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About This Author
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La Bene Vita
I am a professional musician  , worship leader , small business owner , songwriter , aspiring author and freelance nonfiction writer with a chemical engineering degree .
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.
August 12, 2009 at 10:21am August 12, 2009 at 10:21am
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NEW GOAL: Learn one new cover band song per week.
In progress, but I didn't even listen to my YouTube playlist yesterday!  Listening now.
Launch one new Potbelly song per week.
 Goal met. I didn't actually sing it yet, but I played through the tab and figured out chords for "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It's been in my folder forever, but the chords weren't there, so I had to figure them out.  It's going to be pretty sweet as an acoustic cover.
Write one new original song per month.
Goal met: "Longing" [13+]
Work on music instruction books for fifteen minutes per day.
Fail.
Post at WordPress at least once per week.
Pending. I guess I should do this today. Working day shift and really tired...  But I'll get it.
Write one Textbroker article per week.
Goal met. I wrote another ten articles yesterday.
Submit one short story/article per month.
Pending, unless you count all my Textbroker articles. I received an awesome rejection on my "The Butterfly Stone" sub:
Thanks very much for sending this to _Beneath Ceaseless Skies_. Unfortunately, it's not quite right for us. Although the prose in places felt a bit slow to me, as though it were describing more of the details of sequences of movements or actions than I wanted, I really liked the narrator's attitude that this assassination would be easy. But as the story moved through to the climax, I didn't feel that emotional arc deepen and reach a climax of its own, as I had been hoping it might. I wondered what the narrator felt about assassinating a noble of her choice just for fun. I wondered what she felt about having to kill the servant boy bringing the brandy. I wondered more about the relationship she had had with her mentor whom she had taken the stone from. I was hoping she might reach some deeper conclusion than only being tired of living. I also found the epilogue scene unnecessary because it was more about the Stone itself than about her.
I appreciate your interest in our magazine. Please feel free to submit again.
Work for fifteen minutes on "Poor Witch" [E] every day.
Fail..
Complete and edit "Poor Witch" [E] by 6/30/09.
Fail.
Read a book in print for fifteen minutes every day.
Fail.
Resign from Abbott by 12/1/09.
In progress.
Reach 140.0 lbs by 8/21/2009.
Weight: 147.0, thanks to my friend Tuggle's new pizza place. Well, I guess he's not responsible for the Graeter's. 
Meals:
7:15am Cherry PopTart (4)
8:00am Coffee (1)
9:00am Granola bar (2)
11:00am Apple ZonePerfect bar(3)
12:30pm Tea with creamer (1)
1:00pm NutriGrain bar (2.5)
4:30pm Six nuts (1)
6:00pm Mozz stick (2?), two squares pizza (3?), garlic bread (2)
9:00pm Watermelon and peach sorbet from Graeter's (6?) |
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Thanks for sharing!
Even better if she can whistle to the tune of Mozart or something. 
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