Completing Goals!

Well, this week has been somewhat uneventful. We've been quite lethargic when it comes to "going out on the town" due to both of us having some soft of nasty clod virus. Daniel has mostly recovered from said virus and I certainly feel better than I did two days ago when I had o actually lay down on a bench in the mall because I COULDN'T continue to sit upright.


The one productive thing that has come out of our lazing around the house is that I'm well on my way to completing that big list of goals from my last post! So far...



21) Make a list of the top 100 books I would like to read. COMPLETE!


This, like many of my lists, actually became larger than intended. My list is now the list of the top 115 books I would like to read. For a anyone who is interested in see what my choices were, here they are:


Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Germinal - Emile Zola
Possession - AS Byatt
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Secret life of bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
A Cup of Christmas Tea - Tom hegg
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Note: After having to insert my entire book list here instead of having a nice tidy link that opens and closes that text, I have decided to add another goal to my list - LEARN BASIC HTML! Many years ago, I knew how to insert this "drop-down" style text and I feel if I am to be blogging regularly , it would be nice to know that and other HTML basics!


52) Make Singapore Noodles. COMPLETE!

I did decide to alter the preparation method, as Singapore noodles tend to be quite greasy. My concoction, while tasting fairly similar to the restaurant version, certainly did not have the same appearance or texture. I think next time I will actually follow proper preparation methods and see what happens. This goal will be revisited and re-accomplished at a later date!

111) Make Spaghetti Sauce from Scratch. COMPLETE!

Now, when I say from scratch, I do not mean "One can of diced tomatoes..." and so on. I mean from market-fresh tomatoes to sauce on your pasta! If you're observant, you will notice that there is no #111 on my original list of goals. This is because it is a rogue goal that somehow got away in the process of being transferred from my word processor to my blog. It does exist, and now it is complete. Well...almost. It's cooking right now, smells fantastic, and will hopefully be tonight's supper!

I also have several of my goals currently in progress:

For example, I have began outlining the book I plan to write! It's coming along quite well so far and I'm very excited to get it done and get into the actual writing process. I will not reveal any details, so don't ask! *wink*

I am also in the midst of designing our dream home. So far, I have completed the floor plans, but have not yet finished the interior fixtures, flooring, paint, etc. I have a wonderful program that will allowing me to have a 3D rendering of the entire program once the design is complete!

Of course, since it is perhaps the most time consuming goal on my list, I have begun the process of going through my reading list. I have started with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So far, a great little read!

Anywho, while it has been a sick and lazy week, I have managed to make a considerable dent in my list of China goals! Wish me well - I'm off to complete some more!