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30 Before 30:
- Take vitamins every day for a month (0/30)
- Go to the gym 5 days a week for three months (0/60)
Like clockwork, just when I start to feel recovered enough from my seasonal allergies to hit the gym, they flare up with a vengeance, and the added routine of decongestants and antihistamines interfere with my good intentions on the supplement front. Focusing extra hard on hydration and good nutrition this week (first CSA delivery on Sunday!), with the hope that by the end of the week I’ll be back on the wagon.
- Go three months without caffeine
Still going strong, 3.5 weeks in.
- Touch the Pacific Ocean
A (younger) friend (whose face lit up when she realized how close I am to thirty and how far she is in comparison) (I love her anyway) is planning to move to L.A. next month … having a potential tour guide definitely boosts my chances at accomplishing this!
The rest of my travel goals … I’ve made no headway on them.
- Cook one new recipe/fortnight (1/31)
This goal may be in need of revision. It’s measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely, but I’m not sure it’s specific enough. Does it have to be out of one of the cookbooks collecting dust on my counter? Or do I just have to make meals I’ve never made before? Tonight we had kamut pasta with light alfredo sauce from Lazzaroli Pasta (which, despite being directly behind where Stephen worked for the last year and a half, of course we didn’t venture into until the weekend before he started his new job). Does that count as recipe #2? I don’t think so.
I’m sure the CSA and its bounty will rid me of my ambivalence on this issue.
Organize and back-up my work laptop
I did this before leaving on my work trip, but forgot to make a note of it because I was beating myself up so much about wasting precious luggage space with workout gear that wasn’t used.
- Attend one networking event per month (0/15)
- Attend one professional development event per quarter (0/6)
Working on lining these up … May’s schedule is proving tough. I’ll probably have to make up a networking event over the summer. Professional development is easier, not just because I need fewer, but also because I love to learn. I did two concentrations in my major (journalism and visual communications), double-minored (philosophy and computer science) and was close to completing a third (English), and then went to graduate school in a subject I’d only skimmed as an undergrad (management). In short, I am a nerd.
- Finish novel
I swear, I am working on it. Currently I am wondering whether it’s too heavy-handed to name a Democratic politician “Stanton.” I was doing it as an homage to All the King’s Men, but realized Joe Klein beat me to it in Primary Colors. This is probably not dissuading me as much as it should.