March Goals Update

Dang, now it's April. Which means a March review of 2026 goals is in order.

1. Health Goals: Four glasses of water per day; three servings of fruits and veggies; taking vitamins; walking 10,000 steps a day plus an aerobic activity every other day; visiting health professionals on an appropriate schedule.

2. Personal Project Goals: Complete editing on In Bloom, share with test audience, collect and incorporate feedback, develop pitch materials, start querying it; start another book; write two more short stories; submit queries and short stories; finish the photo project and start the SU site, autobio site, and essays/rants site; practice music; post regular webcomics; post ace videos; submit voice-over auditions and complete assigned voice-over work.

3. Reading Goals: Read at least every other day.

4. Relationship and Communication Goals: Document more consistently; keep up with e-mail and online messages; keep social life active.

5. Other Goals: Get rid of garage items; clean the house; watch TV shows; plant herbs; wear pajamas/have a night routine; use a new coffee cup every day; do something cool with my hair.

Progress Update:

HEALTH GOALS:

Summary: Perfection continues with water goals, fruits/veggies goals, vitamins, walking/exercise, and health professional visits. I don't always make my protein goals but I do meet them much more often than I don't. The weird liver enzyme reading last month was not present anymore when I did a redo this month, so I'm not worrying about it. I went to the podiatrist and she gave me shoe inserts. They're not helping. Follow up in April, along with dermatology and radiology appointments for routine checks. All's well except my minor foot issue and I've been developing a shoulder annoyance for the last week or so.

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: The beta readers have offered some gems, but unfortunately the requested worldbuilding is bloating my word count back up over 130,000 again. (I will hack it down. I will!) I have been working on the story regularly without having to schedule editing sessions--just noodling whenever I can. I have not cracked into making pitch materials yet. I will when I'm ready.

WRITING: I finished a short story this month. I have notes on another one I plan to write when I am not as busy.

SUBMISSIONS: I've kept up submissions of queries and short stories. One statement of interest still outstanding.

Writing Progress:

PHOTO PROJECT: We're now mining old diaries and planners for event info that will help my photo dating. I'm continuing to trudge through it. I did finish boxing up and organizing my mementos and I'm very satisfied with how it went.

VOICE ACTING: I was selected for another part this month, and the timeline was short so I have also finished the recording (but I do have some pickups to do for the project). I am currently still on a shortlist for one project that hasn't been selected, and am just somewhere in the audition pool for a bunch of others. There was a shortlist I was hoping to get selected on but I was right that the competition was too much and someone else was selected on that. I've continued to submit comparatively fewer auditions this month.

REGULAR CONTENT: I have posted my Negative One webcomic every Friday; my So You Write webcomic on the last day of the month; and a new asexuality video for the month.

MUSIC: We've had more practices, are firming up some plans to do some performances so we can get video, and have locked down our graphics for promotional business cards and a drum head. We might even fiddle with original music. ;)

Here's the Projects Calendar:

READING GOALS:

Summary: I blew through a bunch of books this month--six books finished and a seventh started!--because a chunk of them were graphic novels. I'm faithfully staying to my every-other-day reading goals and it's still working for me.

Progress:

RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION GOALS:

Summary: I've been doing Jeaux Day, Game Night, band practice, and hanging out with Kari here and there. And I got to hang with Yasmin and Arthur once. Correspondence is up to date but I still haven't really figured out how to get back into writing out my regular thoughts in journal form like I used to.

Progress:

OTHER GOALS:

Summary: Some of my garage items have sold this month but I haven't made any effort on the problematic ones. The house is pretty dirty (for me) but I haven't been motivated to clean it up lately. This next month I really need to fertilize and plant the plants I want to grow this year--and I got some new plant babies for indoor enjoyment. My night routine that I tried to commit to has only lapsed a few times here and there but overall I am still dedicated to comfier sleep in my jammies and a nice skin care routine for nighttime. And! I finally got my hair appointment and got my bright pink hair. :)