So, for the first time since I started doing this in February of 2008, I actually missed a month of doing resolution updates. Time to get back on the resolution update wagon.
1) Self Control – Money
I’m doing pretty well in this area. As mentioned previously on this blog, I have paid of four of my five credit cards, and have $4500 remaining on the fifth. I’m aiming for no later than April of 2011 to have this last card paid off. After that, all the money I’ve been putting into my credit cards will be going to paying off my car, which should be paid off by the end of 2011. Assuming nothing goes wrong.
My daily expenditures aren’t significantly more or less than they have been, but I’ve been trying to cut down on the extraneous purchases…computer, camera gear, microphones, video game consoles, and the like. Instead, I’m trying to utilize my Netflix and Gamefly memberships more fully, and I’m trying to do more reading on my Kindle, and take more photographs with my existing equipment. The name of the game for the next year and a half is "Use What You’ve Got."
2) Experience New Things
I painted my office, which marks the first time I’ve ever painted something where I got to pick out the colors. (It was only mildly successful.) I also went on a dinner cruise around Lake Washington, which is something I’ve never done before. Oh yeah, and I got to use my real insurance for the first time. (Although that’s not a "new" thing…I just haven’t been able to do it for many, many years.)
3) Lose 20 Pounds
This was both a fail and a win. I crossed the 200 pound mark and stayed there for a while. Then the sun came out, I stopped feeling so depressed, and stopped eating like a pig. I’m down eight pounds in the month of July (five of which I’ve probably gained back this weekend.) I’ve also, in collaboration with goal #1, stopped eating out quite so much at fast food restaurants. I’m trying to cook more (again). It helps that all of the vegetables are starting to come into season, so now I’m eating a lot of very healthy meals with lots of yummy fresh veggies. Also, I rediscovered the joy of Caprese Salad this summer, which has been wonderful…especially since I can buy fresh mozzarella at the farmer’s market.
4) Be More Social – CLOSED
5) Write Music – COMPLETED
6) Get in Shape – CLOSED
7) Be More Giving
Fail, fail, fail.
8) Get to Bed Earlier
I continue to do fairly well at this. I had a week where I was staying up too late to finish re-reading the Fablehaven books in preparation for the fifth and final book to come out, so that had me up later than I should have been. I also had a lot of difficulty sleeping as a result of my death-inducing allergies over the last couple of week, but now I’m back to normal. Trying to be in bed by midnight…it’s a very difficult thing for me.
9) Take LOTS of pictures
I’ve not taken a LOT of pictures, but I’ve continued to take some. I took several when my sister was here visiting, including some fun ones of her feeding the seagulls. But none of these photos have been "art" photos. They’ve been more along the lines of snapshots. I’m hoping that, one of these coming weekends, I can find a good spot from which I can take some good landscape photos.
10) El Learno…um…anything?
Things I learned these last two months:
- How to deploy multiple websites within a single instance of Apache Web Server
- How to use a NettiPot
- How to record, edit, and encode extremely high-quality screen captures for video tutorials
- How to sing like Barry White (Get really, really, really, really bad allergies.)
- How to design a website in Drupal, and style it entirely with CSS
So, overall, not a terrible couple of months.
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