Welcoming in 2008

Alrighty I am participating in The Year of Doing Big, Fun, Scary Things Together on the NaNoWriMo site. I had posted my goals on their forum and my MySpace, but I figure the more places I post them the more accountable I can be to accomplish these items on my list. So without further adieu here is my Big, Fun, Scary, Things list for 2008.

These are in no particular order :)

1. Complete Script Frenzy
1a. Gather Idea for SF and plan ahead
2. Start playing the Flute again
2a. If I get good at the flute again, join the Montgomery County Band
3. Read the Pile of magazines that has accumulated in my apartment
4. Read the pile of books that magically keeps getting bigger and bigger
5. Finish the crocheting projects I have started. (1 blanket for my friend who is pregnant, and 2 blankets for a co-workers wife who is having twins)
6. Travel to a place I have never been before
7. Finish writing my NaNo 2007 Novel "Out with a Bang"
8. Plan for NaNo 2008 by having some ideas and outlining them, outline in detail, and come up with characters and some backstory before Nov. 1
9. Become better at my job by getting more work done and getting more work done
10. Look into some kind of continuing education class or a class I can take for fun. I miss learning a lot and I never want to stop.
11. Find clothes that fit me, and if need be spend the money on clothes
11a. Accept my body for what it is. Be glad I have curves. Accept that I am short though I did grow last year.
12. Start exercising, I have Comcast and On Demand use the exercise TV to it's advantage. In the summer I will walk around my complex again.
12a. Sign up for a 5k later in the summer if there is one near me and walk it, and see how I do.
13. Pay off my credit cards so I can do 6, though, I think I'll be doing 6 before they are paid off.
14. Keep my apartment CLEAN
15. Make sure I can walk into my closet and not have to worry about what the hell I am stepping on.
16. Take full advantage of my Six Flags Great Adventure Season Pass, and possibly get the parking thing as well, cause $15 a pop for parking will be more than the season pass after 4 trips.
17. Attempt to keep in contact with friends
18. Write for Helium.com
19. Make sure I donate more canned goods to the 6abc/Boy Scouts food drive in the fall
20. Maybe start learning Spanish again?
21. Try not to get sick
22. Use the apartment complex's swimming pool in the summer
23. Scrapbook my New Orleans trip from 2005, when I volunteered there
24. Upload and back up pictures to CD and put my pics on MySpace/Webshots.
25. Write more in general, fun, journal entries. I am doing NaNoWriYe (National Novel Writing Year). This gives me reason and motivation to write every day.

1 / 60000 words. 0% done!

This is my NaNoWriYe progress Bar. This will be updated in different posts throughout the year, also my final total goal might increase if I find I am successful :-)

Well here's to a kick ass 2008. It can't be any worse than 2007 was so here's to new beginnings and living life to the fullest.

Nicole