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Let’s check in on the goals, shallwe?

  • Posted on July 2, 2008 at 12:33 pm

You know, the stuff I talked about at the end of January.

I didn’t get my GPA up. Flunked another class, as a matter of fact. There’s always the fall semester, ASSuming I actually go back to Salem (The jury is still out on that matter).

We haven’t travelled yet. We’re going to the mountains for an overnight family thing, and I’m saving up my pennies for the beach. When I wrote that post, I was not expecting gasoline at $4/gal. The trip to the West Coast is tabled absolutely. My brother is not coming home anytime soon either. Mamaw offered to fly his family home for her birthday – she wants to meet his kids. He turned her down. Yes, I’m going to kick his ass when/if I do see him.

The debt snowflaking is progressing nicely. I eliminated my one department store card, and have started working on my one credit card.

I’m not moving anytime soon, Mama did give up her doublewide paradise idea, I still haven’t rolled my own DVR (the one we already own still works). I don’t think I’ll ever be satisfied with any of my theme ideas so I’ll stick with this one and quietly grr about it. The electronics graveyard is in two places instead of 20million, but I’m not going to ebay them. I’m waiting on the next e-waste recycling day.

My social life has improved a wee bit, and the puzzle is still in the box – having been joined by another equally cool puzzle still in the shrinkwrap.

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I should probably set some goals for ’08, huh?

  • Posted on January 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm

It’s the end of January, I do believe I should speak to The Goals.

A carryover from ’07 – Get my GPA up. The F in management dinged me a good one. Lesson: If you’ve already been a manager, learning about management concepts is going to make you laugh your ass off and not take the class seriously. I know, I know – I should’ve dropped the class.

Travel This is the 2008 MUST DO. Not only have I promised Daniel a trip to the beach, I have to *gulp* get on a plane and blast my way to the West Coast, kids in tow. Holly is moving, and will be living close enough to My Brother The Golden Child to visit both. I can introduce myself to his nine- and five-year-old progeny, and perhaps guilt-trip him into bringing his family back East for a visit while Mamaw is still living and my Sainted Mama is still on the shiny side of lucidity.

(Yes, you read that correctly. My brother has children, and I’ve never met them. I’ve only met his wife once, and was quite rude. The first hubs and I were arguing at the time of her visit, and I was so pissed off at him that I snarled at EVERYone. Ask Holly – apparently I scare people when I snarl.)

Snowflake as much as I can. There’s really no reason for me to have any debt other than student loans, so every non-committed penny is going toward paying off my card and then to a new(er) vehicle. And then, most likely to the student loans.

Things in the back of my mind: Moving. Guiding Mom away from the Doublewide Paradise she seems hell-bent on creating. Rolling my own DVR (I need to be able to rip and store our DVD movies on a hard drive. Hard drives can’t get scratched by little boys.) Finish tweaking this theme (which involves sucking it up, going through my pic archives, and doing the effin’ edits.). Getting my Electronics Graveyard into one place, recycling what can be and probably either freecycle or ebay what can’t. Putting The Goals down because it’s just another “thing” to keep up with…

Goals that I’ve completely put down: improving my “social life”. Assembling this puzzle. (Yes, that post was written in 2006. Yes, it’s still in the box. Go me!)

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One month left. Is it too late?

  • Posted on December 2, 2007 at 2:51 pm

Let’s update on the 7 in 2007 list, shallwe?

1. Bring my GPA up to 3.0 or higher

I did bring my GPA up, but it will not break the 3.0 mark. Dropping out last spring with “the thorn in my side” didn’t help a whole lot.

2. Exercise more

Accomplished, if only because “exercise more” is so freaking vague. However, according to my lovely physician, I lost 30 pounds from 9/2006 to 9/2007.

3. Take instruction in tai chi

Newp. Didn’t happen. Registered for a class, then decided that sitting on the sofa with little boys piled on my lap was better for us all the way ’round. I’m out enough as it is with school and work.

4. Get out of the house and into some new/different social situations.

Most decidedly accomplished. I still have really seriously awkward moments – it takes me entirely too long to move on from an ended conversation. I’m most proud of my attendance at ConvergeSouth 2007. An entire weekend surrounded by strangers in unfamiliar environments and not a panic attack in sight.

5. Better blog posts

Once again – “better” is a vague description. Has my writing improved? Yes. Is there better writing in there? absolutely.

6. work up my yarn stash

heh. haha. *snort* hahahahahahahahahahahaha *thud*

No.

7. Travel more with the kids

We went to Mamaw’s Big Birthday Bash in July, and that was it. A lovely idea, but since I’m the only adult, travel is quite simply more than I can handle. All the driving, kid management in a new environment (difficult even before I drive for a few hundred miles), and then getting myself settled down? Thanks, I’ll just stay home and we’ll daytrip.

Don’t worry, I’m already working on my list for next year. It’s going to be a good list, too. Just like everyone else’s.

*heh*

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