Holidays

I'm on a self-imposed holiday of sorts. I think it's important to organize my studies, and I plan the occasional break from course work into that as well. I still do reading and review but I stop reading course guide books (these are the written material that replace lectures in my program). Doing correspondence requires that you create your own structure, after all.

Anyway, it's been somewhat of a nice holiday. I've caught up on my Gilmore Girls reruns, did some crafts and slept a bit more, but also caught up on Harvard Business Review articles, articles I missed in Economist back issues and my mountain of books to read (though I admit I've procrastinated a little with doing accounting exercises like I meant to. I'll still do it I swear!) I managed to do a bunch of research about MBA programs, which is a lot to take in but informative. And I've found the time to cook, blog and watch an internet video series called "Very Mary Kate" (see last post). Anyway, in all, not half bad!

2010...New Start

It's now past the halfway point of January 2010. I've decided to start blogging again, which I can add to my millions of New Years Resolutions that I may or may not keep. The list so far goes as follows:
-Spend less time on the computer (I realize that blogging might not be so conductive to this goal, but I can blog on my phone, which doesn't involve being on the computer.)
-Get back to the healthy diet I kept in the summer. So far, so good. I've had the odd junk food indulgence, but I never intended to cut junk food out of my life completely.
-Quit buying books on Amazon. So far, so good. Only books for school have been purchased so far, though it's only 3 weeks into January.
-Save money..we'll see how this goes in the long run
-Learn better housekeeping....going ok
-Practice French. Haven't really got started on this one yet.

I also made a commitment to do well in my studies, but that wasn't so much a new years thing as it was an 'I don't want to fail' thing. Studying via correspondence suits me well though. I can always find motivation to read and I learn well by reading. Statistics is a bitch though. I can do the math (it's really just simple algebra) but I'm not really sure sometimes why I'm doing it. I get the basic concepts fine (sample, population, blah blah blah) but some of the more invested concepts seem to only be skimmed through and I'm not sure what relevance they have in the greater world of statistics.

Stuff and more Stuff

I'm so creative with titles, no?

I feel like I've been run over by a train today. I'm so sleepy after my unrelaxing weekend of studying for my German exam and trying to run errands. But the good news is that on Friday I got to meet with the builders of my apartment, and for the first time ever I was able to walk up and actually SEE the space that will be my new home in 5 months. It's larger than I thought, except for the living room, which feels a little bit smaller somehow, even though it is 25 m2. I got to pick where all the electric sockets are going. I wanted lots of them, as this is the 21st century and I run a million devices and appliances at a time. I'm actually surprised I haven't started a fire in my current (unrennovated) flat. I want to move in now. The roof terrace would come in handy in these months more than in the winter!

I'm having a lot of design inspiration lately. I haven't designed anything in almost a year. I have no idea why but 2007 was kind of a sleeper for me. I didn't design anything, write anything or do anything really. I cammed and I slept a lot. I need to make myself a new dress form. My old one is from the end of 2005, and no longer fits my proportions. I'll post pics of my creations as I make them! I have a feeling I'm going to be making a lot of cocktail dresses that I'll never wear.

PS I am in love with this blog: http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/