Doing Not Thinking Challenge - Update

Here are my Goals for the Doing Not Thinking Challenge:
1. I had a goal of 50 books for this year and passed it so to myself I had quietly said 100. So now outloud I say I want to get 100 books read this year.
2. Bake more bread instead of buying — I always have back up bought loaves in the freezer and somehow they always get used and then I get another. So I want to committ to making my own bread more often.
3. Which leads to this one — learning how to make buns — hamburger and hotdog buns. We eat brats and hot dogs quite a bit during the summer and although it is ending soon I have been wanting to make buns for a while. So maybe I can have them mastered by next summer. I found some good instructions in a Beth Hensperger book and setting this goal I believe will help me just do it!


So an update on my progress:
1. I am up to 82 books and at this moment reading 3 so hopefully by next Monday will be at 85 books. I might post a list of the 82 books I have read tomorrow. (link goes to my 2008 list of books read on goodreads.com)
2. One of the books I finished last week is Artisian Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Basically it is a book that tell you how to mix up a BIG batch of bread dough that you store in your fridge and pull from over a 2 week period. I got ingredients for it last week so I am set to try it out. I am going to mix up a batch today so hopefully I will have an update on how it tastes, looks and if it is a viable option for keeping bread on hand instead of buying it.
3. I haven't started this goal yet but hope to tackle that this week sometime too as I would really like to have homemade buns for Labor Day weekend - when we grill brats.

I might add a 4th goal along the same lines of baking bread -- but I will wait to see how things go with the other two baking goals.

Now going over to the Doing Not Thinking Challenge page on Two Frogs Home to check out how the others are doing with the challenge!