October Goals Update

It's November 1, so you know what that means: tell the internet how my October goals went!

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: I've continued not getting on the scale--just not very concerned about numbers, weight-wise, at this point. (Last time I went to the doctor early in the month, I was in a healthy range.) I'm not sure when I will feel like looking at numbers again. I'm still hitting the three-fruits-and-veggies-a-day goal almost every day, but not doing very well with getting enough protein this month. (It might be because some of my protein sources are also high fat.) Water goals have been good this month; haven't missed getting four glasses in except for one day, and I've continued with exercise (favoring the aerobics this time) and taking vitamins. Here is my Health calendar of progress:

(Click these calendars and they will expand so you can actually read them!)

PERSONAL PROJECT GOALS:

Summary:

EDITING: Almost done with the in-progress edit. I've knocked it down to 143,000 words, which isn't enough, and I feel like I'm not shaving off as much in the second half of the book. The outline I'm still building should help me make some choices about what else I need to cut. I don't have a specific goal.

SUBMISSIONS:

Still on an agent search to get my older work to a new representative and sending short stories to new markets. I'm still doing submissions consistently but I don't always get to them on the day I mean to. I finally sold a story last month, and I feel pretty good about a couple of the prospects I've sent other stories to.

Writing Progress:

PHOTO PROJECT: I was too busy in the latter half of the month to get much done on this, but I managed to get back to the year 2007. Hopefully I can get this done before the end of the year. I'll be so happy to have it out of my hair after wanting to do it for so long.

UKULELE PRACTICE: I don't have an active goal with this right now since I met my goal earlier this year learning all the songs I assigned myself. I pick it up and noodle sometimes but I am not really practicing anything.

VOICE ACTING: I haven't won any new roles this month but a role I got shortlisted on turned into a multi-tier audition and I've made it to the final round. Now waiting to find out if I got it. Another one of the projects I'm in premiered October 30, but I'm not in the first episode, so my acting on it still isn't out there.

Here's the Projects Calendar:

Here's the Projects Calendar:

READING GOALS: 

Summary: Did better still on reading this past month, but didn't quite make the "twice a week" guideline. I finished reading the book I was reading for several months, finally.

Progress:

RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION GOALS: 

Summary: Besides Jeaux Day and Game Night, the only things on my calendar were a hangout with Kari, three doctor's appointments, and a big fat Halloween party. I don't owe anyone any e-mails, so that's nice. I haven't improved on the documentation goals I've had. Disappointing.

Progress:

OTHER GOALS:

Summary: I did finally put up a bunch of stuff from my garage on eBay for myself and Meggie. 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.