building rome / life worth living weekly update

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building rome, goals, nano poblano, team pepper

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

Creative – I’ve decided that this month I’m going to embark on the start of Goal 3 which is to start and finish, within the month, a knit or crochet project. This can be anything, including my beloved washcloths. What I’d like to do for November is finish a few things I already have started, which is kind of cheating, but would get me back into the swing of things. I think. So, with that in mind, I’m aiming to finish the (fucking) Vintage Hand Towel and a filet crochet rose doily that’s been lingering for ages. And the other bits for care packages.

I did get back to work on the towel and got it finished, complete with custom button.

Rat-sputin included for scale

close-up of the button

I also took some time to do other creative bits. I made myself some pouches out of sandwich bags and duck tape to carry some of the little shit in my backpack that always gets lost, Josh helped me make some shrinky-dink magnets, and Mom and I worked on some flower pot snowmen. Much fun.

Stress Management – Treadmill, twice, no excuses. And I have therapy this week, which is always good.

Therapy went well, the treadmill not so much. I’ve decided that having this as a goal right now is kind of stressing me out, so it’s time to step back and try something different next week. I’ll get back to this.

Health – I’ve been doing a pretty good job of doing what the dermatologist wants me to, but I need to really try harder to follow the Letter of The Law. And I should still do my best to brush and floss my fucking teeth twice a day.

Uh, no. I’m getting better, but I’m not there yet. I did take some time on Saturday to get both of our bathrooms setup with ALL of the necessary supplies so that it’ll be easier.

Financial – Make a plan for Christmas gifts so I can start working out a budget.

I did get started on this, but I didn’t get it finished. However, thanks to some of the stuff I tried with the crafting over the weekend I have some excellent ideas.

School – I’ll be able to register for Spring term on Tuesday. I’ve got two classes already picked out that would satisfy my final course requirement for the Tech Comm certificate. I also need to start getting the portfolio tightened up. I actually started working on it a long time ago, just for myself, so yay.

I got registered for class and got my schedule at work rearranged to accommodate it.

Goals for this week:

Creative – Work on the filet rose doily. And anything else that sounds like fun.

Stress Management – I need to get back to being more cognizant of how I spend my time at night. I’ve been pushing myself to stay up later because I’m not using my time effectively. I need to focus on giving myself at least an hour every night to really relax. Reading, knitting, crocheting, sketching – anything non-electronic is fine.

Health – Mom and I have found a water aerobics class that we’d like to take but I’m not sure how that would be with my skin issues. I need to call the dermatologist’s office this week and find out.

Financial – I have got to stop spending money like I’ve mastered the art of shitting $100 bills!!! No money out this week except to put gas in the vehicle.

School – Make a plan for myself based on the course schedule for the rest of the semester. Prep in advance as much as I can.

building rome / life worth living weekly update

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building rome, goals, nano poblano, team pepper

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

Creative – There’s some knitting to be done for the care packages and I’d like to get all of that done this week. Earlier this morning I scanned the dragonfly and lotus blossom I sketched awhile back so now I just need to manipulate the image and hopefully upload it to Redbubble. I also really need to get back to sketching.

• I got ALL of the knitting bits done. (I also got 2 packages sent out! The rest will be sent this morning.)
• I screwed up the scan so all I got was the lotus, but I did upload it.
• I also uploaded some photos to Redbubble. (And I made my second sale!)

Stress Management – I’d really like to get back on the treadmill because that helps a ton with my sleep. Provided everything goes alright at the dermatologist’s this afternoon and I can find a pair of pants that don’t rub funny, I’m going to try walking at least two nights this week for at least 15 minutes each time. I was only able to walk once, but that’s better than not at all and I didn’t make twice because of vehicle bullshit the other night I normally fit it in.

Health – I will figure out how to brush AND floss twice a day this week if it fucking kills me!!! I’m sorry, did you say something?

Financial – Friday is payday so I need to sit down and get the money for the month worked out. It didn’t get done until yesterday, but it did get done. Barring any (MORE) unforeseen problems we should be just fine.

