May: Week 3

I should explain myself. "Why haven't you been updating your blog?" you may wonder. Well, it turns out there is no good reason for not updating it. Just pure laziness. And for that I apologize. (My first Internet Apology!)

Well it's been a busy 3rd week. This report will consist of my activities the past 10 days (May 15-24). So with that said, here's my report:

Learn to cook a new meal each month ( 4 / 12 )

• I call it May's Flank Steak Pinwheels! Much harder than usual meal to make. 9/10. It tastes as good as it looks.
  

Befriend someone new

• I guess this is related. Not someone new, but I did talk to two of my buddies from high school. I haven't seen them in a while. It's been at least 8 years. I went out with them for some lunch and we had a good old time just reminiscing.

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day (269,805 (2,057) / 657,000 calories total for the year)

• Still not controlling this one well. I've consumed about 20,575 Calories in the last 10 days, or 2,057 Calories per day. Why? Weekends are my weakness. There's always an event, and I always end up overeating. These next 3 weekends are booked too, with, I bet, awesome food.

Make Facebook app

• So how's our game design document? Well it has a title and a template, but that's it. I want my friend and I to finish it (at least a rough draft of it) by the end of this month. One weekend to go!

Spend at least 20 minutes a day to walk the dogs

• I've redeemed myself with this one! I've been diligent and have been walking my dogs each day for at least 20 minutes. Good job me.

Don't curse for 300 days (accumulated) (102/ 300)

• 8 for 10. I don't even know if I can make the 300 mark. It's already May. But I'll keep trying. "Frig" is the bane of this goal. Gotta fix that.

Make money off investments

• So, the stock market is sucking. Any money I've made this year are pretty much gone. I'm back to $ 500 tier. Eh, that's okay. I'll just have to be patient and let my shares ride the ride.

Volunteer

• Don't know if I have volunteer opportunities this month. Next month for sure. Spring Fling here I come!

Draw

• I've been sketching a whole bunch, but I'm not proud enough to post any of them. Besides, I'm still trying to find the best software for me.

And with that bullet point, that's it! Next week I'll wrap up this month on Tuesday. See you all.

Update tomorrow

I'm getting bad at this; tomorrow'll be a new post. Stay tuned.

2nd Week of May

Okie dokie. Had a blast this weekend. Went to the Califronia Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. Very interesting indeed! Ever had a Strawberry Pizza? What about Strawberry Nachos? Strawberry Popcorn? Man there is strawberry EVERYWHERE. It was faaaantastic.

So here's my progress report. Pretty hyped:

Ballroom dancing

• So my hips have now started to move in ways I've never thought possible. Thanks ballroom!

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day (249,230 / 657,000 Calories total for the year)

• Bad week. Really bad. Ate about 14,410 Calories for the week, which is about 2,058 Calroies per day. That festival did not help one bit.

Maintain budget of $40 per month for game related purchases ($ 170 / $ 480 for the year)

• Got a Starcraft II beta invite. Should I go?

Make Facebook app

• Progress for this one. Made a game design document. Sharing it with my friend. So far we have a title ("The Last Epic") and that's it. Still a good start!

Spend at least 20 minutes a day to walk the dogs

• Missed this weekend, but I'll try to walk them for longer periods of time from now on.

Don't curse for 300 days (accumulated) (94 / 300)

• Went 7 days without swearing. Not even substitute words. Imagine that! Will I make the 300 goal? We'll see!

Read the Bible

• Still in Psalms. I think my favourite Psalm is Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want...Even though I walk through the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."

Draw

• I call it "Sleeping Charlie". Got my tablet, pretty hyped! Gonna start drawing at least 1 sketch a week.

And that's that. Productive week I had, I think. Pretty hyped about drawing again. Feels good to be doing something artsy for once. See you all next week!

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Update on Monday

A bit tied up this weekend. I'll be updating Monday.

May: the First Week

Completely forgot to update my blog this weekend. Updating on a Saturday's kind of difficult cuz the main priority for the weekend is to have fun. Had a blast with all the Mothers that came to our place to celebrate Mother's day. My "nephew" (really 1st cousin once removed) even came!

With that said, here's my progress report:

Improve Tagalog by speaking a different sentence a day

• Even though it feels like I'm making fun of my people's language, I don't care! It's fun to speak blurbs of Tag A Log here and there, without having to pause and think.

Learn to cook a new meal each month ( 3 / 12 )

• I keep hearing "baked Alaska" being shouted out for this month. Maybe I will do that; do something a bit more difficult to make up for last month's mishap.

Ballroom Dancing

• Still going. Rumba's super fun, with all the hip shaking and knee bending. I'm excited for next month too! Waltz is gonna be taught. Should be neat.

Befriend someone new

• Need advice for this one. I can never break through the "acquaintance phase". Suggestions?

