Thread: Daily Goals and Accomplishments

Congrats, Lezen, on the extra cash but for working on your day "off"!

WTG, CreativeName for that interview!

I have had an enormously productive day. But then again, I didn't sleep last night (which is always the rut I get stuck in between doing the things I NEED to, the things I WANT to and the things that fall in the middle )

I put puzzles together for about 3 hours during the heat of the day.

I had my parenting class and we made a new appointment calendar.

I studied TWO chapters from my congregation book study because I've missed so many meetings I don't have a recent schedule and have little idea where we're at...

I cleaned and took 2 cans of trash down to the road.

I spent 3 minutes letter Witnessing (bah, my writing arm is out of shape lol. Usually I can write 4 letters an hour, but I couldn't push past 2 in 30 minutes )

Hmmm... I watched a movie, 2 TV shows, ate twice today, went to Exxon for Coke sale, copied 3 chapters of Zechariah onto my iPod Touch and have been battling with chiggers for the past 2 hours. The little devils didn't bother me until I started capturing them with scotch tape for examination lol. I've never seen them before so up close and personal. Before, they merely tickled me so I researched "tiny orange red bug mite" and was given the choice between chigger and thrips. Now they're attacking *grrr* so they're not thrips...

I'm currently hoping hubby wakes up from his nap within the next hour so I can take a shower before my congregation meeting tonight. He's had a rough week, though, so I may just go stick my head under his outside faucet lol

Blah... I need some encouragement and motivation today because I am seriously dragging my feet and not doing anything (not even relaxing and playing games or reading etc).

All I've done today is:
Had parenting class
Wrote 3 letters
Ate breakfast and later some M&M's.
Ah yes, I did watch the premier of "Mental" (I think it is) which is GREAT so far.

I'm tired and I want a cigarette. I want to write more letters but I'm out of shape lol. I used to literally write for 4+ hours on end every day with NO problems. No I write ONE letter, lol, and my hand starts to cramp. After 3 letters (in ONE hour) my knuckles are noticably red and swollen

I guess that's my problem... The perfectionist in me is rebelling against the rest of me: "If I can't write letters like I want to do, then I'm not going to do anything at all. SO THERE!"
*stoopid self!*

I've been pretty much a huge lump on a log since my last posting. I have no energy nor motivation to do anything. I've just been going through the motions for the most part.
I've been having my parenting classes, doing very basic cleaning and that's pretty much it.
I did address 9 letters last night and I got them into the mail today which is *something*... but not enough lol.

My goal is to start off next week "running"... but that's going to be so hard when I'm already behind on sleep. And hubby is wide awake and wants to go to the next city over to eat (nearly an hour drive). I took a 5 minute nap before 9PM but the phone woke me.
I need to go to my meeting tomorrow morning then put another tarp over part of the RV where it's leaking. I also need to sort through some bags and get some more laundry done, write some more letters and FINISH Zechariah. I'm on the last chapter. I don't know why in the world it's taking me so long to type it out *grrrr*

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I've been pretty much a huge lump on a log since my last posting. I have no energy nor motivation to do anything.

Same here.

Well, here's some of the stuff I have done since my last post, anyway:

> Practiced bass like mad
> Made significant progress on one song, and today, began composing another one (started another new one the other day as well)
> Watched copious amounts of Star Trek (TOS) in anticipation of going to see the new movie on Tuesday
> Made two new bass tabs and contributed them to ultimate-guitar.com (both Mega Man II songs; the stages of Metal Man and Crash Man)
> As soon as my bokken came in the mail, I went out onto the field and practiced my swings for about half an hour/45 minutes...and now my arms are JUST beginning to stop aching from it
X Haven't really drawn anything...at all...except for this one pic, but A) it's on lined notebook paper, so it doesn't count, and B) it's kind of pervy anyway
X Haven't ridden my bike at all, but that can be blamed on the severe muscle aches that came as a result of completely overdoing it with my bokken

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Tomorrow's goals:

-Survive work tomorrow (now that my sister's on maternity leave, she won't be able to help me fix my screw-ups )

-Refrain from going to Burger King for lunch (their food is probably more heart attack-inducing than McD's)

-Go to music store after work and pick up new strings for bass

-Go to bank and pull out money to give to mom for car insurance payment

-Try in futility to contact my ever unresponsive friends

-Go outside and practice with bokken again (this time I'm going to stop well before my arms start feeling like they're on fire)

-Afterward, take a half-hour bike ride

-Practice bass

-Go back and revise some of the earlier chapters of a book I wrote in high school

-Draw a pic...for serious this time... Don't give me that look. I'm dead serious. DEAD. F***ING. SERIOUS.