School – I need to apply for the other certificate I’m going to be working on and apply for the actual Master’s degree. I’m really leaning towards doing a creative non-fiction course in the spring and I want to make sure it counts.

• I submitted the application for the other certificate.
• I contacted Cunty Prof about the portfolio requirement for the cert I’m almost done with.
• I also got info from her about the requirements should I decide to torture myself with the full degree. I’m back to being up in the air about this.

Goals for this week:

Creative – I’ve decided that this month I’m going to embark on the start of Goal 3 which is to start and finish, within the month, a knit or crochet project. This can be anything, including my beloved washcloths. What I’d like to do for November is finish a few things I already have started, which is kind of cheating, but would get me back into the swing of things. I think. So, with that in mind, I’m aiming to finish the (fucking) Vintage Hand Towel and a filet crochet rose doily that’s been lingering for ages. And the other bits for care packages.

Stress Management – Treadmill, twice, no excuses. And I have therapy this week, which is always good.

Health – I’ve been doing a pretty good job of doing what the dermatologist wants me to, but I need to really try harder to follow the Letter of The Law. And I should still do my best to brush and floss my fucking teeth twice a day.

Financial – Make a plan for Christmas gifts so I can start working out a budget.

School – I’ll be able to register for Spring term on Tuesday. I’ve got two classes already picked out that would satisfy my final course requirement for the Tech Comm certificate. I also need to start getting the portfolio tightened up. I actually started working on it a long time ago, just for myself, so yay.

building rome / life worth living weekly update

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building rome, goals

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

Creative – I still have some of my Christmas money from Mom left and I have the day off work today, so I’m going to the bead store. I got a book on our trip about making wire jewelry and I had found a pattern on Pinterest for making rings a bit ago so I really want to go get the supplies I need for that. I did make it to the bead store and then made an assload of jewelry, including the ring I mentioned. I wasn’t able to find a proper ring mandrel so I had to kind of cheat that part which means to make a ring a certain size I have to have one that fits the finger I’m making the new ring for and then see where it fits on the jig I got.

Stress Management – I need to get on top of the chaos that’s crept back in lately, both at home and at work. I tried to do some of that before we left on Friday, but it seems like I always kind of let my stuff explode when I get home from a trip. That’s a huge part of why I’m home today. I need to make a concerted effort to get myself organized again. This is going to include getting my ass in gear and working on those care packages. YES!!! For the most part I was able to get the chaos under control by Wednesday. Yesterday we got completely caught up on housework and even did some extra bits to help with the organization and whatnot. And the care packages got some much needed love.

Health – Time to get back into the full hygiene routine.

• Brush and floss 2x/day
• Shower every day
• Use special soap stuff at least once a week

Well, mostly I did this. I did take a shower every day and I did use the Hibiclens. What I was not so great about was the brushing and flossing.

Financial – I need to look at numbers this week. I’m really concerned that the Honda is going to be totaled, so that means buying a car again. Hopefully I’ll get enough out of it to pay off the balance of the loan. I won’t really know anything for several days yet. The claims adjuster is coming this afternoon to look at it. Anyway, I need to be prepared. I now know what the payoff amount is and I have an idea of what the blue book value is likely to be. Fortunately, the blue book is not quite twice the payoff. I’m hoping to know more about the whole car mess later today or tomorrow.

School – I want to get my homework done today if possible. There are only 2 discussion posts to do, and some replies that can’t be done until other people post, so that shouldn’t be too bad. If I can, I want to try to work ahead. We won’t have Josh’s daughter here for a visit until November 1, but that week is going to suck for homework. I didn’t get my homework done last Monday, but it did all get done on time and I was able to work ahead. There’s only really one piece that I could do early for this week and that’s taken care of. Now I just sit back and wait.

Goals for this week:

Creative – There’s some knitting to be done for the care packages and I’d like to get all of that done this week. Earlier this morning I scanned the dragonfly and lotus blossom I sketched awhile back so now I just need to manipulate the image and hopefully upload it to Redbubble. I also really need to get back to sketching.

