{"id":4883,"date":"2015-12-28T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/28\/year-recapmore-those-pesky-2015-goals-get-my\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T06:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T06:16:40","slug":"year-recapmore-those-pesky-2015-goals-get-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/28\/year-recapmore-those-pesky-2015-goals-get-my\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>year recap!<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>those pesky 2015 goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get my driver&rsquo;s license &#8211; DONE! in, like, April.<\/li>\n<li>finish at least one non-fiction book &#8211; nope, but instead, I\u2026ended up launching my author platform, and starting work on my personal site!<\/li>\n<li>keep up on my health goals &#8211; exercise: I got my Fitbit working after I moved offices, and realized I do generally get enough steps to be considered something other than sedentary, and I\u2019ve started doing prolonged physical activities like ice skating and walking around town with Jake twice a week; taking supplements: my doctor said that having enough vegetables and fruits in my diet, at my age, is sufficient! and recently we\u2019ve added a ton of blended fruit-vegetable juices and made healthier food choices, so \ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\udc4d\ud83d\udc4d; eating\/drinking enough: mostly, yes! shoutout to Jake and @amekay3, who always reminded me to eat, and my ever-faithful cups with straws for holding lots of water and making it easy to drink.<\/li>\n<li>publish FR &#8211; no, but instead, I&hellip;conceived of, wrote, edited, and published RLS instead!<\/li>\n<li>finish Daugment &#8211; DONE! I even got it edited.<\/li>\n<li>work on Pacemaker &#8211; just a bit\u2026it&rsquo;s on hold by the creator\u2019s choice.<\/li>\n<li>read 30 books &#8211; DONE!<\/li>\n<li>finish a song &#8211; DONE! it was tiny, but I used it in a video project I submitted for work, so I count it.<\/li>\n<li>oh and bonus goal, I REALLY got better at cooking!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>now for some 2016 goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learn a physical skill &#8211; martial arts maybe, or juggling, or I don\u2019t know, dancing?<\/li>\n<li>publish FR and Daugment &#8211; I have two mostly-completed manuscripts and the know-how to publish them. no excuses.<\/li>\n<li>find a house &#8211; we would really like to buy a place. good vibes needed.<\/li>\n<li>finish braindump on our cookbook &#8211; I feel like I\u2019m actually qualified to work on it now, having gone through the process myself, and a year is plenty of time to word vomit another 15k words.<\/li>\n<li>continue doing 2x weekly activities with Jake &#8211; ice skating, rock climbing, martial arts, hikes, we can do a lot of it these days.<\/li>\n<li>continue good health habits &#8211; these include maintaining a healthy weight, drinking 60+ ounces of water daily, choosing tea &amp; black coffee as my beverages, doing sun salutations in the morning and at night, and doing 2-3x home workouts in addition to the extended activities above.<\/li>\n<li>read 30 more books! &#8211; I&rsquo;m even supposed to read some for work.<\/li>\n<li>write some fiction &#8211; maybe novella, maybe novel. no pressure.<\/li>\n<li>keep a bullet journal &#8211; I&rsquo;m hoping this helps with all my various archiving\/recording\/logging needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>stuff it would be nice to get to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>practice drawing at least weekly<\/li>\n<li>continue coloring meditations<\/li>\n<li>submit at least 3 short stories to publications<\/li>\n<li>help my friend with his art history project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>year recap! those pesky 2015 goals: get my driver&rsquo;s license &#8211; DONE! in, like, April. finish at least one non-fiction book &#8211; nope, but instead, I\u2026ended up launching my author platform, and starting work on my personal site! keep up on my health goals &#8211; exercise: I got my Fitbit working after I moved offices, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2015\/12\/28\/year-recapmore-those-pesky-2015-goals-get-my\/\" 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":[2955,2943,939],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goals2015","tag-goals2016","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}