Clean something for 30min every other day for a month. (week 1/4)
As part of my birthday present, the housemates all chipped in and cleaned the house this week so I wouldn't have to, so it was out of my hands really, at least that is what I'm telling myself. I'm going to try to get the whole hour and a half of cleaning done today because I have the day off, so we will see how that goes.
Exercise 3 times a week for at least half an hour. (3/4)
4 hours of dancing and 6 or so hours of manic laughter? Yea, that should just about cover it. Last week for this one!

Do Laundry twice a month for 6 months (0/12)
Done! Well, I did a load. This is another one on my list of things to do today, although it depends on how much cleaning I get done.

Track all spending for one month. 
My spending was a mess this week because of my birthday, so I didn't bother restarting this one yet.

File taxes. 
Look up the address for the place, it's by appointment only, so add another thing to the list of boring crap to get done today...
Spend one hour a week improving memory for a month 2/4
Actually kind of forgot about this one this week, so apparently its not helping yet...
Draw once a month.(0/12)
Last chance to do this one for the month...
Start a dream journal and update it twice a week for a month
This has been the week of people waking me up abruptly and making me do things right away, so nothing to report here...

Eat Veggie for a month (2/4 weeks)
This one is going really well. I really don't miss meat at all when I know I'm going to have the chance to eat it at the end of the week. I think when I'm done I'll definitely eat red meat much less often, although I still don't think I could give it up altogether. 

Research Careers
I'm going to use the interesting careers from my personality profile as a starting point for my search. Hopefully this will give me some direction.

Contact 5 friends I haven't seen in over a year and see them in person (2/5)
I think my recent birthday will be an excellent excuse to get back in touch with some of the people who had nice wishes for me on facebook. That way, I don't have to feel a weird about making contact.
Become an organ donor
Found out what I need and I can do it all when I go to replace my health card, which I've been procrastinating about for ages.


I'm really excited, it looks like I might be able to cross some things off my list next week! This week was really lazy though... Oh well, I was expecting to get less done anyways. At least so far I've maintained between 151 and 153...

If I have signed my donor card, why do I need to register with OHIP?
A donor card is a paper card. Your decision to donate is only known to the extent that you share this decision with your family and friends.

When you register your consent to donate organs and tissue, this information is stored in a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care database. The ministry will disclose information about your decision to Trillium Gift of Life Network, Ontario's organ and tissue donation agency, for the purpose of ensuring that your decision to donate is known and respected. By registering your consent to donate, you ensure that your donation decision is recorded and is made available to the right people at the right time, and is shared with your loved ones

Why should I donate my organs and tissue?
One donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and enhance the lives of up to 75 others through tissue donation. Every three days someone dies in Ontario waiting for a life-saving transplant. There is a chronic shortage of organs and tissue in Ontario and the need for organs and tissue continues to outweigh their availability. More than 1,600 Ontarians are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant and thousands more are waiting for a tissue transplant.

If I have indicated my decision for organ donation, will everything be done to save my life?
The first and foremost concern for healthcare professionals caring for critically ill patients is to do everything possible to save lives. The possibility of donation is only considered when all lifesaving efforts have failed. The health care professional teams responsible for supporting donation are separate and independent from the health care professional teams responsible for transplantation.

Can my family overrule my decision to donate?
It is the Trillium Gift of Life Network's practice to reaffirm an individual's consent to donate with the family. In almost all cases, families honour and respect their loved ones' donation decision if they are given evidence that it's what the donor wanted. Therefore it is important to register your consent to donate so that your family can be advised of your decision to donate.

Does my age, pre-existing medical condition, or sexual orientation prevent me from being a donor?
Everyone can be a donor regardless of age, medical condition or sexual orientation. Your decision to register should not be based on whether you think you would be eligible or not. A donor's eligibility is determined by the health care team upon their death.

What does it mean to consent to donate organs and tissue for research?
Much medical research depends on the use of human biological material. It often provides the best way of understanding how the body works and reacts to treatment. It can also help advance and improve organ and tissue transplantation. If for some reason your organs and tissues cannot be transplanted, they can be donated for research purposes if you have specifically indicated consent to donate organs and tissue for both transplant and research.

How do I donate my body to science?
Donating your organs and tissues for research is different than donating your body to science. If you do not wish to donate organs, you may want to support teaching and research activities at a medical school by considering whole body donation, an important gift to the training of professionals in health-related disciplines.

For more information about whole body donation, please call the anatomy school of your choice or the Office of the Chief Coroner at 1-877-991-9959. If you give your body to medical science, your organs and tissue will not be available for transplantation. Similarly, if you donate organs or tissue, you cannot donate your body to science.

