New Year's Resolutions roundup
Jan. 1st, 2016 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodygranuaileWell, I flubbed last year's resolutions wicked bad. 2015 was full of shit happening, and it happened all over what I really thought were relatively doable resolutions!
1. I made my 50 book challenge on Goodreads, barely, and managed to scrape up reviews for 50 of the 51 books I read so it's officially logged as Winning. I read exactly 10 nonfiction books, but I did not complete either my Women of Genre Fiction challenge or the Speculative Fiction Authors of Color challenge; I was 1 to 2 books short on each.
2. I only made 10,000 words per month for two months, which were the months we had retreats. I did not finish my draft of Tess. This year really sucked writing-wise.
3. Due to (a) car troubles, (b) Les Batshit Crazy Roommates From Hell, and (c) buying Gomez after I realized the car troubles had hit critical mass, I did not save $2,500 this year. Instead, I ended the year down just over $2,600. BUT I suppose that is not all that bad considering I bought a lovely fancy new car.
Next year's resolutions:
1. I'm gonna pull my savings goal down to a more modest $2,000 flat. This will be a little harder than previous years since I have a car payment every month, but since it is a newish car it should hopefully not blow up and need super duper expensive repairs all the time.
2. I'm gonna halve my previous word count coal and try to get back into doing 5,000 words per month. And I really do need to fucking finish my first draft of Tess already, although at this point I'm a little afraid that committing to it will just jinx it again. But I will write 5,000 words of something. which actually works out to a measy 167 words per day, or one-tenth of NaNoWriMo goals. Hopefully I can pull this one off!
3. Gonna do another 50 books Goodreads challenge, but I'm not going to doing any spec-fic-related challenges or set number goals for other kinds of books. I'm just gonna read what I want.
4. I'm already in this habit, but I'm gonna keep up with doing Duolingo every day. And I'm gonna try to get back into the habit of logging what I eat every day. Maybe. If I feel like it. La de da.
5. I should journal and Tarot more. Oh my god five resolutions is too much. WHATEVER.
ETA: I totally forgot that one of my ideas for this year was to play more poker. Just for funsies. My ultimate goal is to be comfortable going to the actual poker room in the Wynn Everett when/if it ever opens up, which gives me a couple of years to work on my game.
1. I made my 50 book challenge on Goodreads, barely, and managed to scrape up reviews for 50 of the 51 books I read so it's officially logged as Winning. I read exactly 10 nonfiction books, but I did not complete either my Women of Genre Fiction challenge or the Speculative Fiction Authors of Color challenge; I was 1 to 2 books short on each.
2. I only made 10,000 words per month for two months, which were the months we had retreats. I did not finish my draft of Tess. This year really sucked writing-wise.
3. Due to (a) car troubles, (b) Les Batshit Crazy Roommates From Hell, and (c) buying Gomez after I realized the car troubles had hit critical mass, I did not save $2,500 this year. Instead, I ended the year down just over $2,600. BUT I suppose that is not all that bad considering I bought a lovely fancy new car.
Next year's resolutions:
1. I'm gonna pull my savings goal down to a more modest $2,000 flat. This will be a little harder than previous years since I have a car payment every month, but since it is a newish car it should hopefully not blow up and need super duper expensive repairs all the time.
2. I'm gonna halve my previous word count coal and try to get back into doing 5,000 words per month. And I really do need to fucking finish my first draft of Tess already, although at this point I'm a little afraid that committing to it will just jinx it again. But I will write 5,000 words of something. which actually works out to a measy 167 words per day, or one-tenth of NaNoWriMo goals. Hopefully I can pull this one off!
3. Gonna do another 50 books Goodreads challenge, but I'm not going to doing any spec-fic-related challenges or set number goals for other kinds of books. I'm just gonna read what I want.
4. I'm already in this habit, but I'm gonna keep up with doing Duolingo every day. And I'm gonna try to get back into the habit of logging what I eat every day. Maybe. If I feel like it. La de da.
5. I should journal and Tarot more. Oh my god five resolutions is too much. WHATEVER.
ETA: I totally forgot that one of my ideas for this year was to play more poker. Just for funsies. My ultimate goal is to be comfortable going to the actual poker room in the Wynn Everett when/if it ever opens up, which gives me a couple of years to work on my game.