This was originally going to contain more (much more!) content, covering my weird dreams lately, my birthday events, and probably some random stream-of-conscious ADD-type stuff, but I’ll save all that stuff for a post of its own. Plus, I have other stuff I need to do right now. In the meantime – a progress report on my summer checklist. Awwwwwwwright.
- Make a much-needed trip home to Minnesota.
This is the most up-in-the-air thing on my entire checklist. Really it all comes down to funds. My mom gets married the last weekend in August, and that’s going to be the biggest deciding factor, money-wise. Ideally I would like to go home to attend my friend Shelby’s wedding, which is technically in September (first weekend)… but I include it on the “Summer” list anyway. I’ve been checking Allegiant for flights pretty regularly, and for some reason September has almost every weekend blacked out, and the flights that *are* there are $129-$139 each way. Ouch. Not looking good.
- Listen to 10 albums from beginning to end. (…and review them.)
I’ve listened to two so far, and three more are being ripped into my iTunes so I can listen to them while on the treadmill. No reviews yet, but I’m thinking I’ll get one up tonight, and probably a couple tomorrow. The ones I have listened to already and planned so far are:
1. Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid
2. Eyedea & Abilities – By The Throat
3. All That Remains – Overcome
4. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
5. Carbon Leaf – Nothing Rhymes With Woman
- Get back on that damn treadmill!
I’m struggling with this one, but I’ve been feeling the negative effects of my size more and more lately, which should (I hope) be enough to get me back in the fitness room on a more consistent basis. I’ve gotten on the treadmill once since I made my list, I just need to do it every night. Or at least 3 times a week. Something. My metabolism has slowed to the point where I can sleep 14 hours and think nothing of it – and that starts this big chain reaction of negative stuff I don’t even want to go into right now.
- Finish the two books I’m reading right now.
I put a lot of time into Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries the other night, and I think another good night with it will be all I need to finish it. Amazing book. The other one is Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation… I have a feeling that once I tear back into that, I’ll have no problem finishing it at all.
√ Start a playthrough of Mass Effect… finally.
I can actually put a checkmark next to this one! The other night I sat down for nearly two hours and started a playthrough as the main character John Shepard. I’m really liking it so far, but it leads me to create a subgoal – finish Mass Effect before the end of summer.
- Get through at least 3 movies on my Netflix queue.
Haven’t made any progress on this, but I’ve got a couple of days off in Monday/Tuesday, and I just need to do it. The movie I have currently is 007 – Quantum of Solace, a movie I really want to see, so there’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to find some time to at least knock that one out. Sadly, I don’t even know what the next movie on my queue is right now.
- Get my website finished/redesigned.
Oof. I don’t know why I put this on my list, ’cause it seems like such a lofty (and time-consuming) goal, but it really is something I need to focus on sometime. It just… hurts my brain to think about. I love doing that shit, but the coding. God, the coding.