How long will the donation process take?
The recovery of organs and tissues may take up to 24 hours. It typically does not impact funeral or burial arrangements, and often occurs while family members are making plans and contacting others. Any concerns can be discussed with the Trillium Gift of Life Network's Organ and Tissue Donation Coordinator.

What is involved in the donation process?
Consent is confirmed with families at the hospital during end-of-life discussions. If the patient has documented consent to donate (signed donor card or registered through a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care database or other document) these are discussed with the family at end-of-life. Access to donation decisions registered in the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care database enables Trillium Gift of Life Network to learn individual's recorded donation decision prior to being involved in discussions with family.

Testing is done to confirm the medical suitability of the organs and tissues and to determine who is the best match for transplant.

A Trillium Gift of Life Network Coordinator speaks with the donor's family to obtain the medical and social history of the person who has died. Recovery of the organs occurs in an operating room.

Trillium Gift of Life Network is contacted when someone has died, or when death is imminent to determine if the person dying is eligible to save and enhance lives through organ and tissue donation. If a person is eligible to donate, Trillium Gift of Life Network works closely with the health care professionals at the hospital to support the grieving family through the decision to donate, and ensure as many people as possible are helped through the gift of life. Trillium Gift of Life Network will contact the family when recovery is complete and will send a letter to the family to thank them for the donation and to inform them of the outcome.

How do you know if organs and tissue are suitable to donate?
Eligibility to donate is assessed at the time of death by Trillium Gift of Life Network Coordinators, the Transplant Programs and the Tissue Banks. Most diseases do not automatically exclude a person from donating.

A medical social history interview, similar to the one completed to donate blood, is performed with the family.

Every organ is tested for suitability to ensure that as many people as possible can be helped through transplant.

Organs or tissue not suitable for transplantation can be used for scientific research and medical education. Currently important research is being done on diseases that affect organ and tissue.

What impact does organ donation have on funeral plans?
An open casket funeral is possible:

Organ recovery from the abdomen or chest usually involves one surgical incision that clothing would cover.

When corneas are donated, typically the whole globe of the eye is removed. Funeral homes provide eye caps to maintain the shape and form of the eyes. This is usual practice whether eyes are donated or not.

Multi-tissue donation requires incisions to remove bones and heart valves from the body. An open casket funeral is possible, however this may impact the clothes worn by the deceased at the funeral.

The appearance of the skin after recovery is similar to that of sunburn. A paper-thin layer of skin is removed from the back of the body permitting an open casket funeral.

Donation does not typically delay funeral arrangements. Any concerns about timing can be discussed with the Trillium Gift of Life Network Coordinator.

Can donor families learn about or meet the recipients?
Donation is a confidential and anonymous process. Donor family members and recipients do not know each other's identity. Donor family members are provided general information about recipient(s) via a letter from Trillium Gift of Life Network. They may write to each other through Trillium Gift of Life Network. All identifying information is removed.

What organs and tissue can be donated?
Organs and tissue that can be donated include the heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, lungs, small bowel, stomach, corneas, heart valves, bone and skin.

How does donation help other people?
Organ donation saves lives and is often the only treatment option for people with organs that are damaged through injury or disease and who would otherwise die.

Eye donation restores sight after disease, injury or congenital blindness.

Bone donation restores mobility and prevents amputation.

Hearts donated for heart valves repair birth defects in children and others.

Skin donation provides life-saving wound covering for burns.

Transplants not only save lives, they recapture productive lives. Outcomes continue to improve each year so more and more transplant patients are living enhanced, productive lives.

Does my religion support organ and tissue donation?
Most major religions support organ and tissue donation because it can save the life of another. If your religion restricts the use of a body after death, consult your religious leader: these restrictions may not include organ and tissue donation, if the donation could save another life.

Our Cultural and Religious Perspectives on Organ and Tissue Donation information sheet will provide you with more information about religious and cultural perspectives on organ and tissue donation.


Can I choose which organs and tissue I want to donate?


You may indicate your decision to donate all organs and tissue or indicate which specified organs and tissue you do NOT wish to donate.

Can I designate the recipient of my organs or tissue?
Donated organs and tissue are given to individual recipients based on need, blood type, genetic match and other criteria. "Directed-donation," as it is known, is not practiced in Canada. Only through living donation can the recipient be designated. Living donation may be an option for kidney, liver or lung transplants. If you are interested in being considered as a living donor, discuss this with your doctor.

