Movies from every letter of the Alphabet

So I finally did it.  I watched a movie from every letter of the alphabet.  Rather than review every movie I watched, I have a few key takeaways from forcing myself to watch these movies.

It took about a year to watch the movies.  I put very little thought into the movies themselves and in some cases, took the only movie I could find with the letter. For example: XXX State of the Union.

This is a movie I would have gladly watched 20 years ago, when I was 15 but now that I'm 35, it was a struggle.  Corny acting, basic story-line, predictable.  It's a movie to watch explosions and CGI Stunts and listen to corny dialogue.

I did watch a number of movies that I was not interested in solely to get through them.  I had a hard time finding good movies for U and X that I had not already seen.

Overall, not a bad experience and it forced me to watch movies in genre's I would not normally watch.  I watched movies back to the 60's and had a good time with most of them.

My next movie goal is to watch all 5 best picture nominations from the 1982 (year I was born) oscars.

I've completed them all except for "Reds".  I might even rent it today.

401 (k) Re-evaluation Complete

Today I am feeling quite accomplished.  I spent over an hour looking at my 401k and completely re-evaluated it and changed elections etc.  It's been performing fairly well however over time it gets out of balance as some holdings do better/worse than others.  I'm officially going to check this one off of my goals list.  In addition, I also did the same for Shelby's retirement account.

I'm told that I need to save $2.6 Million for retirement.  Doing the math, it looks possible... I guess but it's going to take a lot of good market years for that to happen.  Here's hoping that we see some stability 30 years from now.  Hard to believe given today's political climate.

101 in 1,001 update

It's been a while since I have blogged here.  I have to get better at this.

As of today, 12/11/2016, I have made significant progress.  I am 377 (38%) into this 1,001 days challenge and I have completed 41 (40+%) of the goals.

Recently, I completed:

Learn a song on the Ukulele:

• Farmhouse by Phish
• No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley 
• Whole bunch of other songs with the same chords.

Finish reading the Bible - I finished.  It took me 4 years of reading but I finished.

Create a Bucket List of at least 100 items and start checking some off.  More on this later.  I have 100 items and have already completed two items.

Buy new Steel Toe Boots - I finally did this.  My last ones lasted 10 years.  Thank you Timberland.  I bought a pair of Keen's this time.  We'll see how long they last.

Pay off my Student Loans - I cut a check for the next 6 months of student loans and paid them off completely.  All Done only 11 years after graduation.

Read 5 Classic Books I haven't yet read.

• Frankenstein
• Catch 22
• Wicked
• The Communist Manifesto (why not right)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

For the rest of the goals, many are well underway

25/26 movies for each letter of the alphabet.

4/5 watch oscar nominated movies from the year I was born.

Net Worth Goal is well underway and ready to be completed a year early.

Retirement savings goal is well underway and ready to be completed a year early.

23/70 Read my height in books. 

There are a lot of other goals that are "just do it's" that will occur over time.  I'm happy to say that over a year into this process, I'm still tracking and completing goals.  Here's to the next 12 months.