Day 24 of 1001

Kinda want to do this now

Last week was a good week for my 101 in 1001 challenge. I was able to get a spot as a medic at the Spartan Race on the 28th of October so I started my "Go to bed before midnight for a week" challenge the night before. It ended up being fun, but not nearly as busy as I expected (which is a good thing for the runners). The race I was at was 8 miles long with 25 obstacles to get over including a rope bridge, spear throwing, army crawl through mud under barbed wire, and rope climbs among other things. People have gotten seriously hurt at these before so there were a team of medics hired by the race and then a local ambulance service on scene to transport anyone who needed hospital treatment. I was there with the ambulance, but the medics invited me in to help so I could get some practice.

I ended up finishing the sleep goal at a friend's house this past Friday right after I crossed off my goal to have a reiki treatment. S. invited me up to go to a healing circle with a few other people not exactly knowing what it entailed. I had figured it was going to be something like a chakra cleansing workshop or guided meditation, but it ended up being an opportunity to have a reiki healing. There were more than 20 people there all together and about 6 were healers themselves. I ended up having three healers working on me and despite not being able to turn off my mind it was very relaxing. I noticed they spent a lot of time around my head and shoulders and I had a very tingly, warm feeling around my neck and the top of my shoulders. I'm just getting over a cold, so maybe they were working on that. Not really sure. But I did enjoy the experience and would very much like to do it again.

Since November 1st I've been working on my novel for NaNoWriMo and I'm at close to 2500 words. It's not as far as I'd hoped I'd be by now, but I didn't work at all on it this weekend since I was busy with friends and then with my Gram going back into the hospital. I like my idea though and I think I should be able to write a lot about it so hopefully I can get caught up soon. For now my title is Rewritten and it's about a high school age girl who finds a special locket that allows her to fall into books and meet her favorite characters.

Has anyone else out there had a reiki healing or anything similar? Any other WriMos working on novels? Anyone do the Spartan Race?

One Week In

I'm a week into my 101 in 1001 challenge and I've gotten a fair start on a few of my goals. The original list can be seen on the 101 in 1001 page of the blog here. I'm pretty happy with the progress I've made. Hopefully I can keep chipping away at the list little by little.

Goals in progress:
3. Become an EMT - This one is kind of cheating I suppose since I had started the class before I wrote my list, but I'm still going to count it as being in progress. We're about halfway through the course now and I just started my clinical time this week. We have to do a total of 16 hours in the ER and 24 hours on an ambulance. So far I'm at 13 hours of ride time and I've gone on 3 calls! Three might seem like not a big deal, but I'm pretty lucky since they were all from yesterday and most students don't get very many calls.

57. Participate in NaNoWriMo - I'm also moving this one to "in progress" since I have decided to take the plunge and am working on outlining my novel. (Although I might change subjects. We'll see haha) I've decided that whether I win the NaNo or not, as long as I've actually worked at it seriously I'll count it as complete since my goal is to participate. Maybe if I don't win but do enjoy it my next 101 list will have a "Win NaNo" goal!

60. Send 101 cards or letters to family and friends (3/101) - As you can see, I've managed to send 3 cards out. I was rather surprised that it only took 2 days for one of them to reach Hawaii! I've also created a list of people I'd like to send cards to eventually so I'll have a guideline to go off of when I'm stuck thinking "Who should I write to now?"

74. Keep up with my Question a Day Journal - I love this thing. My mom gave it to me for Christmas last year. It's a five year journal that has a question each day and four lines for a response. Today's question is "Who do you count on?" but it has funny ones like "What sound effect are you most like today?" too.

95. Save all my small change to cash in on the 1001st day - I just went and dumped all my coins into my piggy bank! I think I'll probably do this on a weekly basis or whenever my wallet gets too fat!