Sunday wrap-up
Mar. 29th, 2015 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsTHIS WEEK
I look around at the amount I have to do and think about how much work and time it will take and I just want to cry; there's so much to do and I want it to be OVER and nothing's getting done! Which isn't quite fair to myself because...
ACCOMPLISHED:
- I have figured out a healthier (not cheaper or faster) way of packing lunches so I'm not buying at work
- Prepacked a healthy breakfast for most of the week
- Bought a plane ticket to England
- Got a hotel room in England
- Figured out the 221B Con raffle prizes we'll donate
- Seen my regular doctor about the "heart attack" and stress test
- bought a wi-fi range extender that was badly needed & set it up
- bought a new treadmill
- set up the dates for the garage to be painted
- seen Night Vale Live
- continued to dump/freecycle (and in one case, decide to reuse) 7 things per trash day (although I will likely fail this trash day)
So it's not like I've been sitting on my ass. I'm particularly excited about the treadmill. The old one... ran. It once had a very basic display telling you how long you'd run time-wise, but it stopped working after the thing was moved once too often. The acceleration was a slider bar, so no idea how fast you were going (although I usually walked at or below the line the makers sniffily dubbed "minimum.") The only way to to intervals was to manually move the slider; the only way to get it to incline was to turn it off, step off, lift it, readjust the feet, get back on, turn it on...
The "new" one - quotes because it's 3rd hand - has 10 degrees of incline you can adjust on the fly and speed buttons simply marked 1-10 (mph), plus it has 8 built-in programs: foothills, weight loss 1, weight loss 2, intervals, etc. There's even a setting called "golf" -- no idea how that works. No "run from bears" or anything. It even has a built-in fan! The only thing I wanted that it doesn't have is an mp3 line in and speakers - a mild pity, because I would love to slave the controls to "Zombies, Run!" but the onboard cpu is simply not that sophisticated. (It appears that if I bought new I might be able to get one that smart - for 3x or more the price, of course!) There are too many sound systems and speakers lying around the house to fuss too much about no mp3 jack on the treadmill itself.
I've decided to name it "Bringing Sexy Back." Because it is far more sexy than the old treadmill, and, well...
Unfortunately, I want to move it in my room, but I can't do that until I move mountains of crap and other furniture. Which is exhausting and depressing.
HEALTH:
Walked: 0
Flexibility: New yoga class on Tuesdays
Strength: Well... I hauled a treadmill out of the house and a new one into the house...
Weight: --
Other Health: Seen my own GP about the ER scare
OUTSIDE WORK NEEDED
-- garage fix
-- -- fix door
-- -- repaint: date for start set
-- -- regutter: to be done with painting
-- pave side of porch (desired, will take 2nd place to England if necessary)
CHRISTMAS WISHES/CRAFT PROJECTS:
-- Have ability to hold 6-person dinner party in library
-- Make "experiences gallery" of photos and badges from events
-- Make collage of poppy installation photos
-- Make Holmesian Lanyard & nametag for events that don't have permanent tags
-- Make Holmesian and Austenite bangle bracelets
-- Schedule regular structured "adult days" to focus on paperwork, mending, etc.
-- 2 full sets garb & accessories for Kitchen Guild (under reconsideration, England)
-- collect and keep ready 3 days emergency blackout supplies
-- Organize Christmas materials (lists, decorations, etc)
-- Clear bedroom
-- run at least 3 5K fun runs by fall (Dead Man's Run, Gobble Wobble, Ugly Christmas Sweater run)
-- make shadow box with Salk vaccine
-- make list/database of cookbooks
OTHER:
none
LEARNED THIS YEAR:
- purl through back loop
SELF CARE/PLEASURE:
- Night Vale Live show, Friday
READING:
Fanfic
Dear John John doesn't know his new penpal after Sherlock's suicide is... Sherlock. (johnlock longform epistolary fic)
Audio none
Print
-- The Thrill of the Haunt, E.J. Copperman
I look around at the amount I have to do and think about how much work and time it will take and I just want to cry; there's so much to do and I want it to be OVER and nothing's getting done! Which isn't quite fair to myself because...
