I love challenges

Having challenges make one feel accomplished- or horrible when they fail. But with school coming to an end (the light keeps getting brighter and brighter every day) i decided i needed to take on some challenges. The most obvious, slightly ironic, and not as easy to accomplish as it might appear is to stay focused enough to pass all of my classes so that i can get out of LaCrosse (at least for some time). Another one is to exercise 30 minutes and drink 64 ounces of water daily- which i miserably failed today- i didn't even drink down 32 ounces, and no deliberate exercising was done- although i did lift several men and chased around a four-year-old. Another challenge that ties in beautifully with this last one is to run a half marathon in May. There is a schedule to follow. So far i've only run as far as 4.6 some miles. But i am fairly on track. (ha! sorry, bad pun.) The last challenge at this point that i have taken on is to play the guitar decently- say, so that when i play a song, you can tell that i am playing a song. I especially want to tackle the F chord and bar chords. So far i can play 2 or 3 songs slowly. But i will keep at it. And the newly created challenge (i have my little sister to thank for the inspiration) is to read all of the books on her bookshelf before june- when she re-enters the country. Because at this point in time, i am pretty sure I will no longer have another opportunity as she will probably lock all her books away. So far i've only gotten one read. I don't know how many i have yet to read, but i am halfway through a second one. So, i have not yet accomplished a single one of these, yet i am hopeful that i am on my way.