Yearly progress

I think I have made some good progress on the goals I wanted to accomplish in 2011 considering we're only about 3 weeks into the new year.

So far I have:

• Submitted an abstract to 3ICSHM
• Made the maximum yearly contribution to my IRA
• Run at least 20 miles every week (in fact I've run more than 25 miles every week but I've been slacking at updating my little blog tool... which I'm going to delete now because I don't use it)
• Saved more than 20% on both my trips to the grocery store (28 and 34% the past two weekends!)
• Made plans to attend the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with Caitlin (I will be going to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama! By May I will have visited 35/50 states - well on my way to my lifetime goal of visiting all the states)
• Submitted my Master's committee form (first step towards graduating with my Master's in May!)
• Made three new recipes (the third I will post about once I take the pictures off my camera)
• Lost 4 pounds (if I maintain this pace I should reach my "vacation" weight prior to our trip!)
• Worked more than 40 hours a week in lab each week (I've been working 6 days/week so far this year in preparation for my lab meeting presentation and just because there are a lot of things I am working on and the weekends are the best time to get to use all the equipment I need without being in everyone's way)
• Read 4 books for pleasure (only two of them were books I'd never read, so I only included two posts about them)