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The long awaited (ha ha) self-improvement update

The progress so far:
  • Last night I went straight from yoga class to a class on how to give handjobs. On the bus on the way from one to the other, I read a chapter of 'Learned Optimism'
  • Have lost 8.4 pounds
  • Have smoked only 4 cigarettes in three weeks
  • Self-help books purchased: What You Can Change...and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Self-Improvement *Learning to Accept Who You Are, Ten Days to Self-Esteem, Learned Optimism, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life
  • Spa treatments: Rosemary Citron Dead Sea Salt Scrub (leaves the skin re-hydrated and the body relaxed), Krauter bath, the perfect facial, sauna, Vichy shower, and general decadence
  • Have touched toes several times. Am stretching and doing yoga--plan to have ultimate flexibility shortly
  • Watched 'Love is a Battlefield' video several times with the intention of learning the moves
  • Got an excellent haircut with bangs. Very necessary change
  • Have written 6 pages
  • Going to the dentist today to get a cleaning, nitrous, and whiter teeth
  • Still trying to find someone to take the pole dancing class with me (you know who you are, jerks)
  • Having a relatively successful long distance love affair

    I'm going back to Dublin in 9 days for a week and a half. I'll be staying with the Pole, so we will see if I end up in a camp or gas chamber after a week. 10 days is a test, I think. Then I'm going to New York for a week, where I will spend my birthday (start buying me presents). Hopefully I will know about my work permit by the time I get home. Fingers crossed.

  • 6 Comments

    Wing! There's a Korean friend chicken place near me. I'm afraid to try it, though, for fear of getting addicted.

    google me, brandy. it's an old family name. you can email me at mortimer.honeycutt (at) gmail.com if you're really curious (or bored).

    What the heck's a Vichy shower? Krauter bath?
    Let us know which self-help books are the good ones.
    Read that article in the NYT about Korean fried chicken.

    What the heck's a Vichy shower? Krauter bath?
    Let us know which self-help books are the good ones.
    Read that article in the NYT about Korean fried chicken.

    You're having lots of fun with bullets, aren't you. Yay for self-improvement! I only found... -four- semi-negative Lina comments in this whole entry. You're doing fantastic! Really, extremely fantastic. ;o

    My goals are probably to read a lot of books and not eat food and pass for the year. Wish me luck. Also, Mortimer Honeycutt is such an awesome name that it's probably made up. I hope it is, so I can use it somewhere and not get sued. Bye.

    first, bitches!

    LOVE the instant gratification update.

    keep 'em coming, sporadically.

     

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