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Accountability Monday

If you live in the Northeast, congratulations on surviving the coldest weekend we've had in a long, long time. According to one report, Boston had the coldest Valentine's Day since the 50s. But! Despite the arctic temperatures there's minimal snow, so I'm pretty happy. Especially since the day job changed their snow day policy to read as "we don't do snow days," the lack of snow is a blessing. Winter though has done a number on me. I can't get enough sleep. This makes doing things like anything outside of the 9-5 super hard. Unless you count re-binge watching Veronica Mars that is. How I Did Last Week Well, last week I had no goals because I forgot to do that. But I can tell you I did nothing.  Biggest Challenge I Faced This Week Exhaustion. There are no words for how tired I've been. This weekend alone I slept 21 of 48 hours. That's almost an entire day of sleeping. My Goals For This Week Bite the bullet and start the re

Accountability Monday

It's February. I'm not sure how this happened because it seems like I just blogged about patience being my focus this year *. Hubby and I have done more adulting in the last two weeks than we've probably done in the 13 years we've been together, but it's all going to be worth it. Our cluttered apartment is becoming a pretty mature looking home bit by bit and hopefully it will clear out my brain enough to be able push through revisions, writing, and all things businessy. How I Did Last Week I rewrote the beginning of my new first chapter and then stopped again because the household stuff actually had to take precedence. Hopefully this week it will be different. Biggest Challenge I Faced This Week The adulting again. It really is a two-team effort. Plus, if we didn't continue with The Great Purge of 2016, we wouldn't have found a dozen cat toys hidden under the couch. My Goals For This Week Complete the new first chapter. Print out paperwork I ne

Accountability Monday

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To keep myself on task with everything I have to do outside of my day job, I've started Accountability Monday where I'll share my successes and failures from the past week and my goals for the upcoming one. If you too need something to keep yourself honest, feel free to join in. How I Did Last Week I managed to complete both of my goals for the week. I did two read throughs for SFLN and wrote about two paragraphs towards my new opening. Biggest Challenge I Faced This Week Adulting. Hubby and I for Christmas decided we were getting a new couch and kitchen table, which we did purchase. They will be here by March. (Hooray!) But with the new purchase coming means we have a deadline to make sure we have room for the larger couch. So there was a lot of cleaning and organizing this weekend. My Goals for the Week Continue to work on this new first chapter. Even though I'm not happy with my writing progress, I am loving our almost 100% organized and clean kitchen. We f

Accountability Monday

Just because I said my focus this year is patience , doesn't mean I can skip through the weeks without any weekly plan. I tried that in December and all I accomplished was playing lots of Candy Crush. So, I'll continue with the weekly goals. Just not as militant. For the upcoming week, I'm keeping my goals simplistic. They are: Complete another read through of SFLN. Begin drafting SFLN's new first chapter. Hope your goals and plans are going great!

Patience is Key

Welcome to 2016! If you know me, you know me and resolutions aren't really friends. Probably because I don't know how to make realistic or effective resolutions. They are always like "drop three pants sizes" or "publish all the things" which is great, if I actually took circumstance into account when I make them. This is why I'm changing the way I approach resolutions this year. I'm not creating a list. I'm not creating a goal or goals. Nope. This year I'm only focusing on one word: patience. With Hubby's health, with my writing journey, with the day job--everything. I'm the type of girl who likes to be three steps ahead all the time and when I'm not, my anxiety grows. And over 2015 my anxiety knew no bounds. If I can take a seat back and just breathe, things will fall into place.