It’s been a busy week of New Experiences and I’ve gotten a little behind sharing them with you. I will remedy that situation this week.

Do you remember how, when I reached my goal of having 100 New Experiences in 8 1/2 months, I decided to reset the goal and have 150 new experiences by April 11th (the 1 year anniversary of this journey)?

Last night, I counted up my New Experiences. To date, I’ve had 131 new experiences and I’ve still got almost a full month before my deadline.

More specifically, I’ve got 26 days to have 19 New Experiences.

I think it’s a pretty safe bet I’ll reach 150 New Experiences, but how many will I actually have? Honestly, I have no idea.

In the upcoming week, you can look forward to posts about my day at the Orchid Show with my mom; the staycation I took to Milwaukee with my cousin; trying new foods including a Shamrock Shake, Green River, Goose Island Root Beer and Spicy Ginger, and a Bloody Mary; serving as an election judge; an interview I’m doing later this week; and the workshop I attended with stylist Sally McGraw of Already Pretty. Go read her stuff. She’s the best.

For today, however, I just want to say Thank You.

Each week, the ChicagoNow bloggers get to see behind the curtain and receive stats on where our blog ranks among the other blogs on the network. We also receive a list of the most 50 popular posts for the week. For just the second time in my five months on ChicagoNow, Little Merry Sunshine has ranked among the Top 50 blogs of the week (ranking at #33 out of several hundred CN blogs; previously LMS was #49) and the post “Why I Can’t Lean In to Ban Bossy” ranked as the #39 post for the week.

There are some truly excellent blogs and posts and I encourage you to check them out.

Thank you for reading, liking, and sharing Little Merry Sunshine this past week. You are the best!

(Being in the Top 50 Blogs and the Top 50 Blog Posts in the same week is New Experience #216)

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