Goals Revisited

The summer is halfway over, and I have all but forgotten my goals. It wasn't intentional, it's just that my blog disappeared and with it all hopes of bettering myself vanished. Now that I have forgotten what I wanted to do this summer, let's see how my accomplishments look.

Books - I'm not positive if I've finished a single non-fiction book this summer. I haven't read much fiction, for that matter. I just finished Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which is a classic in case you don't recognize the author's name. I've been reading a lot of American poetry lately--Frost, Sandburg, and Crane. So I guess I have been reading, but I am nowhere near having finished eight books. I'll go ahead and count Shakespeare's book as one, even if it is a play. I'm almost finished reading a book on stock photography, so that is two. I'm also nearly finished with Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller and The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball. Both are excellent books. Oh, and I read To Kill A Mockingbird not too long ago. Fiction, but classic.

Bible Memorization - Whoops. I'm still only halfway through Psalm 139...

Curriculum - I'm right on target for finishing by the end of the summer. Finally, something I'm doing right!

Cooking - I haven't done too much lately, but I have made a few meals and done some baking this summer.

Hot Chocolate - I made it one time. I wasn't a big fan of the recipe, and I haven't bothered remaking it. Coffee is better anyhow.

Work and save - I have excelled in this category. I've been working full time and spending hardly any money whatsoever.

CSS - Been there, done that.

Photoshop - I've actually spent a few hours on Photoshop today. I'm trying to come up with some kind of logo for my Dad's engine building. I might even make a website for him. We'll see how that goes.

So basically, I'm still doing alright in the goals department, in spite of having forgotten that I made any. I've also been learning Spanish lately, though I haven't made a goal of doing so. The photo lab can get slow sometimes, so I always take fifty or so palabras de espanol to memorize. I work with a guy from Columbia, so if I have any questions I just ask him. It has worked out very nicely.

That's enough for now!