So I am pretty computer dumb. I swear, I am at the right age to get computers, but in reality I don't know how to make computers work well. And to that end, while I can code HTML if I HAVE to, I am stumped on coding for the template of my blog. So please bear with me as I play around with the blogging template and all that jazz.
I want my blog to be fun, yet still reflect my personality and my love for writing. Why is this so hard?! (Please note that was a joke, I promise, a joke.)
Anyway, between now and the new year I am going to work on giving the blog a facelift. Why? Because I want to.
This all started because I wanted to change coding for the time stamp on my entries to actually be the date and not time. Apparently I don't know how to do that! I found the code line, played with the meta tag, and yet here is still stands that it shows the time and not the date. So because I can't fix that, I am having to toy with a whole new layout. All because time vs date. Insane!
We will make this blogging thing work, we will!
Until Next Time!
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Friday, December 19, 2014
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Looking ahead to 2015
I don't do New Years Resolutions. Let's be honest, no one keeps those anyway. I know I never have in the past.
So this year I am trying something new. I am creating a plan, a plan to make 2015 my year. More my year than what I hope happens outside of my control. So the last couple of days I have been sitting down to map out my 2015, logically. This is what I have come up with so far.
Outside of my control:
Adopt a baby, hopefully. We have been trying for 4 years already to start a family. We have gone several different routes, including attempting to adopt from foster care, and so far we have been thwarted at every turn. 2015 we are renewing our hopes of starting a family and bringing a baby into our household. This is mostly outside of our control, though, so while we can only do so much we are still hoping 2015 is our year to start our family. In the beginning of the year we are going to finish our homestudy update. That is pretty much where our ability to control the situation ends, haha. We have selected a new placing agency and hopefully we will be picked and things will get moving in the right direction.
Inside my control:
Get good grades. I start back in school to finish my bachelors in January and I am excited and terrified at the same time. Because of some mix ups with my associates degree, I have to retake a course which puts my Spring semester hours up to 17. That includes two sciences with labs and one of them happens to be Chemistry. I am not a big fan of chemistry, not at all. So I hope to be able to have enough in me to make 17 hours quick work and make good grades.
Lose weight. Losing weight is the bane of my existence but it is a requirement. I have a horribly high BMI, and while I will never fit into the perfect box for my BMI, my doctor has explained that if I can get my numbers down by about 10% I can come off medications for my blood pressure. My goal is to lose around 25% of my body weight in 2015, and it is doable.
Medication free 2015. Hand in hand with my weight loss goals is my want to get off my medication. I am lucky enough to only take one medication for my blood pressure, and it is directly related to my weight. So I have to lose 10% to get rid of the pills and that is a huge goal in 2015.
Mindful meditation. Most of my adult life I have done a practice of mindful meditation. In 2014 that has fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. In 2015 I am bringing that back. I am such a nicer person when I get some time for me to just sit and breathe and accept life's woes and triumphs.
Write more. I love to write, so every year I make a goal to write more. 2015 will be my year to write more!
So those are the main goals of 2015. The difference in setting goals is I'm not waiting till Jan 1 to put some of those into play. Grades and homestudy and adoption all have to wait, but I'm slowly working myself into the other three. Part of my hatred for New Years resolutions is the shock to the system that seems to happen while you give up everything you deem bad for you. It's unsustainable. So I have already started on weight loss and meditation. Those are another post though.
What are your goals for 2015? Do you do New Years Resolutions or just decide throughout the year?
Until Next Time!
So this year I am trying something new. I am creating a plan, a plan to make 2015 my year. More my year than what I hope happens outside of my control. So the last couple of days I have been sitting down to map out my 2015, logically. This is what I have come up with so far.
Outside of my control:
Adopt a baby, hopefully. We have been trying for 4 years already to start a family. We have gone several different routes, including attempting to adopt from foster care, and so far we have been thwarted at every turn. 2015 we are renewing our hopes of starting a family and bringing a baby into our household. This is mostly outside of our control, though, so while we can only do so much we are still hoping 2015 is our year to start our family. In the beginning of the year we are going to finish our homestudy update. That is pretty much where our ability to control the situation ends, haha. We have selected a new placing agency and hopefully we will be picked and things will get moving in the right direction.
Inside my control:
Get good grades. I start back in school to finish my bachelors in January and I am excited and terrified at the same time. Because of some mix ups with my associates degree, I have to retake a course which puts my Spring semester hours up to 17. That includes two sciences with labs and one of them happens to be Chemistry. I am not a big fan of chemistry, not at all. So I hope to be able to have enough in me to make 17 hours quick work and make good grades.