-If it turns out that I need to work on Tuesday, go to bed at a decent hour

"-Draw a pic...for serious this time... Don't give me that look. I'm dead serious. DEAD. F***ING. SERIOUS."
ROFL! I believe you, I believe you!

I had an almost completely worthless day. I skipped my meeting in favor of sleep (and I slept until 5 PM! *Grrrr*)
I DID clean a lot, so I'm proud of that.
I did NOT get my tarp up, so I HAVE to do that tomorrow morning before the rain starts again.
I'm about to copy that last chapter (and now it's my turn to tell you not to give me that look lol).
I worked on my two tattoo's some. Cigarette ash and baby oil does NOT work as well as a tattoo artist told me. It turned out a faint gray color. Rubbing ground up ash into the wound = the best results. It's much darker and heals faster (oddly enough). And I'm torn on how to proceed with my flame. Now that I know how to create a red "color", I don't know if I should fill in the flame or leave it alone. It already looks pretty retarded and I'm afraid of making it worse. In any case I need to get all of this out of my system so I can become more serious about returning to my religion...

Tomorrow, I have a parenting class and we're going grocery shopping so it will be a simple session.
I'll put up my tarp.
I'll figure out what chapter of the Bible I'm going to work on next.
I need to catch up on my religious studies.
I'll probably write 4 letters but ONLY if I get my personal studying done FIRST.
I need to search my cabinets and see if I have any Lexapro or Celexa laying around. I ran out of my meds (Celexa but I was on Lexapro and it's pretty much the same thing).
I SERIOUSLY need to start exercising again. I'm getting chubby...

I didn't have too bad of a day.
I went to sleep at around 1AM and was up by 7:30 to rescue a chipmunk and quiet the dog then I went back to sleep from 8:30-2:30.
Had my parenting class from 3:30-5:30.
Worked on the tarp from about 6-6:30 then went out for fast food
I successfully ate most of a large Fries, most of a Baconattor and practically all of a large Coke.
I studied for Sunday's meeting, copied 2 chapers of Zechariah ( I have 2 more chapters to go. I wasn't as far along as I thought).
I took a Provigil because I want to get things accomplished while it's cool and hibernate during the heat of the day (which I do anyhow)
But I feel like puking. Tried to eat a salad, managed to get half of it down and now it feels like it's stuck in my chest 2 hours later
I'm also dizzy and sleepy- my ears are somewhat clogging (which tells me if I was standing my vision would darken along the outside in and I would feel like fainting). I don't think antibiotics should be taken at the same time as Provigil lol *sigh*
I'm about to write 4 letters.

Tomorrow I have a pdoc appointment.
I need to get $100. from hubby for my "meds" (it's actually going to child support so long as my doc has samples).
Depending on how I feel, I'll either sleep from 7-1 then go to the appointment or I'll wait until after my appointment to crash.
I'm going to clean the back bedroom.
Need to stick to a routine of study/copy/letters.

Other than that, there's nothing pressing. Oh yeah, I forgot to look for my meds today. Maybe the cruddiness I feel is being off it a few days cold turkey... Oh well, I'll get more tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I successfully ate most of a large Fries, most of a Baconattor and practically all of a large Coke.

As in, Wendy's Baconator? That's pretty much my most favorite (albeit artery-clogging) burger of all time.

