I know it’s been a solid month since I’ve done a blog post, but y’all, March was a blast. Looking back, the month did not go at all how I planned and
I’m so happy for it.

March really started the last weekend of February when my car’s check engine light came on. After speaking to a few mechanics, the diagnosis was clear – it was time to say good bye to my beloved black Sonata. I learned how to drive in that car and had my first kiss in that car. While it was a hand-me-down from my parents, I personally put almost 100,000 miles on that car. I was less than 500 miles away from 160,000 and I almost wish I could have hit it.

As big as buying a car is, that’s not the only big change that happened in my life. I’m in the middle of interviewing for a new position at my current employer. This job would come with a pretty decent pay raise (I’ve never had a pay raise sine graduating college, it’s about time) and new challenges. While I’m still waiting for that, I feel that I have a pretty decent shot at this job.

A car and a possible new job weren’t the only things I had up my sleeve last month. Last Tuesday, I dropped my first book in two and a half years, Airtime and Alibis. I’ll be talking about the book in detail later this week.

But this past month wasn’t all daisies. Part of the reason I was gone was because some dipshit dumped some malicious code into the blog and took it down for a few weeks. I’m back up now, but there are still a lot of things not quite right. It’s a long process, so I can only ask for patience while we figure it out.

Until then, I’m still working on some new goals for the month, but I want to recap my actual goals for March.

March Goals

personal goals

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• lose 7 pounds
• close your rings every. single. day.
• buy a car
•  get a wedding present for the first wedding next month

career and money goals

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• three job applications, including one at my current employer
• new portfolio website
• save some money after buying said car

laura teagan goals

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• finish the last round of edits for Airtime and Alibis
• cover reveal for Airtime and Alibis
• do one final readthrough
• release the book
• make a launch plan this weekend
• start rewriting the next book

ginger and co. goals

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• post consistently
• schedule april pins
• the blogging resources page
• the productivity resources page
• redo the evernote starter’s guide

So I’d say for March, I did pretty good. Granted, I didn’t get any goals done for ginger and co., but there were things out of my control and knowing I couldn’t work on the blog finally allowed me to get Airtime and Alibis out.

So what’s on deck for April?

April Goals

personal goals

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• organize !toFile
• stay ahead on bills
• brooke’s wedding!
• lose 6 pounds

career and money goals

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• sell the box of books in your car
• 2 job interviews

laura teagan goals

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• 50 people on mailing list
• rewrite/edit Betrayals and Bylines
• landing pages
• autoresponders
• ads for authors
• cover for B&B
• plan extra content

ginger and co. goals

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• move/clean website
• publish six blog posts

I really feel like this is the year I focus on Laura Teagan, which is why the goals are so unbalanced toward my pen name. March was a pretty crazy month, but if every month is like that, I’ll be pretty dang happy.