Where did January go? It seems like it was only yesterday that I was mulling over the goals I wanted to set, and now I’ve made it almost 10% through the year and doing well with my goals. Don’t most goals get dropped sometime in February? I’m not going to be that statistic this year.
Max 10 hours per week of TV – Back under the limit this week.
- Double Shot at Love (1 hr) – Season Finale ran. What a train wreck. Vikki and Rikki both chose Trevor, and he was forced to choose between them. He chose Vikki much to my surprise. I don’t envy his situation, or any of them for that matter. This show had bad news written all over it from the start. But then they all chose to put themselves into the situation so I really can’t feel too badly for them. I recorded the aftermath show (half hour I think, maybe an hour, under goal either way) but went to bed before watching it last night.
- Knight Rider (1 hr) – The last episode seemed to get back to the roots of the original show, a group of people secretly helping law enforcement. I think it has some good things in store if the network doesn’t blow it.
- Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Still Haven’t watched this yet. Been too busy with other things.
- Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – This week’s episode will be watched tonight. Cristi and I played Halo and Wii for a while last night and didn’t want to stay up late enough to watch this.
- Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet. I did hear rumors yesterday that they filmed an episode in Boise and it will be airing in a couple of weeks. I can’t wait to see if it is the truth, but I don’t have time to go search for info to confirm it ahead of time.
- Grey’s Anatomy (0 hr) -No episode this week.
- ER (0 hr) – Don’t think this one aired this week either.
- 24 (1 hr) – Still behind on this, but I can’t wait to get started. Marathon this weekend?
- Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I watched a couple of episodes of Predator Raw, the behind the scenes and update show on Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator series. I don’t know if it was necessarily educational, but I disqualified it as I was in bed, waiting for Cristi to get done with some things. I was tired enough I didn’t want to read, but I didn’t want to go to sleep before she joined me, so it didn’t stop me from doing anything else.
At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.
Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Dropped the ball on this one if you don’t count the smoothie recipes, met the goal if they are counted. This wasn’t the intention of the goal, kind of as with last week’s 3 posts the day before the update. I’m going to work harder on this goal to ensure I don’t completely blow it.
100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Down 2.5 pounds direct weight this week, 1.07 pounds down on the averaged trend. I’m only slightly behind my overall goal. At 5 weeks I should be down 10 lbs, but I’m currently down 8. Since it appears I’ve beaten the plateau I’ve been on, that should correct itself rather quickly and put me back on track..
Budget – We’ve fallen off the wagon a bit here. We have made a few larger non-budgeted purchases, including the Wii Fit. It was a concious decision though, and with our budget being where it is we could afford to do so. So while the purchases weren’t budgeted per se, they weren’t impulse purchases that will leave us short and scrounging for food before the next payday either.