Since returning from vacation last month, I have focused my attention on the following 6 goals and my five things are to do something every day towards each of these goals. I think I will take a break from posting here until I finish 1 or more of these goals.

1. Complete my secret goal.

2. Marry Tiwa ❤

3. Exercise more.

4. Weigh 250 lbs.

5. Make more money.

6. Get a better job.1 day ago

• Call C’s school for an appoiment with SW
• Continue cleaning the kitchen cabinets
• Fold clothes
• Dedicate at least one hour to organize office
• Follow up to students tutor’s presents

Bonus: Old things and organize car

Yesterday:
•Old things (finish the letter)OK
•Send letter to all the probation students I didn’t reach it OK
•Meeting with C’s math teacher OK
•Study to C’s final exam OK
•Bootcamp Almost… 3 days ago

- morning cleanup
- helped out at the school
- dinner
- girls to dance
- laundry 4 days ago

• Old things
• Send letter to all the probation students I didn’t reach it
• Meeting with C’s math teacher
• Study to C’s final exam
• Bootcamp

Bonus: Make medical’s appointments 5 days ago

- decluttering
- cleaning in kitchen
- laundry folded & upstairs
- vacuumed
- visit with family 5 days ago

3 rainy days in a row and PMS is not a good mix to feeling ok… :(

• Old things
• Continue with mother’s day presents
• Bootcamp
• Finish movie “Life of Pi”
• Prepare tomorrow letter’s

Yesterday:
•Laundry ALMOST DONE
•Kitchen ALMOST DONE
•Prepare shakes
•Prepare material for Friday workshop DONE
•Old things 1 week ago

• Laundry
• Kitchen
• Prepare shakes
• Prepare material for Friday workshop
• Old things

Yesterday
•Start to buy Mother’s day presents
•Clean up the kitchen (15 minutes)DONE
•Bootcamp DONE
•Call of probation students DONE
•Send results of activity to the faculty DONE1 week ago

• Start to buy Mother’s day presents
• Clean up the kitchen (15 minutes)
• Bootcamp
• Call of probation students
• Send results of activity to the faculty

Bonus: Paint my hands nails 1 week ago

• Clean up the kitchen
• Go to the bank
• Finish all the details to the Tutor’s certification workshop for tomorrow
• Bootcamp
• Call Madrina

Yesterday:
•Collect water (it’s May 1st!) DONE
•Go to my therapist appointment DONE
•Design May’s bootcamp ALMOST DONE
•Finish the mailing (work) DONE
•Call Carlos school 2 weeks ago

• Collect water (it’s May 1st!)
• Go to my therapist appointment
• Design May’s bootcamp
• Finish the mailing (work)
• Call Carlos school

Bonus: Send health insurance refund 2 weeks ago

This is last day of my 6 day trip.

1. Spent the early morning in the cafe car talking to some of the other riders and ended up eating breakfast with them also. (Picture not from my trip, but I wish it was)

2. After arriving at Union Station, I took the bus and got home safely.

3. Had a long nap to recover from the trip.

4. Cooked my own lunch.

5. Played with my dog.

6. Washed Laundry.

7. ❤ Called Tiwa to tell her I love. ❤2 weeks ago

This is day 5 of my 6 day trip. I’m kinda sad this will be my last day in New Mexico for awhile.

1. Spent the morning chatting with Barry x%x Simon and enjoying the beautiful mountain views. After buying my last Subway sandwich with green chiles, I watched planes.%

2. Dropped off Simon at Amtrak for his train a few hours before my train arrived.

3. spent a few hours in Old Albuquerque comparing turquoise jewelry and ceramic pots. I was happy that there was nothing like the piece I bought available in any store. There was also some really nice music coming from the town square and with the most perfect weather as well.

4. After buying my last Subway sandwich with green chiles as well as snacks for the trip, I watched planes taking off and landing before returning my rental car and catching a $15 taxi back to the Amtrak station.

5. Already had my ticket, so just had to board the crowded train. I played Civ4 and watched a movie on my laptop. Unfortunately, the Southwest Chief does not have Wi-Fi or Internet.

6. When it got late and quiet, I fell asleep just a little while after we left Flagstaff, AZ The sounds and movement of the train didn’t bother me at all, but the man in the next seat snored, so I was waking at regular intervals and wishing I had remembered my earplugs.

7. ❤ Called Tiwa and told her I love her. ❤2 weeks ago

This is day 4 of my 6 day trip and on my way to visit a place that has only been open to the public 120 days in the last 60 years.

