The obligitory Monday update

[dancerjodi]

This weekend was nice, not too busy, not too dead.

On Friday we got all gussied up and went out to Man Ray. PVC is a good thing. On Saturday we kicked butt in our laundry room: sand plaster, prime, 2 coats paint on walls, 2 coats paint on closet doors and paint on a shelf that cookbooks will be on. We were taken out to dinner by some lovely peeps and then went to Revere beach (ya dood!). Yesterday we did some crafting after brunch prepared by the lovely Devina, came home for some more kitchen stuff, had a nice dinner of grilled food and corn from the farm down the street and then just vegged in our swanky living room. B and I had some (heh) time for quality time last night, yay!

I've decided to set some realistic goals for myself now that I'm going back to school. Like, I want to set aside 1 day a month at least for crafting/sewing. I'm going to try and set aside my lunch hour for pleasure reading (homework will be after work and on weekends). I'm going to need to allow myself the time to exercise or dance after work on non-school days. I'm also going to try and pick up Italian again . . .

On that note, can anyone recommend good language CDs that I could listen to in my car?

My boss is back from her 2 week vacation today. I'm hoping she'll be energized and ready for us to work together, and do some interesting things rather than just scrambling with ad-hoc stuff all of the time.

Comments

Terrific Aspirations!

[corgibuddy.livejournal.com]

You rock!!! Sounds like a busy, but great weekend. After seeing the outcome in the kitchen, I'm sure the laundry room will be terrific as well. What percentage of the house do you still have left to refurbish?

I definitely hear you on the crafting. I sew (http://www.corgibuddy.com/clothrabbit.html) in my spare time (what little there is sometimes), and have been commissioned to hand-sew 50 primitive cloth rabbits for a Springtime craft fair ahead in the new year. I'm looking forward to it. I have bought all of the fabric, just need to start cutting out my templates and sewing again. That is the tricky part...finding the time to do it! *grin*

Re: Terrific Aspirations!

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"What percentage of the house do you still have left to refurbish?"

There are no big jobs left, only small day jobs here and there (yay)!

"That is the tricky part...finding the time to do it!"

You are SO right :)

[ejay-v2.livejournal.com]

*waves*

[devina.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great timeline for back to school scheduling. I'm totally with you on the 1 day/month of craft stuff. And I think I'm going to take a cue from you on the pleasure reading, although I doubt I'll manage to do that every day. I definitely miss reading fiction when I'm in school, though.

The Italian CD's I got are by a guy named Michel Thomas. He's got an intro set and a full set of 5 or 7 CD's. The intro set was pretty good (and you're welcome to borrow mine if you want to try it out) but I'm thinking of getting the full set...two CD's doesn't get you very far.

Yay for good weekends!

Foreign Language......

[corgibuddy.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot to mention....with foreign language instruction....in my opinion....you can't go wrong with Berlitz (http://www.berlitzbooks.com/). They have an incredible selection to choose from, and one you might enjoy while driving in your car is their "Berlitz Rush Hour Italian CD Edition". ;)

[jhimm.livejournal.com]

i've been off again on again
with the Pimsleur's series for Japanese
and they're very good.

[nepenthedreams]

I've heard Pinsleur is the best. I've seen it being sold on Amazon and on eBay.