June Goals Update

What?? It's July?? Okay. So. Summary of June.

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: Things went better this month--no missed goals on the walking or exercising, no unexpected health events, eating slightly better most of the time and getting all my water allotments and fruits and veggies in. The two health professional visits I have not yet taken care of for the year are my dental checkup and my eye doctor visit/vision screening--I plan to get those in, but don't have a specific timeline for it right now.

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: My YA novel In Bloom has reached its goal--it has dropped into the 120,000-word vicinity and that's about as much as I can expect. I do have some additional feedback that I just got from a beta reader to incorporate this month.

WRITING: I wrote a new short story this month--well, that's not 100% true. I rewrote about half of a very old short story and revamped the parts of it that I was keeping from the old. That still counts as writing something new! I have exceeded the plan to write two new short stories this year because this is my third, and I'm only halfway through the year. I do still hope to start writing on the other novel I'm working on sometime this year.

SUBMISSIONS: I've started querying for the YA book and am still sending out short stories periodically. I have THREE outstanding statements of interest from different publishers all on the same novella, so I'm thinking that one's gonna eventually have a home. The querying is really exciting but I have not gotten any replies yet! I have not given up on getting my older novel-length fiction out, but I'm shifting focus to my untried project and hoping the others can be next projects if I'm successful with this one.

Writing Progress:

PHOTO PROJECT: I got some more work done on researching these journals and planners from the past and they are turning out to be VERY helpful in narrowing down the dates of events! I'm not really very close to being able to actually organize the photos according to the overall timeline I'm constructing yet, but I'm moving in that direction, and I think I need to give myself more assignments to dig in on it if I ever want to call this one done.

VOICE ACTING: I'm caught up with auditions for the most part--much more activity this month. I have been awarded THREE new roles this month, though all are relatively minor. I have completed recording on one of them and I owe lines on the other two. Should be a table read on one of them coming up. Still looking forward to another show that will release in August.

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:
Our band got hired to provide entertainment for a restaurant/bar the second weekend of July, so we've been putting a lot of effort into practicing our established songs and learning some new ones! Hopefully the performance will go well and I'll have some cool video to share.

Here's the Projects Calendar:

READING GOALS:

Summary: I did not miss any "assigned" reading days this month. I'm still not reading a whole lot per day most times and haven't finished the book I've been reading, but it's still progress.

Progress:

RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION GOALS:

Summary: I've been doing Jeaux Day, Game Night, band practice, and hanging out with Kari here and there. I have only done a little extra journaling. Correspondence is mostly up to date but I owe two e-mails.

Progress:

OTHER GOALS:

Summary: No movement on the stuff I need to sell from my garage. I may decide to tackle this next month or the month after. I did a bunch of cleaning over a few days this month and made a huge amount of progress. I looked into whether I want to move to a new place this year, but have concluded I can't afford to do that if I want a place that's as good as what I have. My herbs that I planted were stolen from my backyard (like, the entire pots are gone, all of them). So I want to try them inside when I get some more. I had a plant I liked finally die and I'd like to get another one like it too. My night routine has been better this month--sometimes I really get myself too tired and end up not having the energy to do everything I like to do before sleeping, but most of the time I've managed to be responsible and do it, and I always feel like I get better sleep when I do it.