Word of the Week:

Nefarious [nuh-FAIR-ee-uhs], adjective. Wicked in the extreme.

Despite involvement in protection, narcotics, strong-arm debt collecting, strikebreaking, and blackmail, among other nefarious activities, all of them professed to be a cut above mobsters in other lands.
-Robert Whiting, Tokyo Underworld

And my updated list is ( under the cut. )

So I am definitely making progress on my list!

16. Cook something new at least once a month.
-January 7, 2009: Cream of Mushroom Chicken and Rice. So good!

and

32. Send a group of postcards for postcrossing once a month.
-January 2009: Sent cards to their new homes in Boston, Mass, Thailand, Hungary, China and Finland.


To Do List for the Day:
1. Take a picture of Listerfiend.
2. Wash my car.
3. Go to the dry cleaners (37. on my list). Now if I can just remember to pick it up tomorrow!
4. Find out what day the Super Bowl is. Sunday February 1, 2009.

Thanks to inspiration per members of the mission101_2009 community, I have adopted 2 new goals. They will not replace any of my current goals, they are just things I want to do and it feels good to mark things off of a list of "To Do's".

The first one is to donate 5,000 grains of rice per week via FreeRice.com.

The second is to learn a new word every week and use it in my daily vocabulary so that it actually sticks with me. I will post a new word on each Sunday in my personal journal, along with mission101_2009 on my weekly updates. Please feel free to add me if you are working towards a similar goal or just for the sake of learning. This week we won't have as long to learn the word, but it's an easy one:

Tryst [trist], noun. A meeting of lovers (usually secret).

And if anyone following wouldn't mind posting a sentence (or paragraph if you're feeling generous), using the word to give others examples of the usage.

And on on a side note, I am happy to report that #48 is still running smoothly, Listerfiend is still alive and well.

FreeRice.com update: I donated 10,300 today...perhaps I should increase my weekly requirement.