Resolutions Update: September

It's the first of the month and it is time again for another resolutions update. If you wish to see my original resolutions entry, see the entry for July 9th.

• I committed to stop smoking. On July 18th I officially broke my physical addiction to cigarettes. Every now and then I still have psychological cravings, but I have been consistent in not yielding to them.
• I committed to stop biting my fingernails. I have not chewed on them since around or about March 2nd. They aren't looking so great though. There are certain nails that I break with astounding regularity: both thumb-nails, both index fingernails, and both middle fingernails. I don't think I have ever broken either my ring or pinkie fingernails. Needless to say, my nails are pretty uneven.
• I committed to read more. I read a total of eight and a half books over the summer (including one not on my list because it was so short: Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Hey by the way, he won a Hugo Award for that novella). Considering the two trips out of state I had to make (one anticipated, the other not) and the visitors that stayed with us (not anticipated) I didn't do so badly. Yeah, that's a justification, and not even an original one. In the one month I had remaining left of my summer vacation, when I last I did a resolutions update, I said I had wanted to try to read five more books. I got bored early on with Good Omens and I wouldn't allow myself to set it aside for another. So I read exactly zero more out of the five I was aiming for. I expect that I will be doing enough reading just keeping up with my school assignments, but I want to finally be done with Good Omens.
• There were thirty-one days in the month of August, twenty-five of those days I wrote entries. I ended up with a total of forty-six entries in all. It looks like I am still doing well with my commitment to keep a journal.
• Lastly, I made a goal to put more of my time and energy into doing the things that I enjoy. I specifically mentioned that I wanted to watch less television. There's really only one station that I watch and only on weekends - that's TLC. I also wanted to fully complete the mandala coloring book, but I have yet to so. However, there are one and half more pages that show some effort to that end. I have twenty-seven, out of an initial forty-eight, left remaining. I have been spending a significant amount of my free time with Andrew. We played Who Wants to be a Millionaire yesterday (we both lost it all after the 64k question). We've been bowling two times now (once for glow bowl and another time for all you can bowl). We've even made it over to D.C. three more times this past month.The first time we walked through a storm to see the MLK inscription over at the Lincoln Memorial, the second time we went to the National Arboretum, and the third time we visited the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Obviously since school is keeping me too busy to allow for much free reading, I'm not going to have much remaining time for Andrew, for playing games, or for going over to the District.

-- CrystalShiloh @ 01:46 PM