Try something new every week

This was quite exciting, as I’m not used to wearing hats. But I think it has the right shape for me and I feel quite ladylike wearing it!

This week, I asked to get the new MS Office 2007 on my computer at work. It turned out to be very different from the previous version, but after some hours of experimenting (and swearing), I’m getting along alright.

Registered for Remember the milk, learned the most important keyboard shortcuts and imported the list into netvibes. That’s very handy! Now I only need to regularly use both tools…

This Easter I asked my parents-in-law to show us some walks in the woods around their home. I’ve been there so many times, and I never really explored the beautiful surroundings of their town. I loved it!!!

I invented a new dish:

• Mozzarella cheese slices with
• Heinz Sun dried tomato sauce,
• basil leaves,
• olive oil,
• white aceto balsamico,
• pepper and salt.

I decorated it in the shape of a flower. Very nice!

Up to now, this week has been very busy. I am working on a new project, so that is something new, though only partly my own choice. Apart from that, I had the opportunity to listen to a very interesting presentation that inspired me a lot. Last Saturday, I bought a new top, but actually buying something new was not what I meant when I chose this goal… Just now, I’m typing this without looking at the keyboard (another goal of mine). It would drive me mad to practice at work, but here, it’s fine. Not completely new, as I took classes about twenty years ago, but almost, because I didn’t use it then.

In aislinnv’s list, I saw the plan of participating in Photofridays (http://www.43things.com/things/view/1225803).
By doing some research, I found out that the challenges are posted on http://www.photofriday.com/challenges.php.
To me, this sounds very inspiring…

In addition, it gives the participants a special point of view to look at their world for one week. Nice thought!

Maybe it’s a little late to post this, but I wanted to wait until I’m more convinced that 43things not only a short-time folly of mine. The fact that I moved to “Web 2.0” by seriously joining an online community is quite new to me—so here is this week’s new experience!

...with a glass ball in its neck. I also bought lipliner (first time!) and mascara (first time in the last 15 years!).

Today I used a pressure cooker for the first time of my life. Until now, I was quite scared that it might explode, but I collected advice from family and friends—and it worked extremely well. The soup I made took only 20% of the normal time and tasted delicious.