My new thing: to-do lists

My recent updates have all included to-do lists, so let's not break the trend:

• July 31: buy washing machine and dryer!
  
• August 3: slideshow to Monty recapping all my work for the summer and my future steps
• August 7: desired weight of 131 pounds
• August 8: send list of wedding pics we want printed to our photographer
  
• August 7-9: make use of tax free weekend to buy school supplies, namely a backpack I can carry my laptop in and textbooks
  
• August 21: send final draft of paper to Monty including all the new info I've gathered through my meetings with Dr. Craig and feedback from Monty between now and then. I know Monty will want to make major changes to the paper (based on the comments of other grad students around the lab) but at least I'll have a good starting place for the new school year. Then I can enjoy that last homework-free weekend before classes start :-)
  
• September 1: have all of our remaining boxes unpacked. This will involve buying our media cabinet so we have somewhere to put our DVDs and CDs. I think the office will be much more inviting when it's not got 8 boxes sitting in the middle of the floor!
• September 1: desired weight of 128 pounds
• October 1: desired weight of 123 pounds (and that's my stopping goal; generally I'd like to be between 120 and 125)

Is it really almost August? I looked at my calendar this morning and saw July 29 - I can't believe it! Classes start in a little over 3 weeks, ahh! Hunter turns 14 next Wednesday and Keegan and I are going to see Coldplay as my belated birthday present on Thursday (he gave me the tickets in my birthday card- what a great hubby).

The eating healthier is going pretty well. Keegan and I had milkshakes from Cookout on Monday, but other than that I seem to be keeping to my plan for the most part. I still haven't managed to buy any of the intimidating odd-colored vegetables (read: eggplant, carrots, sweet potatoes), but I'm doing well with fresh fruit. This week we have bananas, green apples, strawberries, and blueberries which will make good snacks and desserts. Tonight I'm going to make beef stroganoff (not that impressive, seeing as how the stroganoff part is pre-packaged) with spinach salad and fruit. I've also been adding sunflower seeds to our salads, which is something I always do at salad bars in restaurants, but it's nice to have that extra source of nutrients. We still have canned nuts around as snacks, but we've been keeping snacking down. Last week I made fresh blueberry muffins, so we had those for after-dinner snacks (and breakfast on the weekend)