Today was a "meh" day, overall, but I guess I got most of my goals done:

> Just barely survived the workday, as my boss' panicky, "do 100 things at once" attitude was increased tenfold.
> Didn't resort to Burger King, but rather - what a surprise - a Cup o' Noodles.
> Went to the music store, yet they didn't have any full packages of bass strings, so they had to (very ghettoishly) piece my preferred set of strings together out of the dregs that were there. The A string is from a set of Elixir strings, the D and G strings from Ernie Ball, and they didn't even have an E string, so I have to keep the one that's already on there...how ghetto IS that? Seriously, next time I need strings, I'd rather waste the gas driving out to Guitar Center in Gilroy [end rant].
> Paid mom for car insurance.
> Got a hold of Josh, astoundingly, and arranged a date to hang out. Sent the other blokes an e-mail, which I seriously doubt they'll respond to anytime soon.
> Went outside with Rach and swung around the ol' bokken. Arms are in good condition.
X Didn't slip in the bike ride because after bokken practice, I had dinner, watched Star Trek...and then it was too dark outside to ride comfortably.
> Eh, picked the bass up for a few minutes, and will probably play some more before bed.
X Didn't work on the story, it's way too late for that now (I seriously need some shut-eye).
> I finally drew a pic, but I kind of cheated; I found a half-drawn one and finished it off. But I STILL drew, and that's all that counts.

Thankfully I don't have work tomorrow, so it's not a bad thing that I'm off to bed at this hour. I don't think I'll set any goals for tomorrow...it's my day off, after all.

Happy to hear you drew something (even if it was "cheating" lol).
And yeah, the Baconator was from Wendy's. It's the first time I've had one in a long time because any sort of meat just turns my stomach at the very thought. But it actually agreed with me

Today was pretty useless.
I made my pdoc app. and refilled my meds. I took them and a Chantix at around 5 PM and I promptly fell asleep lol. I slept until about 10:30 and I'm about to go back to sleep.
I copied chapter 14 of Zechariah. Now I truly do only have one more chapter to go lol.
I played a couple hours of SIMS 2 and about 30 minutes of Tower Blaster (goodness I love that game lol).
Other than all that, I've done nothing. I tried to watch a movie but only got through half of it.

My mood is strange. It's probably from being off my meds. I'm fine one second and raging the next.
Oh well...

Tomorrow, I think I'm going to break down and get the protable AC out of the shed. Suffering through this heat is ridiculous and unneccessary.
I need to crush a sink full of empty coke cans.
I need to learn how to crochet a vest. The only one I have to wear is becoming too tattered
I'll study/copy/write letters. I fell asleep before I wrote any last night...

Saw the Star Trek movie just now, which was quite awesome in pretty much all aspects. The characters, I must say, were all pretty spot-on, except for Uhura. There are a couple things that irked me, but not enough to bother explaining with a lame spoiler tag.

Earlier I rode my bike to McD's for dinner...not the healthiest choice, but I hope I at least partially canceled it out with the subsequent riding I did.

Goals for tomorrow:

-Try not to strangle my boss

-Look into repairing my bike's brakes (they failed on me during my ride today)

-Practice swings with bokken

-If I can manage to make my bike's brakes work, go out for a ride

-Practice bass for at least a half hour, although a full hour would be better

-Review song repertoire with Rach to see if my existing songs are good enough to consider making an album out of

-Draw a new pic, IF it's not too late and I don't have to work on Thursday (I guess we'll find out tomorrow)

Glad to hear you enjoyed the movie (I've not seen it yet but plan to as soon as it's released to DVD). THe bike ride sounded fun but chaotic with the brakes going out!!

Today I finished Zechariah *WOOT!!!*
Tomorrow I start Malachi. I thought I already copied that book, but I guess not.

I've written one letter so far.
I've studied nothing at all except Robins.

I'm about to take this weeks trash to the road.
I bagged the empty coke cans but I didn't crush them. There really isn't a place sturdy enough to hang the crusher.

That's it.

Tomorrow I have a parenting class and my congregation meeting. I need to remember to pick up some more tracts and meeting invitations!!!!!
I'll probably have to buy some more earthworms for the fledgling Robin I found today.
If it's not storming, I'm going to lock the cat up somewhere and let the fledgling outside for awhile to practice flying and finding food.
I need to scrub the wall behind the stove vent. Some water has been leaking but I didn't notice it because I had the stove top open (in an RV, the stove top folds back and leans against the wall for cooking, it's a surface area when closed)
I need to get a shower before my meeting and wash a dress.

That's it.

