I made it a month.  I said when I started that the first month or so would be mostly about just meeting the challenge.  Even if all the new things I do are inconsequential and uninspired, if I can just get them done, then that will be a win.  And I did it.  By the skin of my teeth, but I did it.  This is pretty important to me, because pursuing something like this and doing it every day is difficult for someone like me.  I know my weaknesses and I am a procrastinator who loves to plan to do things but I have a great difficulty getting those plans off the ground much less finished.

In the grand scheme of this challenge, one month is not a lot, but I will take the small victories as they come.  Some of the new things will take time, and the next challenge (within the greater challenge) is to work towards those goals.  To be able to complete the full 1001 days I really will need to be more proactive about planning what I will do and when.  There are only so many last minute new things a person can do. 

But here is what I did in the first 32 days (including today):

1 Brush Dog’s Teeth –

2 Use a Selfie Stick

3 Cork Chair for Contest

4 Steel Wool Fire

5 Elmhurst History Museum

6 Frozen Bubbles

7 Bath Bombs

8 Paqui Ghost Pepper chips

9 UV Resin

10 Dutch Baby Pancake

11 Makit and Bakit

12 Horchata

13 Homopolar Motor

14 Wordle

15 Chocolate Chip Banana Bread

16 Taco Bell

17 Batik Dye

18 Needle Felting

19 Origami Fidget Toy

20 ‘Not Another Crap Kit’ (a craft kit sold by a YouTuber I follow)

21 Walking Dog Backwards

22 Polymer Clay Cane

23 Completely lost control of Car on icy highway, regained control without dying.

24 ‘Painting’ with Polymer Clay

25 Liquid Sculpey

26 Learn the Days in the Month

27 Mix App

28 Darn a Sock

29 Groupon

30 Screen Record on my Phone

31 Gouache Painting

32 Make Seed Crackers

While some of these new things were not great – the mix app was unimpressive, but somehow it wound up on my list – this was a pretty full month.  I am looking forward to doing a lot more!

*As a side note, while my goal is to post these every day, I have been posting after midnight.  But because I am such a night owl, a day in the context of this blog is the time between I wake up and go to sleep.