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Prepping for a New Year

So, um, yeah, November has come and gone. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!

Things have been busy in my neck of the woods. I’m still adjusting to working full time again after nearly a year of part time employment, of course, the holidays have arrived, and last month was also NaNoWriMo!

National Novel Writing Month is an international annual challenge to write 50,000 original words (the average length of a novel) in the month of November. I did the challenge last year and failed miserably, not even making it half way to my goal. This year, however, at 9:00 pm on November 30 (the deadline is midnight) I submitted 50,075 words written in November! I was super stoked to be able to meet the challenge! I was that crazy person in the breakroom at work with my laptop, I tippy-tapped away on the keys while at home watching TV with the hubby, and on one particularly productive day off I wrote over 7,000 words while doing laundry and meal prep.

I ended up with two short stories and the beginnings of a novel. I’m not 100% on where this novel is going to go, but I’m liking it so far. I’m solidly into the beginning and just need a good conflict to round out the underlying narrative. So, even though I failed at Blogtober, it did serve its true purpose- it got me into a writing groove and hell yeah, I won NaNoWriMo!

Now I’m continuing to work on the novel and am gearing up for 2018. Also, I’m reflecting on 2017.

I’ve made great strides in my health goals. Ultimately, I want to shed 70 pounds and get to a healthy weight. So far, I’m 23 pounds down 47 pounds to go. Considering I’ve made the 23 pounds go away only half-assing my attempts (I’m still stuck in the I can either eat well or exercise but not both at the same time cycle) I’m hoping I can get the other 50 to go hang out with their unwanted buddies over the course of 2018. I just have to get back to actively working at it. Now that I’m several months into working full time, my energy levels have figured themselves out and my body is used to the manual labor part of the job.

Things are finally starting to balance out at casa de fatnerd. We’ve got out employment, our finances, and plans under control for the first time in almost three years. For the first time since we met hubby and I are both happy with our jobs, we’re able to go out and do fun things and not worry about paying the bills, we are comfortable. It’s nice to get to taste the first crop of fruit from our labors.

Today I’m getting some writing done, getting caught up with you guys, and starting an action plan for the coming year. I’m hoping to keep riding this wave of good fortune and make some positive changes happen.

Here’s to 2018 and some more challenges to win!

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