1. Had a quick breakfast of yogurt and a cheese sandwich in the morning.

2. Drove to the rally point at Tularosa High School to join the escorted convoy across the White Sands Missile Range.

3. After an hour of driving, we reached the Trinity Site, ground zero for the first atomic bomb and the culmination of the Manhattan Project. Trinitite, the radioactive rock formed in the explosion is still scattered around the site. Many people brought Geiger counters to measure the radiation and others like me just took pictures of the monument and several artifacts including a bomb casing similar to the one used at Hiroshima and a blast casing nicknamed Jumbo that was going to originally house the bomb. There was also the ranch house which was 2 miles from the Trinity site where the bomb was assembled before detonation. The feeling I had being there was of reverence of this great power that was unleashed which has lead to consequences that we are still dealing with 70 years later.

4. Drove to New Mexico Tech university and split a bag of books with Simon from a campus book sale.

5. Drove to see the Salinas Pueblo Missions including the Abo and Quarai sites. Our timing just happened to be perfect as we had time to tour the Abo ruins and see Quarai too before the park closed for the day. It was an interesting but ultimately sad piece of Native American and Spanish history since each mission was ultimately abandoned after years of severe hardship 400 years ago.

6. Drove back to Albuquerque and contacted my friend Barry who put us up for the night on the slopes of Sandia Peak. Had fried chicken for dinner spent a lot of time talking about hiking and biking since Barry does a lot of both. Even through I was tired, we stayed up and talked until we all got too tired to continue.

7. ❤ Called Tiwa to tell her I miss her so much. ❤3 weeks ago

Space and Spaces 4/5/13

This is day 3 of my 6 day trip.

1. Started at the Tularosa Historical Society to walk through their museum & get information from the Chamber of Commerce to plan the day.

2. Had a mediocre breakfast burrito from Lotaburger. I got it with green sauce and something anyone who visits New Mexico needs to know is that you have to choose between red and green sauce for almost all food served here. They are both pretty good and not too spicy, but green sauce is my favorite. Going here served it’s purpose since we were in a hurry and there was a lot to do today.

3. Drove to the New Mexico Museum of Space History to see the Hubble movie at the Imax Theater. This movie is so amazing it made me cry. Yes, I do cry when a star is born. I had a personal connection with the Hubble Space Telescope because I participated in the campaign to save the Hubble which is documented in the movie. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

4. Walked through the museum and enjoyed seeing all the testing that occurred at White Sands Missile Range including the fastest human alive and testing of the Apollo space capsule. It also had a beautiful view of where we were going next.

5. Drove to White Sands National Monument. Walking and getting lost in the miles and miles of space covered with gypsum sands, it reminded me of Lawrence of Arabia. Hot and dry, but lucky for us no wind and blowing sand. We spent about 4 hours here, but we could have spent a lot more.

6. Ate dinner at Golden Corral and it was the right choice because after all the hiking we did, we were hungry. I especially liked the chicken fajitas. I had to go back for 2nds.

7. Picked up some snacks & drinks for tomorrow since we are not going to be close to any store until late in the day.

8. Spent the rest of the evening talking with Chris and playing with her dog Felix, A full size Airedale terrier. Felix loved to take our socks and shoes and rearrange them around the house and was otherwise adorable.

6. ❤ Called Tiwa and told her I love her. ❤3 weeks ago

• Pay bills
• Write an invitations to faculty (work’s activity)
• Fold clothes (10 minutes)
• Call Carlos school
• Bootcamp

Old things:
*Pick up my sonogram DONE
•Go to the doctor DONE
•Coordinate meals on the tutor’s certification DONE
•HANDLE MY ANXIETY DONE
•Bootcamp

Very 0ld things (back on track after recovery)
•Bring my kid to the barbershop
•Looking all the things I need to start to paint guest bathroom
•Submit health insurance refund
•Cook 3 weeks ago

• Go to the doctor
• Coordinate meals on the tutor’s certification
• HANDLE MY ANXIETY
• Bootcamp

Old things (back on track after recovery)
•Visit Madrina DONE
•Bring my kid to the barbershop
•Looking all the things I need to start to paint guest bathroom
•Attend the garden DONE
•Bootcamp DONE
•Submit health insurance refund
•Start tutor’s evaluation DONE
•Cook
•Volunteer I cant, because I was sick3 weeks ago

• Old things (back on track after recovery)
• Visit Madrina
• Bring my kid to the barbershop
• Looking all the things I need to start to paint guest bathroom
• Attend the garden

Bonus: Do ONE thing at time, no rush 4 weeks ago

1. Finished my stuff for work.
2. Had tea with the guy as he got off work early. (This is not really an achievement but I’m listing it anyway.
3. Blew off our partner organisation in such a kind way that he was actually quite pleased on the phone. We won’t be working with them but that’s okay.
4. Happy kidlets.
5. Saw the show for work – hey, I showed up! I didn’t stay to chat with the makers though. I’m not a social type. I should’ve. But I didn’t. 4 weeks ago

1. Worked: did most of what I had to do today.
2. Went to ukelele lesson, the first one. That was frustrating as hell.
3. Put the kidlets to bed and they didn’t object.
4. Chatted with my co-worker and that was nice.
5. Did my bit to secure our intern’s next internship.