Stress Management – I’d really like to get back on the treadmill because that helps a ton with my sleep. Provided everything goes alright at the dermatologist’s this afternoon and I can find a pair of pants that don’t rub funny, I’m going to try walking at least two nights this week for at least 15 minutes each time.

Health – I will figure out how to brush AND floss twice a day this week if it fucking kills me!!!

Financial – Friday is payday so I need to sit down and get the money for the month worked out.

School – I need to apply for the other certificate I’m going to be working on and apply for the actual Master’s degree. I’m really leaning towards doing a creative non-fiction course in the spring and I want to make sure it counts.

building rome / life worth living weekly update

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building rome, goals

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

Creative – I need to make a few bits for care packages that I’d like to send out soon, so I need to figure out what I’m making and then make it. I did start making my list, but that was as far as I got.

Stress Management – I really need to get back on to doing things for myself again to relax in the evenings. I’d like to try to get back to the point where I do at least a small sketch every night. I did some sketching and some reading. I also found the road trip to be quite good for the stress levels.

Health – I’ve got to get rid of this virus. I hate feeling like this. Today is my 3rd day away from work and that’s just kind of killing me. I called the doc’s office right when they opened and someone is supposed to call me back, but that’s been 90 minutes ago. The woman I talked to wasn’t sure if the doc would be able to just call out an antibiotic or if she’d want to see me. I did get an antibiotic and, in general, feel much better. I still have lingering vestiges of this mess that require taking an over the counter med, but I’m nowhere near as miserable as I was.

Financial – Try to minimize how many times I have to go see the doc. We don’t have a co-pay, but we have to pay every time we go and that gets expensive. I managed to not have to in to see any of the docs last week. YAY!

School – Finish all of my homework before we leave Friday afternoon. Done!

Goals for this week:

Creative – I still have some of my Christmas money from Mom left and I have the day off work today, so I’m going to the bead store. I got a book on our trip about making wire jewelry and I had found a pattern on Pinterest for making rings a bit ago so I really want to go get the supplies I need for that.

Stress Management – I need to get on top of the chaos that’s crept back in lately, both at home and at work. I tried to do some of that before we left on Friday, but it seems like I always kind of let my stuff explode when I get home from a trip. That’s a huge part of why I’m home today. I need to make a concerted effort to get myself organized again. This is going to include getting my ass in gear and working on those care packages.

Health – Time to get back into the full hygiene routine.

• Brush and floss 2x/day
• Shower every day
• Use special soap stuff at least once a week

Financial – I need to look at numbers this week. I’m really concerned that the Honda is going to be totaled, so that means buying a car again. Hopefully I’ll get enough out of it to pay off the balance of the loan. I won’t really know anything for several days yet. The claims adjuster is coming this afternoon to look at it. Anyway, I need to be prepared.

School – I want to get my homework done today if possible. There are only 2 discussion posts to do, and some replies that can’t be done until other people post, so that shouldn’t be too bad. If I can, I want to try to work ahead. We won’t have Josh’s daughter here for a visit until November 1, but that week is going to suck for homework.

wait, what day is it?

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building rome, money, motivation, random shit that falls out of my brain, school, skin conditions, stress, work

I am so confused. This whole being sick bullshit is for the birds. I’ve got so much to do right now, and not much time. GAH.

I did manage to clean up our living space yesterday and that helped my poor little brain quite a bit. Chaos is my sworn enemy. I also managed to get one of my homework assignments for the week done. I did the other one, but I did it completely wrong so I’ll be redoing it tonight. Fortunately I found that out before submitting it. And it shouldn’t take much, I just need to write a Process Description, which I guess is kind of like vague directions or something.

I’m only working two days this week and I think that’s most of what’s really throwing me. I’m here today and then tomorrow and then we’ll hit the road Friday as soon as Mom gets home. I’ve scheduled vacation for Friday so that I can get the house cleaned up and all of the laundry done. I also scheduled vacation for Monday so that I can recover and do laundry. Laundry just never ends.

