Showing posts with label In Progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In Progress. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Update week 2

No major things have been going on, but I'm making steady progress on several goals:

#37 - The fruit basket is back, and I usually have a pear or an apple after lunch.

#46 - On Sunday I cooked a stew with reindeer, a recipe I found in a magazine. Yum!
#48 - still going strong. This week so far, I've had a variation of pasta lunches, tomorrow I will have the above mentioned reindeer stew. I'll be away for the weekend starting Friday morning, so lunches will be eaten either out or at the conference centre.
#61/62 - no news on the Arabic class yet - I really hope it won't get cancelled!
#66/66/67 - The easy Sudoku every day is no problem. The medium every week is quite easy too (have already done this week's). I started with this month's hard one, and gosh that was a hard one for sure, but hey, 19 more days in this month, right?
#69 - Lots of things going on in Germany right now - dioxin this and dioxin that. Poor farmers is what I say!
#70 - I've started watching an episode of one of my favorite shows, Das Traumschiff. Oh sweet nostalgia!
#101 - I've looked into how much the Nintendo Wii will be, and now I know what I want for my birthday! :-) Either that, or this will just have to wait a while because 3000 kr is a little out of my budget right now...

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Reading Goals

Today I went to the library after work to pick up some books on my reading list. Since I have several lists (goals #1 through #8) I decided to pick up a few different books to see what I'm up for. And boy, I am up for quite a challenge!

I know, I know, it's 1001 days, not 1 year, but still... Around 160 books to read, which means 1 book every week. For some of the shorter ones this won't be a problem. I did however pick up a couple of books from the "German list" today, amongst which Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities" which is a whopping 1584 pages! Let's hope the other 159 aren't as hefty!

I will read all German books in German, all English books in English and the few Swedish books in Swedish. I have some French books on the 33 list, thus the goal of reading 1 novel in French. It has been quite some time since I last read a novel in French (not since uni in 2002 I think) so this will be quite a challenge.

But, as with all other goals: Let's get on with it!

Several goals in progress

I really want to get a head start on this project in order to make it easier for me to accomplish my goals and to get some good habits out of this whole thing. So far, I have layed the ground work for several goals (click above for the list):

#31 - This year's appointment made (Jan 19th).
#32 - Printed out the registration forms yesterday, will hand them in next week.
#37 - Bringing fruit to work this week - the complimentary fruit basket won't be back until next week.
#41 - Exchanged addresses with an American swapper for the Artifact Paint Pot (3 more to go).
#48 - So far so good!
#61 - Signed up for beginner's Arabic - fingers crossed the course will actually take place!
#62 - See above!
#65 - So far so good!
#68 - This week's word - Lithe!
#78 - Will be a task for the fall.
#81 - Oh my. Gave one song a try yesterday night. I sure have some work to do. So far I can manage all songs at 80% in Easy Full Speed. This is going to be tricky!

Let's get on with it!