In which my 101 list breaks up the craziness of life

Life has been crazy lately. Being on a salary means there's always more work to do, so I've been putting in more than 40 hours a week, especially with all that's currently going on there. It can be draining. And I'm still adjusting to not being in school, which probably sounds a bit weird. But seriously... I've been a student all my life until a year ago. It's hard to get that out of my system. It's harder than I thought it would be to not have breaks between semesters to look forward to. Or projects that can be turned in, done with, and then forgotten about. At work, there's no final thing to cross off. There's always more to do and always more people to help. Which is great, but also difficult, especially when all my friends in school are finishing up the semester right now and heading off to their great and marvelous summer plans. I don't have semesters to break things up and I don't have a ton of time off to do great summer plans. So in order to break things up, my roommate and friends and I do stuff on the weekends, which is great. But I've also continued to work on things on my 101 list. In the last few months, I've been able cross off four more things of my list. I...

Joined a bowling league. It was awesome. I improved overall during the course of the season (though my high score was 2 points shy of my goal of hitting 150), and our team somehow ended up winning (thanks to our handicap). Plus, the league we joined was a pizza night league, so we got three games and a pizza to share every week for 10 weeks. I highly recommend it. We'll likely do it again next year.

Read my patriarchal blessing every day for a month. It definitely provided some interesting insight, perspective, and comfort.

Read scriptures every day for at least 30 minutes for a month. That was a bit challenging with how much I had going on, but it brought blessings. However, I wasn't able to keep it up after the month was over and I definitely need to get back into making it more of a habit.

Made 25 new recipes. Some were great, some were duds. Luckily, the majority of them were pretty great and some made it into the regular rotation (which is probably one of the reasons it took so long to complete that goal).

And there are definitely more goals that I am working on. I signed up for a 5K (eek!), booked a trip to Washington DC, am taking a picture of the temple every day for a month, and am getting close to finishing watching 50 movies, among other things. There shall be more updates in the future about these and other goals in the future, I'm sure.