Thing 93

93. Using a pedometer to keep track, walk to Mordor (1779 miles)

I found my old pedometer and discovered it needed a battery. When I went to the store to get one, I couldn't find the right size but I did find a new pedometer for only $5. So I got that instead. I'm going to be using this blog's handy breakdown to figure out where on the journey I am. And yesterday I put together a spreadsheet to keep track of my progress. This actually came at a great time for me personally. I've written a few Middle Earth fics this week, so their world is at the forefront of my thoughts.

I started out from the Shire yesterday. So far, I've walked 2.277 miles. I've got 455.723 miles left until I get to Rivendell, the last homely house east of the sea/west of the mountains.

Thing 83

83. Save $1 a day in a special account

Yesterday I emptied out my account from last list. I want to use it for something fun like buying a new digital camera, a new laptop. going to a con, or buying a few LEGO sets I've had my eye on. However, I'm having a tough time right now with my finances so I suspect most of it will be going to pay off my credit card debt. Not fun, but at least it helps me cover some of my recent expenses. I hope to have enough left over for a few smaller fun things!

And so I start fresh with the account this time around. There's a scheduled transfer of $7 every week.

Thing 77

77. Save money and make an extra mortgage payment every May

This was on my list last year as well, and I thought it important to keep there this time. I have a transfer scheduled every week to put money into a special account for this savings goal. So far, I've never had to dip into it and, with interest, I've been able to pay a little more than one payment amount every May. So I definitely want to keep this up to pay off my mortgage faster.

Thing 82

82. Make a loan through Kiva Zip

I intended to wait until I had enough credit in my account for another loan. But I clicked on KivaZip this morning, signed in (created an account there using my regular Kiva account) and this loan caught my eye. I loaned in honor of 6of8's dear kitty, Minerva.

Furry Tails
A loan of $5,000 helps me to remodel the basement to add boarding services to my dog daycare and to start a non profit to help disabled dogs and cats

Thing 99

99. Do one thing from my list of things that didn’t make the cut this time

To keep myself honest, here's the list of items I wanted to do but didn't have room for from which I must choose to complete this thing.

List of Things That Didn’t Make the Cut This Time:

Hang books from trees at the Fall for the Book Festival
Attempt to cook/bake a copycat recipe
Learn cued speech
Visit Meridian Hill Park in D.C.
Read all books from the top 10 time travel books list
Make a list of 10 books on my general TBR shelves and read those books
Watch all of Hercules & Xena
Go geochaching
Snarf in a state I’ve never actively snarfed in before
Make my own weekly cleaning list like http://www.pinterest.com/pin/421438477602352420/
Keep story spreadsheet updated
Say yes to something I would not normally do and then do it
Go to a flea market
Make a faerie house/door
Self-publish another Strokes collection
Watch all movies I own on DVD and have never seen before
Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
Do 30% of Northern Virginia in the Time Traveler’s Passport
Do something with my shoe boxes of photos
Sort & deal with all email in my inbox
Get two art/photography/craft books and try something in each of them
Read 10 pages at random on Wikipedia
Put up shelves in LEGO Loft
Use cloth bags at the grocery store 500 times (multiple bags during a single trip count)
Read every Newbery Medal winning book (or one book out of the group of winner/honored books for each year)
Put together Scotland/Ireland trip scrapbook
Take a photo on the hour every hour for one day
Have 10 BookCrossers/people suggest a book each for me to read and read those
Make a list of 25 movies in my Netflix queue and watch them
Go a whole month without spending money on anything but essentials
Clear 100 books off my TBR shelves
Backup entire LJ
Try a new-to-me craft
Read through all of Fashion It So
Sort through all VHS tapes. Watch them, keep to digitize them, or get rid of them!
Send cards to 10 people with lists of 10 things I love about them
Visit 5 different non-chain and/or used book stores
Build a closed terrarium
Watch all of Fringe
Get to 12,000 books released on BookCrossing
Visit the Frontier Culture Museum
Loan in 10 new-to-me countries through Kiva
Make myself an Eeyore message board
Start a happiness jar and put in at least 30 items
Try writing in one of the library’s private study carrels
Participate in the Real Simple No-Obligation book club