6. Wrote a letter to Smarts. 4 weeks ago

Because I was sick in these last two days. So I will do the April 16th list. 4 weeks ago

This is day 2 of my 6 day trip. This was an Epic day, the kind that you dream about. Amazing places, amazing people, and just having an amazing time the whole day. The only thing I wish could be changed would be to have Tiwa share this with me. I have already promised her that I will come back and do everything again with her.

1. Finished my catfish leftovers in the morning.

2. Picked up rental car.

3. Met my friend James & drove to the Alcoma pueblo.

4. Had coffee with locally baked bread at the Burger Barn making more new friends there as well.

5. Took a morning tour of Sky City on the most beautiful day in this incredible place.

6. After looking at all the pottery for sale, I bought my favorite piece, it was an Acoma woman grinding maiz and chatting away.

7. The artist Irene Castenada was kind enough to show us her small studio inside her home.

8. Drove back to Albuquerque to meet Simon & drive to Lincoln, NM, home of the famous Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County war.

9. Spent the evening chatting with some of the locals there and meeting their family.

10. Drove to Alamogordo and met my friend Chris to spend the night.

11. ❤ Called Tiwa to tell her I love her and miss her so much. ❤4 weeks ago

This is the real day 1 of my 6 day trip. Everything went so great today, I felt just like George Clooney in “Up in the Air”. One exception there is no ConciergeKey Platinum Card in my wallet!

1. Left car at home & walked to bus stop.

2. Took bus/train to the airport.

3. Flew to Denver and then to Albuquerque on a pretty inexpensive flight.

4. Met my friend Jason and he treated me to a delicious fried catfish dinner at Pappadeaux. (pic is my dinner)

5. Ate a slice of Jason’s mouth watering homemade crumb crust pie before bed.

6. ❤ Called Tiwa and told her I love her. ❤4 weeks ago

1. Worked. On several projects at once. And didn’t drop any balls. Yet.
2. Had a good conversation with total strangers.
3. Practised uke.
4. Asked sharp questions. Me so smart. Hmpf.
5. Bought and wrote card for Smartie. Never mind that I didn’t send it yet. (There was one from her when I got home though! Yay!)

_{picture: Rotterdam}4 weeks ago

The original purpose of my New Mexico trip had changed and I was a bit apprehensive about going by myself at first. But I had a amazing trip and was very fortunate to make some wonderful friends as well along the way. Here is the start of my my 5-things summary for the trip:

1. Finished packing & online flight check-in.

2. Biked 2.5 miles with the dog.

3. Went to work although my network problems never did go away.

4. Finished leftovers at home, through away old food and emptied trash to prevent dog from making a mess!

5. Got a good nights sleep.

6. ❤ Told Tiwa I love her. ❤4 weeks ago

1. Scaled Mount Laundry.

2. Took the kidlets on the train to brother’s birthday.

3. Worked a tiny bit.

4. Wrote 3 blogs including photos.

5. Took boots to shoemaker for mending. 4 weeks ago

• Bootcamp
• Submit health insurance refund
• Start tutor’s evaluation
• Cook
• Volunteer

Old things
•Visit Madrina DONE
•Attend my vault DONE
•Prepare all weeks clothes
•Study with Carlos DONE
•Fix my eyebrows DONE
Bonus: Check some professional journal for my brother’s thesis

Very old things:
Old things:
Paint my nailsDONE 4 weeks ago

1. Worked a bit while the minions napped.

2. Made a start on Mount Laundry.

3. Delivered the new business cards and present to S’s house with the minions. That was nice.

4. Made a prompt reply to my coworker in the evening so she can get on with things tomorrow morning.

5. Practiced ukelele in the evening. I now remember one basic chord sequence though I have no idea if I am doing it right. 4 weeks ago

• Visit Madrina
• Attend my vault
• Prepare all weeks clothes
• Study with Carlos
• Fix my eyebrows
  Bonus: Check some professional journal for my brother’s thesis

Old things:
Paint my nails 4 weeks ago

1. Went to zoo with minions. We all survived.

2. Remembered to send logins to C for website.

3. Dishes again.

4. Practiced ukelele.

5. Made smoothies in the morning. 4 weeks ago

Today my plan was have fun, share with one of my bbf and dance, but i try to finish all the things I had in my list:

*Receive the the gardener to fix the patio DONE
*Clean my desk DONE
*Pay the billsDONE
*Finish all the calls about the certification DONE
*Clean the balcony DONE
•Work on tutor’s files (work)DONE
•Document student’s counseling (work)
•Bootcamp DONE
•Paint my nails
•Buy trash cans DONE
•Do all the letters I need to the student’s certification (work)DONE
•Study with my son for Friday’s test DONE
•Finish to clean the kitchen DONE
•Mop the floors DONE4 weeks ago