Weekend

UPDATED

It's the weekend again! This is the fourth weekend that I'm staying at home...I realized I am pretty good at entertaining myself and in fact beginning to enjoy the personal time I have. Here's my to-do list for the weekend.

1. Gym - to have at least half an hour of workout on both days. (It's already Tuesday, I still haven't hit the gym yet)

2. Yellowstone - I am supposed to take over the planning of the Yellowstone activities cos Tim has been too busy to do anything else except to work a lot, study a bit, eat a little, sleep a little and read soccer news frequently. He's beginning to lose weight. The belly is shrinking! Anyway, I need to start making reservations for the various activities we have in mind. (I finally started the guide book Tim bought many months ago and fell asleep. Why does the book only give facts and history of the places to visit but never really describe those places in detail to make me look forward to seeing them in real life? The Yellowstone book is nothing like Maui Revealed which really kept me interested the whole time. Hmm... is it really the book or is it just me being lazy and coming up with excuses not to plan?)

3. Cruise - Since I am will be at it, I may as well plan the activities for our cruise trip, right? Three days onshore and we still have freaking no idea what we want to do. By the time we come back from Yellowstone, we will be left with only 5 days to plan. (Yeah, reservations have been made! Well, I did not plan it by myself. The four of us discussed about it. If not for Zing, we probably will not get down to doing it.)

4. WBLs - These are online courses that we have to take to fulfil our CPE credits for the year. I have consistently significantly exceeded the CPE credit requirement every year. Nonetheless, there are two courses which I specifically indicated to take as one of my Goals for this fiscal year that I have yet to start. I better do it before the end of this fiscal year as I've indicated in my self review that I will complete them before the end of the fiscal year. Then again, the round table starts next week. Don't think it will matter since even if I do it now it will not be captured in the report in time. (I started on one of the WBLs on Sunday. There are five chapters. After spending 2 hours, I am still at chapter 2.)

5. Prison Break - I think I stopped at disc 3 or 4. It's been a while since I rent the dvd. I've become so lazy that walking to Blockbuster (a mere 3-min walk) is a chore. (It's still a chore to take the 3-min walk so rather than watched Prison Break, I looked for the Korean drama PW passed to us a year ago in my closet instead and finished watching it in 3 days. ha.)

6. Vacuum - I need to vacuum the floor badly. The things are strewn all over - mostly by me but I'm sure Tim contributed a little. Time to do some cleaning again. (It's still as messy as ever. Enuf said.)

7. Recipes - It's been a while since I try a new recipe. This weekend is probably the best time to do it. as after which, we will be traveling. I must put the Donna Hay books to good use. (I did try a new recipe - Deep Fried Pandan Chicken. But the recipe came from a food blog. The presentation was excellent but the taste was only so so... somehow the smell of the pandan did not infuse onto the chicken and it did not help that I forgot to put sugar and also accidentally poured too much fish sauce. Some say the end-product tastes like fish but is in fact chicken while others say it is fish that look likes chicken. I say it should be bacon-chicken instead cos I used the oil from exactly 12 pieces of bacon to deep fry the chicken. Can you imagine the amount of fat a piece of bacon has?!! No, the recipe did not call for bacon oil. It just happened that I was frying some and thought it will be a waste not to use oil esp since even the cost of cooking oil has increased.)

8. Shopping - Nay, I had enuff of shopping last week (all two hours of it). I need to help my cousin-in-law buy some Avent baby products. It's available at Baby r us. I've no idea where is the nearest store. Will need to check it out online. (I still have one more weekend to do it)

9. Study - It's been a while since I read the regulations (IRC Section 482 is the section guidelines for Transfer Pricing). Time to refresh my knowledge again. Don't wish to embarass myself with the lack of technical knowledge in front of the many new hires coming in this summer. (I tried reading a couple of pages. At least there is some effort, no?)

10. TO DO THE ABOVE! (Procrastination is my middle name)

Hopefully I will check off most of the items by the end of Sunday.