I'm having a terrible day today. I got to stop identifying myself with my work. Any setbacks and failures that I have at work, sometimes it gets to me and affects my mood even outside of work. I am not defined by what I do, why am I still feeling anxious over what happened today?!
I came home and went straight to the fridge and had Maggie Beer's Burnt fig jam, honeycomb and caramel ice-cream, Grain Waves, and watercrackers dipped in yoghurt cheese. Healthy dinner huh....no wonder I'm breaking out on my forehead.
Then I played the piano...it always helps when I'm feeling blue.
I am ready to go to bed now and perhaps read a few pages of Pride and Prejudice.
I thought I'd get this list ready before I sign-off...
Start Date: 15th October 2009
- Complete 100 pushups by the end of this year
- Go for power-walks at lunch once a week for 2 months
- Cancel gym membership
- Get blood test and maintain cholesterol level <>
- Maintain weight under 50kg
- Read Pride and Prejudice
- Learn to play 2 classic pieces on Piano
- Learn to play 2 tunes on the guitar
- Watch all the movies on the IMBD top 50 [0/50]
- Try 20 new recipe from my cookbooks/magazines
- Share my food with neighbours or friends
- Join a book club (or start up one)
- Join a paint/art class and sketch something that I can hang up on the wall
- Read at least 20 books a year [0/20]
- Maintain average budget of $120/week (not during holidays)
- Look into investment
- Sponsor a child (World Vision)
- Read a book on personal finance
- Keep track of my spending by recording them in a notepad over 2 months
- Apply for Masters degree (part-time)
- Find a casual position to work during weekends (cafe, bookstore)
- Get to know someone at work well enough to ask them “What is your view on tattoos?”
- Have a general idea about where I am headed in terms of IT?
- Update resume/CV
- Contact an old friend
- Make 3 new friends
- Send X’mas cards to 10 people I have no been in touch with this year
- Love up-close, not from a distance
- Always fold my clothes back into drawer after work (for 2 months straight)
- Start a diary/journal (blog?)
- Plan a trip to a country I’ve never been to (or continent)
- Drive somewhere by myself and be able to park properly
- No T.V for a month (use that time for people e.g. emails)
- Get my ears pierced (under consideration)
- Buy something for mum/dad on Mother’s Day/Father’s Day
- Understand Jazz and go to a jazz bar
- Play a game of chess
- Arrange a games night with friends (Scrabble, Cranium etc)
- Bake someone I love a cake
- Decorate my room with X’mas lights
- Perm my hair
- Plant daisies in a pot
- Finish knitting my scarf
- Get braces on my lower teeth (if recommended by dentist)
- Get a manicure
- Sell my uni textbooks
- Complete city to surf (or similar marathon)
- Moisturise my body every night for 1 month
- Improve flexibility (ability to touch ground with hand)
- Sort out travel photos and create a photo book
- Go to a ladies high tea
- Learn basic Japanese
- Spend a day at the zoo
- Take a self defense class
- Buy flowers for someone special
- Wear glasses more often (2/month for 6 months) -- or get lasik
- Drink only water for a week
- Write a letter to future hubby/child
- Watch a TV series from start to finish (gilmore girls, west wings etc)
- Eat 2 things I've never eaten before
- Donate $10 to charity for each item on this list I do not complete
- Host a dinner party
- Read Catch 22
- Go ice-skating
- Make successful batch of maracons
- Take a least a photo a day for 1 month
- Light a candle and turn on the music
- Go fruit picking
- Solve a rubiks cube
- Play golf
That's all I have for now. Will update the last 30 later
Good night :)