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day ( 234,820 / 657,000 Calories total for the year)

• Consumed 13,480 Calories, or 1925 Calories per day. I'm getting pretty bad at handling make Caloric intake. But every weekend there just seems to be some kind of party with good food. Can. Not. Resist.

Read 5 new books (4 / 5)

• Still on My Life with the Saints. About 1/4th done. It's actually quite good. I never knew what Saints' roles were until I've started to read that book. Will give a review once finished.

Maintain budget of $40 per month for game related purchases ($ 170 / $ 480 for the year)

• Bought Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii. If there was a videogame that was equivalent to cigarettes, this game would be it. It is pure addiction. It's cost me so much precious sleep. SO FUN.

Spend at least 20 minutes a day to walk the dogs

• Heh, I totally fail here. I've neglected to walk them because of Monster Hunter Tri. I'll do it this week for shizzle.

Don't curse for 300 days (accumulated) (87 / 300)

• 5 for 7. Monster Hunter Tri makes me curse. Ha ha.

Make money off investments

• Thursday was an interesting day for stocks. DJI went down 1000 points that day! I almost had a heart attack. Lost like $1,000 that moment, but it went back up. Phew.

Learn 5 new piano songs (4/5)

• Still learning Lamb of God. Ah, I'm really starting to play less and less cuz of Monster Hunter Tri.

Read one book from the Bible each month

• Did I mention I'm on Psalms? Lotsa good stuff there. Bookmarked a few of them. All are good.

And with that, the first week is under wraps. I'll update (for sure!) on Saturday. For sure I say.

What happened April?

Yeah so, that month went zipping by. Not a good month for me and my resolutions. A rollercoaster type of month overall.

All the April weekends were occupied by some event. I couldn't find the time to do some of the goals I wanted to achieve. That makes me sad.

Anyhoo, here's my progress report:

Learn Ilokano

• Learned two new phrases! ba am la tan - "never mind" and gur ka - "wait"

Improve Tagalog

• This is taking time, but I'm getting better at it. I just say stuff without pausing to think now

Cook meal each month ( 3 / 12 )

• Here's the start of my unmet goals. I failed to cook a meal in the month of April! Argh. This won't happen again. I'll keep this, but in the end, the best I can do will be 11 / 12 :(

Ballroom Dancing

• Finished Tango. Liked it a lot. May take advanced Tango this month.

Befriend someone new

• This is difficult. Don't know why. I'm not that anti-social. I think.

Consume 1,800 Calories per day ( 221,340 / 657,000 Calories for the year )

• Like I said, April was full of events. In those events came great food. I consumed, in my last week (9 days) about 18,030 Calories, or 2,003 Calories per day. That's not that bad considering what a crazy month April was.

Read 5 new books ( 4 / 5 )

• Reading My Life with the Saints by James Martin. So far pretty interesting. I like.

Maintain a budget of $ 40 per month for game related purchases ( $105 / $480 )

• Surprised I didn't purchase anything for April. May on the other hand will be a different story =]

Create Facebook App

• Yet another goal I haven't achieved. I really need to start little by little on this one. First up: learn Flash.

Spend at least 20 minutes walking the dogs each day

• Ugh, I've been slacking here too. Mondays I skip walking the dogs. "Too early" I think to myself. That's gonna change in May.

Don't curse for 300 days ( 82 / 300 )

• Haha so difficult. Went 6 / 9 the last week. Gotta stop saying "frick" all the time.

Make money off investments

• Damn you GS! Taking down BAC and C with you! Anyhow, I just gotta keep waiting this out. Eventually my stock'll bounce back up.

Don't miss Church

• 4 / 4!

Find new job

• Ooooo this one's interesting. I might seriously look into this one soon. There's been 4 layoffs in my company. And my manager left for Amazon. This company's getting rocky, so I'll be prepping my resume and shopping around online in the next few months.

Buy own place

• Not til my Dad gets a job.

Learn 5 new piano songs ( 4 / 5 )

• Almost done with Lamb of God by Twila Paris. Just need to polish it up, and I can check this off my list!

Learn 5 new guitar songs ( 0 / 5 )

• Almost done above so I can start this one soon!

Teach Charlie new tricks

• He can rollover. With a treat. Under the right conditions. But he still can!

Read Bible

• Finished Job. That was a difficult read. Had to read up on some of the commentaries to see what was going on. Glad I kept at it though. Job really was something special, and his friends didn't help with anything. Onto Psalms.

Volunteer

• Did this one @ Church. Blood donation tomorrow! That should count for May XD

Draw

• NEED TO DO THIS. This one is burning inside me, but I haven't produced anything. I'm gonna have to be serious about this one.

Compose

• This one can wait. I'll leave it in the backburner for now.

And that was April. Great month. It went by blazingly fast. My cousin's debut, and another cousin's Wedding in Tahoe were great moments. It also came with bad moments with the layoffs and my manager leaving the company.

So May, you 31 day month: you better be less eventful than April so I can accomplish more goals and make up my shortcomings from April!

Til next Saturday.