Well the only thing I accomplished from my list of three things to accomplish this week was to do something nice for myself... BUT I think that was a pretty important one. On Monday morning I went and had a pedicure and the girl always winds up talking me into letting her do my nails too (I think because she's always horrified by their condition and takes personal responsibility for my horrible nails- both hands and feet). While I was relaxing away I vaguely remember her saying something about my nails being "shiny" and I must have nodded while watching a morning talk show on the nail salon's TV because before I knew it I had a pretty intense layer of glitter polish on top of the chosen color :-). So here is my tip of the week - pay attention when someone is doing something that affects your appearance! I'm pretty easy going about my nails though and knew I would mess them up promptly and have to remove it all anyway so I said what the heck - a sparkly week it shall be!
Other than that I read a few books for a workshop I'm going to on Saturday about books for teens but I think I will wait and blog about them as a group after the workshop. I always enjoy the books for this workshop but I'm also always happy to go back to reading things that aren't "assigned". Though I must say I read my first John Green book for a workshop and that certainly was worth it and created a groupie/ bit of a crazy stalker fan out of me :-)
Not sure I'll make any goals for the weekend-- it's going to be a pretty busy one. My other half has a birthday coming up and a high school reunion this weekend on top of a visit to my dads and work happy hour tonight... so aside from all the scheduled events I think my goal will just be to sit back, relax, and breathe.
Have a great weekend!
daffodils
Friday, October 21, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Fake Blogger
I'm definitely feeling like I'm not a really blogger... this page hasn't been updated in months...AND when I look at my "101 things to do list" it's pretty much at the same level of completion as it was all those weeks ago. I wish I had some great excuse but I really don't. Life just gets in the way - and when that happens it is generally the day to day mundane life getting in the way that doesn't exactly spark creativity.
So here we are again...at least I'm a consistently bad blogger - I feel like this is the gazillionth "I'm terrible at this" post since I started this thing :-) Maybe I need to make an appointment with myself a few times a week to do this.
Anyway - Like I said - not much accomplished on the list front. In fact I just went back and read through the list and some of the things left on it are sounding dreadfully boring to me at the moment. I think I already picked all the low hanging fruit, and tackled some of the more fun stuff... and now I'm left with things that generally sound like work. Hmmm, not sure that was really my intention when starting this project.
There are a few things though that I am interesting in accomplishing in the short term: 1. Read Gone With the Wind (it's downloaded onto my nook - I have a vacation coming up in November - I have NO excuse!) 2. Take a dulcimer lesson. As soon as kickball season is over and I have another weeknight free I think I'm gonna give this a real go. In fact I think I will put it on my goals for the week to make the phone call to set it up!
I have actually been doing some running in the past few months... I'm still not running solid lengths of time but even with walking breaks I can see that I'm getting faster and as long as I see progress I'm happy with baby steps!
I've also been doing a fair amount of reading - though nothing on my list. I've been reading bunches of Teen Romances for a workshop I'm facilitating at this weekend and I'm also in the middle of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I have a feeling that when I do finally finish this book it will inspire some blog posts. The books is exactly what it sounds like - a woman takes a year of her life devoting each month to a theme/goal for becoming happier and writes about it. Not all of it is earth-shattering, but even the stuff that should seem like common sense is good to be reminded of and think about once in a while.
I think that about catches everyone up. So here are my goals for the week:
1. Call about dulcimer lessons.
2. Blog again on Wednesday and Friday mornings
3. Do something nice for myself. This is sort of cheating -- I already know that as soon as the place opens at 10am I'm going to sneak in a pedicure before work today :)
So here we are again...at least I'm a consistently bad blogger - I feel like this is the gazillionth "I'm terrible at this" post since I started this thing :-) Maybe I need to make an appointment with myself a few times a week to do this.
Anyway - Like I said - not much accomplished on the list front. In fact I just went back and read through the list and some of the things left on it are sounding dreadfully boring to me at the moment. I think I already picked all the low hanging fruit, and tackled some of the more fun stuff... and now I'm left with things that generally sound like work. Hmmm, not sure that was really my intention when starting this project.
There are a few things though that I am interesting in accomplishing in the short term: 1. Read Gone With the Wind (it's downloaded onto my nook - I have a vacation coming up in November - I have NO excuse!) 2. Take a dulcimer lesson. As soon as kickball season is over and I have another weeknight free I think I'm gonna give this a real go. In fact I think I will put it on my goals for the week to make the phone call to set it up!
I have actually been doing some running in the past few months... I'm still not running solid lengths of time but even with walking breaks I can see that I'm getting faster and as long as I see progress I'm happy with baby steps!
I've also been doing a fair amount of reading - though nothing on my list. I've been reading bunches of Teen Romances for a workshop I'm facilitating at this weekend and I'm also in the middle of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I have a feeling that when I do finally finish this book it will inspire some blog posts. The books is exactly what it sounds like - a woman takes a year of her life devoting each month to a theme/goal for becoming happier and writes about it. Not all of it is earth-shattering, but even the stuff that should seem like common sense is good to be reminded of and think about once in a while.
I think that about catches everyone up. So here are my goals for the week:
1. Call about dulcimer lessons.
2. Blog again on Wednesday and Friday mornings
3. Do something nice for myself. This is sort of cheating -- I already know that as soon as the place opens at 10am I'm going to sneak in a pedicure before work today :)
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