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The 7 Things Challenge:
7 Things x 2022

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:
  1. Learn how to make pasta from scratch
  2. Start walking more
  3. Stop late night snacking
  4. Take a vacation to literally anywhere
  5. Find a daily tea ritual
  6. Try a new baking recipe every month
  7. Be more physically active
The 7 Things Challenge:
7 Things x 2021

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:
  1. Learn how to make pasta from scratch
  2. Start walking every day
  3. Stop sleeping in late
  4. Take a vacation to literally anywhere, hope it's safe this year
  5. Find a job
  6. Try roller skating
  7. Be more physically active
The 7 Things Challenge:
7 Things x 2019

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:
  1. Learn how to speak Farsi
  2. Start meditating regularly
  3. Stop overeating/comfort eating
  4. Take a vacation to New York City
  5. Find a job
  6. Try veganism
  7. Be more active
The 7 Things Challenge:
7 Things x 2018

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:
  1. Learn how to drive
  2. Start cooking more
  3. Stop over-eating
  4. Take a vacation to New York City
  5. Find a new job
  6. Try meditation
  7. Be more balanced
Note added to goal Green
Purple, Green and Yellow
by Robert Munsch
Note added to goal White
The Limits of Whiteness
by Neda Maghbouleh
Note added to goal A book written by someone you admire
The Limits of Whiteness
by Neda Maghbouleh
Note added to goal Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color
The Strange Library
by Haruki Murakami
Note added to goal Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country
Sex Criminals, Vol. 1: One Weird Trick | Matt Fraction
Note added to goal A book from a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
[Swamp baroque]
Note added to goal A book about a difficult topic
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey #12)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Note added to goal A book from a nonhuman perspective
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
by Jomny Sun
Note added to goal A book you loved as a child
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Note added to goal Red
The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey #7)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Note added to goal A book with a cat on the cover
Star Trek Cats
by Jenny Parks
Note added to goal A book based on mythology
When Maidens Mourn (Sebastian St. Cyr #7)
by C.S. Harris
Note added to goal Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II
written by G. Willow Wilson
Note added to goal A book about an immigrant or refugee
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II
written by G. Willow Wilson
Note added to goal Any other color
The Golden Ocean
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal A book with a family-member term in the title
Cousin Kate
by Georgette Heyer
Note added to goal A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
Note added to goal A book recommended by an author you love
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey #6)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Note added to goal Read a fantasy novel
The Magic City
by E. Nesbit
Note added to goal A number in numbers
Ms. Marvel Vol. 4: Last Days
by G. Willow Wilson
Note added to goal A book with one of the four seasons in the title
Summer Crossing
by Truman Capote
Note added to goal Read a superhero comic with a female lead
Ms. Marvel Vol. 4: Last Days
by G. Willow Wilson
Note added to goal A word that implies color
The Wine Dark Sea (Aubrey-Maturin #16)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
Beowulf
Trans. Seamus Heaney
Note added to goal A book about an interesting woman
Jane and the Man of the Cloth (Jane Austen Mysteries #2)
by Stephanie Barron
Note added to goal Brown
The Browning Version
by Terence Rattigan
Note added to goal A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey #5)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Note added to goal A book by an author from a country you've never visited
Fifteen Poems
by Leonard Cohen
Canada
Note added to goal A book set in two different time periods
Drawn to Life
by Elisabeth Wagner
Note added to goal A book with a red spine
The Mangle Street Murders (#1 in the Gower Street Detective series)
by M.R.C. Kasasian
Note added to goal A book with a month or day of the week in the title
Friday's Child
by Georgette Heyer
Note added to goal A book that is a story within a story
Lincoln's Dreams
by Connie Willis
Note added to goal Read an all-ages comic
I Think I Am In Friend-Love With You
by Yumi Sakugawa
Note added to goal The first book in a series you haven't read before
Kydd
by Julian Stockwin
#1 in the Thomas Kydd series
Note added to goal A book by an author from a country you've never visited
The Dragonslayer's Apprentice
by David Calder
(New Zealand)
Note added to goal Read a debut novel
Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
#1 in the Lord Peter Wimsey series
Note added to goal A book with pictures
The Dragonslayer's Apprentice
by David Calder
Note added to goal A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
#1 in the Lord Peter Wimsey series
Note added to goal A book that's been mentioned in another book
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Note added to goal An espionage thriller
N or M?
by Agatha Christie
Note added to goal A book with multiple authors
The Unexpected Guest
Based on the play by Agatha Christie, novelization adapted by Charles Osborne
Note added to goal A book that takes place over a character's life span
Getting to Know Him
by Hugh Fordin
Note added to goal A building in the title
At Bertram's Hotel
by Agatha Christie
Note added to goal A title with an X somewhere in it
An Excellent Mystery
by Ellis Peters
Note added to goal A book by a person of color
Year of Yes
by Shonda Rhimes
Note added to goal Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey
Year of Yes
by Shonda Rhimes
Note added to goal A book with an eccentric character
Candida
by George Bernard Shaw
Note added to goal Read a book about books
A Society
by Virginia Woolf
Note added to goal A title with at least two alliterative words
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
by Shonda Rhimes
Note added to goal A book of letters
Dear Elizabeth
arranged by Sarah Ruhl, based on writings by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Note added to goal Black
The Raven in the Foregate
by Ellis Peters (aka Edith Pargeter)
Note added to goal A book by an author who uses a pseudonym
The Raven in the Foregate
by Ellis Peters (aka Edith Pargeter)
Note added to goal A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal A book involving a mythical creature
The Magic World
by E. Nesbit
Note added to goal Read a collection of stories by a woman
The Magic World
by E. Nesbit
Note added to goal A book set in a hotel
At Bertram's Hotel
by Agatha Christie
Note added to goal A book with a subtitle
Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
by Mara Wilson
Note added to goal Attend a professional sporting event
LA Kings vs. Dallas Stars, at the Staples Center, 1/9/2017
(Stars won)
Note added to goal Read a book published between 1900 and 1950
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
1905
Note added to goal A book with a title that's a character's name
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Note added to goal A book by or about a person who has a disability
The Clocks
by Agatha Christie
Note added to goal Blue
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin #20)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal A book involving travel
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin #20)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal An audiobook
The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin #19)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal Read a book about war
The Hundred Days (Aubrey-Maturin #19)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal Read a book you've read before
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey-Maturin #20)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal Yellow
The Yellow Admiral (#18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal A novel set during wartime
The Yellow Admiral (#18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series)
by Patrick O'Brian
Note added to goal Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location
The Yellow Admiral (#18 in the Aubrey-Maturin series)
by Patrick O'Brian

