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Brandiwyn🎶Prep starts 10/1! Author Icon, also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  Open in new Window., worship leader  Open in new Window., small business owner  Open in new Window., songwriter  Open in new Window., aspiring author  Open in new Window. and freelance nonfiction writer  Open in new Window. with a chemical engineering degree  Open in new Window..

But that's just my resume.

My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.

Merit Badge in Music [Click For More Info] To a dear friend whose talent for writing music is sensational. May you have a fabulous New Year, (((Brandi)))!!! *^*Kiss*^* Big hugs, Sherri *^*Heart*^* Merit Badge in Organization [Click For More Info] I don't know how you do it, but I assume there's magic involved *^*Bigsmile*^* I have really enjoyed this month of planning and preparation for NaNoWriMo and I love how organized it all is. Thank you for hosting a great challenge and for your dedication to helping so many of us prepare with confidence and trepidation for National Novel Writing Month (known to sane folks as 'November' *^*Laugh*^*) at your [Link To Item #1474311] Merit Badge in Leadership [Click For More Info] For your hard work, commitment, talent and innovation in running the October NaNoWriMo Preparation each year, which helps many of us get our scattered thoughts together for November's novel-writing. And also because this badge has ducks on it.


July 23, 2009 at 9:17am
July 23, 2009 at 9:17am
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NEW GOAL: Work on music instruction books for fifteen minutes per day.
*Check*Goal met! I forgot about this goal, but when I saw it in my blog template, I ducked out of my post for fifteen minutes and worked on it. This is an easy goal! I love it.

Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
Pending, though with my voice barely hanging in there, I've been playing through a few new songs just to try them out on guitar. I might have a new song in me yet this week.

Write one new original song per month.
Pending. I've been listening to a lot of music lately, and I keep thinking, I could have written that. *Pthb* I have vacation planned the last week of August; maybe I'll crank out a few songs that week.

Post at WordPress at least once per week.
*Check*Goal met. I posted today.

Write one Textbroker article per week.
Nope, and it's a shame, 'cuz there are a ton of possibilities, and have been for over a week. I'd just rather do other things...

Submit one short story/article per month.
*Check*Goal met.

Work for fifteen minutes on "Poor Witch" Open in new Window. [E] every day.
Fail.

Complete and edit "Poor Witch" Open in new Window. [E] by 6/30/09.
Duh... FAIL. Did I miss that 6/30 deadline all those times I wrote, "In progress."?? None of my faithful readers called me on the failure. Since I have plans to write "Andromeda Sings" for NaNoWriMo this year, I should maybe finish "Poor Witch" before November, eh?

Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
*Check*Goal met.

Resign from Abbott by 12/1/09.
In progress, and still on track.

Today is a milestone on my long-term budget plan: I'm sending in my last Jeep payment on my 2007 Compass! *Delight* And I just paid off my furniture and laptop. That just leaves a student loan and my mortgage, which hardly count as debt, because they're tax deductible (or, will be once I leave Abbott; currently, they pay me too much to deduct the student loan.)

Sweet.

Reach 140.0 lbs by 8/21/2009.
Weight: 147.0, but I weighed after breakfast. *shrug* Still, yesterday was BAD. At least I'm keeping track again.

Meals:
7:00am Toast with cheese (3), Fiber cereal (3), coffee (1)
9:30am Four mini Nutter Butters (1) and six nuts (1)
2:00pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
3:30pm Chai (1)
4:30pm Chai (1)
6:30pm Dried apples (1)
7:30pm Italian sausage (5?) and funnel cake (10?)
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