Day 5

I am 5% of the way there. To be honest today I did not feel like doing anything, but I did it anyway.  My 10 things were done by 5:00 and I still am enjoying it . After I get the first one done the rest seem easy. I still have no regrets even though  the end of my 100 days seems very far way.That's just more time I have to improve. I figured it out and I think it ends 4 days before my next birthday. That will make me happy. Every year when I have my birthday I look back on the previous year and try to think about what I learned in that year and what I would have done different if I had more time or if I would have made different choices . Sometimes there can be a fine line between dwelling on the past and doing some reflecting.

I try to make some of my ten things different everyday so I don't get bored. I am still practicing the piano daily and my Spanish. The rest varies. I have learned two more words in Spanish today to add to my list and the piano seemed to flow even smoother today than yesterday.I found a recipe in one my cookbooks I bought for my last birthday that I have not used yet . It is" Mediterranean Fish soup" It is a recipe from a a Restaurant called Botin's In Madrid Spain . It came out of my Vincent Price cookbook, " A Treasurey  of great recipes" .
I had no idea Vincent Price even wrote cookbooks until this year.His cookbooks are filled with recipes from restaurants he had been to around the world. I thought he was just an actor. I collect cookbooks and I use to love watching old Vincent Price movies as a kid. So I had to have it. Could you imagine what it would be like to have him for a dad. Your friends come over and stay the night and you see his shadow in the hall from the night light and he says good night to you and your friends and laughs in that creepy voice and peaks his head around the door. He has a voice that sticks in your mind forever. I remember watching a plant show as a kid and he was the narrator while a Venus flytrap captured a fly. He made that seem scary.

I am looking forward to my next 10 things tomorrow. I am not feeling overwhelmed at the end of the day. I can go to bed and feel good about what I have got done without having any regrets about my day . Yes , I still deal with some pain, but it is there weather I do anything or not. So I would rather end my day in some pain feeling like I made the most of my day instead of finishing my day in some pain overwhelmed and feeling like I wish I had done more. Every day is a gift from the Lord :)

A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all.  PSALM 34:19