Goals

So Miss Kimberley totally inspired me with her Spring Cleaning post, though, I'm the most lazy person ever so I don't know how far I'll get. I've decied to do a physical to do sorta list, just because I have a feeling I'll actually do this stuff--god knows I seriously need to--if it's writen down. So here goes: 

• Stretch - ten seconds per stretch x2 before and after "workout"
• 100 two ball juggling in each hand
• 10 minutes (total) of four ball juggling
• Jump rope 200 times
• 25 push ups - I'm thinkg I'll increase it by maybe 5 every week
• 2 sets of 50 sit ups, well maybe 30 depending on how hard it is
• 2 pull ups, 2 chin ups, 2 neuteral grip, and 2 wide grip (more likely only one of these)
  
• 5 dips

I think that's a good start for now. I have this book on abs that I think I'll whip out starting this summer, but right now with school and such the workouts are too intense. Along the same lines, I really need to change my diet. Seriously. NO MORE FAST FOOD. Good lord! Sadly I don't think this is very possible,  but at the very least I need to cut back. How about we say no more mcdonalds? Granted Wendy's isn't that much better, but it is a bit better.. a little..? This might be easier to accomplish because of my lack of money now. I need to start eating only here or at least the majority of time here at home. I also would like to play more DDR and Wii Fit, but that's really dependant on me going over to Kimberley's. This summer though, totally gotta play at least 3 times a week.  I'm going to add some other goals here at some point, but for now I think this will work! Oh and I forgot to mention, I NEED TO CUT BACK ON COFFEE. Since I'm so addicted maybe I'll go with once a week--while Kimberley is in chem lab maybe? Or even better--:(--Once every other week. Sigh.. I like it so much.. but I just don't have the money for it right now :(

Well here's some others I thought of: 

• Watch a movie every week
• Watch less T.V.
• Ride my bike to work whenever possible
• Study earlier and more often
• Try and go to sleep before midnight (we can do this Kimberley)
• Keep my room cleaner 

Spring Cleaning

Well, seeing as this coming Friday, March 20th is the glorious First Day of Spring, it seems fitting that we stick with "tradition" and try to declutter and reorganize our lives for the start of the new season. I've been feeling mysteriously motivated lately -- perhaps because this is the one week all semester where I don't actually have pressing deadlines -- and decided some of the motivation could be put to good use in the form of a blog posting. Besides, Ryan keeps giving me crap for slacking while he's making all sorts of new posts on his blog and on our blog... and I don't want him to be justified in his crap-giving anymore :)

First things first: I love cleaning. It's true that I rarely ever clean, and when I do, I usually end up distracted and will give up before I really have the chance to get started. But sometimes I just get into it and don't want to stop! This weekend, thanks in large part to my crazy-ambitious workaholic father, was one of those times. Saturday morning we decided it would be an awesome idea to clean the carpets... Like rent-a-Rug-Doctor-and-really-really-clean-the-carpets cleaning. It was insane and, to be truthful, I hated it at the time, mostly because my dad always has to go all-out and we ended up moving all of our furniture out of our rooms so we could "adequately" clean. (Seriously, my parents' mattress was on our back porch all of Saturday while the carpet was drying!) We worked until midnight and then on Sunday, we reversed it all and moved all of our kitchen furniture so we could mop the tile floors. Extravagant. Spring cleaning to an extreme. But, looking back on it, I'm really glad we did it. Everything just feels better and I'm way more motivated to clean everything else because of it. In fact, I'm hoping Ryan and I can get his vacuum fixed so we can extreme-clean his place too! Well... if he lets me!

I guess, though, it doesn't just stop there. Yes, I want to clean the rest of my room -- I want to make my desk the OCD-organized place it normally is and I want to find a way to organize my mini-Bath & Body Works collection so I actually can see my countertops in my bathroom. But I want to do more than that. I want to do some "spring cleaning" on myself! Like... I would love to feel completely caught up in school for once. (Don't judge -- I do understand that writing this blog is a major hindrance to my being caught up and a major contradiction to everything I'm saying.) And I would love to feel like I'm making progress towards things that aren't school related. So, I guess I really just want to rediscover my motivation for life... and I'm dying to find a way to make it last, for once. Maybe this "spring cleaning," plus a little bit of Ryan's help, will finally get me there.

