{"id":16734,"date":"2013-07-15T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/15\/it-might-seem-a-little-like-cheating-but-goals\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:56:35","slug":"it-might-seem-a-little-like-cheating-but-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/15\/it-might-seem-a-little-like-cheating-but-goals\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it might seem a little like cheating, but goals ought to evolve, so here goes nothing now that life is calming down:<!-- more --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learn how to drive &#8211; still not confident, but every time I do get behind the wheel I feel better about it. we&rsquo;re also looking at second vehicles for the end of this year\/early next year so there&rsquo;s more motivation<\/li>\n<li><strike>get good at drawing people<\/strike>\u00a0&#8211; funny story, I wanted to be able to do character art, but now that Jake&rsquo;s decided to learn drawing I&rsquo;m going to leave this one to him<\/li>\n<li>edit God Grown Old &#8211; Anna is reading it right now! (she says.)<\/li>\n<li>obtain film credit more significant than PA &#8211; <em>Band in Seattle <\/em>should start back up here pretty soon and I&rsquo;m going to be assistant director \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>continue to improve dancing abilities &#8211; helllllls to the yes. I can actually do basic club moves now without looking like a moron!!<\/li>\n<li>give a handmade gift to Important People &#8211; so far I&rsquo;ve only managed to make something for Em but I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ll get crafty again<\/li>\n<li>exercise at least 4x per week &#8211; back on track<\/li>\n<li>read 50 books &#8211; <em>Game of Thrones <\/em>really slowed me down. I&rsquo;m at 16\/50, 10 books behind. luckily I think it&rsquo;s brain candy time for a while. I&rsquo;m not going to alter this until I know it&rsquo;s a lost cause haha<\/li>\n<li><strike>learn to cook Indian food with legit spices and techniques<\/strike> learn to make non-alcoholic beverages &#8211; I&rsquo;m changing this, because right now getting both Jake and I to drink more healthy beverages is crucial<\/li>\n<li>add another sort of exercise to my routine &#8211; we&rsquo;re buying a rowing machine soon! (yay MSoft reimbursement!)<\/li>\n<li><strike>go on a summer road trip<\/strike> stay somewhere other than the apartment at least once every six weeks &#8211; wrestling down debt means long trips aren&rsquo;t yet feasible, but escapes are!<\/li>\n<li>maintain my current raise schedule &#8211; HA. ha ha ha ha ha. ha. hahaha. ha. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>help Jake get his Shit Your Kids Will Eat cookbook made &#8211; no movement<\/li>\n<li>finish my role-playing character notebook &#8211; no movement<\/li>\n<li>designate and fill a notebook for each major novel idea &#8211; just procured my traditional &ldquo;back to school sale&rdquo; stash of 5 college-ruled notebooks for $1<\/li>\n<li>plan the wedding without it being a major stressor &#8211; check and CHECK!!!! \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li><strike>participate in Camp NaNoWriMo in July<\/strike>\u00a0participate in NaNoWriMo &#8211; little did I know July would be consumed by work. instead I&rsquo;ve solidified my NaNo idea for the year and have three months to outline&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><strike>have treatments for all decent show\/movie ideas, in case someone is interested<\/strike> keep faithful notes on any ideas I develop this year &#8211; I can write a treatment in five seconds. better that I keep my thoughts in order<\/li>\n<li>remember to take my supplements regularly &#8211; managed to remember this morning<\/li>\n<li>keep the room and bathroom clean &#8211; Jake has been the most amazing and has kept things incredibly clean for us, so this one falls on him now &lt;3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it might seem a little like cheating, but goals ought to evolve, so here goes nothing now that life is calming down: learn how to drive &#8211; still not confident, but every time I do get behind the wheel I feel better about it. we&rsquo;re also looking at second vehicles for the end of this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/15\/it-might-seem-a-little-like-cheating-but-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5672],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goals2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}