Wednesday, June 23, 2010

In the interest of full disclosure...

WOW. What a 31 days! I've done so much I've needed two days to recover enough to write my concluding blog post.

So, confession time. While I mostly finished my list, a couple of them were modified from my original intentions. I'll chalk it up to completing #10: learning healthy ways to deal with stress. Basically, removing a few stressors :-)

Let's recap a few things I modified slightly, in the interest of getting them checked off my list.
1. Write a screenplay for a short film. I have 4 pages of horrible drivel written that I'll never show anyone. But, it's a start.
2. I've REALLY been trying with my sleep. I try to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier, but my body fights it. For some reason, it can't realize that sleep is GOOD for me. Lame.
4. Shoot a personal video project. I tried shooting video of myself, and it was an abysmal failure. If you want to see out of focus shots of me lip syncing, too bad.
5. My "creative retreat" consisted of browsing CSS galleries for a few hours. Creative retreat indeed, but not what I had in mind. My idea was to visit a monastary. Next month...
9. Learn to prepare 3 healthy meals. These "meals" were 1. Blackberry Agave Limeaid, 2. Sweet Potato fries and 3. Edemame (which basically was microwaved.) It's a start...
18. Come up with a redesign for my website. I've figured it out conceptually. It's mostly in my head. Just not "finished."
22. Situps. I think I did 50. But I ran and swam a lot.
24. Wash my car. I had every intention of doing this on the LAST day (since it stormed so much.) But, I busted my back, and the thought of washing my car made me feel 18% paralyzed. So I cleaned the inside instead.
26. Skype date with my niece is going to happen soon. Just not yet...
29. Massage. Tried to schedule it, but this schiester company requires you to have a chiropractic exam first. Lame.
31. Learn a song on the piano. I started with Rachmaninov's Prelude in C# Minor. It was HARD. So I finished learning a Clementi Sonatina I had learned half of before. I love it. So, I learned about half a song. I think it counts.

BUT: I'll have you know--I ran 11.5 miles! And I swam my triathlon distance countless times. And I've MOWED my YARD regularly!

This past 31 (or 33) days has been wildly productive, and good for the soul!

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