This past week

The garden work has been going quite well (#6 & 7) . We have harvested and enjoyed lettuce, tomatoes and chard so far. (Better than I had ever hoped!) The above picture is of me and our totally crazy tomato plant "Matt". Matt's posture isn't the best, but you get the picture of how big he is!! The really big leaves in front of me are the cucumber plant.

Went to the gym 3 times this past week (#54) and am really glad about that. Three or four weeks of no gym was making me quite miserable. I have much more energy and am much happier when I am going regularly.

"The Positive Coach" (#89) is the first book that I am reading on a work topic. It seems really good and full of excellent ideas to try.

Next week, I will be in Manchester, NH (for work). I will be taking a pretty good pile of books with me to release (#72).

"Ender's Game" was on my Goodreads "to read" list, so I have finished 1 of 5 of item #73. On that note, I have just started to read "Hotel Pastis".

I returned all the books I had borrowed, and that completes #71.

All in all a fairly productive week!

Moving Forward

I am paper list girl! I find that I am more inspired by my list when I see it on paper then when I look at it on this blog. So, to that end, I have printed my list, and will keep it with my calendar. When I read it, I get really excited and want to get going on multiple items. (YEA!!)

So, I have rewritten another item on my list. I changed #6 from "Weed twice a week for the summer" to "Weed as needed during the summer". How was I to know that I would not need to weed twice a week?

This is a picture of one of my favorite tomato plants in the garden - it has gone completely crazy! Parts of it are taller than I am! It is a cherry tomato plant and we have already harvested and eaten 5 tomatoes! (ha ha)

I am planning a trip to Chicago (#86) in September. I am going to stay with one of my sisters, and take one of my neices to the American Girl Doll Place to celebrate her 7th birthday!

Today I finished "Ender's Game", which is the last of the "borrowed" books that I have to read and return (item #71) - now all I need to do is return the books. I wrote a review of the book at Goodreads.com.

Only 2 left now for item #71

# 71 - Finish and return books borrowed prior to May 1st, 2008.

I finished Ursula LeGuin's, The Lathe of Heaven today. It was a super fast read, but it was very fascinating! It is a science fiction book about a person who dreams things into reality. When he dreams things into reality, it changes the past and recreates the world into this new reality. Quite an interesting topic.

I think it is about time for me to take on some bigger things, and I am feeling like I have the energy for it.

Reworking the list.

Today I reworked the wording on some of my list. I removed all of the "each week" and made a grand total number of times (took the # of weeks, multiplied it by the number of times each week I was to do the item, and put that total in for the goal total.) This way, even though I did not do these items each week, I still have the potential for reaching these goals.

9) Write in garden journal 1x per week through garden season 2/21
Changed to: Write in garden journal 21 times

54) Continue going to gym at least 3x per week 2/143
Changed to: Continue going to gym 429 times 25/429

57) Practice yoga at home 1x week 1/143
Changed to: Practice yoga at home 143 times 1/143

58) Keep weight at or below goal, weigh weekly 3/145
Changed to: Keep weight at or below goal 143 times 3/143

78) Take a day off from the computer, TV and Cell Phone 1x mo 0/33
Changed to: Take a day off from the computer, TV and Cell Phone 33 times 0/33

Since I did not complete these tasks as originally written, I feel I should be held to 101. Since I still expect to partially finish the items, I will impose 1/2 of 101 on these tasks. So I will donate $25 to Community Friends and donate 2.5 hours of volunteer work to a non-profit.