ACCOMPLISHED:
- I have figured out a healthier (not cheaper or faster) way of packing lunches so I'm not buying at work
- Prepacked a healthy breakfast for most of the week
- Bought a plane ticket to England
- Got a hotel room in England
- Figured out the 221B Con raffle prizes we'll donate
- Seen my regular doctor about the "heart attack" and stress test
- bought a wi-fi range extender that was badly needed & set it up
- bought a new treadmill
- set up the dates for the garage to be painted
- seen Night Vale Live
- continued to dump/freecycle (and in one case, decide to reuse) 7 things per trash day (although I will likely fail this trash day)
So it's not like I've been sitting on my ass. I'm particularly excited about the treadmill. The old one... ran. It once had a very basic display telling you how long you'd run time-wise, but it stopped working after the thing was moved once too often. The acceleration was a slider bar, so no idea how fast you were going (although I usually walked at or below the line the makers sniffily dubbed "minimum.") The only way to to intervals was to manually move the slider; the only way to get it to incline was to turn it off, step off, lift it, readjust the feet, get back on, turn it on...
The "new" one - quotes because it's 3rd hand - has 10 degrees of incline you can adjust on the fly and speed buttons simply marked 1-10 (mph), plus it has 8 built-in programs: foothills, weight loss 1, weight loss 2, intervals, etc. There's even a setting called "golf" -- no idea how that works. No "run from bears" or anything. It even has a built-in fan! The only thing I wanted that it doesn't have is an mp3 line in and speakers - a mild pity, because I would love to slave the controls to "Zombies, Run!" but the onboard cpu is simply not that sophisticated. (It appears that if I bought new I might be able to get one that smart - for 3x or more the price, of course!) There are too many sound systems and speakers lying around the house to fuss too much about no mp3 jack on the treadmill itself.
I've decided to name it "Bringing Sexy Back." Because it is far more sexy than the old treadmill, and, well...
Unfortunately, I want to move it in my room, but I can't do that until I move mountains of crap and other furniture. Which is exhausting and depressing.
HEALTH:
Walked: 0
Flexibility: New yoga class on Tuesdays
Strength: Well... I hauled a treadmill out of the house and a new one into the house...
Weight: --
Other Health: Seen my own GP about the ER scare
OUTSIDE WORK NEEDED
-- garage fix
-- -- fix door
-- -- repaint: date for start set
-- -- regutter: to be done with painting
-- pave side of porch (desired, will take 2nd place to England if necessary)
CHRISTMAS WISHES/CRAFT PROJECTS:
-- Have ability to hold 6-person dinner party in library
-- Make "experiences gallery" of photos and badges from events
-- Make collage of poppy installation photos
-- Make Holmesian Lanyard & nametag for events that don't have permanent tags
-- Make Holmesian and Austenite bangle bracelets
-- Schedule regular structured "adult days" to focus on paperwork, mending, etc.
-- 2 full sets garb & accessories for Kitchen Guild (under reconsideration, England)
-- collect and keep ready 3 days emergency blackout supplies
-- Organize Christmas materials (lists, decorations, etc)
-- Clear bedroom
-- run at least 3 5K fun runs by fall (Dead Man's Run, Gobble Wobble, Ugly Christmas Sweater run)
-- make shadow box with Salk vaccine
-- make list/database of cookbooks
OTHER:
none
LEARNED THIS YEAR:
- purl through back loop
SELF CARE/PLEASURE:
- Night Vale Live show, Friday
READING:
Fanfic
Dear John John doesn't know his new penpal after Sherlock's suicide is... Sherlock. (johnlock longform epistolary fic)
Audio none
-- The Thrill of the Haunt, E.J. Copperman
