900 day update

I've had a lot of changes happen in the last hundred days or so. It's been pretty eye-opening and interesting. I've had a lot of different relationships and feelings that have developed that I've never really felt before in my life and that's been interesting. 

I'm going to work on finishing up my list for my next 101 goals for 1,001 days attempt. I'm at about 56 of my goals I've written down for my next attempt for 101 goals and a thousand in one days. That's going to start on January 20th, 2025 and go until October of 2027

This July I took a weekend class for Iowa writers workshop. I would count that as my adult Ed thing. It was interesting. It was the Iowa Summers writing program. I did a class on site which was really interesting. I never done that before. It was okay. I would probably go in person and not stay in a hotel. But I enjoy a lot of remote classes. I took one with Robert Siegel last year. That was great and would highly recommend his class.

I got three sinks faucets replaced. The kitchen and my bathroom  so hopefully my plumbing stuff is all good to go going forward. I do have a bidet that came in this year and that's been pretty nice. Saves a lot of money on toilet paper and all that

I'm fairly happy right now. I got a lot of things knocked out and accomplished. I liked the team that I'm working with overall. There's been a lot of restructures new boss all that stuff but I feel like I'm pretty knowledgeable at what I do and I'm good at it and hopefully that will continue. I still work 4 days remotely from home and one day in the office so that day it looks like is going to stay consistent which is cool. It used to fluctuate between Mondays and Fridays and now it's going to be another day and consistently that day 

I've been using future me. I've been writing letters to future me and I hit my 365 days in a row of writing for 750 words. I'm in the 450s I believe for the number of days that I've been writing so that's been good. By the next time I do my update it should be should be over 500 days which I've never hit before and then also in 80 days or so it's going to be icon Iowa. I've been doing different events for networking 

I went to some non-profit fundraisers with my tech business. I would donate an hour up to 2 hours of help and then people can bid on it. It raises money for the non-profit. It gets me more awareness and all that stuff. I did one for a garden party that I've been going to for almost 20 years. I will probably continue doing that going forward. 

I went to Colorado. We buried mom's ashes in Estes Park. I hadn't been to Colorado since 2019 but Estes Park I hadn't been to in over 10 years. I'm not in a big rush to go back there again, but it was cool to check out

Reflections on friendships and relationships

My Three core group of friends have really changed. My buddy who I used to carpool with and help me get the job here. We're having dinner tonight and we've been doing more stuff together. Another buddy of mine, my State Fair friend. He moved out of state last month that's been really hard. He was my handyman and we just did a lot of things together. Another friend of mine for the last 10 years we've been having some issues and haven't we seen each other much. I should see him at the end of August for his birthday though and I still want to stay friends with him and do stuff but I think it's been good having a cooling off time. 

One person who I hadn't talked to in well over a hundred days. We reconnected at a party last weekend which was cool. They kind of crashed the party but hopefully we'll be getting along better and doing more stuff. Another person I work with requested that I add them on Facebook and I don't do that but then that turned into several phone calls back and forth and a lot of life enriching conversations. So we'll see where that goes but it's been interesting.

The next time I do do my update it will be 101 days from now. Will be the end of the line for my goals here. 

I really enjoy doing this. I plan on doing this for the rest of my life. I feel like these are good girls to have the biggest thing over this time was the new job and then also the death of mom. There were some other things that were going on but those were the things that just stay on the top of my mind. 

Hopefully I will continue to have peace. Harmony and a good time with my wife. Good health, good opportunities, etc.