Unread magazine project - part 2

Last week I talked about my Unread magazine project regarding my unread Martha Stewart Living magazines and my plan to get through them in one year's time.

I have to say that I had my doubts - in myself.  I wasn't sure if I could do this.  I thought, If I went all this time and didn't look at these magazines, then what makes me think that I'm going to do it now?

Thankfully, I did not follow, nor believe that thought. 

A few hours after that post, I gathered all of my Martha Stewart magazines and sorted them into piles according to month.  Most months had four magazines, some had three. 

I reorganized the magazines so that the upcoming months would be closer at hand and put the August, July, June, May and April magazines further out of reach.  

My first month to tackle - September - with four magazines.  Hmmm...

 

On Friday, I decided to start looking at the first magazine (from 2003!) and had an instant realization - I love, love, love Martha Stewart Living magazine. 

You might be wondering why that was such a realization.  I'd built up in my mind that getting through a Martha Stewart Living magazine ranked up there with pulling teeth or climbing Mount Everest.  Not so. 

I forgot how easy it was to go through the magazine and how much I enjoyed reading it.  Before I knew it, I'd finished magazine number one.  Yippee! 

Magazine number two quickly followed and I'm currently working on (playing on) magazine number three. 

The unread magazine project has also resulted in a few fun side trips as well. 

I found three recipes in magazine number one that I wanted to try, so on Sunday, I bought the ingredients at the farmers market and spent the majority of the afternoon making roasted vegetable soup (majorly labor intensive, yet good) and honey walnut cake.  Jon approves of both so the recipes took up residence in my recipe book.

What started out as a dreaded project has turned into a fantastic adventure.  What bliss!

What's something you're dreading doing that might result in an adventure?  How can you use adventure more in your everyday life?

I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries.   

  

Comments

[Toni]

I applaud your result. You enjoyed and good things came from this. When I have followed your steps I, too, have found pleasure in the moment. Interestingly to me though, I have heard this voice saying, "This is older info. Time to go in." Where does this come from? I think from reading "yesterday's" newspaper. Thus I have gotten out of the habit of reading older magazines.

[Toni]

My sentence in the post was intended to be, "This is older info. Time to go on."