Cherry Blossom Adventures

I have been putting off doing an update for the month of August because I barely crossed anything off. But it must be done- and hopefully I will be able to knock more things off the list this month (although blogging everyday for a month is actually taking up a lot of my time but at least at the end of the month, if i succeed I will be able to cross it off the list!)

I started April 1st of this year which leaves me with 840 days from today to complete my list. (While I was at the site  calculating the days for that I also wrote in our wedding date, May 9, and it is only 242 days until our wedding!)

For my complete 101 things in 1001 days list please see here

16. Write and finalize guest list

I have done this! I had to do it because I am sending out save the date cards because there will be people that will have to travel overseas for the wedding and they are now completed and I had to write the guest list before this were printed! So that is one job done- and it is good in a way because now the list is final and it will be one less thing to worry about closer to the time.

Number 17 on the list is choose or make invitations and I can not cross this off yet as it won`t be done til closer in the time BUT I do feel I can put in a special mention here because we have the save the date cards made up! I will put up a picture of the cards sometime soon!

23. Make hair and make-up appointments

Did this for myself and the three bridesmaids when I had my haircut last week (I had mentioned it on the phone when I made my booking a couple of weeks ago but finalized it when I was in last week so it is a bit of a August/September cross over!)

8:30am appointment on the 9 May!

 32. Lose another five kilos (0/5)

Have lost 2 out of 5 for my second lot of 5 kilos! The weight isn`t dropping off as fast as I would like but I will try to persevere.

37. Learn 10 new recipes (5/10)

I had learned five by the end of July and I can now add a couple extra`s into here both with sausages! A yummy sausage/tomato garlic pasta and curry sausages with onions and mushrooms! Both are really simple and I am not sure I can say I “learned” them because I kind of made them up! But hey, they are new recipes at least. This month I am going to attempt to make another couple of new things out of my weight watchers cook books!

Also my mum made a yummy yummy Shepherds pie for dinner a couple of weeks ago when we ate at her house (usually once a week!) which I hope to try sometime soon! It didn`t have pastry (Do they usually?) just more of a beef burgundy middle with mashed potatoes on top!

So that brings that up to 7/10(Not including the pie since I haven`t made that myself yet!)

44. Give up fast food for 2 consecutive months

Apart from subway I am pretty sure I have done this? I do not consider subway to be fast food because

I did eat Japanese curry from a take-away place with Kate M a couple of weeks ago though? Is that fast food?

Ok well lets put it this way- I haven`t eating McDonald’s, KFC,  Hungry Jacks or any of those type of fast food joints in the last two months!

I may have eaten pizza- but it was gourmet pizza and not technically the fast food kind!

45. Try (or learn to like) 5 new fruits or vegetables (0/5)

I tried brussel sprouts for the first time. I didn`t like them but I at least tried them.

I am learning to eat cooked carrot- I am still not a bit fan but I can eat it.

So that is 2 off the list. Even though I might not like them I could eat them if I have to!

57. Eat at least 10 restaurants I have never been to before

That was at 4/10 last time I checked and I can now add three more to the list! However I went to them both in September so while I will cross them off now I want to have a record that 2 of them were in September!

However the one I can cross off was a great little Indian place down in Cleveland! Yummy- I love Indian- Just a shame it does not work if you are trying to lose weight!

So 7/10 (as of Sept 9)

67. A new pair of boots

Done! Bought on sale at the beggining of August at Myer for $45! Bargain right?

93. Go to the cinema 20 times (2/20)

This is now at 3/20 because I saw Baby Mama with my friend Dani a couple of weeks ago! It was a great movie- light weight but very funny!

97. Get a new address book and add everyone I know to it

Have done this and am ready to send out the Save the Date cards!

I am working on another couple of things from the list and it turns out there are a lot of wedding things I didn`t think of that could of been on the list but arn`t (Like a band, cars etc etc!)

Now that I see everything written out like that I guess the month of August didn`t actually go too bad in the scheme of things! I think I have now crossed off 28 of the 101 things completely and have quite a few others in progress.

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