swirlygirl

I did it back in April. It was the best thing ever.

I still have to get it colored, but it’s starting to grow on me without the color.

I’m running out of steam on this one…I hit 28K and…now I’m just sitting here trying to figure out what is supposed to be happening.

Hmm…

I’m approaching my 25K goal. I had planned for it to take me about 2 wweks, but I am WAY ahead of schedule. I don’t know if this is good or bad, because I could be writing complete and total crap that is totaling twenty-five thousand words….

Good luck to everyone else that is persuing this goal!

words written on day one! Since my full-time job is demanding, I have made myelf a NaNoWriMo journal and I will be bringing that to work. My plan is to write on my 2 breaks and my lunch hour. And after eating quick dinner, I type it up and write some more! Double work, I know, but it’s the only way I can get an accurate count.

When I finished writing on day one, I had wrtten 19500 words.

I started working out again for the first time since the summer began. And no suprises here, I’m out of shape! But once I get back on track with this goal, I should be back where I was fairly quickly!

the treadmill.

I haven’t been that strict with myself this summer. But today I jumped on the treadmill just to see how out of shape I was.

It took me 50 minutes to go 3 miles! I used to be able to go at least 9 miles in that time!

I also looked at my eating habits and noticed that I have been consuming more food at night than I was. So I put a stop to that today as well.

My thinking is, I lost 112 pounds in one year, if I go aback to being diligent like I was losing this last 75 should come off fairly quickly. I still ate during the holidays, so I’m not even too worried about that. I really wish I could find a buddy to finish this one with!

I’ve got my outline completed today. And from looking at it, I can tell you a few things:

1. Strong beginning, stong end.
2. Soft middle.

This is frustrating. But I still have time to firm up the middle.

I think I’ve figured that “what” part. Now I just have to figure out a plan to get moving in that direction.

So, I consider this goal complete.

I kinda eased up on my work out over the summer. Because I live in Texas and running in 100 degree heat is just not for me. But now that it’s cooler, I’m ready to start that back up. But I don’t feel like my motivation is as strong as it was before. I still want to lose the 75 pounds (“a pint’s a pound, the world around”) and I’d really like to do it by the end of Jan. 2007. This is when my year of Swirly Girl began (the Jan. part, not the 2007 part!).

The dream job still hasn’t happened, but I have been doing a lot more professional writing in the last 3-5 months than I’d ever done in the past 2 years. So I feel like things are happening on that front.

I’ve also started to reconnect with some very old friends and I can’t believe that I didn’t do this years ago! And there’s even a guy that is floating around in the picture.

It’s just frustration that things stalling right now. I love the momentum that I was able to build for myself in the past. I just don’t know how to get back to where I was before the summer.

I’m not sure how to even go about researching for this. It’s frustrating to know that this is a step that you are willing to take, but not sure what to do next.

I got registered with NaNoWriMo and I even filled out the profile section.

I’ve done some prelim work on my novel, just character building and storyboarding mostly.

I still haven’t decided where my novel goes in the whole genre spectrum, but I’m leaning toward chick lit. And a title! I need one of those too!

Maybe I should actually consider finding a writing buddy or two…or 12.

Come November 1 I’m going to be ready to make the effort. The only thing that will be holding me back is me.

07/24/06

swirly.girl@ you know the rest! If you still need one, just email me. I have 65 invites left.

I will not send them out to people who contact me through 43things. Since I don’t check messages over here that often. Besides, how hard is it to cut and past the first part of my email address and then add gmail.com to the end?

With a little-ok, maybe a lot-planning, I can do this. I even know a few people who have been doing this for a few years. It might be time to pick their brains about it.

I quit my job back at the end of December. Since then, I’ve had semi-constant temp work. I’ve used my megar checks plus what I had in savings to live and pay bills. I have all my bills paid until the middle of July. Currently, I have $45.02 in my checking acocunt and $5 left in my savings.

My school loans haven’t been paid in full in quite sometime. And I learned this morning that I don’t qualify for deferrment

But despite all of this, I’ve managed to have 2 really great job interviews. The bad thing about both of them? No decisions are expected until the end of July, or the beginning of August.

Still, I trudge along.

more to go!

25 cheers left to go on this goal!

So I planned out a “Year of Swirly Girl”.

-Look better
-Feel better
-Improve relationships or build new ones
-Great new job.
-and no matter what, have fun along the way.

I’ve lost 112 pounds since April 2005, but still have another 75 to go. And with that, came the feeling better. I’m in the process of getting the great new job. And finally, slowly but surely I am maintaining friendships whilst making new ones.

Everyday isn’t great, but I feel a little better knowing that I’m progressing in becoming a better person.

If I have a day like today, where I have 12 cheers to use in one go, I’ll get there in no time! Only 86 more to go before I reach this goal!

It did not defeat me!