La Bene Vita

Thursday

NEW GOAL: Work on music instruction books for fifteen minutes per day.
Goal met!  I forgot about this goal, but when I saw it in my blog template, I ducked out of my post for fifteen minutes and worked on it.  This is an easy goal!  I love it.

Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
Pending, though with my voice barely hanging in there, I've been playing through a few new songs just to try them out on guitar.  I might have a new song in me yet this week.

Write one new original song per month.
Pending.  I've been listening to a lot of music lately, and I keep thinking, I could have written that.    I have vacation planned the last week of August; maybe I'll crank out a few songs that week.

Post at WordPress at least once per week.
Goal met.  I posted today.

Write one Textbroker article per week.
Nope, and it's a shame, 'cuz there are a ton of possibilities, and have been for over a week.  I'd just rather do other things...

Submit one short story/article per month.
Goal met.

Work for fifteen minutes on "Poor Witch"  [E] every day.
Fail.

Complete and edit "Poor Witch"  [E] by 6/30/09.
Duh... FAIL.  Did I miss that 6/30 deadline all those times I wrote, "In progress."??  None of my faithful readers called me on the failure.  Since I have plans to write "Andromeda Sings" for NaNoWriMo this year, I should maybe finish "Poor Witch" before November, eh?

Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
Goal met.

Resign from Abbott by 12/1/09.
In progress, and still on track.

Today is a milestone on my long-term budget plan: I'm sending in my last Jeep payment on my 2007 Compass! And I just paid off my furniture and laptop.  That just leaves a student loan and my mortgage, which hardly count as debt, because they're tax deductible (or, will be once I leave Abbott; currently, they pay me too much to deduct the student loan.)

Sweet.

Reach 140.0 lbs by 8/21/2009.
Weight: 147.0, but I weighed after breakfast. *shrug* Still, yesterday was BAD.  At least I'm keeping track again.

Meals:
7:00am Toast with cheese (3), Fiber cereal (3), coffee (1)
9:30am Four mini Nutter Butters (1) and six nuts (1)
2:00pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
3:30pm Chai (1)
4:30pm Chai (1)
6:30pm Dried apples (1)
7:30pm Italian sausage (5?) and funnel cake (10?)