelling the Dream on Netflix - a new spelling bee documentary to love!
60. r/52weeksofcooking - year-long cooking challenge
Retro Recipes: Depression-Era Peanut Butter Bread (this was seriously so good)
Soul Food: Smothered Oxtails
Emulsification: Sweet Corn Summer Pasta Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette
Cartoon: Ja-pan #2 from Yakitate!! Japan (made entirely in a rice cooker)
72. complete 12 30-day projects (2/12)
- I decided July would be online learning - I focused on Creativebug and Skillshare, but I also took a calligraphy workshop with Carol DuBosch online, and this weekend I'm learning from the online Sunstone conference. I am really actually loving how much is available for me now, whereas before I was so limited by location. It's making life in a small town a million times more bearable.
79. try 30 new salad/side dish recipes (14/30)
- I haven't updated on this one for a while, but I did make 4 new recipes this month. We are so bad at eating veggies, so this has really been helping.
99. complete a reading challenge (35/50)
- This month I read a book with twenty in the title (The Twenty-Fourth of June), a book with a made-up language (The Fifth Season - SO GOOD), a book that won an award in 2019 (The Poet X), a book with a great first line (I Capture the Castle - "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."), and a book from an author who's written over 20 books (And Then There Were None).
101. learn 10 new calligraphic hands (4/10)
- Speaking of those online calligraphy workshops! I've by no means mastered, but I've now put a lot of work into both Ben Shahn lettering and Bone Script. Ben Shahn is so much fun. Bone is more difficult, but I'm getting there! I'm gonna call it good, though, because we're aiming for progress, not perfection.
Ben Shahn lettering
Bone Script
Okay! I hope you all are well and surviving. Hopefully I can finish something not redacted so you can hear about it!
