Completed!
Partially Done.
Not Relevant.
Incomplete.
Daily & Ongoing:
1. Take care of my back - Do my physio exercises 3x weekly
2. Walk at least 3x weekly for at least 30 minutes -- Joined a gym.
3. Take a photograph a day or seven photographs a week
4. Update the photoblog at least 4x weekly
5. Update the online journal at least 2x weekly
6. Keep paper journaling at least 2x weekly
7. Volunteer or find a part-time job -- Mainly I wanted to get out of the house, school is doing that now, woo!
8. Respond to emails promptly
9. Buy MS Money and use it
10. Start bookcrossing again
11. Restart meal planning and cooking
12. Do after-school routines with Sara, break out the flash cards again
13. Wear more jewellery
14. Slow Down
15. Clean up my Email
16. Be less cranky and stop taking it out on the people around me if I am.
Weekly:
17. Kidnap Sheila for a bi-weekly lunch/coffee date
18. Start a Library night, and go weekly with Miss Sara.
19. Do Photo Friday every week
20. Play my silly pirate game more often. Play being the operative word.
21. Dishes completely done by Sunday Night
Monthly:
22. Call Dad more often
23. Monthly game night
24. Have someone over for dinner at least once a month
25. Wash, Vacuum and Armor-all the car monthly
26. Get a Princess Cinema membership and use it
27. Make more jewellery
Ongoing Projects:
28. Clean off my desk and keep it clean
29. Start (and continue adding to) the rogue's gallery
30. Start and complete the Watercolour course book
31. Back up SkyWorks and PtF
32. Back up my hard drives
33. Goodwill trip
34. Learn how to Sail -- Delayed indefinately.
35. Recycle old Magazines
36. Sort through my cam pics folders
37. Photoshop workable pictures
38. Burn to disc all photos
39. Learn how to save
40. Make CDs for people (and catch up on the ones promised already!)
41. Stop and listen to the people around me.
42. Find an online community that interests me and actually become a part of it. -- being online means much less to me now.
43. Update my address books with all information for the people in it.
44. Do more road trips
45. See more live music
46. Get back in touch with the Boys
47. Write letters to people I care about
48. Make the 2006 list throughout the year
One Time Only Projects:
49. Paint the hallway
50. Clean out under bed
51. Close down SkyWorks completely
52. Clean out the dumping bins under my desk
53. File crap
54. Clean and organize my bookshelves
55. Clean and organize the bathroom cupboard and medicine cabinet
56. Paint the bathroom cupboard and baseboard
57. Take a weekend road trip with Mike
58. Purge the closet of clothes not worn in the past year
59. Clean and organize Media bookcases, including the top
60. Measure, buy and use new shelves for the media bookcases
61. Go to the Zoo
62. Go to Toronto for a weekend and visit the museums and galleries
63. Do SkyWorks Accounting
64. Build shelving by my desk
65. Clean Porch
66. Wash all windows
67. Go away for our anniversary
68. Look into (and if possible, do) putting in track lighting in the hallway
69. Update at least 6 pages on PtF
70. Take a Watercolour class
71. Go to Chesapeake Bay -- Yeah, not exactly a trip I need to make anymore.
72. Do something awesome for Sheila's birthday
73. Have a birthday party for my 30th
74. Take a course
75. Spend a day at the beach
76. Make a scrapbook
77. Get divorced
78. Go to a TARcon
79. Solve coffee table issue
One Time Only Tasks:
80. Send birthday Thank You notes by the end of May
81. Rent a storage unit -- We somehow managed without it all year, hee.
82. Make the pillows for the couch
83. Finish sewing the summer pants
84. Sew Sara's back to school outfit
85. Add the elastic to the bras
86. Add two photographs to my art gallery area
87. Add a painting to my art gallery area
88. Frame the Sara painting properly
89. Wax the Car
90. Make curtains for Sara's Room
91. Replace living room curtains
92. Clean out and organize linen closet
93. Go to a fricking Aquafit class already, god.
94. Get two B&W photos printed.
95. Do Taxes
96. Book Physical by beginning of December for January 2006
97. See a Ballet Performance
98. See a Symphony Performance
99. Buy myself something frivolous and beautiful
100. Christmas Cards done and sent by December 1st
101. Throw out a box worth of unused crap
102. Complete two airplane models
103. Mend Mike's quilt
104. Find a therapist
105. Get a Massage
I keep meaning to sit down and write out a journal entry about the past couple weeks, but I just haven’t. Out of the habit I guess. Whole bunch of things on my mind lately. There’s excitement about Mormallor, my new iBook. (on which I am currently typing as well…) I’m also completely done my very first term of university.
That’s the big one for me at the moment. Love the laptop, but really the only reason I bought him was to use at school. In the last week of school I borrowed Mike’s powerbook to test out a suspicion I had that if I was typing I’d be able to take better notes. And whatduah know? I was right. It’ll just take a while for me to get used to the new keyboard and the massive caps lock key. The idea of having mobility with my computer goodness is a bit of a thrill. And expensive thrill but what can you do? Sucker needs to last me about 5, if not 6 years and I won’t get that by buying cheap.
I had exams last week. Only the two of them, but they were so drastically different from each other. The Med Studies, much like the course itself, was ridiculously easy. I didn’t walk out with 100% or anything, but I have no fear that I’ll be losing my solid A there. It almost feels like cheating to get a good mark in a mismanaged overview course when I wasn’t even really trying by the end. I had a mini-rebellion and ended up handing in my final set of mini-essays late. I just had no desire to do good work for a course that felt given up on, at least from my vantage point.
My History exam was a completely different matter. My first exposure to the “cattle” type handling of students. About 400 if not more of us all in the gymnasium, split up by class types… that meant I was in between a group of French students cheating their asses off at the start of the exam. I was so very temped to be the busybody bitch and tell them to stop fucking cheating like a bunch of morons. What were they doing you ask? Well apparently there was a vocabulary section and one of the four was reading her exam, the other was noticing the words they didn’t know and hollering over to the guy to my right “hey, what is a dance club? How do you spell that?” *shakes head* Apparently the concept of “they will FAIL you and possibly expel you for cheating” was too complex for the braintrusts.
I definitely wasn’t ready to the level I wanted to be ready for my exam. I think I nailed most of what I needed to get to get a decent mark, but I was missing the little details that would’ve made it an excellent exam. That’s my entire fault though. I knew what I needed to do to really excel in the course and I dropped the ball about mid term. I was having a hard time adjusting to my new world, and I know why I did it, but it doesn’t take away from the simple fact that I dropped the ball. And with that comment I’m one of the people I despised in high school. I will be *very* shocked if I don’t walk out with an A in Med Studies and at least a solid B in History and yet I’m bitching that it’s not good enough.
I think part of that has to be coming from my sense of this being a second chance to do this right, you know? I’m very smart. I learn very, very quickly. So the fact that I barely graduated High School is a thorn in my side while I’m also very proud of that fact at the same time. I feel that this is my time to show just how brilliant I am, and not just in ways that I see it. Anyways, I know what I did right and what I didn’t and next term is a whole new ballgame to play.
Posted on: December 19, 2005 at 05:45 AM | Link | In: Life