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
- lose 7 pounds
- close your rings every. single. day.
buy a carget a wedding present for the first wedding next month
career and money goals
- three job applications, including one at my current employer
- new portfolio website
save some money after buying said car
laura teagan goals
finish the last round of edits for Airtime and Alibiscover reveal for Airtime and Alibisdo one final readthroughrelease the bookmake a launch plan this weekendstart rewriting the next book
ginger and co. goals
- 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
- 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
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2 job interviews
laura teagan goals
- 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
- 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.
