Goal Monday

[linaewen]

First of all, GIP!  I've been wanting to use this, so why not today, for Goal Monday?  Perhaps this icon should say Stupid List of Doom, though, to fit with a goal Monday, hee!  However, in spite of what it may seem, I don't mind having a List of Doom, and I am cheerfully looking forward to getting some things accomplished this week -- even today, though it's after noon already!  I always do better if I have goals written out, even if I don't accomplish them and even when they become burdensome, so here is what is on my big D list (D for Doom) for the week:

- grocery shopping today
- visit my inlaws today (on a whim I called and asked if they needed any groceries, and they did, so I will pick them up and deliver them, and likely stay for a chat)
- be more faithful at doing my daily reading in my Urdu Bible to keep my language skills up (and that means DAILY)
- contine to whittle away at the paper/book/magazine-infested flat surfaces in the house, as well as other cleaning projects
- write a long-overdue newsletter
- start practicing my viola daily (particularly now that the weather is such that it keeps going out of tune and regular playing will do it good)
- visit Chicago with Hubby on Thursday on a survey trip, to start planning what kind of ministry/work we'll be involved in when we move there
- narrow down the possibilities of which doctor to go to in town, and choose one
- make appointments with said doctor for checkups
- start planning menus for when I have to cook for 50 people end of July at a training thingy in New Jersey
- get more exercise -- daily walks, when it isn't raining, and biking as well
- read Sharpe
- write Boromir

First things first, though, and that means LUNCH!

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

LOL, that is a diverse list! I've noticed you have been a little less post-y lately, (though as always you've been wonderfully respond-y) and I was just thinking if you didn't post today I would have to send up a flare, lol.

I don't remember knowing you were a musician. I love te viola! I played French horn once upon a time, but when I found out (at first) that I couldn't be an artist for a living, I decided I had to give up the guilt of not having French horn for a hobby. I sold it, cried for a week, and I still regret it sometimes. I figure when I retire I can always buy a new horn and start from scratch. They are always needing horns for community bands. I still sing though, which is a lot cheaper and more portable ;).

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

I have played since 5th grade, started with violin and switched to viola in 8th grade. Never owned my own instrument until a few years ago, though, when I a friend was selling hers and I jumped at it.

I'm not a particularly amazing player or anything, but I did achieve first chair in high school and did decent at contests and such. Not having my own viola after leaving high school, I got out of practice. I picked up a violin and "fiddled" with that for awhile, but it's not the same after getting used to a viola -- and the violin got eaten by bugs in Pakistan!

Now I am determined to get to be a decent player again, simply because I know all it takes is regular practice. And I do love it.

Sorry, long answer. *grins* I shall have to do a music post one day.

Thanks for being ready with the flares!

[estellye.livejournal.com]

That was me, too. A really successful student musician, but not good enough to consider a professional career. I guess we are at the very least good enough to really appreciate how wonderful making music can be, and that makes all efforts in that regard completely worth it!

The bugs ate your violin?! Do they not use wood for anything in Pakistan?

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Do they not use wood for anything in Pakistan?

Yes, they do, for lots of things -- but the termites usually get it in the end. The violin was in storage -- in a wooden box, duh! and that was that. The termites also took out my oldest copy of LOTR trilogy. I wish I had taken pictures, it was a real mess. I saved some of the violin pegs just for fun -- and I still have the termite-tracked rosin!

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

*laughs merrily at your icon*
It's perfect! His expression is just right!

Good luck with the LOD. My own list is quite short and is usually complete with 'getting out of bed before 11am'! *chuckles*

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Sometimes getting out of bed is the hardest thing on the list. It should always be on the list, too, so that we can at least check off one thing for the day -- if we manage to get up!

Feeling any better this week? Hope your day goes well!

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

I spent the weekend wrestling with fatigue, but I'm otherwise quite well. Thanks for never tiring of my complaints and conundrums!

(((Lin)))

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't know you played the viola! Just when you think you know someone ;-)

Good luck tackling the stupid doomity-doom-doom List!

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

I think I shall have to devote a post to the saga of my life as a viola player! As soon as I start practicing again, I'll give a report and include the history of my viola playing.

*hugs you*

[maidoforange.livejournal.com]

Great gip, (((Lin))). I hope you got through your list without too much stress. I used to play violin and I did walk today. :?)