Here's a widget link to my SparkRecipes page. I'm experimenting with vegan recipes (I have easy access to other food types far too often - sometimes to the exemption of the healthy stuff!) The juice recipe is my creation, the oatmeal bars are from a friend (thanks David!), and the Tomato-Basil Pizza is from the site itself (I think....)

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AW: Chapter 2

Beck: keep practicing the tasks up through Day 14. Issues here: reading the Advantages/Response cards.

SCF/TLT: Day 22.

TOOLS: Day 2

Morning Pages: 3/7.

Artist's Date: used the elliptical by the big windows at the gym so I could enjoy the outdoors. It's far too cold right now to really do that!

Walking: Am taking time to walk around the mall after a gym session. Nothing terribly serious. Again - too cold!

Synchronicity: Running in to Father Ahern at the opera office.

Nice Thing for Me Each Day: soaking in the whirlpool

Issues: Vocal technique. Breathwork (love Weil's Breathing CD). Total body fitness. (include PT)


Goals:

Gigs: Syracuse Opera outreach: Pigs; Telephone, FUUS (Tornami, Prayer, Make Believe)

Day Job: call temp agencies

Listening/Opera Videos: Telephone, Tornami, Prayer

Diction/Dialect/Accent Tape: speech therapy exercises, vocalises. Add in Vaccai given time

Pedagogy Work: a good solid foundation of breath and relaxation

Creativity Book: The Creativity Book and Fearless Creating (Maisel)

Performing Business: send out promo packets for the auditions, update calendars

Sight Singing: focus on basic technique - use simple art songs

Acting: monologue memorization; basic warmup

Piano: scales; play through vocal rep

Cello: scales and other technical exercises

Guitar: scales and finger busters

Flute: technical drills

Physical Program: E2L and food combining principles; yoga/other stretching, Pilates, PT exercises, strength training 3x/week - use Bally's equipment.

Family: ?

Spiritual: DQT - focus on the Gospels; read 1 chapter of Proverbs (corresponding to the day) Started a book of daily devotionals based on the Psalms and a study on taming the tongue.

FlyLady: keep decluttering

Car: clean out; wash


Formal checking:

DO OR DIE:
1. loose weight (SP)
2. declutter
3. practice
4. translations - Don Pasquale; arias.
5. faith - DQT
6. mail
7. TLT
8. TOOLS
9. Beck

Important Tasks:
1. HTML
2. laundry
3. piano
4. languages
5. outreach brushups
6. vocal technique rehab

Wish List
1. creative writing
2. scrapbooking
3. genealogy
4. crochet
5. flute
6. cello
7. guitar
8. massage therapy license