Winter Break Goals

[anniehall]

How are you going to prevent feeling miserable after 4-5 weeks at home? OK college kids, who's with me.

Here are some of my goals:
Wrap all Christmas presents
Finish the mix trade
Figure out how to burn four seasons of Doctor Who onto DVDs
Arrange a song for clarinet choir
Finish watching Six Feet Under
and read as much as possible.

I already met one goal...I changed my ukulele strings all by myself!

[emily]

I definitely second the first two on your list. I also need to thoroughly clean my apartment - I've been putting it off all semester. Other than that, play lots of piano, read, and relax for once.

[gushingblood]

+Re-string and clean my Washburn
+Finish reading Survivor, I havn't read one page in about a week no time
+Finish two pieces of English coursework
+Learn lines for a play, there are 4 people in it, and we are all main roles, but I have the least amount of lines, and probably the best character, which is a positive
+Shop for presents, still have yet to get one for mum or sister
+Get Left 4 Dead to work over LAN with Hamachi
+Catch-up with watching Chuck

[lilhan]

ohhhh.
the first two fo sho.
got to the hold steady in wolverhampton and not die.
work as little as possible.
rest. properly.
eat my body weight in cake/puddings.
see my best mates as much as possible.
finish my syntax assignment WAY before the deadline.
sleep lots. lots.

good plan.

[theblondette]

Haha. I am LOOKING FORWARD to going to my parents' house! I will be there for 2 weeks. Of course, I'm sure this is too long and by the end of week 1 I'll be wanting to come back. But I figure that a change of location will be good for me, because I really need a proper break from work, and if I'm at home it's hard to get away from it (since I work from home). Also - and this is my super-broke self talking - it'll be nice to be fed by someone else for a change! I mean, I'm sure I'll cook a fair bit - my parents aren't the kind of parents who wait on their adult children (always find that a bit weird...), but the fridge will be full!

My aims:

- eat lots
- yet simultaneously aim to avoid putting on 5lbs as seems to happen at Christmas
- clearly invent some kind of miracle calorie burner to do this
- or accept the inevitable, wear some loose wrap dresses and buy lots of fruit and veg in January
- decorate the tree - this means my parents' tree won't be up until the 22nd, but I HAVE to do it, because it is awesome
- enjoy my parents' cable tv (I just have regular)
- read some trashy books (let's hope Breaking Dawn is under the tree!)
- enjoy using a proper shower (my shower is awful and either scalds or freezes me)
- catch up with the fam! Especially my bro, who is a dude and I love him mightily. Plus he is the only person in the world who 100% understands exactly what makes my parents weird and frustrating, so that helps - we may need to hide out in his attic bedroom from time to time.

[biblesalesman]

• See if I need to move some money around for my retirement.
  
• Check to make sure the gutters are still de-iced
  
• New Snow tires for the cars
  
• Pay tuition
  
• Get new truss
  
• Tip mailman, and paper guy
  

[flashfantastic]

-move everything from my laptop's hard drive to my external hard drive and get my laptop looked at
-make sure SoundExchange, SESAC, ASCAP, BMI bills get paid
-regain some sort of sleep schedule where I'm not going to bed at 4:30 am
-finish the Wordy Shipmates
-make it from Blacksburg to Chesapeake, then back to Blacksburg, then to Knoxville then back to Blacksburg
-write a review of the new Animal Collective album, send it to the school paper editor, and get it published

[HollyLua]

planning my spring break vacation!

[lookoutfreakout]

-Work on my Malcolm X collage.
-Read the huge stack of books that I checked out from the library.
-Clean my room.
-Practice the song I wrote for my Music Theory class.
-Figure out what classes I want to take next year.

[stephanie]

Only one: try not to lose my mind as a result of having off of work from December 23 to January 5. Stephanie + not working = DO NOT WANT. I don't even really like weekends.
Translation: someone please find me a cheap plane ticket out of MKE. To anywhere more than 200 miles from here. Seriously, anywhere. I'm not picky about my destination.