I honestly didn’t think this project would be very hard after I had boxed up my stuff and started on down the road. The sorting was supposed to be the hard part, and then I would just coast.
Well, I was wrong. This is boring and it sucks. I chose some dumb stuff. But I’m still doing it. Picture evidence:
Today, October 5
I cheated a bit for our trip to the mountains and wore my North Face jacket and my hiking boots. I consider them "workout clothes." (It's a stretch, I know.)
Over at the Impossible League, we’re starting 30-Day Challenges, and the first one begins tomorrow! The idea is to tackle some of your impossible challenges in the 30 days of the month you’re in, and check in on your progress weekly. You still have time to get in on this if you want! Head on over to the Impossible League. This month (October), we’re tackling an endurance challenge, an adventure challenge, and a giving back challenge. I’ll be updating you on my progress each Monday.
Here are mine, and wow, I really had to think hard and look at the calendar for this one. October is BUSY!
ENDURANCE
Find at least 30 minutes a day to work on either my current book or plot the book I’ll be writing in November for NaNoWriMo. This is going to mean my lunch break this month on most days, since I’m in a musical at the end of the month and it’s crunch time on evening rehearsals.
ADVENTURE
Sing a tiny solo. Like, for real, in a musical production, in front of people. I’m in a musical revue of some Gilbert & Sullivan operettas and I have a teensie little two-measure solo in one of the Iolanthe pieces (I’m a fairy) and it will be my first solo since I sang in an a cappella group in college. Nervous! But excited. I get two chances to get it right because there are two shows. Hoping I’ll go 2 for 2. 
(If you live near Raleigh and want to come see it, please do!)
One of the goals on my Impossible List is to give away 10% of my income. Why 10%? I guess I just grew up thinking that was the number to shoot for. In church, you tithe. So it always seemed like the right thing to do to me, even though my 10% isn’t going to a church anymore.
I made a spreadsheet today for all of my 2011 earnings so far (gross income from my regular job and my writing gig) and what I’ve already donated. I was expecting an abysmally low number for what percentage I’ve given away. I haven’t written a big check to charity or anything. But I was surprised to find that when I added it all up, I’ve given about 5.8% already. That ain’t half bad!
I’ve got a ways to go, but I’ll be thinking on ways to meet my goals in the next few months. Might not make it for 2011 (as they say, “Prior planning prevents poor performance,” and I didn’t do my prior planning this year), but I’ll at least have some good habits started for 2012.