Katie's 99 in 999 (currently 55 in 555!)

This is a goal I recently added to replace one I thought was too similar to another on the list, and it couldn't have come at a better time.  Lately, I've been Miss Whines-A-Lot about everything .  Class?  Boring.  Work?  Terrible.  Gas?  Expensive.  People?  Obnoxious.  Chasing toddlers around at church?  Tiring.  Never mind how fortunate I am to be in a graduate program, to have a full-time job, to own a car, to be social, and to play with adorable, loving children every Sunday.  I have serious gratitude issues, so I'm putting myself through gratitude rehab...starting today.  I'm also taking a Facebook hiatus, which will help shift the focus from the "things I want" to the "things I have." I like to keep this blog strictly as a measure of list progress, so I won't be posting daily entries here.  Those will be at my other blog .  If you ever have a day when you're feeling upset, inferior, frustrated, or annoyed with everything going on in

I've been so busy lately that I haven't been keeping up with my blog(s), but I figured this one was easy enough!  Two weeks ago, I found out that the Borders store where I work would be closing (I found another job, for those of you who don't read my other blog) and I was pretty bummed about losing my book-borrowing privileges.  Borders employees get to borrow brand-new books for two weeks!  Crazy, right?  I had pretty much plowed through half the independent reader section and wasn't about to stop just because some bookstore was going out of business, so I finally hauled my laziness down to the library.  I don't know what I was expecting when I went, but it certainly wasn't a stone building with arches and courtyards and fountains and brass lettering over carved wooden doors.  The main library here is the nicest I've ever seen.  Possibly the nicest public library in America.  I really should've taken pictures, but the children's section is filled