{"id":27873,"date":"2012-05-31T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=27873"},"modified":"2012-05-25T07:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:01:34","slug":"32-things-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=27873","title":{"rendered":"32 Things – Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the first update! What have I accomplished so far? Actually quite a bit! I bounced around on the list<\/a> instead of going down the line. Here is my update:<\/p>\n

1. Finish the rough draft of my memoir.<\/h4>\n

Done! That was such a happy day when I finished it. Then I tackled the rewrites. I spent hours, days, weeks reading, editing, correcting my corrections and having several good friends read through it. The edits are entered. I’ve added a few bits and pieces here. But the rough draft<\/a> is ready for me to start shopping around. Next up: working on my book proposal!<\/p>\n

4. Donate items I don\u2019t use anymore, downsize.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It felt so good to get rid of STUFF! Especially clothes that I rarely or never wear anymore. Or don’t fit. I tend to have about 3 different sizes of clothes and I needed to just part with the stuff that was too big.<\/p>\n

8. Wine taste at wineries I\u2019ve never been to.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Yes! I recently tried a new winery<\/a> in Hood River that I had never been to and really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

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13. Learn how to use my new camera.<\/h4>\n

Can you believe that something as simple as a cheat sheet could make using my new camera even easier?? Thank you so much to Michael, who sent me this awesome cheat sheet<\/a>! Learning just a few tricks with my new camera has helped so much and I also have Lightroom now, which fixes the little mistakes in lighting I make.<\/p>\n

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20. Go to a museum.<\/h4>\n

Done! I’d been wanting to see the Titian exhibit at the Portland Art Museum<\/a> for months and finally went. Michael and I spent my birthday there, exploring as much of the museum as we could in half a day. It was a really nice and special birthday.<\/p>\n

25. Take a class that is NOT fitness related.<\/h4>\n

So hard for me! I rarely have time for classes these days, especially if they aren’t fitness related. But I love learning and wanted to enrich my life a little bit. I bought a Living Social deal for a photography class and I immediately decided to do that. I chose the Manual Photography class<\/a>. It was a great class!<\/p>\n

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I also took a few other classes. One was about ADD\/ADHD<\/a> at PSU and another was a photography and art lecture at PSU. I love that I’m enriching my life by taking classes that interest me.<\/p>\n

27. Enter some writing contests.<\/h4>\n

For the better part of January and the beginning of February, I was working my little butt off to enter the Pacific Northwest Writers Association writing contest<\/a>. I used to be a member of the PNWA (and briefly the Screen Writers Guild) when I was a teenager. My mentor, Luanne, suggested that I enter part of my memoir into the contest. I looked into the contest and was immediately excited about doing so. I worked so hard editing, rewriting, glossing up and proofreading the first 30 pages of my novel to enter as the submission. I also had to write a synopsis <\/a>(synopsis = the worst part of writing a book).<\/p>\n

15. Go to Vegas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

WOOHOO! Trip was desperately\u00a0needed and thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you very much airline miles!<\/p>\n

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30. Make some new friends.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Why yes I have! And some I hope to meet in real life soon!<\/p>\n

29. Take a day trip to the beach.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Yep! If you remember, I surprised Michael with a birthday present of an oceanfront room in Newport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been rather slow in my goal achieving so far this year. I think part of that is because some goals just have to wait for summer or fall. Hopefully the next update will be more productive!<\/p>\n

QUESTION: How are you doing on your goals for 2012 so far?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the first update! What have I accomplished so far? Actually quite a bit! I bounced around on the list instead of going down the line. Here is my update: 1. Finish the rough draft of my memoir. Done! That was such a happy day when I finished it. Then I tackled the rewrites. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5449,1901,115,801,5452,258,1869],"tags":[5316,5993,5992,8636,952],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31493,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions\/31493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}