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31 Dec 2008 By Laura
This is my resolution every year and I do a middlin’ job of it every year. Every day is a new chance, so I always get back up and try again.
For 2009 I will post weekly progress on Monday.
M pledge:
I will do something every week with 3 main areas of focus:
- Egoscue for my posture 6 days a week;
- yoga, walking, or other exercise 4 to 5 days a week;
- continue to cut out white flour, white sugar, salt (the 3 white powders), no hydrogenated oils and no high fructose corn syrup (Corn Refiner’s Association ads notwithstanding, I still prefer to cut out HFCS).
Total goal: lose some of that blob around the waist. I hope to replace some of the fat with muscle so I’m not hooked on a specific weight goal.
Start date: I can actually say I started on Dec 15 (so I have a head start for 2009)
Category: The New Me Challenge 2009
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30 Dec 2008 By Laura
Today’s question: Here is a list of the main areas of Library Thing:
1. Home (http://www.librarything.com/, before you log in)
2. Home (once you log in, contains Your Home, Your Profile, Connections, Recommendations, Reviews, Statistics, Clouds, Gallery, Memes)
3. Profile (Recent activity, tags, comments, members with your books)
4. Your Library
5. Your Tags
6. Add Books
7. Talk
8. Groups
9. Local
10. Search
11. Zeitgeist (Stats, Top Lists)
12. Tools (Widgets, Store)
13. BlogWhat area are you most familiar with? What area is your favorite? What area are you curious about? Are there any that you have not really looked at?
I joined in October and got really serious just this month. I know the Add Books and Your Library sections pretty well. Today I found the Talk and Groups areas. Then I found the Group for the 999 Challenge and spent another 30 minutes creating my post with my list for 9 books in 9 areas in 09. The Touchstones feature is great, it adds the LibraryThing link to the book so quickly! After that I updated my library so now my Touchstones on my post have a green check mark to show which books I own. That way I know which ones I’ll need to borrow or acquire some other way.
I haven’t done much with reviews or tags. I started doing more with tags today and will plug in some reviews as I go through my list.
Today my favorite would be the Groups area. My favorite discovery for the day is under Home | Statistics | Series Coverage. I already knew most of this since it takes effort to collect all in a series and read them in order. But I discovered that Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is the second of a trilogy so now I have two more books on my To Be Read list.
There is still a lot on Home and Recommendations that I haven’t looked at yet. Some day. But right now I need to get back to reading!
Category: Reading
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29 Dec 2008 By Laura
This came up for discussion in the house today. When I was growing up and every year since then I’ve put the tree and decorations up on the weekend after Thanksgiving. It gives Thanksgiving room to be celebrated and then gets the Christmas season started early enough to have time to enjoy all that effort put into decorating.
Then, the day after Christmas we take it all down. At least, until this year. I know I’ve heard it before, but this year it finally sunk in that the 12 Days of Christmas start on Christmas Day and end on Epiphany (Jan 6). I kind of like that. The day after Christmas always feel like a let down, we build up to the day and then it’s just over, time to pack everything away and be done.
I made an unconscious decision to leave the tree and decorations up until Epiphany. I forgot to share this with Anthony, so this morning when I got up the tree was unplugged, the curtains were closed, and I suspected dismantling was next. I quickly shared my thoughts on the Twelve Days of Christmas and leaving the lights on and decorations up until the evening of Jan 5. He thought that was a great idea so we opened the curtains and plugged the tree back in! It will all come down by Jan 6. but we will enjoy the next few days.
Category: Home
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23 Dec 2008 By Laura
Wow, a month has gone by already.
What’s on my shelf for the next month?
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
I am also going to read through all 4 gospels again. I’m about 1/2 way through Matthew already this week. And continuing Mere Christianity and rereading Home to Holly Springs (see below).
Below are the books I included on my list last month.
Mere Christianity
I did read Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
I read Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking
I read Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
I also read A Christmas Carol along with 5 Minutes for Books Classics Bookshelf.
Category: Reading
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