Who will receive my organs and tissue? Will they stay in Ontario or Canada?
The hospital will contact Trillium Gift of Life Network, which keeps a list of everyone in Ontario who is waiting for an organ transplant. Trillium Gift of Life Network will match the tissue and blood type of the donor to an individual(s) on the waiting list. If a match is found the individual(s), who for medical reasons most needs a transplant, will receive the donated organs. If the medical urgency is the same, the individual on the waiting list the longest will receive the organ. If there is no suitable match, a cross-reference is made across Canada and possibly in the United States. This is done to save lives.

Clean something for 30min every other day for a month. (week 1/4)
This one was a write off this week, I did some cleaning at work, but I just didn't have the motivation to do anything else when I got home and then the weekend I was out and sketchy.
Exercise 3 times a week for at least half an hour. (2/4)
This went really well this week, I'm learning to grapple once a week, so I did that for about 40 minutes one day, and they I went for a 2 hour walk/hike on Saturday morning. I also spent some time dancing Saturday night.
Do Laundry twice a month for 6 months (0/12)
I mentioned I hate Laundry, right? But seriously, I'm almost out of clean clothes.

Create and follow a debt payment plan focusing on student loans.
I'm officially taking this off for a couple weeks, I'll come back for it later.
Track all spending for one month. 
I did this one for about 2 weeks, but I'm actually going to start it over, so that I can go for a month straight.

File taxes. 
So I went to the late tax place and they told me that they couldn't set me up an appointment until I called the Canada Revenue Agency and got them to mail me all my old t4's and such. I called the CRA and they told me that they couldn't release the information to me because I have never filed before. I need to go into my local office, so my goal this week is to do that. Also the late tax place is going to charge me like 300-400 bucks so I need to figure that out too. Sorry if this didn't make any sense to every one not from Canada.
Spend one hour a week improving memory for a month 2/4
Did some memory games, also we are doing tests with the roommates to improve memory.

Draw once a month.(0/12)
Going to try to get this one done this week. 

Start a dream journal and update it twice a week for a month
I haven't really remembered any of my dreams, and I've been rushing to get up and get ready for work this week, so not much was done on this one.


New Additions


Eat Veggie for a month (1/4 weeks)
I'll be honest. It's really veggie light. Fish is ok, and once a week we are eating meat. However the bestie and and I are ending it in a three day juice fast.


Research Careers
I'm not sure how I'm going to go about this yet, so my goal for this week is to figure that out.


Contact 5 friends I haven't seen in over a year and see them in person (2/5)
I've actually seen three people I haven't seen in over a year this week, but two of them were a happy accident at the party on the weekend, so they only got a half point each.


Become an organ donor
My goal for this week is to find out what I need to do to become a donor.

my intake was l700, but I exercised enough to get my net down to 1400, so hopefully I won't do to much damage. I got caught watching thinspo after exercising, so I ate to avoid suspicion.

List wise, things are going well. I signed up with an account to track my spending on moneystrands.com and I found the number for a company that specializes in helping people file late tax returns so I can call them tomorrow. I found a website with a bunch of brain games and spent an hour improving my memory and concentration. Now I don't have to think about that one for the rest of the week. My dream journal and a pen are beside my bed already, so hopefully I will remember to update that tomorrow, before I forget what I dreamed.

I also did 40 minutes of step aerobics, to cover my exercise requirement for the day.

I was feeling kinda down today though... Not bad really, but I feel trapped in my house and its starting to feel smothering. I have to justify everything.

So I'm back. Finally.

I've decided that this blog and my life both need more structure, so I've set up goals based on the dayzeroproject website. Basically I have 102 goals to accomplish within the next 1001 days. Check out the pages to see what my goals are and the post below to see which ones I'm tackling this month.

Things were stressful, then they weren't, then they were much more stressful. But it's too much to get into. They are moderately more calm at the moment, so lets just start fresh here, m'kay? Everything you need to know at the moment about the people I live with is on the housemates page, and I'll let you know more if needed.

Food wise, I climbed back up to close to 160, then got back on track. I have not binged in 8 days, and lost 4lbs, putting my current weight at 154.6 My measurements page will be updated when I get a few minutes to be obsessive with the tape measure. I haven't gone about 1200cals in a week and a half and at least half the time I'm under 900 as well. Not quite low enough but getting there. There are chips in the kitchen calling my name, but I will be strong.

I did an hour of cleaning today, put my dream journal beside my bed, and I'll brush and floss before bed. Mouthwash will have to wait a couple days.

The next post will have pretty ladies in it, but I'm too tired now.