{"id":1452,"date":"2010-05-29T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2010-05-29T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:44:38","slug":"continuing-to-be-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/29\/continuing-to-be-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing to be productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally set up some goals on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43things.com\/person\/evamaria81\" target=\"new\">43things<\/a> &#8211; you can see the list in the sidebar here. A couple I had already started on, but it&#8217;s good to formalize things, making it hopefully easier to keep at it.<\/p>\n<p>Today I started a couple projects to improve my fitness levels &#8211; with <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/tai_chi_chuan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tai_chi_chuan\" title=\"Tai chi chuan\" rel=\"wikipedia\">tai chi<\/a> sadly on hold (not enough students in our class), I have only my walk to work and <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/en\/burlesque\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burlesque\" title=\"Burlesque\" rel=\"wikipedia\">burlesque<\/a> once a week. Specifically I decided to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twohundredsitups.com\/\" target=\"new\">Two Hundred Sit-Ups<\/a>, a 6 week program that seems doable, even in my cramped flat, a try. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/engine\/2\/2_3\/181.shtml\" target=\"new\">The Couch-to-5k Running Plan<\/a>, although I&#8217;m not sure if my knees will take it. But I already bought the <a href=\"http:\/\/splendid-things.co.uk\/getrunning\/\" target=\"new\">GetRunning iPhone app<\/a> and did the first session, walking and running along the river Sihl, turning a very unattractive shade of lobster red. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Another moment where I eschewed fashion was last Sunday during my baptism, which you can see for yourself in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/sets\/72157624001500313\/\" target=\"new\">album on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><lj-cut text=\"4 of the photos\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/4650202528\/\" title=\"Baptism service by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4650202528_1f638250b4_m.jpg\" alt=\"Baptism service\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/4650206598\/\" title=\"Baptism service by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4650206598_19cd426a27_m.jpg\" alt=\"Baptism service\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/4649592917\/\" title=\"Baptism service by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4018\/4649592917_c3f19d353c_m.jpg\" alt=\"Baptism service\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/4649595517\/\" title=\"Baptism service by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4649595517_fcb1b7d89d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Baptism service\" width=\"199\" height=\"240\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe last picture was taken after we had dried up and changed &#8211; our baptism companions (mine is Eli, a very friendly and lovely lady) prayed for us.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/9a254aeb-6e1f-4c11-8607-a6262855f1b5\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=9a254aeb-6e1f-4c11-8607-a6262855f1b5\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally set up some goals on 43things &#8211; you can see the list in the sidebar here. A couple I had already started on, but it&#8217;s good to formalize things, making it hopefully easier to keep at it. Today I started a couple projects to improve my fitness levels &#8211; with tai chi sadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos","category-resources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}