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Half Year Update...

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Approaching the half way point of my new years resolutions I thought it was time for a quick check up to see how I was going!

• Get Healthy: Not much progress with weight loss, though I seem to have stopped gaining... Time to kick start a new diet a think and stop chickening out of the 30km ride to work (it's actually all the hills and main roads that are really putting me off - it's like riding over the himalayas)! I've decided to start the one hundred push ups program and cut out all chocolate, sugar, bread and pasta from my diet... Today I managed a pathetic 5 push ups...
• Carbon Footprint: There has been some great progress with energy savings despite the fact the solar panels have yet to arrive. Our consumption is less that what we would be producing which is a rewarding feeling! The vegies, the chickens, the water tanks, the led lighting and the general consciousness about the issues has really helped!
• Style: Ok, I still have no sense of style, but I at least have a small collection of pics of what I like! Probably won't get on top of this one until I lose weight... not much point looking at clothes I'm hoping won't fit! I have started home making all my health and beauty supplies - though I must say the honey-lemon hair shiner turned out to be a very sticky ant magnet and took me ages to wash out!
• Creative Recycling: Ahh!! I'm way behind here... AJAX issues combined with scrambling to find website dev work to make up the difference between half time work and half time unpaid Green Card as let this fall by the way side... I have tried to hire 2 different people to help here without success, perhaps 3rd time lucky?
• Voluntary work: I've ramped up my EWB volunteering this year and am helping out with the upcoming conference which has been good... Having waited 6 months to get into the SES training session in footscray (when we lived in North Melbourne) I've now been told I have to join a branch closer to the new place so back on the waiting list unfortunately...
• Learning: Well I've certainly kept up with my reading... at the moment I'm reading a book called Prismatic, written by someone I met up at ANSTO - it's so intriguing and inspiring to read books by people you actually know! This book is a bit darker than the books I usually read so it's quite a change. I was bitterly disappointed that my bollywood dancing classes were all cancelled. I'm now tossing up whether to find a different form of dance or take up taekwando!
• 43 Things: It's all on for the eclipse! Woo hoo!!
• Friends: I suppose you could say I've reached out a bit more and rekindled past friendships which is a good start...
• Adventures: Ok, I'm falling behind here - sorting out issues with China, work, leave and money as well as people to look after the chickens! BUT I have some great mini adventures lined up - including (if I'm brave enough to go through with it) sky diving!

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