I'm going to write every day, having realized it's fail to be a writing teacher and not actually DO any writing (other than in forums).
Also want to try to find a house for my family. We've been "homeless" for two years now, it's time we had a place of our own (plus my sister and her in-laws have moved into the basement and we're living in hell, atm).
Getting my music demo promo packs finally completed (ugh, the bio.... ugh.... the bio...., ugh, the cover letter..... I hate bragging, but that's what you have to do in a bio and cover letter... oh I'm just so great and wonderful oh boy... here let me convince you how great I am, hey you peoples my lame accomplishments are just so great, yeay.....) sent off to radio stations and record labels.
Get on SSI disability income for my autism (I've been working with an SSI lawyer on that for 6 months now, the most money I've ever made in a year has been $6,000).
Perform at clubs in the band I'm still forming, Traguna.
Get my sleep schedule normalized to something human again instead of 4 hours here, 3 hours there, etc...
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Not a big goal but still a goal. I want to switch over to diet drinks and cut my sugar intake a bit.
I'm not sure I can stomach diet, but I definitely intend to cut down on my soda intake. I drink waaaaaaaay to much Pepsi (and Mt. Dew, and Dr. Pepper). I would switch to coffee to get my caffeine, but it upsets my stomach most of the time and I feel bloated and crappy.
I'd also like to complete two new certifications this year and get a car so Bunnie and I can drive once in awhile.
I'm not sure I can stomach diet, but I definitely intend to cut down on my soda intake. I drink waaaaaaaay to much Pepsi (and Mt. Dew, and Dr. Pepper). I would switch to coffee to get my caffeine, but it upsets my stomach most of the time and I feel bloated and crappy.
I'd also like to complete two new certifications this year and get a car so Bunnie and I can drive once in awhile.
I never thought I could but I think I have found enough diet drinks I can handle like crystal light teas ect. I've also slowly weened my family from sugar to a sugar/splenda mix in a lot of drinks we make and have gradually upped the splenda and taken down the sugar. Not sure if I'll ever be able to handle diet Colas, but I'm going to try. Everyone says you get used to it. I think if I make sure to tell everyone around me it's happening it won't be so easy for me to not stick with the plan.
I hate bragging, but that's what you have to do in a bio and cover letter... oh I'm just so great and wonderful oh boy... here let me convince you how great I am, hey you peoples my lame accomplishments are just so great, yeay.....) sent off to radio stations and record labels.
I've had to write several press releases, cover letters, bios, etc etc etc. It used to be really difficult until a friend of mine taught me a couple of things.
One was that I needed to get out of my own head and stick to factoids to start out- so I made a list of things I'd actually done, dates and etc, just like on a resume, and then wrote a paragraph stringing them together. Then edited that down to its most minimal distillation. Then put it in a drawer for two weeks and edited it again.
The second was that I had to know what I wanted to tell people- not my "gimmicK" or "hook" exactly, but sort of that. What was my message? That one took some time, too.
Then it was just a matter of welding the two together in some kind of coherent manner.
All of this is very good for me, btw, because I've got to do similar this year- get my website finished [it's half-arsed right now], get organized w/ my materials and so forth, and write a new bio [the old one is so outdated it's not even the same person].
That, and finish this house, which is a whole other thing...
Thanks, Fmeh, for putting it out there to jiggle my intention-list. [by the way, I call them "intentions", not "resolutions", because intention is key to all of it imo.]
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Get the hardware that I need (new sound card, decent mic, keyboard) to start recording again.
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I was thinking, "To stay alive," but then I thought about how the rest of my New Year's Resolutions have usually gone, and decided I'd better not resolve that.
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I generally never make any. The time to change is when you understand a change is needed.
However. I finally threw out all my t-shirts with holes in them. Some of those were very dear to me (my really old red dwarf t and my black adder one especially). So long old friends.
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Write a novel (probably do NaNoWriMo to do this)
Get out of debt (at least to corporations. I'll be deep in debt to someone else, but my soul wasn't being used anyway.
Write a game.
Get a divorce.
Write a novel (probably do NaNoWriMo to do this)
Get out of debt (at least to corporations. I'll be deep in debt to someone else, but my soul wasn't being used anyway.
Write a game.
Get a divorce.
Seems to me if you combine 1 and 3, they'll help you to accomplish 2 and 4.
I refuse to admit fail, so I've made a concession that thinking about writing is actually writing as long as you go back and write what you were thinking about since thinking is one of the steps in pre-writing
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I refuse to admit fail, so I've made a concession that thinking about writing is actually writing as long as you go back and write what you were thinking about since thinking it's one of the steps in pre-writing
Yes, I have a couple students who tell me that they are THINKING about writing EVERY DAY.
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