gussying up - week 1

is there anything better than fresh watermelon on a saturday afternoon?! i think i could eat my weight in watermelon but don't simply for the fact that i don't like running to the bathroom every 10 mins :)

i'd like to say thank you for all of your kind words. you lovely ladies are one of the main reason why i became a swimmer. my first week of swimming lessons went rather well overall. here were my goals and results:

week 1 goals:
- try to do morning pages every morning (regardless of whether or not i reach 3 pages) - not quite every morning but i still see this as a success. i skipped two days because i just didn't feel like writing. the other days (except one) i actually wrote 3 pages. i feel that the quality of the writing i did the days i did my morning pages made up for the two days i didn't do them. so i see this as a success.
- blog at least 3 times on gussying up the tuttle and at least once on my morgantown musings - i did rather well on this actually. i figured i'd knock out the three blog posts on gussying up the tuttle and barely get in one for my morgantown musings. what actually happened was i got just three posts on gutt and did three good quality posts on mmm plus one photo op post.
- implement a reward system like you ladies have set up - i am still working the details of this one out. i think rewards will vary from week to week. if i have something in mind that i want to work for then i'll post that ahead of time, if not, then i will just give myself a reward after i have met my goals.
- make my weekly check ins on saturday (or at the very latest sunday) - it is saturday so kudos to me :) this goal i plan on continuing with.

i feel that i did rather well on my first week of swimming so for this weeks reward: figs! yes, sweet, juicy figs. i am going to the store later and buying myself some black mission figs! :)

this is my angel wing begonia. i thought these two leaves came together to show why it is named angel wing.

week 2 goals:
- continue with 3 posts on gussying up the tuttle and 1 post for my morgantown musings
- learn the bones of the body (in prep for getting ready to start massage therapy school in just a little over a month) this was a goal i set for myself for august. here it is the last week of august so i must get on this!
- continue morning pages if i feel that the quality of writing is good enough