Welcome to our blog.

This was our original purpose for creating this blog:

We are both baby boomers fast approaching sixty. This blog will chronicle the time leading up to reaching our significant day. Our mutual goal is to complete sixty specific tasks each by our 60th birthdays, and to both celebrate our experiences and our accomplishments.

We are "the fabled tortoise" in this effort. Our blog will begin with a slow start, so we ask for your patience. We are aiming for a strong finish, so we ask for your encouragement. We invite you to join us on our journey, laugh and cry with us, and celebrate with us. We encourage you to leave us your comments and feedback. Most of all, we hope you become inspired to perhaps create and complete your very own "___ by ___ list."

We borrowed this idea from a blog one of our nieces told us about: http://makingitlovely.com . The author is working on her list of "30 Before Thirty."

As we progressed we continued to reflect on the process and the progress:

We would like to make a point of clarification. Because we did not begin our endeavor until April that left us both with less than a year to complete all 60 tasks on each of our lists. Actually, JR has about four months and CEA has about seven months. For that reason we agreed that we would both use CEA's birthday so that we both have the same amount of time to complete our tasks.

Now we are both 60 and moving forward. We have decided to continue the blog, setting goals and celebrating our accomplishments, sharing our experiences and voicing our thoughts, and enjoying life by making the most of every day with which we are blessed.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

JR’s List Item #8 – (done) Expand the BCLT collection by 50 posters.

I completed the fiftieth poster last night.  I have to admit that towards the end it became more about getting the fifty done than the creativity of the posters themselves.  That is not to say that I did not care about the the quality, but the last few were done basically in the same style. 

I also added a total of 65 poster listings to sell on ebay.  Most are new additions to my poster collection.  Now I just wait and see.  Potential customers at ebay are looking and watching.  I just hope they are buying.

 I am going to print up a couple of each for the ready.
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2 comments:

The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

Congrats! As for the getting-it-done versus quality/perfection, isn't that quandary part of our perfectionistic natures?

July 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM
The 60 by 60 Ladies said...

I agree. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on perspective, truer words were never spoken.

July 25, 2010 at 8:24 AM

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