So here's my to-do list... with a timeframe from now until the beginning of the summer. I guess it's not even so much of a to-do list, but rather just goals or desires that I'm holding for myself. My hope is that, if I write all of this out, I will feel more inclined and motivated to stick to it... or, if nothing else, I will have a special someone reminding me of what I said ;)

I want to play Wii Fit and/or DDR at least three times per week. And maybe I'll actually lose a couple pounds to go along with that :)

I want to do 100 crunches per night. Every night.

I want to watch one movie every week. It's almost as if I strive to make my life as high-stress as possible... and I think taking the time to watch a movie every week (off our list!) will help combat that.

I want to read my honors books every week from now until the end of the semester. No more half-assed almost finishing the books... I want to f-i-n-i-s-h them.

I want to be in bed by midnight every school night. Earlier, if possible, but no later than midnight. My poor body has had enough of a struggle as it is... I should at least let it sleep!

I want to finish my chem lab homework stuff on the weekends, so I have my Monday nights to watch Dancing With the Stars with my mommy :)

I could probably keep going, but I think this is enough for now. Besides, it's about time I do some homework (or at least some reading!) so I can actually feel like I'm making progress. Plus, Ryan gets off work in t-minus 3 minutes, and I want to be able to talk to him... well, after he rides his bike ALL the way from Borders back to his house!

Ta ta for now.

Rediscovered Passion

So recently I have rediscovered a long lost passion of mine, well maybe passion is a bit too strong, in any case something I really enjoy. That something, though lame I know, is paper airplanes. Recently Kimberley had a badass assignment for her Technical Writing class, I don't know the wording exactly, but essentially what she had to do was dictate how to make a paper airplane without actually showing the person how to do it. Indeed this is a rather neat skill to have, but I was interested in the paper airplane part! I don't know why exactly, but making airplanes was always one of my favorite things to do as a kid. Granted I never really made super elaborate airplanes, but I was pretty damn good if I do say so myself!

I'm not positive as to where I learned how to make airplanes, I have a feeling it was one of my cousins, probably David, who showed me my first one. Although it could have very well been another kid I knew when I was growing up who knows for sure. Either way, back in the day I knew how to make several kinds of airplanes, though the two main ones were a glider and a speed/distance airplane. I can't remember too well, but I'm pretty sure that my friends and I used to have competitions on various aspects of the flight. I think they actually got pretty complicated, as complicated as 4^th graders can make things anyway. We judged on appearance—was it colored or decorated—complexity—how hard was the airplane to make—distance traveled, aerial tricks—flips, turns, spins, etc.—and grace—did it float through the air and such. There was also more specified competitions such as speed, safety—we actually made little paper men or wood men (really just sticks)—which were a whole hell of a lot of fun too. I also learned or thought I learned a lot about the 'art' of paper airplanes and became somewhat of an "expert". I knew things like what the best paper to use, how much to color the plane—see too much crayon or marker makes the plane too heavy, or if you put marker on the wings it makes them flimsier and less able to fly; I also knew different wing folds that maximized or minimized different types of tricks. Alas I certainly don't know much now, perhaps it'll come back to me as I make more of them now, but thinking about it logically I think a lot of it was a load of shit haha. Certain things maybe were true-ish, I mean if you fold up part of the right wing it'll turn right, but I'm not so sure. I'll have to experiment and see if it comes back to me again.

I don't know why I enjoyed making them so much I have always had a fascination with flying, but not flying as in mechanized plane flying. Gliding, the way birds do is what fascinates me even to this day. Don't get me wrong, I think the advances in technical flying are pretty cool, but it's not free ya know? For example, one of the reasons I was so obsessed with the anime Dragon Ball Z is because of their ability to fly. I mean I actually trained, well "trained", while I watched the show.. I freaking loved the way they flew. One of my favorite Goosebumps books was How I Learned to Fly, hell I even tried to do the same thing the kid did in the book! Flying is just so.. cool! I've also always wanted to sky dive and learn to hang glide, but I have a little fear of heights so I don't know if it'll ever be possible for me to do either. Maybe not fear heights so much as fear of pain, I mean, shit you screw up in either of those activities and its bye bye world!

In any case, I've resolved to start making more paper airplanes and as such fly them! I also really need to teach Kimberley how to make good ones cause she's an uber n00b! Like whoa. Oh and I just now remembered that another one of my favorite activities kinda related to flying is Frisbees! Oh man those are so so fun! Kimberley and I are gonna have to go out and fly planes and throw around a Frisbee, it'll be old school fun! We've also decided that because we're 20 years old it's horribly sad that we don't know how to fly a kite, so we're gonna learn that together too! :)