2012 Projects and Goals
I've been feeling stuck recently, so some of these are directed at getting me to feel unstuck. I've also organized them into three categories that reflect my three main priorities in life.
Priority: Health (Physical, Mental, Emotional)
Start walking again. I haven't been going for my morning walk in several months because I have plantar fasciitis in one foot which makes walking very far hurt, plus one of the treatments is to rest until it heals. Getting back to walking relies primarily on my body's healing ability, but in the meantime, I'm going to continue doing all the things I've been doing to help it along. The thing I haven't been doing that I could possibly be better about is icing it. (That's a hard one to do in the winter.) When it does get better (it's better now than it was, and I'm hoping I can start walking again in February or March), I need to keep in mind that it will take some time to work back up to three miles, and I just have to be okay with that and not push it.
Go to bed on time. I'm so much happier when I get enough sleep, and I end up staying up late reading more than I would like.
Make at least two new recipes per month. Like most people, I tend to cook the same things over and over again. For the most part, this isn't a problem, but I've been bored with the same old things recently. That tends to lead to me not cooking and then cobbling together things I don't really want to eat that my body isn't always happy with. I need to shake up my cooking. As a bonus, I think this will help with feeling stuck. I will take vegan, gluten free suggestions of things to try.
Go to the beach. I was flipping through AAA's magazine, and there was an ad for some special at a hotel in Monterey. I haven't been to the beach in a while, and I think my soul needs it. Things I need to deal with: 1. I feel weirdly guilty for thinking about traveling just for me and not to visit friends. 2. I don't want to be away from the internet for that long.
Priority: Writing
Edit and sell books one and two. I don't think book two needs very much in the way of editing, and it's definitely good enough to be sold as is. Book one is probably more or less good enough, and it works as an after the fact prequel to book two.
Write at least one book. It took me thirteen months to write book two, but I did the math and I really only averaged a little over two hundred words per day. That means there are a lot of days I didn't write. Also, the bit of NaNo I did do showed me that I can easily write over a thousand words per day without giving up the other things I want to do with my time. I can write at least one book this year.
Finish/post all the little finishable/postable things I have lying about. I think I will try to pick a month (maybe March again) and try to have everything ready for posting by then, and then post one ficcish thing every day that month. I could make other fan fic related goals, but while I will probably end up writing a lot of fic, there is no possible way I can predict what it will be at this point.
Priority: Friendships
Plan a trip to Chicago at a time when eleanor_lavish can also go. If we can make this happen, then lakeeffectgirl, schuyler, siryn99, eleanor_lavish, and I can all spend time together as a whole group of fangirls. This would also guarantee that I get to see all of them this year.
Connect with the people I love but don't email every day at least once a month. In some cases (allegram and Brad) this means phone calls, in some cases (my family) it means hosting dinner and nudging other people to host dinner, and in some cases (norwich36 and idahophoenix) it means fangirl outings. Whatever it is, it's important to me to do it.
Make at least one new local friend. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to do this. I might finally write the "fangirl seeks same" craigslist ad I've been thinking about for months. Or maybe I'll try to start a queer lit (of the lit about characters who happen to be queer variety) book group. Whatever it is, I think I need at least one more local friend. I will take suggestions for other ways to meet people I could be friends with.
Priority: Health (Physical, Mental, Emotional)
Start walking again. I haven't been going for my morning walk in several months because I have plantar fasciitis in one foot which makes walking very far hurt, plus one of the treatments is to rest until it heals. Getting back to walking relies primarily on my body's healing ability, but in the meantime, I'm going to continue doing all the things I've been doing to help it along. The thing I haven't been doing that I could possibly be better about is icing it. (That's a hard one to do in the winter.) When it does get better (it's better now than it was, and I'm hoping I can start walking again in February or March), I need to keep in mind that it will take some time to work back up to three miles, and I just have to be okay with that and not push it.
Go to bed on time. I'm so much happier when I get enough sleep, and I end up staying up late reading more than I would like.
Make at least two new recipes per month. Like most people, I tend to cook the same things over and over again. For the most part, this isn't a problem, but I've been bored with the same old things recently. That tends to lead to me not cooking and then cobbling together things I don't really want to eat that my body isn't always happy with. I need to shake up my cooking. As a bonus, I think this will help with feeling stuck. I will take vegan, gluten free suggestions of things to try.
Go to the beach. I was flipping through AAA's magazine, and there was an ad for some special at a hotel in Monterey. I haven't been to the beach in a while, and I think my soul needs it. Things I need to deal with: 1. I feel weirdly guilty for thinking about traveling just for me and not to visit friends. 2. I don't want to be away from the internet for that long.
Priority: Writing
Edit and sell books one and two. I don't think book two needs very much in the way of editing, and it's definitely good enough to be sold as is. Book one is probably more or less good enough, and it works as an after the fact prequel to book two.
Write at least one book. It took me thirteen months to write book two, but I did the math and I really only averaged a little over two hundred words per day. That means there are a lot of days I didn't write. Also, the bit of NaNo I did do showed me that I can easily write over a thousand words per day without giving up the other things I want to do with my time. I can write at least one book this year.
Finish/post all the little finishable/postable things I have lying about. I think I will try to pick a month (maybe March again) and try to have everything ready for posting by then, and then post one ficcish thing every day that month. I could make other fan fic related goals, but while I will probably end up writing a lot of fic, there is no possible way I can predict what it will be at this point.
Priority: Friendships
Plan a trip to Chicago at a time when eleanor_lavish can also go. If we can make this happen, then lakeeffectgirl, schuyler, siryn99, eleanor_lavish, and I can all spend time together as a whole group of fangirls. This would also guarantee that I get to see all of them this year.
Connect with the people I love but don't email every day at least once a month. In some cases (allegram and Brad) this means phone calls, in some cases (my family) it means hosting dinner and nudging other people to host dinner, and in some cases (norwich36 and idahophoenix) it means fangirl outings. Whatever it is, it's important to me to do it.
Make at least one new local friend. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to do this. I might finally write the "fangirl seeks same" craigslist ad I've been thinking about for months. Or maybe I'll try to start a queer lit (of the lit about characters who happen to be queer variety) book group. Whatever it is, I think I need at least one more local friend. I will take suggestions for other ways to meet people I could be friends with.