33 + 1400 x 10 = Happy Birthday

I know the actual answer is 14,330, but all the number is significant.

Today is a big day for Bowl of Stew(art). It is the blog's 10th birthday and the 1400th post. I did not expect the writing to last this long when Matthew convinced me to start in 2005. Thank you to all you who stop by to read.

The other number, 33 is the number of challenges in the 33 While 33. There is only three months left to complete the rest. I'm doing better than I had expected.

Tasks I have completed are blue. Goals that are in progress are in orange. And those I haven't even started are in regular font colour. This is how things stand:

1. Choose a "My One Word" to focus my 33rd year: Abide
2. Paint the canvas
3. Read the whole Bible
4. Finish 11 non-fiction books
5. Go some place new
6. Serve/help/volunteer in a new way
7. Capture Happiness every day
8. Count my blessings
9. Plan a trip
10. Remember Birthdays
11. Mail letters
12. Visit my Grandma Stewart
13. Build a snowman with my sister
14. Take a hot air balloon ride with my mum
15. Go for a hike in the woods 
16. Create a photo book
17. Learn a new skill
18. Make a new friend
19. Reconnect with past friends
20. Dance
21. Try a new food
22. Draw
23. Grow something
24. Be a vegetarian for 30 days
25. Sleep under the stars
26. Celebrate an obscure or odd "holiday"
27. Send flowers
28. Be flexible
29. Get lost in a corn maze
30. Send one of my works of fiction to a publisher
31. Do something I've been putting off
32. Host a murder mystery
33. Go on a date

20 challenges completed! That leaves 7 challenges in progress and 6 to start. If I complete 4.3 challenges over the next three months I might actually be done by April 25. Totally doable, right? Regardless of complete completion or not, I am content. This is by far the most successful year of Birthday Bucklist Challenges.