My Month-Long Case of the Mondays

I’ll just come out and say it: I’ve been in a funk this month. Unfortunately, that affects all areas of my life, including my writing. I’m not sure if it’s the changing-jobs-after-almost-four-years thing or the I'm-constantly-on-the-go thing or the I’m-almost-on-the-other-side-of-twenty thing or what. But in any case, I haven’t been as diligent about blogging as I wanted to be this month because I just haven’t felt like it.

Since writing is my career now, though, I kind of have to be more diligent about writing. I know my work will suffer if I don’t take the time to write when I have the chance. So here is my attempt at getting out of my funk. Forgive me if it’s disastrous.

First things first: I dominated my August goal of keeping a daily food journal. Down to every last Swedish Fish, I faithfully recorded every morsel I consumed. I did not, however, eat less or continue my journal this month. So I don’t know how helpful that goal really was.

Now for another confession: I basically gave up September’s goal--improving my posture--the first week of the month. I had all these lofty goals of walking around with books on my head, taking some yoga classes, and sitting on the edge of my chair at work in hopes of training my spine into submission.

But even though I remembered I should sit with my feet flat on the ground, it was just so much more comfortable to just let them cross…and to slouch down while in the throes of writer’s block…and to walk normally instead of thrusting my chest out as if it were on display.

I know my posture is terrible and that it won’t get better if I don’t work to improve it. Maybe I'll just get weekly massages instead of sleeping on my back and not allowing my poor legs to cross.

Okay, now pretend that I worked in a seamless segue here.

Moving on to my goal to read 52 books this year. Not to toot my own horn, but beep beep! I’ve read 42 books and am currently reading 43, 44, and 45.

Since I last blogged I’ve read some great ones, namely The Devil in the White City, Unbroken, and The Fault in Our Stars.

This post is already too long to go into any great detail, so just go borrow/buy/whatever you have to do to get these books in your hands. You won’t be sorry.

I also finally read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I really enjoyed it and will probably read the other two books in the series, but it took me over 100 pages to get into the book and really understand what was happening. I don’t usually give books that long to hook me in, but since I had heard from several trusted reader friends that TGWTDT (I had to think about that abbreviation so long that it probably would have taken me less time to just write the title) was excellent, I stuck it out.

I definitely don't regret reading it, but I do wish it had been as suspenseful and dramatic as it turned out to be all the way through.

Pretend once again that I've just worked in another seamless segue, 'cause I want to wrap this up.

October's goal is to floss every day. Clearly, I should have been doing this long ago, as I have to go back to the dentist in a few weeks to get another root canal. Oops...

But I thought this would be a good goal for October since I'll undoubtedly be consuming more sweets than usual--candy corn, caramel apple pops, Fun Size anything. You get the point.

I won't subject you to pictures, but I will try reallyreallyreally hard to be a better blogger this month. Randel and I celebrated our two-year anniversary yesterday, I tried another Pinterest recipe, and I've been writing more project sheets at work, so it shouldn't be difficult.

Holla!