Oh my, what an overwhelming couple of months it has been. There are any number of explanations I can give you, and feel free to give me a shout if you want to hear them. Don’t worry, it’s all fabulous, but I’m just not broadcasting to the world at the moment.

Enough with the cryptic lines, and on to my long overdue 30 Things report. If you’ll recall, there are a few things I’ve decided to do this year, and here’s my progress report for September and October:

3. Attend a yoga class at my gym.

I was desperately sick with a cold, but I was determined to attend the yoga class after being thwarted during several previous attempts to attend (e.g., closed gym, missing teacher, etc.). Too bad much of the class focused on breathing when I was trying hard not to breath too deeply for fear of erupting into a coughing spasm. Oh, well. I’ll probably give it another shot to see what it feels like when I’m healthy.

10. Travel to a country I’ve never been to before.

Poland! Mein Schatz and I traveled there right after the Berlin Marathon and we had a splendid time in Warsaw, Krakow, and Auschwitz. And what a language! It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve traveled to a country where I had absolutely no previous exposure to the language — all those English, Spanish, French and German speaking countries don’t count! Remembering what it feels like to be completely at a loss as to how to communicate was quite the experience.

11. Back up my laptop to an external hard drive.

Well, I’m almost there. I have the external hard drive, but now I just need to actually back up my laptop. Don’t ask me what the hold up is, I have no idea.

17. See Ben Harper in concert again.

Yes, indeed, at Radio City Music Hall in September. If you’re interested in hearing me gush, click here.

28. Run the Liz Padilla Memorial 5K race in Prospect Park.

Ran this the next morning after the Ben Harper show, so it was not my fastest time, but good fun.

29. Finish reading Anna Karenina, which at the rate I’m going, make take several months.

Finally! At the end of September. Loved the exploration of the meaning of love, marriage and fidelity and especially appreciated the insight into Russian society of the time. Although I have much more to say on this (especially after just finishing Lady Chatterly’s Lover),  I have not the energy to launch into it all. Instead, let me leave you with the oft-quoted first line of the book: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Cheerful, no?