Goals/Life Update - Day 809/1001

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Goals Completed: 32
Goals in Progress: 29

I scored a Groupon that will give me 3 laps riding shotgun with a professional driver at the South Sound Speedway this June (#25), so I’m adding it on my in-progress list. Work continues, and I’ve added another client. I’ve also started the process with the Addiction Counselor Certification of Oregon, and I’ll be studying hard to retake my Master Addiction Counselor Examination in March. Once I pass, and I’ve gotten both the CADC III and the MAC credential, I’ll be right where I was before I started my Psychology Residency. *sigh* I’ve ordered and received the study guide, which should allow for some good studying in before the test.

I’ve cleared some blackberry and creeper vines, raked the pathway to the garage, and cleared about ten feet of the garage space of assorted tools, trash, and disorganization. With Zac’s help, I moved the old beat-up garden tool organizer into the garage from the trellis in the front yard and filled it with all of the gardening tools that had been scattered everywhere. Soon, depending on weather, I’m planning to clear and organize even more of the garage. I’ll be bringing some of the firewood from the woodshed in the garage, and see if the old woodstove in the garage still works.

New words: (1) percribrate or percrebrate, defined as to sift through a sieve, (2) taradiddle, defined as a fib; pretentious nonsense, (3) donnybrook, defined as a loud, crowded, public, chaotic, violent, and drunken brawl, (4) fuliginous, defined as sooty, obscure, murky; darker than black, and (5) revet, defined as to face, shore up, or retain with a layer of stone, concrete, or other material.

25. drive fast in a sportscar. No. I mean REALLY fast. Like 170mph fast.

learn 50 new words [43/50] – crepitate, otiose, neuston, scarper, mugwump, ceinture, ilunga, arigata meiwaku, kunik, lazaret, accismus, nocuous, crepuscular, fecund, moirologist, cockaigne, scrogglings, mishegoss, nod-crafty, tissick, narthex, caffè sospeso, destinate, oligopsony, misopolemist, ederacinism, palpebral, ordonnance, nyctophilia, comestible, cortege, dithyramb, gelicide, agowilt, shunpike, doryphore, sui generis, California widow, percribrate or percrebrate, taradiddle, donnybrook, fuliginous, revet,