week of 17 Nov

Gah! I knew I forgot something.

My goal this week are simple:
- Stop forgetting. (look at the to-do list instead of making up what’s next)
- Stop procrastinating.
- Clean house.

How did I do last week? Well, I’m poised to break 35k very shortly, today perhaps. I’ll try to write up a “how my week went” but please, don’t hold your breath.

While it’s now quite cold in Brooklyn (this morning with windchill was 34° F!) the shining sun makes me feel it will be a better week than last.

May you have a good week…

goals for week of 10 november

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

I will continue to try to put one foot in front of the other and likewise read one word after another and write one letter after another. It sounds simple, but alas I am not sure how successful I will be.

I mailed a pile of packages last week and will send out two envelopes (at least) on Monday. Nano word counts are about where I wish. Other reading and word counts are no where near where I wish. Nano has enveloped me in a way hitherto unknown. My characters while still pencil sketches speak and reach out to me and beg me to give them voice. I find hope and inspiration in the changes around me, even if the changes I experience are not those I’ve wanted.

I’ve come to realize in my short 29 years that when I want something really badly I screw it up royally. When I want to do something nice for someone, my foot goes in my mouth. When I don’t want fame and riches, but a little bit of alphabet soup to give me some support along the way, I choose the wrong soup.

I’m in a funk and I’m trying to get out of it. I’ve been battered around pretty hard the past year and I’m tired. I don’t know anymore what to do differently. So I’ll just go on one step at a time.

So my clearly defined goals for this week:
(1) Get up every day (as if I have a choice)
(2) Eat three meals every day (I made a batch of oatmeal to take in at least two days this week and we bought yogurt)
(3) Go to bed at the proper time
(4) Try to catchup up on correspondence, at least write one letter this week.
(5) Finish course reading before next class session
(6) Make progress on course paper before I meet with the professor
(7) Complete site upgrades and updates for four clients
(8) Upgrade my own site
(9) Be kind to all and try to smile even if I don’t feel it inside.
(10) Hit 25k on NaNo by Thursday

a new start

I won’t deny getting a bit distracted the past few days with the hype. YES I have hope and inspiration though I still remain a little cynical (of the pessimistic variety) that some of the changes we have experienced already will remain. There is an election again next year.

But I digress. There is a to-do list to squash.

First up is getting back in the habit of weekly posts of work and other type of goals. I haven’t and then I just focus on what I want to do instead of what I should be doing. So, in this post I am starting anew. I’ll hope to do these weekly, though I need to figure out what day of the week is best.

Next. If you are following that little nano widget you’ll see I passed the 10k mark. That happened last night before the election was called (that was my personal challenge) and I’m amazed at how this story, as lame and cheesy as it feels, has fallen out of my fingers. I’m pulling in elements I want to, and revising and rewriting snippets and sketches I’ve written in the past year, drawing upon them to form a new story. No cutting and pasting. I’m using the ideas and reshaping them into this new world I’m creating. My goal is to hit 20k by next Tuesday. Hah hah hah. We’ll see. It’s my goal and we’ll see. I need to do some outlining b/c I do think my story has stalled, but we’ll see what happens. I have a few tricks up my sleeve, and I wear long ones, so we’ll see.

Next. I still have to finish my paper for class. It’s stalled. I planned to work on it last night. Yeah, that was dumb. I hope to finish the section on microblogging and writing for an audience today.

Like I said, I have hope now.

Next. I have a pile of web updates and upgrades I’ve avoided. I did one of them last night and have six to go.

Next. I have to keep the apartment clean. Mum visited last week for my b-day but the past few days have been mostly scatterbrained so we’ll see.

Next. I need to make time for me to read and knit and spin. I will. I can’t leave it all for the weekends. I need me-time each day. I have a sweater I want to finish.

write write write. to hope!

week of 27 Oct

My main goal for the week is to survive a “full” work week. Given the yontif of the past month it’s been quite a while since I’ve been in for a full week. My sinuses and I are battling each other so we’ll see what happens.

Monday : survive Work, write up all I think I need to do and prioritize.
Tuesday : survive Work & Class
Wednesday : pick up pieces from Monday & Tuesday
Thursday : survive Work
Friday: remember to post package for a Ravelry swap. do Work.

Otherwise I hope to just keep plugging away at my to-do list and not get distracted by anything shiny (or smooth or fibrey or well…) and begin to dig out … I hope not to get swayed by forms and things which promise to do my work for me (though my new spindle seems to spins itself)

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I am still digging my way out from a month-ish of yontif. Don’t believe me? My desk currently looks like this. Bleah.

Mum decided she wants to come in and visit on Sunday, so that means I really need to get myself into gear.

Goals for today (updated at 1:45p)

0) Consume coffee
1) Email F
2) Mail packages to B, K, and M — i survived the post office!
3) Prep package for swap
4) Grocery shopping
5) Work
6) CLEAN (in progress)

I’ll try to write up how October is going. I did: post package to M and turn in the draft of the paper.

hah hah hah. ;)

Goals for the end of October

October is my absolute favourite month. The weather changes, the leaves are colourful, and it ends with the best day of all.. no, not that “holiday” were you get all dressed up silly and trade sugar.. my birthday!

(Sorry, mum made a huge deal out of my birthday when I was little. As much as I try to make it a non-event now, it still makes me smile… and cringe)

Anyway, my goals for the remainder of the month as I seem to have survived half of the Jewish holidays of the season are:

• Complete first draft of paper for class by t 21 oct (it’s on journals/blogs and giving voice to anonymous women, I think)
• Complete website conversion for client C and provide plan for transition
• Convert website for client M draft by m 27 oct (all this web work is hilarious since I’m not a web designer)
• Clean
• Spin up the Cabin Cove fiber before Rhinebeck
• Work on as much of my February Lady Sweater as I can. Wish I could finish it for Rhinebeck (hah hah hah.. I have 1.5″ knit)
• Post packages to M and K. Catch up on correspondence.
• Exercise daily … at least one mile walk. Work on upperbody strength with new “torture device”
• Try to make better daily plans and then follow through on them.
• Take 10 minutes every day to write for myself in my journal. I’ve not done this and I “feel” it as much as my lack of exercise.
• Eat better.. buy vitamins to help.
• and prepare for (I think I’m nuts)

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7 – roll out of bed, check through email, make coffee, finish new year cards (?!!)
9:30 run out in rain for errands
11:45 return home think about lunch. make first pot of french press coffee. work on some emails. email prof re paper proposal.
2:25 go see if mail has been delivered
2:35 begin cleaning up the apt and download photos from camera. want to put away laptop, wonder if i’ll succeed. need to get work done!