28 days later or day 64

here's what i've done:

1. i accomplished #20 and #21 in one day-going to the pulmonolgist and cardiologist. i found out that i'm only using 71% of my lung capacity (normal is 80%) and that i have a heart murmur. i was given a sleep oxygen test that came back normal, so i don't have to worry about that again until next year. i guess that 9% isn't all that importnat. i have to get a echocardiogram to see what's up with the murmur. would've done that last week if i hadn't contracted swine flu...will makew appointment after i'm done with this blog.

2. i took part in an ILL presentation for our all staff day. in preparation for this, i was required to attend a workshop on public speaking/effective presentations. after seeing myself on video and practicing a lot, i discovered that i'm actually not a terrible public speaker. this accomplished goal #82, to become a better public speaker and enhanced the ongoing goal #33, to be more proactive at work.

3. i'm making progress on #52, growing my hair out. here's were it is as of today, about 1/3 of the way to goal #1:

and here's goal #1:

4. val and i completed the first session of water aerobics, only missing 2 classes (and for totally valid reasons). we are signed up for the summer session, which starts in june. in between, we are going to continue to meet and swim on thursdays. this helps with #3, which is to swim a couple times/month.

5. i changed my sheets last night. not doing too well on doing that as often as i should. it had probably been a month and a half. still working on #41.

6. finally, i changed my #101 goal from participating in the 365 project to completing the 5 things i'm supposed to make for people by the end of 2009. i have some of the supplies for those projects now too.

the 3 things i would like to work on now are keeping track of food, exerbycling, and making the most of P.T.

i have been remiss or day 36

it's been a couple weeks since i checked in with this and i was pleased to see that i've accomplished a few things. i've also been kinda bad about some things. i have my cardiologist and pulmonologist appointments this week. i cleaned the fuck out of my kitchen, bedroom, and front spare room last night. living room, bathroom, and the dreaded back bedroom (aka chupacabra) are next and hopefully tonight. the front bedroom is where the exerbycle is and now that the floor is no longer riddled with cat litter, it might be more inviting. i charged my ipod for this purpose too.

oh and i managed to get my hair trimmed without lopping it all off again. progress.

revisiting list or day 19

looking abck after almost 3 weeks, i'm pretty pleased with what i've done so far. i've exerbycled once, which isn't a great track record, but i'm hoping to do it again tonight and maybe even tomorrow.

val and i started water aerobics last night, which is the perfect pace and the instructor played songs like "ladies night", "i can't go for that", and "get down on it", which is totally awesome. he also taught us a new vocabulary word, "disencouraged" and gave us "helpful" diet tips like don't eat after 7 and instead of eating fried foods, eat strawberries and blueberries. ah well. good thing i already know some things about nutrition (i said i know them, not that i utilize them). his name is william, but i'll secretly call him willy.

i got a $25 ticket for having a broken windshield. this is on my list of things to get fixed. sadly, an oil change and wheel realignment are first in line.

i heart carrie brownstein or day 11

hair

so, i said i would grow it out, just to see. here's an example of my 1st hair growing goal. i give you carrie brownstein:

i forgot about carrie for a bit. she's one of my hair heroes. she appears to have a similar texture to mine and eventhough i cut it all off again, like last month, and i was pretty much half way there, i will begin again. all the nay sayers can shut up right now.

valid plates or day 9

i got my vehicle sticker on sunday, which was 8 days before my old one expires and about 9 days earlier than i usually get it. yay not getting a ticket for expired plates!

i put money aside with this paycheck. i'm not going to "yay" it until i see that i can actually keep a hold of it until next paycheck.

today, i plan to exerbycle and my challenge for the week is to not have wendy's AT ALL. i love you wendy's, but this relationship is abusive.

i heart wendy's or day 7

so, in the last few days, i've continued to accomplish stuff from the list. here's what i've done:

#17 was to get 7-8 hours of sleep most nights. i can happily report that i have gotten at least 7 since i started this. yay me!

#33 was to be more proactive at work. i started a project that has been in my head for about a year and shared it with others. now we are all working on it. it's not a huge project, but it's something that needs to get done. i have a bunch of these that i'd like to start with others too. yay teamwork! (did i really just say that?)

#65 was to take water aerobics. i have signed up to take water walking with val starting next week. yay water wings!

#82 was to become a better public speaker. this actually was inspired by the fact that my dept is doing a presentation at our all staff day this year and i had to go to a day long workshop on presenting. i thought it was going to be awful and boring, but it was actully very helpful and i feel pretty confident that our presentation will not only not suck, but will be enjoyable. yay seeing a videotape of myself speaking!

#101 was to participate in the 365 project. to that end, i've taken a photo everyday since thursday. i will create a blog to post those and link that here. yay camera phone!

next is exerbycle and not eating at wendy's so much. i've been pretty bad about that all week.

list is finished or day 4

i finished my list! and i've gotten to work on time 2 days in a row, which is pretty good considering that, for about a month, i was being dropped off. i'm surprised i fell back into the mindset of leaving earlier and looking for parking. yay goals! sleeping until 8:05 was pretty sweet for awhile though.

today i will start keeping track of what i eat on sparkpeople again and try not to lose interest in doing so after 3 months as i usually do. i have my sights set on starting to exerbycle in the next couple days too.

here i go...