Set primarily off the coast of Brest, 5400~ miles from my location in California.
Note added to goal A movie from 2007
Hot Fuzz
Note added to goal A work of post-apocalyptic fiction written by a woman
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Note added to goal A dystopian or post-apocalyptic novel
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Note added to goal A dystopian novel
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
Note added to goal A book recommended by someone you just met
Holes (re-read)
by Louis Sachar
recommended by Brett
Note added to goal An autobiography
Being Jazz
by Jazz Jennings
Note added to goal A memoir by someone who identifies as LGBTQIA
Being Jazz
by Jazz Jennings
The 7 Things Challenge:
7 Things x 2017

My seven answers to the Day Zero alternative New Year's resolutions poll:
  1. Learn how to drive
  2. Start game writing
  3. Stop eating animal products
  4. Take a vacation to New York City
  5. Find a new job
  6. Try to cook more
  7. Be more kind to myself
Note added to goal A movie from 1989
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Note added to goal A book from Oprah's Book Club
Wild
by Cheryl Strayed
Note added to goal The first book you see in a bookstore
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
script by Jack Thorne & J.K. Rowling
Note added to goal A movie from 2005
To the Ends of the Earth
(technically a miniseries, but I'm okay with that)
Note added to goal Read the book before you see the movie
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by JK Rowling
Note added to goal A book based on a fairy tale
The Game
by Diana Wynne Jones
Note added to goal Complete NaNoWriMo 2016
50,702 words of the novel Killing Time, completed on 11/29/2016.
Note added to goal A book that was adapted into a movie. Then watch the movie
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by JK Rowling
Note added to goal A self-improvement book
The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One
by Margaret Lobenstine
Note added to goal Yellow
Crucible of Gold
Temeraire #7
by Naomi Novik
Note added to goal A book by or about a person who identifies as transgender
If I Was Your Girl
by Meredith Russo
Audiobook read by Samia Mounts

Read 9/29/16 - 9/30/16
Note added to goal A book that's becoming a movie this year
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by Newt Scamander (by way of JK Rowling)
Note added to goal Go to a museum I have never visited before
KKG Heritage Museum, Columbus, Ohio, 9/18/2016
Note added to goal Visit a state I've never been to before
Marengo and Columbus, Ohio, September 2016
Note added to goal Title includes a month of the year
April Lady
by Georgette Heyer
Note added to goal A political memoir
Sex Object
by Jessica Valenti
Note added to goal Attend a professional sporting event
LA Dodgers vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, 13 August 2016. Dodgers won, 4-8.
Note added to goal Attend a professional sporting event
Arsenal vs. Chivas Guadalajara, 31 July 2016. Arsenal won (huzzah).