Just to give a little official midweek update on the goals…

• I haven’t done shit for the Creative goal cuz I suck
• I read my book for 45 minutes last night
• I am taking all of the many MANY extra meds as prescribed and am starting to feel better
• No trips to the doc this week, yay!
• As I mentioned, one assignment is done and turned in and I anticipate the other getting finished tonight

I anticipate being totally kick-ass productive tonight. There’s really just too much to do not to. My leg still kind of hurts, but not terrible. And I really am hoping the antibiotic pills will help.

I’m getting really excited about our mini-vacation. We’re headed to Minneapolis to go to the Mall of America, Ikea, and possibly an outlet mall on the way back home. I haven’t done shopping like this in years and I cannot fucking WAIT!!!

 

building rome / life worth living weekly update

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building rome, goals

I apparently cannot catch a fucking break. I had every intention of getting back on track last week and then the Virus from Hell attacked me and I spent the better part of last week in bed. I really just can’t win.

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

Creative – Finish the dragon I started sketching ages ago. I’m already adding color, I just need to finish and get all of the shading and then the outline done. It would also be great if I could at least get further on that fucking knit towel. I finished the dragon, but not the towel.

Stress Management – My legs are feeling MUCH better, so I’m going to try the treadmill again. I’m aiming for Monday and Wednesday, 15 minutes each night. I also need to spend about an hour every night after I take my pills unwinding without electronics. Reading, sketching, knitting; something like that. The treadmill didn’t happen at all. I did do better at the relaxing in the evenings part.

Health – My hygiene suffers when the shit starts to hit the fan, so I need to get back into my good routines again. That means a shower every day, brush and floss my teeth twice a day, and take my pills like I’m supposed to. (the pills haven’t been an issue, but they’re part of the package) I’m going to back off the food tracking goal for now until I get the rest of this back on track. Again, this got better until I got sick. I’m sitting here going on day 2 with no shower. It’ll happen today.

Financial – I paid all of the bills that were here at the start of the month and budgeted for the things that will come out automatically later and I made a plan, in my head, for handling the rest of what’s likely to come up such as gas and groceries and cigarettes. As long as we don’t go overboard before our trip, things should be back on track. And I got brave enough to check the payoff balance on the Honda the other day and it’s not as bad as I had thought. So anyway, the goal for this week is to not go shopping for anything but groceries and household supplies like toilet paper and stuff. I went and did a tiny bit of shopping with Mom, so it was better than it could have been given how shitty I felt, but it really shouldn’t have happened at all.

School – I need to decide what the hell I’m doing. I did the homework for last week since I didn’t meet with her, but I still haven’t decided if I will meet. It really pisses me off that she couldn’t just tell me that I didn’t need to worry. She’s a lousy ass teacher. BUT, this should be the last class I’d need to take with her specifically. I’m conflicted. I’ve mostly decided I’m going to just suck it up and stick it out, but I have no intention of actually meeting with her. I just don’t think I’d be able to handle a face to face meeting without saying something inappropriate.

Goals for this week:

Creative – I need to make a few bits for care packages that I’d like to send out soon, so I need to figure out what I’m making and then make it.

Stress Management – I really need to get back on to doing things for myself again to relax in the evenings. I’d like to try to get back to the point where I do at least a small sketch every night.

Health – I’ve got to get rid of this virus. I hate feeling like this. Today is my 3rd day away from work and that’s just kind of killing me. I called the doc’s office right when they opened and someone is supposed to call me back, but that’s been 90 minutes ago. The woman I talked to wasn’t sure if the doc would be able to just call out an antibiotic or if she’d want to see me.

Financial – Try to minimize how many times I have to go see the doc. We don’t have a co-pay, but we have to pay every time we go and that gets expensive.

School – Finish all of my homework before we leave Friday afternoon.

building rome / life worth living – back in the saddle

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building rome, goals

MULLIGAN! 

(don’t mind the mess, I’m trying out different looks and stuff and can’t come up with what I really want)

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

There is no update because last week, the last two weeks, didn’t happen really at all. I’m starting fresh this week and I feel positive about that.

Goals for this week:

Creative – Finish the dragon I started sketching ages ago. I’m already adding color, I just need to finish and get all of the shading and then the outline done. It would also be great if I could at least get further on that fucking knit towel.

