July 26

I woke up this morning and decided that the month of August I am actually going to accomplish something. Maybe I won’t be accomplishing anything that you would get a prize for but it will feel like an accomplishment for me. I have no school this month and technically nothing to do. So I have decided to set some mini goals for myself. I spent part of the morning working out the details and decided I will work them out along the way. First of all, grammar and spelling are not part of the goal this month. If Microsoft Word doesn’t catch the mistake then it’s not a mistake in my book. Ok here goes:


1. Read at least 5 books this month. All must be from my book shelf since I am in the habit of purchasing books and never reading them.

2. Get more sun. A hoosier/hippie called me a “Pasty Princess” at the bar the other night and according to my sister this is in fact an insult wrapped in a complement. So I will combine 1 and 2 more often. These will also fit nicely with number 3.

3. Get off the computer and stop watching so much TV. These are 2 different things but I feel they fit together. I spend most of my time on the computer and have the TV going as background noise. It’s a sick habit and I need to break it, if only for a month.

4. There are 37 days until the end of August (I’m writing this on 26 July). I need to workout at least 30 hours by then. That breaks down to 1 hour a day with 7 free days mixed in. This is more than achievable if I get my fat butt off the computer.

These are small goals and I may add more along the way, but these are my basic goals.

Goals for today:

I have a doctor’s appointment this morning but I plan to get a workout in before then. Afterwards I’m going to read at the pool, followed by a little late afternoon grocery shopping.

*Special thanks to the thunderstorm that rolled through yesterday and kick started my month-long adventure. Without you we would have had power and I would have spent my after noon on the couch catching up on Lost Season 3. Instead I am now reading “The Last Summer (Of You and Me)” by Ann Brashares. You may know Ann from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” I didn’t.