My list is the same as yours, Lori, except for every room. I'm going to have the kidlets stay with their dad for an extended time so I can get that done. Unfortunately, he can't do it until May.

But this week? Well, I can get a better paying job. I've got my resume in order, and solicited letters of recommendation. I've been preparing for just such a job, and even if I don't get it, I get some positive attention and maybe more money where I am.

Just one thing?

Start walking 2 miles a day.

A small thing: getting wedding invitations out. People will stop bugging me. The invitations themselves will stop looking at me forlorn-ly, silently begging to be assembled and mailed.

Paperwork - maybe this is what I need to get shit done.
* Pay that old bill that went to collection and thereby clean up my credit.
* Try harder to get hold of the Social Security Administration and inform them that yes, I did in fact have a full time job in 2004 and pay taxes and their records should not have a big fat 0 on that year.
* Call for a consultation with the Mountain Housing Opportunities low income mortgage people.
* Check out that Maryland abandoned property thing and see if there is in fact money for me in some weird ass escrow account from like 1992.

Rest

Similar to mygothlaundry - do some irksome paperwork/call anonymous deskjockey/things that should be so easy to do, but seem more enourmous the longer I keep putting them off.

And, they're probably getting worse the longer I'm putting them off. If I'd only get to them sooner they wouldn't get to such the difficult stage would they? Now, I'm afraid that they're too bad to solve easily, and there's probably papers I don't have, etc.

I'm really good at the excuses - Can I substitute making excuses as a goal of something to get done?

Go to bed on time. And start walking an hour/four miles a day like I used to.

Sort through all my crap, culling it to get ready to put into storage. Some things I'm just not going to move around any more. Must. be. ruthless. I got started yesterday--went through a whole box of old papers (mostly bills and stuff from my old city job) and burned 99.99% of them. Lots more to go, though. I think my goal for this week should be to go through my clothing and sort it into keep-storage/keep-coming with me/donate/consignment. Luckily my friend runs a consignment store on the island and will take some of the cooler stuff that I just can't/don't wear any more and hopefully turn it into money.

What a lovely idea for a thread.

I would like to cook something this weekend that I have not cooked before. I used to be better about finding new recipes, and I haven't had the time or energy lately, and I miss it. So that is what I will do, at least once and preferably twice.

The set-up: I took an exam yesterday, and though the prof told us how very easy it would be, and though I studied well, it was... not so easy.

On Monday, I have a make-up exam for the same class. It will cover twice as much material.

Accordingly, today I'll be spending hours (and hours and hours) studying for an exam. And tomorrow? Hours and hours and hours and hours.

Drink more water. Walk for an hour per day after work.

I'd really like to start writing again, on a more regular basis. I have so many projects in mind, including several novels. It's not writer's block, exactly. When I do sit down to write, I have no problem doing so (as long as I'm not bleary-eyed tired from work). I'd only need a couple hours a day to do all I want to do, I think. And yet I don't. It's all so overwhelming. As much as I enjoy writing (and I really do), it's still a lot of work. I am at my core fundamentally lazy. But it will be such a shame if I never write these books. I feel like I'm letting them down. It doesn't matter really, in the universal scheme of things, I know that (there are plenty of people to write books, and even that doesn't matter, truly), but it is something I'd like to do, and I genuinely don't know why I'm not (other than being tired so much). I hesitate to even talk about this for fear of "jinxing it" somehow, but what the hell, there's not really anything to "jinx" at the moment.

Guitar practice.

I think I'll go do that now actually.

Get fit. Simple enough eh?

This is good! Good luck, everybody.

I went and purchased new underwear and a couple pairs of sandals today. I didn't need the underwear but I always find it oddly comforting to buy new underwear. OH, I also got a new bra. The new bra will improve my life because it's the right size. Hee. And the sandals were just cheapo $7 sandals from kmart.

I have also started walking more with the dogs. Last summer I was walking 2-5 miles a day with the dogs but over the winter it got cut way back to about a mile a day.

OH, my mom's new bed showed up today. So I went over there and hauled in a queen size mattress (some fancy air mattress thing that will be good for her back - not a sleep number bed but something that cost $2500 and seemed pretty comfy to me) and a queen size box spring and put that all together for her. So, I also did something to improve my mom's life. (She paid for it...it's not like I did that part. haha.)

Exercise more.

I gave up sodas a few months ago and cannot believe the difference it has made. I drink a lot more water. Between that and walking a bit more, I've lost 2 inches from my waist.

I keep thinking that going back to some sort of daily meditation and/or yoga practice would likely curb at least some of the white-hot rage I pretty much feel on a regular basis these days. (Thanks in part to endless work at an increasingly dysfunctional institution, compounded by the fact that I haven't taken a full week off since 2005, and haven't taken two full weeks off since 2003.)

So I'll try! Tonight! Ommmmmmmmmmmmm

Meditate regularly.

this is good, because lately I feel like I don't even know where to begin. I need to get my house in order (literally), because the clutter is clouding my mind. That's too big a job for one weekend, though, so I suppose I'll start with the backyard. If I can finish that, I'll have a nice hideaway from the crazy world while I finish everything else.

I am here to report, LoriFLA: I finished studying for my exam! Woo hoo! Take that, history exam!

Now on to writing those papers. Sigh.

Excellent, Elsa! Woo!

Woo indeed! One-minute dance party to celebrate!

*shakes it like she's gonna break it*

The espresso helped, too.