Stress Management – My legs are feeling MUCH better, so I’m going to try the treadmill again. I’m aiming for Monday and Wednesday, 15 minutes each night. I also need to spend about an hour every night after I take my pills unwinding without electronics. Reading, sketching, knitting; something like that.

Health – My hygiene suffers when the shit starts to hit the fan, so I need to get back into my good routines again. That means a shower every day, brush and floss my teeth twice a day, and take my pills like I’m supposed to. (the pills haven’t been an issue, but they’re part of the package) I’m going to back off the food tracking goal for now until I get the rest of this back on track.

Financial – I paid all of the bills that were here at the start of the month and budgeted for the things that will come out automatically later and I made a plan, in my head, for handling the rest of what’s likely to come up such as gas and groceries and cigarettes. As long as we don’t go overboard before our trip, things should be back on track. And I got brave enough to check the payoff balance on the Honda the other day and it’s not as bad as I had thought. So anyway, the goal for this week is to not go shopping for anything but groceries and household supplies like toilet paper and stuff.

School – I need to decide what the hell I’m doing. I did the homework for last week since I didn’t meet with her, but I still haven’t decided if I will meet. It really pisses me off that she couldn’t just tell me that I didn’t need to worry. She’s a lousy ass teacher. BUT, this should be the last class I’d need to take with her specifically. I’m conflicted.

building rome / life worth living

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Yeah, two bad weeks in a row. That sucked.

If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

I would strongly encourage anyone who wants a little boost in helping achieve goals to join Green Embers and the rest of the Building Rome crew as we reach for the stars.

Update from last week:

The easy answer is that NONE of this happened. I was doing good to keep my head above water. Sometimes survival is the only priority.

Given that today is Friday, and it’s actually time for me to crash for the night already, I’m going to just wait until Monday morning and try this again. Fall down seven times, get up eight.

building rome / building a life worth living update

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building a life worth living, building rome, getting healthy, goals, money, projects

Welcome to the weekly installment of Mama’s Building Rome / Building a Life Worth Living. If you’re just joining me for the first time, I’ve got a list of 10 Major Goals I want to accomplish before I turn 40 in 2016. That’s what I refer to as my Life Worth Living; it’s a DBT thing. If you don’t want to stay stuck where you’ve been in life, you have to figure out where you want to go and what it would take to truly make your life worth living.

To get there, I’m using the Building Rome setup from Green Embers to break those major goals into smaller, more manageable pieces that I tackle on a weekly basis. Every week I do a Creative, Stress Management, Health, Financial, and School goal that tie back to my personal Building a Life Worth Living project.

From last week:

Creative – Finish the knitting project I started a few weeks ago.

I wasn’t able to finish, but I made really good progress. I thought about trying to push myself to finish last night, but then I decided that I’d spend a little time on a totally different creative project.

That’s a nanoblock dragonfly. One hundred and forty pieces and he’s roughly 6″ long. The wings actually move. Took me a little better than an hour.

Stress Management – Make myself some new CDs for in the car and listen to music at home when appropriate.

Done! I made 5 new CDs and now the little holder I keep them in is full, plus one.

Health – Continue the daily showering/brushing/flossing stuff AND start keeping track of my food intake, as per shrinky-poo.

The showering/brushing/flossing bit was just fine. I even added in brushing every night. I started doing good keeping track of my food intake, and then on Friday I got frustrated and murdered an entire bag of innocent peanut butter M&Ms and said fuck it to the whole works.

Financial – I’ve decided (with some encouragement) to open a Red Bubble store. I’ve got all of my drawings scanned, I just need to upload them, decide what stuff they’d be appropriate on, and write descriptions. That needs to get done this week. This would potentially take care of the goal to bring in additional income.

There are 10 designs in my store and they’re actually being viewed.

School – Get the book finished, get my assignments done early and do them properly; work ahead if possible.

Done! I got the two assignments for the week done and turned in on Wednesday. (one was due Thursday and the other on Sunday) AND, I was able to work ahead which is a total bonus.

