Commence the 30 minute posts!

Ok.  I’m always telling myself I need to write more or blog more.  (Honestly, I’m always telling myself I need to do a lot of things more.  Workout more, read more…eat better more…etc.)  I digress.  So, THIS is my new (*cough* we’ll see how long it lasts *cough*) attempt at writing/blogging more.  Setting aside 30 minutes and just putting something out here.  I set a timer and everything.  At this point, can’t say I’m even sure if this is a plan to do 30 min daily, 4x week, weekly…or what.  I guess I’ll figure that out as I go.

Today, I’ve got lots of things swirling around in my head about what I want/need to do.  I feel like there are so many things swimming around and I never capture them (write down/remember).  So, I’ll just rattle on a  list –

• make youtube channel/commercials for my business (improve SEO & attract more new customers)
• eventually redesign my web site
• speaking of above – a whole host of skills I want to take some classes regarding are: photography, Photoshop (actually the whole Adobe Creative Suite)
• there’s a continuing education photography class at Collin County Community College starting in October…gonna do my best to get in on that action
• make a “Rox Skin Studio, LLC” sign to hang in my window at the studio as well as some menu of service cards
• enter a hunt test with Cooper before next summer (probably HRC Started)…I’d also like to run my brother’s dog Tara for either an AKC Junior Hunter or Senior Hunter test
• finish out Hendrix’ Open Agility and  Open Agility Jumper titles – hopefully by the end of the year…she has one leg in standard and 2 in jumpers and we’re entered in two trials (only one day each trial) so far in September
• continue to focus on having at least one short focused play session one on one with Hendrix & Cooper – you know to remember life with the dogs is fun 😀
• Couch 2 5k – man, I hate even writing that down…Ronald & I just did the Week 1 Day 1 workout together and it wasn’t too hard.  However, this is like the 3rd/4th time I’ve started the program.  Haven’t finished it – always stall out somewhere around week 5.  Today, I just sort of jumped on it…not so much because I want to do the program but for the structure of what to do for a not too tough 30 minute workout.  I definitely need some cardiovascular exercise injected into my life on a more regular basis.
• buy some kettle bells
• make eclairs – or something with choux pastry (the incongruence of this following the previous two bullet points is not lost on me)
• think about taking on some creative writing (like short story or fiction)…remember college?
• plan a trip in the next 2 years to Hawaii
• get 1-2 IPL photofacials (for redness/rosacea and to lighten that strange sun spot that I can’t really figure out when it officially appeared prominently under the corner of my right eye)
• spend more time productively less time on facebook and my iOS devices
• I’m on beer 146/200 at the Flying Saucer – gotta knock out those last 54 beers!
• read more – make a list of what to read (start with finishing Lanny Bassham’s “With Winning in Mind”)
• teach Hendrix more tricks – I think that’s her favorite thing of all…maybe I need a book of tricks because my ideas are kind of dried up
• I seriously need to buy myself some more clothes.  I hate buying clothes.
• I already tackled & finished a recent closet clean out, but I need to organize some more cleaning and actually attempt to “decorate” more of the house.
• repaint & put to use (probably in the studio) the curio cabinet sitting empty upstairs
• ignoring previously mentioned spend less time on fb – leverage fb better for the business and build up a fb for theroxlife.com

Wow.  30 minutes goes pretty fast.  I’ll have to go back and compare, but I’m pretty sure some of these items are repeats of ones I wrote down at the beginning of 2013.  I guess putting it out there on the internet where no one is reading it (but could at any moment) might help make me more accountable.  Until my next 30 minute post…I’m feeling a little like small steps in the right direction were made today.  I want to keep that forward momentum.  It’s actually almost midnight, but I think I will read some of that Bassham book before turning it in for the evening.

I’m thinking I should accompany each 30 minute post with a picture from the day…related or not.  Here’s a link to some great pics of the pups swimming with their pal Tugger this morning.  Picture above is from brunch at R+D Kitchen earlier today.