#18--Go Meatless for 50 Days Straight

Maybe the 50 days will turn into a lifestyle. After all, I was a vegetarian for nine years.

Day 1: June 1, 2009 (actually it was before this, but I can't remember the exact date)...am planning to make it a life-long thing.

Day 50: July 20, 2009...*GOAL ACCOMPLISHED*...and still going strong...there's no turning back. :D

#23--Read 50 Books from the Library

I've been so bad about buying books lately, so maybe this goal will help me cut down on that a bit.

1. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman (7/19/08)
2. Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon (7/24/08)
3. The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer (8/20/08)
4. Daphne du Maurier's Classics of the Macabre (9/22/08)
5. The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper (11/7/08)
6. The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell (11/10/08)

*Long period of forgetting to record them here.*

7. The Sandman: A Game of You by Neil Gaiman (6/20/09)
8. The Golden Phoenix and Other French-Canadian Fairy Tales by Marius Barbeau, retold by Michael Hornyansky (7/24/09)
9. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (8/8/09)
10. Janes in Love by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg (8/13/09)

*Long period of forgetting to record them here.*

#24--Donate 50 Bags/Boxes of Stuff to Thrift Store

The key here is NOT to come home with a different 50 bags/boxes from the thrift store!

1-8. Boxes of "stuff" donated to VOA spring drive. (mid-spring '09)
9-14. Bags of "stuff" donated to Salvation Army. (late spring '09)
15-22. Bags of "stuff" donated to Salvation Army. (mid-summer '09)

*****Period of forgetting to document.

#29--Repurpose 50 Items.

Big, small, whatever. Anything that can be saved from the landfill, at least for a while longer.

1. July 29, 2008:
Made this little mini album using the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle one of the boys got in a kid meal.









































































2. August 1, 2008:
Kind of silly, but I covered one of Max's card binders with a poster. He loves this poster, but it got ripped and wrinkled. So I salvaged to good parts and made him a binder he loves.

#50-Plant 50 Things.

Anything. Trees, flowers, vegetables. Just cultivate new life.

1. holly tree (spring 2009)

2. radishes, tomatoes, and peppers in the garden (summer 2009)