194 Kanji
I am sure no one cares, but to update, I am up to 194 total Kanji, meaning with just about 50 more 2nd grade will be done.
Once again I am learning these from the great book Remembering the Kanji by Jame W. Heisig. It really helps you remember them.
Farewell first grade, 94 Kanji
Well I have learned 94 total Kanji. Hard work these are. I feel exhausted after each set. I wonder if its really that much work forming new neural pathways. Whatever the case this means I am past the 80 mark, the number learned in First Grade in Japan. (as I mentioned in this post).
Yay, second year of elementary here I come (ha ha) .
Kanji List: 一二三四五六七八九十口日月田目古吾冒朋明唱晶品呂昌早旭世胃旦胆亘凹凸旧自白百中千舌升昇丸寸専博占上下卓朝只貝貞員見児元頁頑凡負万句肌旬勺的首乙乱直具真工左右有賄貢項刀刃切召昭則副別丁町可頂
Kana and Kanji update
Well I have gotten finally back to my study of Kanji now that I am done with the kana. I know about 52 Kanji. A first grader in Japan learns about 80 kanji in the first year. Of course their study is more in depth then mine is, I am just memorizing their (English) meaning and how to write them, so I have the foundation to learn Japanese. While first grade japanese students already know a considerable about of Japanese. But I still feel the need to compare.
I am of course not learning the same ones a Japanese first grader learns, because I have to learn them differently (as I do not know Japanese so mnemonics made for those, will not work for me). However I will keep track of the number I learn, and the approximate grade I am in. This is elementary school of course, if I recall they learn the Kana in kindergarten.
First Grade, 80 Kanji
Second Grade, 160 Kanji (240 total)
Third Grade, 200 Kanji (440 total)
Forth Grade, 200 Kanji (640 total)
Fifth Grade, 185 Kanji (825 total)
Sixth Grade, 181 Kanji (1006 total)
Junior High School, 939 Kanji (1945 total)
In all I plan to learn 2024 Kanji, which is all of the common use Kanji. This will put me a little above the ‘technical’ learning of a Junior High Schooler in Japan. But since they are Japanese, I have no doubt the average student knows far more then 2024 Kanji by the time they graduate Junior High School.
Since I have learned the Kana, I have for the most part passed kindergarten level, at least in the way of the symbols. Obviously in other areas except for language I am far more advanced then pretty much any kindergartner (in any country). My actual knowledge of the Japanese language and the ability to speak it is much less then them however. But my goal is working on the Kana/Kanji so I can learn the language (its out of order).
I also had a friend who was learning these as well, but she decided to drop contact with me recently. So, please get back in contact me at some point if you ever read this!
Anyway, when I pass first grade, I will let you know. Not that anyone cares, right! 
The kanji I have studied so far, that I know the meaning to and can write without looking:
一二三四五六七八九十百千口上下世中丸亘冒凸凹升卓舌旦博自早胃胆月白目朋田朝昇晶明昌旧旭占専日古吾呂品唱寸
Just so you know I am using the SRS.. Anki to help me study these Kanji!
On another note, I have been on a bit of a Manga binge. I have read about 12 complete series in the last 2 days. Its unfortunate for me because a number of them have sad endings, or are just plain sad. 
Remembering the Kana/Kanji
Well first of all I have taken to the AJATT method of teaching myself japanese, except for that fact its not actually all the time (I haven’t really started hard into the methods yet). He suggested two books, Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Kana. I only got the first of each so far, but Remembering the Kana isn’t to expensive.
Here are some links for you: Remembering the Kanji and Remembering the Kana
The author is very adept at forming explinations that will make each Kanji and Kana easy to remember. Some of them are very strange, but that makes them even harder to forget.
Having recently just gotten these books. I decided to do a few out of each, hiragana and some of the Kanji. I was really quite surprised at how fast I took up the first 20 or so Kanji, I haven’t done any more yet, but I wanted to get an idea what I was in for. It was very simple, and in a moment I will explain the why I was so surprised at how quickly I took them up. The other book I started and learned the first 17 hiragana from the Remembering the Kana. These were a bit more difficult then the Kanji, despite the increased complexity of the Kanji.
The interesting thing in this case is that I had been slowly practicing and learning the Hiragana on my own, but I was having a tough time of it, weeks with little real progress. I get this and within the first 37 minutes (the book has you time yourself for each lesson), I had learned 17 kana, obviously it was a bit less since I already knew some of them, such as a, i, u, tsu and so on but thats beside the point I also retained the ones I had not learned before.
Of course being sure I do retain them forever may be a bit harder, of course I will be using an SRS to help me along. I realize the increased complexity of the Kanji and the fact they relate directly to complete words and ideas makes it easier to memorize them, which would explain why I am having such a hard time with the Kana, which represent only sounds.