Update #54

Cleaning and Organizing
7. Wash dishes once a week for two months (7/8)

I hope to get this out of the way tomorrow.


Confidence Building
8. Be more open about being bisexual (lose this lingering shame I was taught growing up)

Worked some on this by openly talking about it to my friend when she visited.


Do Unto Others
22. Handcraft 2+ items as Christmas gifts each year (2/6)

I've already promised Connie a scarf, so I'm going to toss in a matching hat. :-) Merry Christmas, Connie! My other gift is going to be a multitude of handcrafted gifts... I won't say anymore here, but if you're curious, feel free to ask. It's a surprise and the recipient might see this blog!


Food and Health
40. Try a new recipe and/or food every month (13/143)

Oh the joys of a Chinese buffet! I tried crab cakes this time, as well as some kind of steak and mushroom dish with a sauce on it... It was weird, but yummy. I was shocked by how good the crab cakes were.


Friends
46. Send each close friend a handcrafted item (2/5)

One item in progress is for Connie, one is for Haley. The other is for the unmentioned person in Goal 22.


Reading
78. Read the following books:
• One Twilight book
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Catcher in the Rye
• Gone With the Wind
• Bridge to Teribithia

80. Go to the library and select 5 random books I normally wouldn’t read and complete them (0/5)

I got my library card in the mail on Friday, so I'm going to the library tomorrow to see what I can find. My friend EdwArd is supposed to send me a copy of Twilight, so I'll wait on her before I go to the library for that. Yay!


Very Personal
101. ******* ** ******

Came to a good conclusion about this one. It's not accomplished yet, but hopefully soon.

Weekly Update #10

Confidence Building
8. Be more open about being bisexual (lose this lingering shame I was taught growing up)

I don't want to talk about it.

Do Unto Others
22. Handcraft 2+ items as Christmas gifts each year (1/6)

I'm 90% done with Oaksy's Christmas scarf. At the moment, I worked so hard to get this far, I'm sick of looking at it. It'll be done long before Christmas, though.

Creativity
17. Complete the 100 Snapshots Challenge (0/100)
18. Complete 26 Things and post in my journal (0/26)

I'm going to see if I can't at least start these tomorrow... or at least one of them.

Food and Health
40. Try a new recipe and/or food every month (3/143)

Today I tried this crazy concoction that was like peanut butter candy with chocolate fudge on top of it... topped with walnuts. It was supposed to be like a Reese Cup cake thing. *shrugs* It was pretty good, but mostly it tasted like the two candies put together than a Reese Cup.


And that's pretty much it. :-/

Weekly Update #9

Bleah, I am accomplishing nothing. I'm working on Oaksy's scarf, and that's been pretty much it. Jasper is doing well with leash training, though. He hardly needs any prompting now. Jack, on the other hand...

Confidence building is going nowhere.

I'm a rather discouraged Jan right about now, but it'll get better. I need to focus on goals I can get done and just do them, like my photography challenges. That will make me feel better.

Meanwhile, back to Oaksy's scarf.

Weekly Update #8

I haven't accomplished much at all this last week. Well, it hasn't felt like I have, anyway. I figure it's time to sit down and plot some things to do this brand new week and see how I fare. Plans are usually a good thing.

Confidence Building
8. Be more open about being bisexual (lose this lingering shame I was taught growing up)

I'd thought about doing a series of posts on LJ, just talking about how I knew growing up, my feelings on being told such a thing was an abomination, etc. I'll keep it behind an LJ-cut, so it won't be mandatory reading for anyone. It'll just be there in case someone wants to know.

Honestly, just typing the above paragraph was hard for me. I have a feeling this idea will take a very long time to carry out, which I guess is the point. You can't make yourself comfortable with such a thing overnight. Time is the key.

Creativity
17. Complete the 100 Snapshots Challenge (0/100)
18. Complete 26 Things and post in my journal (0/26)

I've been thinking about getting these two done and out of the way (linkage above). The 100 Challenge will be fun because it's such a big list of thing to photograph! I copied the list and alphabetized it to make it easier, though.

Pets
68. Breed Zoe and Frank

Frank has recently began to "rut," which is normal for goats in the fall. It means Zoe has come into season for sure. He's urinating all over himself and being rather aggressive. He takes great pleasure in knocking me down by side-swiping me on a steep hill. *glares* This behavior can last between a few days, a few weeks, or up to two months.

Either way, the goal here is to get him to successfully knock up Zoe so we will have baby pygmy goats. Not much I can really do to help in this department, though. (Have you ever seen little baby pygmy goats? Look them up on YouTube. You don't even need sound to see how precious and little they are!)

Related to Stories
82. Complete at least one book in the Jade trilogy

Yesterday, I had an epiphany. Now to put this new idea to work... and completely toss out everything I'd already written for the first book. :-/


I guess that's plenty to think and work on this week, don't you? *nods* Now to get my ghetto booty in gear and get-r-do!

Being Confident

Confidence Building
8. Be more open about being bisexual (lose this lingering shame I was taught growing up)


Katy Perry's song is a great way to open the topic up, even if in a vague way. It's a small start, but a start nonetheless. :-) It rattled my nerves a bit, but it went well. Very brief, then it was over.

*nods*

Weekly Update

Cleaning and Organizing
2. Clean my car, inside and out

The other day, we bought needed material for washing cars. Apparently, washing Larry's Firebird with just Dawn and water isn't good enough... lmao.

Confidence Building
8. Be more open about being bisexual (lose this lingering shame I was taught growing up)

Still trying to figure out a way to go about this without becoming one of those "screaming homo/bisexuals" that I can't stand.

Personal Upgrades
62. Buy 6 matching sets of pretty bras and panties (2/6)

Yay!

Preparation
76. Research horse ownership and care

I was offered a horse yesterday... for free. As in a no-bull-crap offer free horse. O_o Politely declined because I don't even have a goat shed yet. I need a barn before I can have a horse.


So yeah, such is my progress as of late. Nothing terribly exciting, but progress nonetheless.