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The Patriotic Earthling ([personal profile] orbitaldiamonds) wrote2009-08-29 09:21 am

Lofty Goals Update

Yeah, um...haven't done one of these in awhile. And I updated the list for the second half of the year. Here it is:


01. Get one more five-shelf bookcase for the Star Trek books.

02. Cut up 88 magazines. (0/88)

03. Scan and transcribe all journals.

04. Scan and transcribe all Random Notes books.

05. Type up 79 sets of book notes. (0/79)

06. Pay off credit cards. (0/3)

07. Pay off student loans.

08. Pay off car.

09. Color 100 coloring book pages. (0/100)

10. Watch all episodes, in order, of Star Trek, Stargate, and Battlestar Galactica, including the movies.

11. Exercise for at least half an hour every day.

12. Start and finish 15 new art projects. (0/15)

13. Get a Gazelle Edge and a DDR.

14. Finish organizing the office/library.

15. Get a real bed and good dressers that match.

16. Have Chris's "man cave" ready by the time he comes home from his deployment.

17. Read 100 books.

18. Write 200,000 words for Get Your Words Out. (8,062/200,000)

19. Sort/organize/make pretty all files on my computer. (documents, images, music, video)

20. Make 50 sets of icons and 20 sets of headers. (0/50, 0/20)

21. Take weekly self-portraits. (0/26)

22. Go organic as much as possible.

23. Keep up with all entries in the "everything else" filter of my LiveJournal friends list.

24. Get down to 125 lbs. (a BMI of 23.5 for my height of 5'1")

25. Get a job.

And now, the updates:



July 3:
Started on March 5th on my flist.

July 6:
Started on March 6th on my flist.

July 7:
Started on March 7th, 8th, and 9th on my flist.
Took a self-portrait.

July 9:
Started on March 11th on my flist.

July 10:
Started on March 12th on my flist.

July 11:
Started on March 13th on my flist.

July 12:
Started on March 14th and 15th on my flist.

July 13:
Started on March 16th on my flist.

July 14:
Lost 16 lbs. since April!
Made paper beads.

July 15:
Sorted files.

July 16:
Took a self-portrait.
Made paper beads.

July 17:
Started on March 17th on my flist.

July 20:
Sorted images.

July 21:
Sorted images.

July 22:
Started on March 18th on my flist.

July 23:
Started on March 19th on my flist.

July 24:
Started on March 20th and 21st on my flist.

July 25:
Started on March 22nd and 23rd on my flist.

July 26:
Started on March 24th on my flist.

July 28
Started on March 25th on my flist.

July 30:
Paid off borders Visa!

August 1:
Started on March 26th on my flist.

August 3:
Sorted files.

August 8:
Started on March 27th on my flist.

August 16:
Started on March 28th on my flist.

August 17:
Started on March 29th on my flist.

August 19:
Started on March 30th on my flist.

August 20:
Started on March 31st on my flist.
Started reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.

August 21:
Started on April 1st on my flist.

August 22:
Started on April 2nd on my flist.

August 23:
Started on April 3rd on my flist.

August 24:
Finished reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.
Started reading Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.

August 25:
Started on April 4th on my flist.
Finished reading Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.

August 26:
Started on April 5th on my flist.
Started reading reading Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay.

August 27:
Interviewed and got a part-time seasonal job at Souvlaki!

August 28:
Finished reading reading Dexter in the Dark, by Jeff Lindsay.

August 29:
Sorted files.
Typed up one set of book notes: Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.

And the self-portraits. I have this flexible rule that as long as each picture is taken on a different day, it counts, because sometimes I forget over an entire week. Here goes...

Week One:


Week Two:


Week Three:


Week Four:


Week Five:


Week Six:


I'm rather proud of the Week Five one (that's me in the outfit I wore to Sophia's baptism), so I made it into a new self-portrait icon. :)
onceamy: Nothing special; just a pixelated rainbow. (Children-2)

[personal profile] onceamy 2009-08-30 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Week six is pretty, albeit blurry! And week three has you in a Collingwood scarf - FTW!