**Edit**
I would like to watch a movie now but I'm afraid of waking up the bird

Yesterday was a hit-and-miss day. Mostly miss.

> Well, I guess I didn't strangle my boss, as I'm not in jail...
X Was too lazy to look at my bike.
> Practiced my swings a bit, think I'm getting a wee bit better (although that's not saying much).
X Didn't ride because I didn't bother to fix the brakes.
> Got enough bass practice in...and even if I didn't, the amount of playing I did today is probably enough to make up for it, anyway.
X Didn't review any of my songs with Rachel, since everything that goes on around here is based on how she feels or how tired she is. Brat.
X Didn't draw anything. Are you surprised?

<Unexpected event>
~Jaron came over out of the blue yesterday. He brought tidings of apple pie. As we drove back to his place, I noticed he had become a much better driver (I've only driven with him once before, and back then, he was a wussy driver). We brought his Wii back to my place so that he could leech off of my wireless internet and download Virtual Console games. It was kind of annoying, but I was glad to help out a fellow gamer in need.

Didn't do much today but work. I don't plan to do much for the rest of the night, except maybe pick up the guitar here and there and, very well likely, re-watch a bunch of AVGN episodes...AGAIN.

...Or perhaps I'll be a good boy and start cleaning up my bedroom. (Yeah. RIGHT.)

Tomorrow's goals:

-Arrive safely at Josh's house (the drive to Santa Cruz scares even me)

-GET SHIT DONE at Josh's. No dicking around. This time, I promise I won't let myself be goaded into smoking out with him...and ending up at Denny's in the middle of the night...

-Start cleaning up my computer, backup for stuff I don't wanna lose, defragging, etc.

EDIT:

Well, turns out Josh has other plans...namely, he's gotta attend his girlfriend's brother's high school graduation, for some reason. Which baffles me, because last time I checked, his girlfriend was being a mega bitch and it seemed like their relationship was in the toilet...bit I digress...

Bah! I am NOT having a good day today. I let the bird go at around 5:30 AM after walking with him for awhile and his distress calls were answered.
The phone woke me up repeatedly.
Parenting class canceled on me.

I've accomplished very little but I did make my meeting except for the last 30 minutes of it. I'm raging for no reason. I have an intense urge to go to a bar and have an affair. I have surges of violent thoughts/impulses.
I can't stand the silence when I get like this (though I've not had an episode for no reason for so long I can't recall when it was).
I feel migrainy and sick (which is why I left my meeting). My vision is "floogally" (strained, headachy, somewhat like motion sickness, "pressure" in my brain).

I have parenting class tomorrow, other than that, I have no idea what I'll be doing. But this weekend I need to go to the Farm and put up a couple doors because DHHR is going to start setting up some Home visits.

**Edit**
haha... great minds think alike. I was taking my time posting and watching "the Listener" when you submitted your post. Glad you had an unexpected good time!

X Didn't bother with getting to work on my computer...that just seems like way more work than it's worth at the moment.
> Played bass so hard and for so long that the fingers on my left hand are so sore, the notion of touching those strings again makes them cringe. (In fact, the feel of the keys on my fingers as I type is really nice and soft by comparison.) I even managed to start a thread in the Artist's Corner showcasing my limited recording talent.
> I actually did start tidying up my room. For some reason that I can't explain, I was able to find enough hangers to hang up all my shirts and junk in the closet. I also just now forced myself to put new sheets on the bed (my God, when was the last time that happened?).

I really wanted to get some writing done, but I swear, it seems like I have some new found aversion to it that I can't explain. I used to love writing, and now just the thought of sitting down in front of the computer to write for an extended period of time makes my brain itch. I blame it on my hatred of school-related required writing. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow...yet since tomorrow's a Sunday, I'll probably spend the whole day moping around, dreading having to go back to work the next day. God, do I hate Sundays. Just the dreadful feeling of inevitability of having to resume your mundane life makes Sundays worse than even Mondays.

P.S.: Hope you start feeling better soon, Zhaylin. I've felt like shizz lately, too, but what you describe sounds like it's a thousand kinds of awful.

Felt that this thread merits a necro, since our daily goals and such are continuously changing. Maybe this time around, more people will have something to say.

