5.5 hours to Go

I don’t have long to write this post, which is a pity given that I’ve been wondering how to go about a graceful acknowledgment that my year long target will be expiring in roughly 5.5 hours and I have yet to dutifully check each of my ambitious goals off the list. I don’t like to admit defeat but I’m going to have to admit sanity and say that this particular year was a reasonably full one without the hobbies.

I did manage to write about ½ of my book. My goal is for 360 pages and I’m somewhere just short of 180 (golf claps please). I did actually do a little bit of painting (pictures to follow, but only out of focus ones that hide my actual painting skill level) and while I confess to not having touched an instrument with the intention of writing a song, I did buy garage band for the IPAD, (so that counts as a step right?).  I tried out for a couple shows, in lieu of writing music I thought I’d just sing it. I actually got offered a lead in one of them, but the rehearsal schedule was too demanding, so here we are back to square one.

All in all I feel pretty decent about it. I mean, I got half a book written. I’ve been working on this thing coming on 18 years and the bulk of it was the last six months. I think that’s going to feel good just to finish.

My fatal flaw was a combination of competing interests. I had the awful revelation that a blog was a record of time spent not working that others could track and for some reason that seemed like a bad thing at the time. Honestly, some things more important than my inner selfness happened. I’d say I really fell off the wagon in March of this year when some family matters arose that took priority. However, I expect that life can just be a series of excuses if I let it and as a consequence I’m signing up for year two. Keep you posted, but for now, back to work.