Lose weight. Losing weight is the bane of my existence but it is a requirement. I have a horribly high BMI, and while I will never fit into the perfect box for my BMI, my doctor has explained that if I can get my numbers down by about 10% I can come off medications for my blood pressure. My goal is to lose around 25% of my body weight in 2015, and it is doable.
Medication free 2015. Hand in hand with my weight loss goals is my want to get off my medication. I am lucky enough to only take one medication for my blood pressure, and it is directly related to my weight. So I have to lose 10% to get rid of the pills and that is a huge goal in 2015.
Mindful meditation. Most of my adult life I have done a practice of mindful meditation. In 2014 that has fallen by the wayside for a number of reasons. In 2015 I am bringing that back. I am such a nicer person when I get some time for me to just sit and breathe and accept life's woes and triumphs.
Write more. I love to write, so every year I make a goal to write more. 2015 will be my year to write more!
So those are the main goals of 2015. The difference in setting goals is I'm not waiting till Jan 1 to put some of those into play. Grades and homestudy and adoption all have to wait, but I'm slowly working myself into the other three. Part of my hatred for New Years resolutions is the shock to the system that seems to happen while you give up everything you deem bad for you. It's unsustainable. So I have already started on weight loss and meditation. Those are another post though.
What are your goals for 2015? Do you do New Years Resolutions or just decide throughout the year?
Until Next Time!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Essential writing components for me
So I am getting ready tow rite out a series of posts on what I consider essential to my writing experience. Yes, I am unpublished, no I am not a professional, but that doesn't mean that I cannot write tips and tricks that help me stay organized. That way when I am a famous author, you can say you saw my tips and tricks way back when! Lol.
That said, Each of these are going to get their own post. This is more just to introduce you to the different components of my writing. This series will cover:
The Notebook of Awesome
The come-together binder
The writing space
The backups of backups
The end results
Those 5 things are what I consider essential to my writing success. Look this week for these tips and tricks!
until next time.
That said, Each of these are going to get their own post. This is more just to introduce you to the different components of my writing. This series will cover:
The Notebook of Awesome
The come-together binder
The writing space
The backups of backups
The end results
Those 5 things are what I consider essential to my writing success. Look this week for these tips and tricks!
until next time.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Straight to the heart...
So now that pride is over I am struggling to decide what content to put here on the blog. I don't want to make this blog all about being gay 100% of the time. That was not my intention when I started writing here. However, I have had quite a few new readers to the blog who have come, often I'm sure, mainly for the fact that there was a blog about gay. Or at least that's what my brain is telling me.
This blog, however, was a place for me to write, and write often. A place for me to constantly stretch my brain muscles and use my words to paint pictures and invite readers on adventures. And I think I like that aspect. But then I did just do a whole month of pride.
So I am working quickly to try to fuse the two topics. Perhaps keep up with current GLBTQ news as well as using this space as intended, to write.
I am so looking forward to this next chapter of the blog and how it's going to all work out. I am also so encouraged that people may actually want to explore this next chapter with me.
So moving forward we are going to talk about a combination of writing and current events.
Until Next Time.
This blog, however, was a place for me to write, and write often. A place for me to constantly stretch my brain muscles and use my words to paint pictures and invite readers on adventures. And I think I like that aspect. But then I did just do a whole month of pride.
So I am working quickly to try to fuse the two topics. Perhaps keep up with current GLBTQ news as well as using this space as intended, to write.
I am so looking forward to this next chapter of the blog and how it's going to all work out. I am also so encouraged that people may actually want to explore this next chapter with me.
So moving forward we are going to talk about a combination of writing and current events.
Until Next Time.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Pride Month!
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| photo credit: incurable_hippie via photopin cc |
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| photo credit: Frederic Poirot via photopin cc |
If you wanna join me, that's awesome, if not, it's cool. I am just excited to be able to post about pride without too much fear! So please enjoy the month of PRIDE!!!
Until Next Time!
Friday, April 18, 2014
Writing
My whole life I have been a story teller. I enjoy just letting it all hang out and telling you what I feel. Yet at the same time, I feel very conflicted, because talking about myself is ridiculously hard. I typically change any conversation away from me and on to everyone else in the room. I am very good at that too.
I am a writer. I am not an author, yet. No one has bought a book of mine. No one has bought anything I've written. And I'm okay with that, for now. My grad scheme in life is to write a novel that everyone reads. Isn't that the goal of most writers?
So this blog is taking on a new thing for me. I will tell you my stories, but so much more. I will tell you all the stories I know. An of course sometimes things will be changed, to protect the innocent and all, and sometimes they will be made up stories (of which I will let you know it's fiction). I just hope you take to my stories as well as I take to telling them. And I will remember the golden rule of blogging, pictures are awesome.
Thank you all for reading. :)
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