Quarterly Goals Update

I feel optimistic about being so far ahead in my quarter goals and only being 5 days into the year, but realistically I started sometime at the end of the December. No reason to wait though, right?

So far I've read The Alchemist, A Clockwork Orange, and I'm almost finished with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Out of the three, A Clockwork Orange was definitely my favorite (but also the hardest to read).

As for my losing 30 pounds goal, so far I've lost 5 (but again, this is out of a 21/2ish week period). I have a six week workout challenge, and I even met a friendly neighbor at the gym! He was a beefy middle-aged man who made friendly small talk when I came in, and then asked if I was ok with him being there because he would leave and come back I felt uncomfortable. It is an awfully tiny room to be sweating in with a strange man you just met (someone lifting weights would have to strain their neck to not stare at a person's ass while on the elliptical) but his awareness and kindness was so refreshing. Hurray for men that make women feel safe!

Cooking efforts have been ambitious, but mostly futile. My hands are starting to look like a misbehaving house elf's.

Yesterday I tried barbeque chicken, today was sort of a beef taco (all of these things are only vague representations of what they are supposed to be). You know you're in trouble when you have the onion powder at the table with your salt and pepper.