Janice’s Comments (group member since Dec 31, 2013)

Janice’s comments from the Challenge Yourself group.

I have completed all of my challenges but 2.

Double Dog Dare (Monthly Challenge) - 9/12
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 52/60

I'm confident that I will finish both of them by the end of the year. I think that's a first for me.

Almeta wrote: "I hope that Left Over Stew tastes good! "

I've already had one serving!

I've purged all previous unread challenge books (from 2016-2018) and am just focusing on what was left over for badge 4 of the 2019 Movie Mania challenge. That's a total of 30 books. I'm not going to aim for the 90+ books in badge 5.

My goals for 2020:


Chunksters - 0/10
Double Dog Dare (Monthly Challenge) - 0/12
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 0/60
Home Alone - 0/5
Hot Off The Press - 0/12
Left Over Stew - 0/30
O Canada - 0/5
Shelving Unit (Twisted Trivia) - 0/55
Where's Your Card? - 0/10

At some point leftover stew needs to be flushed down the toilet. I don't carry my stew forward to the next year.

I will have completed all but one of my challenges by the end of this year.


✔ Book or Movie - 83/36 (movie mania)
✔ Doorstops - 16/10
✔ Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 62/60
✔ Home Alone - 8/5
✔ Hot Off The Press - 14/12
✔ O'Canada - 5/5
✔ Reality Check - 6/5
✔ Where's Your Card? - 14/10

Double Dog Dare - 11/12 (monthly challenge) - currently reading final book
Left Over Stew - 12/30

I'm going to have Reality Check finished by the end of today. I finished two non-fiction this week for our "toppler" in another group, and I've got about 30 pages left in another non-fiction.

I have two categories finished:


Book or Movie - 38/36 read
Home Alone - 7/5 read

The others are about what I expected:
Doorstops - 7/10 read
Double Dog Dare - 6/12 read
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 29/60 read
Hot off the Press - 8/12 read
Left Over Stew - 6/30 read
O Canada - 3/5 read
Reality Check - 2/5 read
Where's Your Card? - 7/10 read

I'm pretty much on track with all my goals with the exception of my leftover stew.

Here's my list for 2019:

Book or Movie - 0/36
Doorstops - 0/10
Double Dog Dare - 0/12 (monthly challenge)
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 0/60
Home Alone - 0/5
Hot Off The Press - 0/12
Left Over Stew - 0/30
O'Canada - 0/5
Reality Check - 0/5
Where's Your Card? - 0/10

I thought I was going to reduce... LOL!

My final tally for 2018:


Doorstops - 9/15
Home Alone - 3/5
Left Over Stew - 9/27
Where's Your Card? - 13/20
✔ O'Canada - 5/5
✔ Reality Check - 7/5
✔ Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 69/65
✔ Hot Off The Press - 17/12

I managed to complete half of my goals. I'll definitely be downgrading in 2019.

Thanks Almeta. I clicked on Challenges in the navigation box in the right hand corner, main page. There must be a set number of challenges that it will show because it's not there. I see it in the "Catalogue thread". You'd think that would be the most likely place to look, right?

Here's the plan so far:

Doorstops - 0/10
Double Dog Dare - ??
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 0/65
Home Alone - 0/5
Hot Off The Press - 12/12
Left Over Stew - ??
O'Canada - 0/5
Reality Check - 0/5
Second One to Know (book 2 in series) - ??
Serial Eyes - ??
Where's Your Card? - 0/10


I'll fine tune towards the end of December. Oh, and I left one off. Don't want to reveal the YLTO 2019 challenge too soon.

Was there a "serial eyes" for 2018? I was just looking at the 2018 challenges in the aim of organizing for 2019 and the only one I could find was Second One to Know.

Almeta wrote: "I beginning to think that if we had leftovers, then it was for a reason. Maybe we just will never feel like reading them?☻ .."

I started doing the leftovers from the YLTO annual challenges. They were tasks I never got around to. But, I still have books from the Geocache challenge, and last year's All About You challenge on the Leftover Stew list.

This year, I'm more focused on reading the books I own. Many of the leftovers are books on my wishlist, so they are a low priority. I think I'll wipe the slate clean and just put the unfinished Zany Zodiac tasks on it. As of right now, I have 36 books that could potentially find themselves to the Leftover Stew challenge in 2019.

Here's my progress so far:

Doorstops - 9/15
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 60/65
Home Alone - 3/5
✔ Hot Off The Press - 16/12
Left Over Stew - 9/27
✔ O'Canada - 5/5
✔ Reality Check - 7/5
Where's Your Card? - 11/20

There's a couple that I overestimated this year.

It's scary to think that 2019 is just around the corner. I'm going to have to update my progress on this year's challenges and decide what I want to do with 2019.

I'm doing fairly well, I think. Some are better than others.


Doorstops - 6/15
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 21/65
Home Alone - 2/5
Hot Off The Press - 4/12
Left Over Stew - 4/27
O'Canada - 2/5
Reality Check - 1/5
Where's Your Card? - 4/20

My goals for 2018:


Doorstops - 0/15
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! - 0/65
Home Alone - 0/5
Hot Off The Press - 0/12
Left Over Stew - 0/27
O'Canada - 0/5
Reality Check - 0/5
Shortcut - 0/5
Where's Your Card? - 0/20

I've added a couple of new ones - Reality Check and Shortcut.

Based on my powers of deduction, strong logical mind, and knowing you well..... I'd say it was Home Alone. I'm a wee bit psychic.

Almeta, the start date on "Hear Ye Hear Ye" is Jan 1, 2016.