The Best January of my life

Accomplished Goals:

4) Learn to implement code using a header file
7) Use a header to input source code from one file to another
8) Read and understand a complete work (of any length) by Faulkner (I've been reading excerpts/short stories... awesome!)
9) Read 10 of the National Book Award winners in fiction (0/10) I've read some of these, the counts are somewhere to be found
10) Read 10 of the Pulitzer Prize winners in fiction (0/10)
11) Read 10 of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction (0/10)
12) Have a conversation in Portuguese
15) T.A. a graduate level class (I'm on my second)
16) Take a language class (Portuguese!)
17) Present at an academic conference (in March I can check this one off)
18) Make a batch of freezer jam
23) Make baking bread a habit
27) Take an advanced pilates class
28) Run a 5K
32) Master a tri-cep push-up (not quite, but i'm making considerable progress!)
42) Visit the Field Museum
48) Visit a country whose primary language is not English (Costa Rica!)
52) Visit 10 Presidential Historic Sites (since starting the list... Woodrow Wilson's house in D.C., Gerald Ford's Library) (2/10)
54) Visit the Pizza restaurant near Lake Michigan
55) Visit the Snite Museum
58) Take a local cooking class
61) Volunteer for the ND Physics Department
62) Visit a local winery
67) Visit Fernwood Botanical Garden
69) Develop a successful composting system
70) Clean the oven twice (1/3)
71) Grow a crop of corn
72) Buy a cactus or other succulent to raise in the house
73) Clean and organize the contents of both desks
74) Maintain organization of the desks
75) Develop and maintain organization systems for all messy zones
79) Decorate the living room
81) Pay off my car loan
85) Train Odie to come when called
87) Train Odie to stay at doorways
90) Take Odie on a vacation
92) Watch no television for one month
93) Drive in downtown Chicago
100) Give a thoughtful and random gift to a friend (5 times) (2/5)
101) Do not allow yourself to complain of boredom

some I'm roughly a 3rd of the way through the list and I made it less than a year ago. go me! it looks like i have a lot of travel to do!