While I’m at it, I might as well procrastinate a bit more and do a This Week’s Goals.

Here are last week’s:

- watch my Netflix movie that’s been sitting around since the beginning of September (Million Dollar Baby, I’ve been meaning to watch it forever because I’m kind of obsessed with Hilary Swank… especially if she’s all tough. ::swoon::)

I did this! I did this! Yay! Thursday evening I had a “Me-vening” as mi’lady dubs them. I left work early(ish), put on my jammies, and popped in the movie. I haven’t watched a full movie in… I don’t know how long.

- finish reading the biography of Buddha that one of the attorneys I work for lent me

Didn’t really finish it, but read about as much as I was interested in. I was much more interested in how Buddhism originated, what brought the Buddha to the place of beginning his preaching, than I was in the actual preaching(s) itself.

- go to yoga again

:( Nope. Work got in the way. Sigh. And the weekends don’t have as many classes, for whatever reason. BUT! I did play tennis on Sunday with one of my friends! So I did get some quality movement!

- ride my bike to work one day!

Also didn’t happen. It will happen soon. But again, my work schedule didn’t even permit me the chance to buy a bike light, and since it’s often dark when I leave work, it’s absolutely imperative that I have a light and some reflectors. So until I get a day where I can leave at 5 or 5:30, this won’t be able to happen. :(

- finish preparing my grad school applications master to do list

Um, grad school? What’s grad school?

So, not so much success this week. But I think the most important things were the quality time (movie) and the movement (tennis), so all in all, I did do good things for myself last week.

This week’s list comes TWO days late. Ugh. But I need to be less ambitious this week since (a) it’s already well underway, and (b) I’m busy at work so need to be realistic about what I can manage outside of work.

1) Cook a good meal for myself (others could be there too) at least once. Doesn’t matter which meal.

2) Have sex before mi’lady leaves on Monday. (Okay this shouldn’t really be a goal, because it will obviously happen, but if I make it a goal hopefully it will be really good intentionally making time for it sex. As opposed to the spur-of-the-moment-it’s-kind-of-late-but-let’s-do-it-anyway sex, which is also great, but is overwhelmingly the kind of sex we’ve been having in the past few weeks. And which to me feels more rushed.

3) Post here at least twice between now and next week’s goals.

4) Be aware of my brow being furrowed and consciously take the few seconds whenever I notice it to relax my face — my brow, my jaw, my tongue, my eyes.

And for this week, I think four goals is enough. Let’s do this!

Okay, I keep thinking of things that I need and/or want to do this week, to the extent that I have a lot of things floating around in my mind right now and I figured HEY! I KNOW! I’ll do a blog post of my personal goals this week! And that way I’ll feel accountable to the Internet for actually accomplishing them all.

I have a to do list too, but the problem with that is that the to do list has everything that needs to get done at some point. Some of the things on it are eventually-I’ll-get-around-to-this variety, some are this-has-to-get-done-this-morning variety, and most are just tasks. Things I need to do. The goals on the other hand, are things I need to get done, but also things I’d like to get done. One more rule: it has to be manageable. I can’t just put every single thing I’ve ever wanted to accomplish on my list of goals for this week.

Without further ado:

- bake something desserty (ideas: red velvet cake, snickerdoodles, chocolate chip cookies) and split three ways to send in a care package to my brother, my sister, and my dad

- do my laundry (easier said than done)

- vacuum the apartment

- go to a yoga class

- drink a cup of tea every day, and drink it slowly while doing something relaxing (reading, taking a bath, watching a movie, chatting with my roommate or mi’lady…)

And I think that’s enough.