Report Card #1

Being a former student (duh), public school teacher, and homeschooling mom, it struck me today, that I should check in with my "To Do" list from time to time and see how I'm doing. Since it's the end of the month, it seems like a good time for the first check-in. Here goes:

Figure out what I'd like to do with my life (okay, the rest of my life): lncomplete

Lose 15 pounds: 0 (as in that's how many I've lost. oh well.)

Exercise daily: A+ (yes, this is my report card and I can go from number grades to letter grades as I see fit - no pun intended.) I've worked out daily and increased my workout! Yay for me.

Be vegan: Unstarted.

Get through winter without feeling like a crazy rag doll before it's over: A+ I don't feel crazy at all
although on a couple very cold days, I felt very tired. Tired is okay. Crazy is not.

Travel to India: Hmm, what grade to assign myself? I didn't travel to India, but I am reading "Holy
Cow" which is a memoir by an Australian woman who lived in India. Does that count for anything?  A "C" maybe?

Work at an orphanage in India: See above

Travel to the Himalayas: Yikes! If it's too cold for me here, what would I do in the Himalayas
in January?

Develop a craft to sell: F, didn't even give it a thought.

Write: A, for writing in my blog!

Publish my writing: As I think Kit may be the only person besides me to look at my blog and I did
no writing on the story I'd like to make into a Young Adult novel, I think.... nah, let's be
honest, no progress here, a 0.

Learn to sing so that people don't cover their ears or ask me to stop: I don't cover my ears or ask
myself to stop, so I give myself a "B".

Be able to walk into a party where I know no one, or close to that, and not feel shy:  An "A" for my
weekend at Kripalu, which is sort of a party for yogis, for walking into dinner on Friday night
alone and walking out with two new friends!

Stay calm: A! I did good!

Be more loving: A! I did good with this one, too!

Help the world: B! Good progress on the environmental front: bought organic, shade-grown, fair-
trade coffee, started bringing my own cup to Starbucks so I don't have to use a disposable cup, am washing clothes in cold water now, bringing my own bags to the grocery and other stores, didn't take plastic spoons at Panera when I got take-out soup, and I am buying more organics and post-consumer recycled products.

Stop procrastinating: A+ Signed contract to get the den redone, called an electrician the day after the kitchen light broke, etc., etc.!!!!!

Sky dive: In January? In upstate New York? Even I am never that crazy in the winter!!!

Eat healthfully: B. Pretty good. Still eating too much and having some desserts (which is why I
didn't lose any weight. But, I ate good breakfasts. Can still drink more (water, that is!)

Not a bad report card. Not as good as my kids' school report cards, but at least I'll never have to send mine out to a college admissions officer!