{"id":8129,"date":"2014-12-28T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/28\/hey-2015-youre-just-around-the-corner-im\/"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T22:32:00","slug":"hey-2015-youre-just-around-the-corner-im","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/28\/hey-2015-youre-just-around-the-corner-im\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hey, 2015! you&rsquo;re just around the corner! I&rsquo;m going to be questing for some goals during you.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>my &ldquo;definitely gonna try to&hellip;&rdquo; list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>take at least\u00a05-10 hours at driving school and get my driver&rsquo;s license, once and for all.<\/strong>\u00a0Look, I bought myself a nice-ass car, and I can&rsquo;t really drive it. I&rsquo;d like to fix that for a number of reasons. I&rsquo;m planning to go pay for the retired coppers at 911 Driving School to kick my ass into gear on this so poor Jake doesn&rsquo;t have to feel bad for having to yell at me when I almost curb Six.<\/li>\n<li><strong>write at least one of my non-fiction books.\u00a0<\/strong>I have three clanging around in my head, half-written, and I&rsquo;d like to be done with a draft of at least one by the end of the year. all fun, light-hearted things, thankfully, so even if I pick a darker novel to inevitably start later in the year,\u00a0I can keep things high-spirited.<\/li>\n<li><strong>keep on pace for my health.<\/strong> My goals are to: exercise 3-4 times per week (including rock climbing, pole dancing, yoga, and Neila Rey workouts), take supplements regularly, continue recording my food intake and eat enough food\/drink enough water.<\/li>\n<li><strong>publish <em>First<\/em> <em>Run. <\/em><\/strong>I&rsquo;m planning to use Smashwords to publish on Amazon and other platforms, hopefully by the end of spring\/beginning of summer. Yes, I&rsquo;m holding back some excitement in how dry I&rsquo;m making this paragraph. <em>asdfghkjhl<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>finish <em>Daugment. <\/em><\/strong>I don&rsquo;t have a ton left, and a modest 500 words per writing day gets me done in like three weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>turn Pacemaker into a cool app! <\/strong>I&rsquo;m so excited to be working with a local dev on this app concept. A writing productivity tool? <em>I can barely think of something more meeee<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>read another 35 books.<\/strong>\u00a0This is how I refresh, and I just gotta. I want all of the fluff recommendations, too, because gods know I&rsquo;m more likely to finish a book if I love the shit out of it.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>finish a song.<\/strong> <\/strong>I bought a piano that still has the songs I wrote when I was 13. It&rsquo;s time I finished a damn song at 26*.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>my &ldquo;would be cool if could get around to&hellip;&rdquo; list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>preparing my short stories for publication.<\/strong> <\/strong>My dear friend Jill has promised to help me submit my stories to appropriate publications, since she&rsquo;s looking for them for her own works anyway, and I really shouldn&rsquo;t hold back on taking advantage of that offer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>improving my tablet drawing.<\/strong> Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidterranova.com\/random-shape-generator\/\">this thing<\/a>\u00a0has been a really fun way to get my brainpan swirled when I feel like doodling, so I&rsquo;ll keep doing that to get better at, well, doodling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>figuring out the Thai flavor profile.<\/strong> 2014 was the year of Indian flavors, 2015 is the year of Thai flavors. (I want to keep using coconut milk.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>participating in a photoshoot.<\/strong> We spotted a good photoshoot idea the other day and I want Jake to try it with me. :3<\/li>\n<li><strong>finishing our first draft of <em>Return to Elgin.<\/em><\/strong>Speaking of Jill&hellip;we should probably return (ha) to our novel with our mutual friend Ron.<\/li>\n<li><strong>planning, designing, and writing &ldquo;Lazarus&rdquo; <\/strong>(or whatever we call it). Brandon and I are gonna try to make a game this year, or at least start one. Ready, new set of skills? Go?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as usual, I&rsquo;m not at all getting in over my head. U_U<\/p>\n<p>*<em>legit had to look up my age just then<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hey, 2015! you&rsquo;re just around the corner! I&rsquo;m going to be questing for some goals during you. my &ldquo;definitely gonna try to&hellip;&rdquo; list: take at least\u00a05-10 hours at driving school and get my driver&rsquo;s license, once and for all.\u00a0Look, I bought myself a nice-ass car, and I can&rsquo;t really drive it. I&rsquo;d like to fix &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/12\/28\/hey-2015-youre-just-around-the-corner-im\/\" 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":[4470,2955,4468,4469,4471,4467,1025,4473,4472,939],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-by-my-own-lists","tag-goals2015","tag-i-might-end-up-adding-to-this-who-knows","tag-im-insane-its-been-practically-proven","tag-in-my-own-hand","tag-it-starts","tag-personal","tag-well-that-went-somewhere","tag-what-have-i-done","tag-writerlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}