The Good Life. |
NEW GOAL: Work on music instruction books for fifteen minutes per day. Goal met! I forgot about this goal, but when I saw it in my blog template, I ducked out of my post for fifteen minutes and worked on it. This is an easy goal! I love it. Launch one new Potbelly song per week. Pending, though with my voice barely hanging in there, I've been playing through a few new songs just to try them out on guitar. I might have a new song in me yet this week. Write one new original song per month. Pending. I've been listening to a lot of music lately, and I keep thinking, I could have written that. I have vacation planned the last week of August; maybe I'll crank out a few songs that week. Post at WordPress at least once per week. Goal met. I posted today. Write one Textbroker article per week. Nope, and it's a shame, 'cuz there are a ton of possibilities, and have been for over a week. I'd just rather do other things... Submit one short story/article per month. Goal met. Work for fifteen minutes on "Poor Witch" [E] every day. Fail. Complete and edit "Poor Witch" [E] by 6/30/09. Duh... FAIL. Did I miss that 6/30 deadline all those times I wrote, "In progress."?? None of my faithful readers called me on the failure. Since I have plans to write "Andromeda Sings" for NaNoWriMo this year, I should maybe finish "Poor Witch" before November, eh? Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day. Goal met. Resign from Abbott by 12/1/09. In progress, and still on track. Today is a milestone on my long-term budget plan: I'm sending in my last Jeep payment on my 2007 Compass! And I just paid off my furniture and laptop. That just leaves a student loan and my mortgage, which hardly count as debt, because they're tax deductible (or, will be once I leave Abbott; currently, they pay me too much to deduct the student loan.) Sweet. Reach 140.0 lbs by 8/21/2009. Weight: 147.0, but I weighed after breakfast. *shrug* Still, yesterday was BAD. At least I'm keeping track again. Meals: 7:00am Toast with cheese (3), Fiber cereal (3), coffee (1) 9:30am Four mini Nutter Butters (1) and six nuts (1) 2:00pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7) 3:30pm Chai (1) 4:30pm Chai (1) 6:30pm Dried apples (1) 7:30pm Italian sausage (5?) and funnel cake (10?) |