Lazy sunday...
I suppose I should write a real entry. It's nearing the end of the month and I want to see how I'm doing with my New Years resolutions.
What else has happened? I gave some blood with fellow ljers last week, now found at edinbleeders
I've been watching a lot of movies, including District 13 (2004 parkour-tastic intelligent french action movie), Wedding Crashers (2005 comedy which I finally saw the funny side of Will Ferrell and Isla Fishers' tits) and Children of Men (2006 distopian future movie with some good performances and cinematography).
And also listening to a lot of new music, such as Datarock, Floggin Molly, Sunset Rubdown, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Matisyahu,+/-, Chikinki, Ry Cooder, Hot Chip, Red Sparowes, Viva La Fête, The Knife and various other I've not had proper chance to listen to.
I've been in the process of re-doing mattmadethis to make it a little more professional looking. Watch this space for an update.
That'll do for now, I need to do some food shopping.
- Learn Spanish to intermediate level by doing Spanish for at least 5 hours a week. - I've decided not to go to the same teacher I was with and I'm using a few podcasts (Notes In Spanish (Intermediate) and Coffee Break Spanish), I've also set my mac to spanish so all the menus and help files are in Spanish.
- Leave the country (ideally to live somewhere Spanish-speaking). - Still here!
- Get a new job (better in some way). - No change
- Pay off the majority of my debts. - I've got an interest free credit card (for 6 months) so it's not getting higher, I've also got rid of payment protection on one of them because I don't need it.
- See more music, maybe even go to another festival, possibly Sonar? - I need to book tickets for Ojos de Brujo, Explosions in the Sky and see what else it on. Also friends might be going to Benicassim
- Visit Berlin (hopefully with my friend Nöe). - no news on this
- Exercise at least twice a week. - More or less managing this, I'm climbing once a week and gym at 7am twice a week.
- Climb at least once every two weeks (for those times when I'm on holiday). - see above, might look into going to Alien Rock 2
- Be single less. - take a guess!
- Give up smoking (2 days so far!). - apart from one relapse (2 cigs, involved alcohol) and the 1 1/2 cigar (which I don't count as smoking), it's going ok
- Save more money. - I'm spending less and have left the savings account alone for at least 2 months
- Lose 2 stone. - our scales is a bit dodgy, but I appear to be maintaining a weight of 15 stone.
- Take up a new hobby (possibly ballroom dancing or yoga). - yoga could be do-able at my work gym, it's cheaper too.
- Make my own hummus (I should have done this ages ago!) - I just need some chick peas and then there's nothing stopping me.
- Get some red in my hair, I miss it. - I'm growing it a bit first
- Stop being such a cynical bastard. - hmmm, sometimes
- Go to the dentist, it's been too long. - need to register with an NHS dentist.
- Call my friends more, at some point I stopped calling them, this has to change. - I've been doing this, plus msn helps.
What else has happened? I gave some blood with fellow ljers last week, now found at edinbleeders
I've been watching a lot of movies, including District 13 (2004 parkour-tastic intelligent french action movie), Wedding Crashers (2005 comedy which I finally saw the funny side of Will Ferrell and Isla Fishers' tits) and Children of Men (2006 distopian future movie with some good performances and cinematography).
And also listening to a lot of new music, such as Datarock, Floggin Molly, Sunset Rubdown, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Matisyahu,+/-, Chikinki, Ry Cooder, Hot Chip, Red Sparowes, Viva La Fête, The Knife and various other I've not had proper chance to listen to.
I've been in the process of re-doing mattmadethis to make it a little more professional looking. Watch this space for an update.
That'll do for now, I need to do some food shopping.