Today:

-Fix the brakes on my bike
-If that happens, go out riding
-Restring my bass
-Learn to play some of the songs from the band I might be joining soon

That's about all I really want to bother myself with today. Don't know why, but it really feels like a Sunday to me, for some reason.

☑ Couldn't figure out how to fix my brakes myself, so I took it in to the local bike shop (it still counts!). Sad that it took me over a year to get off my ass and do something about it.
口 They kept my bike overnight, so I never got to ride it.
☑ Restrung that ho. Sounds groovy, plays even groovier.
口 Listened to some of their songs, but was too lazy to actually try playing any of them.

Tomorrow's goals:

-Go bike riding (until I hit Hwy 25, at the very least)
-Look into learning those songs
-Make significant progress with the song I'm currently working on

Yeah...baby steps. But I'm going to be hanging out with my buds tomorrow for most of the day, so that might be all I have time for.

Thanks for rezing the thread

My goals for today are:
Sleep (I've still not gotten to bed yet)
Shower
Do some laundry
Patch some more drywall

Good luck, Lezen! I'm a musician myself, so I'll put down a music goal.

I've been working at an instrumental song for several MONTHS now, just writing and recording (and rerecording and rerecording - it's gotta be perfection!), and I'm looking to get it near done sometime soon. I'm afraid of setting a deadline lest I miss it and push down my creative motivation, so I'll just aim to put in work on it today. That I'm sure I'll get done!

+1 to this thread.

Went to sleep for a few hours
Cleaned out the rabbits cage
Started Laundry
About to Shower and go back to bed
Thinking about writing something ???

I've got 25 minutes left to have made any progress on the song tonight. Might just whip out the guitars and see what I can come up with.

Ugh... I REALLY need to get to work on the drywall. My hubby's friend (who showed me how) is going to be back in town in about 2 weeks and I've made NO real progress. It's just so bloody hot I don't feel like doing anything save vegetating.

I did a little bit of writing last night. I'm so out of practice I royally suck and it's discouraging. I was never that good to begin with lol

I'll keep today's goals simple:
Clip my nails
Watch Hulu
Play EQ2
Clean my bedroom
Work on the drywall once the sun goes down.

I didn't get any sleep
I didn't clip my nails (darn kids keep losing my clippers *grrrr*)
I started on the drywall then discovered I was out of wipes (OCD, gotta have my alcoholic baby wipes at all times) and quit
Cleaned half of my room
Watched Hulu
Leveled up in EQ2
Folded my laundry.

Today's goals are:
See my p-doc
Finish my room
I bought more wipes this morning, so I'll work on drywall tonight
I need to clean the RV. bolt everything down then move to the septic tank and drain the black tank

I've tracked bass lines yesterday and today for the song. Workin' towards my goal! I'm adding another goal that I need to get to work on and finish a super-secret song I haven't even begun. Ambitioooooon!

I hope you've gotten lots worked on

My main goal for today is to JUST GO TO SLEEP ALREADY.
I've had a hectic last couple days, so I've not really accomplished anything.
I'm definitely NOT in the mood to drywall or move this beast of a vehicle. Hubby would grumble that the tank shouldn't be full, so I need to do it next Tuesday because he'll be gone all day.
Hubby might put me to work soon moving vehicles or files or something so I'm finding it impossible to relax enough to sleep.
This is about my 3rd day with only 2 hours of sleep.
I wish hubby would go to bed already...

Eh, kinda sorta. The bass parts came together quickly for being such a musically complicated song, but now that I'm done with those parts I need to continue the actual composition of the piece. I've got it recorded as far as I have it written, and it's about 75% there, I'd say, so I've gotta write and record the next 25%. I just broke the 3-minute mark the other evening, so I'm making progress for sure!

As for the other project that I haven't started on just yet, I'm doing a lot of conceptualizing, planning my plan of attack. I've actually been unsure of how to approach it. It's a very special cover song, and the song starts out with an interesting beginning, which doesn't set a real beat until twenty seconds or so in. Therefore, I can't just start there - I have to start where the beat is, or make up a new intro, which is what I think I'm gonna do. Gettin' creative! When the project is nearing completion, I'll explain why it's so secret and why it's so important, 'cause it's both of those things: secret and important to me.