Fishes and Kisses
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Here goes!
Feeling a bit of trepidation, but a lot of excitement.
Things to finish this summer:
- Organize my Issues of Vegetarian Times by August of 2007. Have the recipes in the binder, by meal type. Creating a searchable database of ingredients is optional.
- Have my ring re-sized. I would like to have a wedding ring that fits by my 2-year anniversary!
- Create an altered book. Get this done already!
- Get people to fill out this johari and nohari thing. I really just want 2 or 3 more people to at least do the johari. Surely I can do that in the next 3 months.
- Tell my father I love him. In person. If I get to see him this summer.
- Give up gluten for one month. Either do this, or take it off the list, or change it to a more useful goal (e.g. figure out whether it’s gluten or soy that makes my tummy hurt).
- Quit my job. By the end of June, this will either be done or given up on.
- Survive my first Chicago Spring. This is basically done, just need to mark it off and post something about it.
- Buy a bike. Hopefully this month!
- Use del.icio.us. Already using it, but I want to get a lot better at sharing and networking (come on, Matt, send me some bookmarks!), and also post some of the cool stuff I’ve learned to do, and then I’ll consider this done.
- Synchronize my 43T things and Remember the Milk tasks. This might cause things to be added to this challenge.
- Challenge myself this summer! Yes!
Things to make specific, measurable progress on this summer:
- Practice discardia. Do this at least one more time.
- Get the medical care I need. Get back on antidepressants; get more help with my neck and shoulder (meds, therapy, or both).
- Post 100 quotes that I like for whatever reason! Get up to 60. Also, get 2 new quotes to make up for the ones I’ve repeated.
- Stick to my FlyLady routines. Continue doing my morning routine most mornings. Have an evening routine and do it most evenings.
- Read 43 books about my city. Read at least 3 more.
- Explore 43 new places in my city. Add at least 6 more.
- Be sexually healthy. Figure out what what will help me achieve this goal. Not necessarily do it by August, just figure it out.
- Get my LCSW. Find out what this entails in Illinois.
- Adopt 2 children. Make a short list of 3 to 5 adoption agencies which might be good matches for us.
- Get strong. Like the sexual health goal, I just want to have a plan by the end of the summer.
Ongoing goals
- Be a better friend.
- Volunteer
- Journal
- Learn CSS
Wow! That’s almost all my Things, represented on this list! I’m off to reorder my list to match this goal! I feel good already – I had no idea how many of my goals were so achievable!
See more progress on: Challenge myself this summer!
POF seeks LLF or CLM
Me: Paper-Obsessed Female. Smart, creative, honest, curious, open-minded, thoughtful (to a fault), tends to ramble, bit of a procrastinator. Your letters will be late but really cool. Enjoys stickers, letterpress, stamps. See my profile for more details.
You: Longhand-Loving Female or Compulsively Literate Male. Must love books and animals. Nonjudgmental, clever, funny a plus. No wooing or proselytizing.
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What is wrong with me?
One of my really cool friends from North Carolina has been in town for over a week. In the time that she’s been here, I’ve had 3 days off from work, plus there’s been a weekend. Five days when we could have hung out, and she made it clear she would really like to. So we got together one day and had a pretty good time, and then I just never called her again. On any of the 4 days when we still could have hung out. Did I mention she lives in NC and I never get to see her and I really like her and miss her?
I know what the problem is. She told me something that bothered me, specifically something that she’s been doing in one of her relationships. It’s not anything crazy or evil or destructive, but I think it’s kind of unethical and disrespectful. It’s definitely something that other people might see differently; I see it as wrong, but I realize it’s not absolute. But anyway, it bothered me, and it made me feel a little uncomfortable with her. So what did I do? Get over it, because it’s none of my business and truly not that big a deal? Tell her my reaction, so we could talk it through and clear the air? Or keep it to myself and then stew and stew until I didn’t even want to talk to her any more?
Guess.
So, she’s leaving in a week, which means this weekend is the last time we can hang out. Feeling like a real schmuck, I left her a message, and hopefully she’ll still have time for me. And hopefully I’ll get a grip on myself and stop doing this . . . because I do it a lot. I lose friends, or I guess they lose me, because something they do or say bothers me and I don’t want to deal, so I just cut them off. It’s so stupid. Some social worker, huh?
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Brain scan . . . scary
In the ongoing quest to find out why I have had a headache in one very specific place for over 4 years, I have a scan on June 9. I got the referral way back in April and never bothered calling, but for the past week the pain has gotten worse and started spreading to other parts of my head, which has never happened before. So I called. Yikes. With any luck my doctor will turn out to be right, and it’ll just be a pesky benign mass clogging up my sinus. Here’s hoping.
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Keep It Simple, Stupid!
Here’s something from the Unclutterer Blog that made me smack myself on the forehead and go “Doh!” It’s so obvious . . . why didn’t I do this?
1. Tear out the recipes you like. If they’re back-to-back, photocopy one.
2. Put them in sheet protectors with 3 holes punched in them.
3. Put them in a binder which has dividers marking entrees, desserts, etc.
4. Write on them if you need to (“too much salt!” “Kids like this.”)
5. If you want to be really fancy, enter the name of each recipe into a simple database – use Access or some bilbiography software even – along with cooking time and main ingredients. You can search on these terms later, then go get the recipe you choose out of your binder.
6. Or skip the fanciness, and when you’re looking for an idea, just idly browse through your binder, like a good old-fashioned cookbook.
7. Throw out 4 years worth of VTs
Yes!
See more progress on: Organize my issues of Vegetarian Times by August of 2007
