February Wrap-Up/March Nonsense
Mar. 9th, 2019 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todisturbtheuniverseI really fell off on posting these, though I completely understand why; at some point in February I became Book Proposal Uni and ceased to do anything else. (I mean, I still went to work. And I still did wedding planning things. But that was about it: work, wedding, book proposal.) And in the end, that was all fine, because I got the book proposal in. So now a thing that I made is sitting on an editor's desk, about to be read by somebody who's going to give feedback on it, since that was part of the terms of this event, and...it is hard to believe, really. One of my goals for the year was to get that proposal in, since this publisher regularly has open proposal calls, so I can cross that off my list.
And one of my goals for the month of February was to write at least five minutes every day, which I more than accomplished at an average of 76 minutes spent writing daily. That streak of writing daily began on December 28, 2018 and continued all the way through March 4, 2019, the day the book proposal was due. Some personal stuff happened right afterward that killed any desire or ability I had to write for a couple of days. I got back on the bandwagon on March 7, but for wedding-related reasons I know I probably won't be as consistent as I've been through the first two months of the year, and that's okay. I've done a lot, and I can take a bit of a break.
I managed to read four books in February, just barely, so I met my goal there. I got better at tracking my food toward the end of the month, too, and am continuing to do that in the weeks leading up to the wedding. The dress fits right now, so I need to make sure my body doesn't change too much before the 31st.
I'd originally written goals in my planner for March, but honestly, the truest goal is this: I'm going to do what I can between all these final meetings with vendors, various frantic last-minute details and planning, and the huge pile of bullshit at work that is transitioning an entire database and also trying to prepare everything before I leave for my honeymoon. I'm going to do what I can, and it's going to be enough. When I return from my honeymoon in April, I can buckle down again.
And one of my goals for the month of February was to write at least five minutes every day, which I more than accomplished at an average of 76 minutes spent writing daily. That streak of writing daily began on December 28, 2018 and continued all the way through March 4, 2019, the day the book proposal was due. Some personal stuff happened right afterward that killed any desire or ability I had to write for a couple of days. I got back on the bandwagon on March 7, but for wedding-related reasons I know I probably won't be as consistent as I've been through the first two months of the year, and that's okay. I've done a lot, and I can take a bit of a break.
I managed to read four books in February, just barely, so I met my goal there. I got better at tracking my food toward the end of the month, too, and am continuing to do that in the weeks leading up to the wedding. The dress fits right now, so I need to make sure my body doesn't change too much before the 31st.
I'd originally written goals in my planner for March, but honestly, the truest goal is this: I'm going to do what I can between all these final meetings with vendors, various frantic last-minute details and planning, and the huge pile of bullshit at work that is transitioning an entire database and also trying to prepare everything before I leave for my honeymoon. I'm going to do what I can, and it's going to be enough. When I return from my honeymoon in April, I can buckle down again.
