Now that it's July, I gotta look back at how goals progressed in June. Check-in time!
1. Health Goals: I resolved to continue drinking an appropriate amount of water (around 4 glasses a day), eat 3 servings of fruits and veggies a day and keep my nutrition balanced, and walk at least 10,000 steps a day plus add in an aerobic activity every other day.
2. Personal Project Goals: I resolved to keep working on getting photos sorted as the first stop on a website rebuild; resolved to work on writing three days a week and submissions when I can; resolved to relearn ukulele songs I've forgotten and learn new ones, keep creating my regular webcomic and video content, and get some small voice acting gigs.
3. Reading Goals: I resolved to read at least twice a week.
4. Relationship and Communication Goals: I resolved to document daily life stuff more, keep up with e-mails and online communication, and make time for friends and family.
5. Other Goals: Get rid of some things in my garage, paint the pillar, keep the house clean, watch some backed up TV shows, and avoid biting my nails.
Progress Update:
HEALTH GOALS:
Summary: Still doing my aerobic dancing (aka DDR) or aerobics videos (aka walking in place while lifting tiny weights) every other day for this year so far, consistently. I do the DDR more than the aerobics; it's just more interesting. Nutrition goals are good and I'm eating a weird amount of yogurt because I like it with fruit. Sometimes when I run out of spinach (or it goes bad early) I struggle to get a green vegetable before the next grocery day. Water goals are good, vitamin-taking is still happening, etc. Here is my Health calendar of progress:
(Click these calendars and they will expand so you can actually read them!)
PERSONAL PROJECT GOALS:
Summary: I've been SUPER regular and consistent with my writing goals this month because I planned them. I'm exclusively into editing now--which is essentially about UN-writing the book I just wrote--and the only thing I'm regularly writing is the webcomic once a week.
Still on an agent search to get my older work to a new representative and sending short stories to new markets. I do hope to get a short work published and hopefully sign with a new agent this year. I've been changing direction with where to send my longer short stories (the ones long enough to be novellas) and approaching small book publishers with them. Hoping I get somewhere with that! I did have a full manuscript request for my latest long short story this month, but it turned into a pass. The full manuscript is currently out to more than one interested party, though.
If I can get to my word count goal--which isn't firm, but it needs to be much shorter--I'd like to send the recently completed book to its first test audience, so comment or message privately if you'd like to beta for me. (It's a Sapphic science fiction romantic coming-of-age story.) The book started at about 197,000 words and it's down to 165,000 now, but I have yet to get through my first-draft read-and-cut. We'll see if I can jump back into my other in-progress novel later this year.
And I have been tapped to write the introduction to an upcoming anthology of aromantic stories, and that piece is due this month, so I'll have to buckle down and do that soon.
Writing Progress:
Photo album scanning is almost done now. The second of my two boxes is almost empty and I have to figure out the next step. I want to organize and file the physical copies in albums or boxes first, with photos from around the same time grouped together at least, and then I'll try to get them processed onto my site. Ukulele practice is going great--I don't have too many songs left on the "rusty" list (though the ones that are still there are pretty difficult), and I only have THREE new songs to learn before this goal is complete. (I want to have all the Steven Universe songs memorized and in some sense ready to play when I go to a convention at the end of July.) And for voice acting, I got another new role this month (a small comic project), recorded lines for four projects, and found out the FIRST project I ever auditioned for and got cast is getting close to release. I'm continuing to send in auditions regularly so I always have news to look forward to, and I'm going to try a pro opportunity that's happening at the convention I'll be attending (which is a long shot, but I might as well go for it). Here's the Projects Calendar:
READING GOALS:
Summary: The other goals look so good and so something's gotta give, and it's usually this. I did not make time for reading very much this month--largely because I usually do my reading while I'm getting some indoor walking done, and I've had fewer situations this month where I needed to catch up on steps because I've already been so active. But I'm into this book I'm currently reading and looking forward to finishing it; I finished one book this month and am 85 pages in on the current one.
Progress:
RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION GOALS:
Summary: It was a quiet month socially, with nothing but my typical planned Jeaux Days and Game Nights (and one band practice, plus seeing my dad for Father's Day). I have one outstanding e-mail. The documentation goals have STILL gone unaddressed. Like I said last month, it's just not how I process life anymore, I guess, but I'd like to go back to it because it was satisfying. We'll see.
Progress:
OTHER GOALS:
Summary: I still need to sand and paint the plaster pillar that is sitting outside and need to sell some garage items. I still have a TV show I want to watch. I need to catch up on photographing the updated Steven Universe collection. I hope I can dive into the documentation goals soon. Looking forward to seeing how everything shakes out this year.