For the coming week:

Creative – Brainstorm ideas for my “big creative project” goal and try to settle on one so that I can start planning. So far I’ve got 2 possibilities, learning to silversmith and a filet knitting piece. The silversmithing I’ve never done, but there’s a class offered at the community college. My best guess is that will run me about $200. The filet knitting piece looks really neat, but quite daunting. It’s done with laceweight yarn on small needles and doesn’t include a chart to reference, just written directions.

If any of you have suggestions for something that might fit, I’d love to hear your ideas. The exact goal is “Plan a long term creative project that incorporates a new skill or a skill I haven’t perfected yet. Start the project and finish it before my 40th birthday.”

Stress Management – Walk on the treadmill at least 15 minutes on Monday and Wednesday before dinner.

Health – Keep up with the shower/brushing & flossing teeth, and tracking food via the app. Work to keep my number of calories for the day at or under my recommended limit, which means making smarter food/drink choices. (I’m using a free app for my Droid called My Fitness Pal, if anyone is interested. The best part is that it has a barcode scanner.)

Financial – Don’t spend money except for Rxs or necessary groceries.

School – Turn assignments in early. Make a plan for working ahead again.

Bonus Goal – The theme for this week is Love, so I’m going to see if I can’t find a way to spread a little extra love to those around me.

building rome / life worth living update

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Holy buckets, do I have a lot to tell you! So much has happened recently and I don’t feel like I’ve had any time to properly tell you about much of it. But let’s start with the goals. If you’re interesting in joining the Building Rome crew, link up over here. It’s a great way to get yourself motivated to get things done.

Last week’s goals were:

Creative – Complete a sketch for CCC and do the Life Through the Lens challenge

Success! I did both of those things, plus some additional drawings.

Stress Management – Read before bed as often as possible

Not so great on this one. I did read some, for school, but I seemed to draw more often.

Health – Get back in the routine of taking a shower EVERY day and brushing my teeth every time

I was doing great on this until yesterday. Mom and I spent damn near the whole day cleaning and organizing stuff again, including the garage. By the time we got done I needed to do homework, so I skipped the shower. But that was the only day. AND, the other 6 days that I showered/brushed my teeth I also managed to floss before bed.

Financial – Don’t spend money on anything I don’t actually need; paying bills or buying groceries should be about all I’ll need to do – oh, and a hair cut

Uh, what? No, this one did not go well at all. I actually went kind of nuts with spending money I didn’t need to. For some reason I’m on a kick to redecorate. I ordered a new bedspread and got these great wall decal things to serve as a headboard. My space is looking amazing, but my bank account isn’t. We’ll try again next week.

School – Successfully complete all of my assigned reading and homework for the week before it’s due

If “just by the skin of my teeth” counts, then yes. It was technically all turned in on time. The reading isn’t done, but that’s on the list for today. And sometime in the middle of the night I realized that I’d actually done the assignment rather wrong and turned it in again this morning. I am apparently not fully back into student-mode yet.

For next week, let’s see if I can…

Creative – Finish the knitting project I started a few weeks ago.

Stress Management – Make myself some new CDs for in the car and listen to music at home when appropriate.

Health – Continue the daily showering/brushing/flossing stuff AND start keeping track of my food intake, as per shrinky-poo.

Financial – I’ve decided (with some encouragement) to open a Red Bubble store. I’ve got all of my drawings scanned, I just need to upload them, decide what stuff they’d be appropriate on, and write descriptions. That needs to get done this week. This would potentially take care of the goal to bring in additional income.

School – Get the book finished, get my assignments done early and do them properly; work ahead if possible.

Interestingly enough, the theme for Building Rome this week is embracing pain. I had to go to the dentist this morning to have two fillings done in two of my front teeth. I hate going to the dentist. He’s a lovely man, but needles in my mouth just totally fucking skeeve me out. So I asked him to do it without Novocaine. He looked at me odd and asked if I was serious. Hell yes, dude – let’s do it. There were a few moments that really did make me uncomfortable, and once I actually squealed a tiny bit, but I did it. Yay me.