"What is started today is never finished tomorrow." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My 50 in 500 goals were supposed to be completed by November 23rd. I've been dreading this update because there are numerous goals that I didn't get to, and I fear your judgement, Internet. None the less, you deserve to know what was completed and what didn't. (For those of you who don't know or remember, I started a list of 50 things I wanted to accomplish in 50 days. Here is the post.)

So without further delay or procrastination, here is the complete list, color coded. Doesn't that count for something?

1. Buy a house (Completed 9/2/09)

2. Launch www.jennyslens.com - (Completed 6/4/2010)

3. Knit a scarf - FAIL - Although I do go to a coffee shop every Monday night to knit with my friends, it's just that I usually edit photos the entire time.

4. Get a new logo for Jenny's Lens (Completed! 2/1/10)

5. Visit Chicago - Work in progress. My friends and I are hoping to go soon

6. Organize my iTunes Library into playlists (Completed 11/23/2010)

7. Go on a missions trip (Completed 10/19/09)

8. Head toward my ideal weight - Always working on this one!

9. Blog everyday for a month (Completed 3/20/10)

10. Visit my friend Steven in Philly (Completed! 9/4/2010)

11. Organize my filing system in my classroom - moved out of the classroom, so this on is redacted.

12. Get some "gallery prints" of my work - FAIL

13. Get a dog (Completed)

14. Take an art class - FAIL

15. Work out 4x a week for a month - Completed (August and September 2010)

16. Read the Bible cover to cover - FAIL

17. Organize and archive personal photos -Work in progress

18. Learn how to use Photo Shop - FAIL

19. Take a road trip - (Completed 8/2010)

20. Shoot a destination wedding - I'm giving myself this one because I had to drive 2 hours to one wedding. Stretch? Yes.

21. Get photography business onto The Knot FAIL

22. Re-learn the guitar- Work in progress

23. Create photo books from my snapshots through the years - Work in progress

24. Find a cool way to package my photo products - Work in progress

25. Solve my Rubik's Cube (Abandoned?)

26. Get better about sending out cards to past clients-FAIL

27. Join a photography forum - FAIL

28. Read one classic lit book that I haven't read (Completed! 10/20/2010)

29. Bake my own bread (Completed! 11/25/2010)

30. Do another family shoot of my entire family (Completed 12/5/2010)

31. Plant my own garden (Completed May 2010)

32. Run a 5K - FAIL - I'm putting this on the next list

33. Invest in a 70-200 f/2.8 lens FAIL - I forgot about this one

34. Organize the folders on my laptop - Work in progress

35. Start a personal blog (Completed!)

36. Start using only reusable grocery bags - Work in progress - sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't

37. Create info sheets for clients (Completed, but now I need to start using it!)

38. Spend a week without TV (Completed! 7/3/2010)

39. Create my own recipe box like Mom's FAIL

40. Memorize a book of the Bible -- yes that says book FAIL - I'm close

41. Paint something to hang in my house (Completed! 5/2/2010)

42. Donate my hair to Locks of Love (completed 8/17/09)
43. Learn to make my own chai tea latte (Completed 10/4/2010)

44. Pay off my car FAIL - should be done by February

45. See the movie "What About Bob?" FAIL - How did I miss such a simple one?

46. Plan a B4 reunion-Work in progress

47. Travel to a different continent (Completed 10/19/09)

48. Do 25 consecutive push-ups FAIL

49. Host a dinner party (Completed constantly!)

50. Document a "Day in my life" with photographs (Completed 3/5/10)

For those of you keeping track, that's 24 completed, 1 abandoned, 1 redacted, 14 fails, and 10 works in progress. I'll do better next time. And next time I'm not highlighting my failures in red!

:j