Dateline 12-31-2017

Alright, the big day is here, well, at least the day before the day that at the same time is also technically the day, especially when you factor in the fact that I don't consider it to be tomorrow until I sleep and then wake up. What these rambling means is that at midnight/tomorrow I will be sharing a post to officially announce the two projects that I plan to add to my workload for next year.

Dateline 12-30-2017

It feels so weird to be taking off so much time from my SNL challenge in order to get things lined up for the upcoming year. Granted, I did watch and review five episodes in one day so that I could afford to take this time off without breaking the episode a day average that's a major part of the challenge.

Dateline 12-29-2017

Alright, I'm continuing to make progress. Last night was my first night in a while that I was able to write without any interruptions even though I spent the afternoon with my little sister since she was flying back home Colorado, officially bringing an end to the holiday distractions that were fun but time-consuming nonetheless.

Dateline 12-28-2017

I've got four days left and quite a ways to go in order to get everything I need done in time for New Year's Eve. Hopefully, I'll be able to avoid any more distractions that come along during this time of year, like my sister's quick visit last night that distracted me from getting all that much done last night. My younger but not youngest sister is heading back to Colorado this evening so I do have a quick last visit planned with her but that should take place around noon when I usually take my midday break anyways so it shouldn't lead to too much of a setback.

Dateline 12-27-2017

This is going to be an interesting next couple days as I rush to wrap things up to finish up my year while I also try to do all of the prep work for the two project that I plan to start on the first. In order to free up some time and make it so that I don't have to jump back and forth between multiple tasks, last night I watched and reviewed five episodes of SNL in order to be able to take the rest of the week off from that task while still meeting the review a day average that I set as a goal for the SNL challenge.

Dateline 12-26-2017

Good morning people. I have a quick question to start the day, why do have to be so aggressive toward other when giving advice on the internet? Last night, I tried out a weighted blanket that I got from my mom for Christmas in her effort to help me with my insomnia. I heard about these a long time ago and thought that they could help based on how comfortable I feel when they put that lead vest on me at the dentist.

Dateline 12-25-2017

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Sorry if yesterday's post came across as a bummer based on the summarized paragraph that's populated when I share my links on social media. The overall attempt was meant to be about my optimism about the upcoming year with my lost but increasing enthusiasm for the season is a sign that I'm ready to be more positive even though I'm not quite there at this particular time.

Dateline 12-24-2017

Happy Christmas Eve to all of you who are into that sort of thing!!! I wouldn't say that I'm anti-Christmas but it's been a while since I have been more than slightly excited over this "special time of year." I'm not a religious person but I used to really love Christmas because it was the one day a year that I used to travel down from Seattle to spend some time with the family.

Dateline 12-23-2017

Last night ended up being a very interesting night. First off, I finally got back to working on my novel rewrite after taking a few days off in order to focus on some paid work that came up. That turned out to be the least interesting part of my otherwise eventful day.

Dateline 12-22-2017

I think I'm officially done trying to say anything serious on social media, which is something that I am only tempted to do when I am drunk in the first place, so it shouldn't be all that hard to give it up. It usually starts with me attempting to say something witty about the current state of affairs then devolves into rambling rants with a few half-assed attempts at humor on the off chance that anyone calls me out on my nonsense.

Dateline 12-21-2017

It's day number three and there's still paid work to be done. I have mixed feeling about this as these tasks usually only last for a day or two so I am excited that it's still going so that I can continue to make money but at the same time there is that part of me that wishes the work would dry up so that I can get back to working on the next draft of my novel without feeling any guilt. 

Dateline 12-20-2017

What was already going to be a tight schedule, just got even tighter. As I've been saying over the past couple of days, I'm growing to be a bit worried that I will not finish the latest draft of my novel in time to share it on the first of the year. The other night these concerns were eased a bit when I realized this draft isn't as time-consuming as it is more of a polish draft than a major rewrite. Then, yesterday afternoon, I got an offer to do some paid work.

Dateline 12-19-2017

Here we go with another day of nonsense. Not that any particular nonsense is going on here in this room, as I am still busy working away on my ambitious dream to be able to support myself as a writer, I'm more talking the overall nonsense of modern life that I am growing more and more disinterested in being a part of, making the fantasy to earn enough to be able to afford to go off the grid and live out the rest of my days writing in some location where I can just tune out the rest of the world.

Dateline 12-18-2017

Holy mackerel, the end of the year is right on my tail and it's going to be a close call as to whether or not I meet all of my deadlines. I'm good as far as the SNL reviews go since I'm already ahead by two reviews in order to take Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off to celebrate the holidays with my family up at my sister's place.

Dateline 12-17-2017

Last night turned out to be an interesting night at my youngest cousins wedding. I don't know if I would say that I had a lot of fun, but that has to do my own issue with social anxiety issues and how I felt completely out of place amongst the well-dressed religious types that I've never felt that I fit in with. Other than that the festivities were nice, there was tons of good food and family members that I haven't seen in a while.

Dateline 12-16-2017

Yesterday turned out to go how I wanted the day before yesterday to go where I got through all of my blogging obligations early by avoiding any distraction. This freed up the rest of my day to work on draft three of my novel that I keep on rambling on about and will continue to do so until I finish this draft. 

Dateline 12-15-2017

Oops, I really ended up dropping the ball last night and barely got any writing done at all due to my poor planning. I wanted to get all of my blog stuff out of the way first thing in the morning as usual then do a little daytime smoking so I could play during the afternoon. The idea was that I was going to take my nap a little later in the day so that I could stay up all night and work on rewriting my novel.

Dateline 12-14-2017

Well, last night turned out to be a bit of a success. Over the past couple days, I've been struggling to get into a groove in order to start draft three of the novel I plan to share at the start of the New Year. As I said yesterday, I think part of the problem was that I was working on non-story content like the call to action for the crowdsourcing strategy that I plan to implement and the introduction.

Dateline 12-13-2017

Today I'm finishing off another season of SNL which is crazy considering that I have yet to stray away from my minimum average of one viewing a day since New Year's and am still several seasons away from being halfway through this challenge. It's not only hard to believe how much more work there is ahead of me but it's also hard to believe that I've already been at this for almost a year.

Dateline 12-12-2017

Here we go again with another day. Right now it feels kind of like it's going to be a rough one because I feel extra tired and a bit unmotivated as I try to psych myself up enough to go full-boar into draft three of the novel that I plan to publicly share very soon. I did manage to start writing a new Intro page to share my plan to start self-publishing and how any potential reader can help.