- My dad’s birthday, my cousin’s birthday, my nephew’s birthday, Mother’s Day
- off work for Memorial Day
- multiple photo shoots with Maggie
- rereading the Anne of Green Gables series. Annual tradition.
- National Scrapbooking Day – which also happens to be Star Wars Day
- more visits to the farmer’s market! (I went for the first time last Sunday)
- officially announcing my new big big blogging ecourse! Super excited
- these 2 ebooks are being retired (currently half off) at the end of the month
- ALSO: my 1-hour consulting option is being retired. You can definitely still hire me after May, but not for only an hour.
- going to get back to work on my second novel – realizing I need to outline this one
- hopefully help my poor cat feel better – we think she has asthma. So sad!
- watch the final episodes of Smash. I love that show. Bummed it’s probably getting canceled.
- plan our backyard layout. I think we’re getting close to figuring out what we want!
- I turn 31!!!!!! Tomorrow. Sounds far older than I feel
- I’m off work today and tomorrow in celebration – I plan to hang out at home. And do nothing
- Actually, going out to breakfast tomorrow in celebration. I love breakfast out.
- No other time off this month – we start one of the chunks of blacked out dates for the year.
- Kam is going to come up and spend the day with me! SO fun
- eating lots of salad – warm weather here in SoCal and we pretty much only eat salad as long as the weather is warm.
- My friend Tom‘s THIRD YA novel – manicpixiedreamgirl - comes out this month. I pre-ordered it back in December. Very excited
- CATCH UP ON ALL THE THINGS – between my new little job and 30 Days of Lists, February and March have been overwhelming
- Project Life Project Life Project Life. Need to get back on that saddle.
- more brave things…. I only have a couple other BRAVE things *planned* so I’ll need to think about how to work that into my life more regularly.
- A couple video Skype interviews with contributors for my new ecourse (excited to tell you all about it)
- A couple photo shoots with Maggie
- A full-day long consulting appointment with a favorite client! Excited to start brainstorming for her blog/business
- working on our backyard … we need to take out a tree, till, lay new sprinklers and plant grass. And by “we” of course I mean take photos of Andrew doing it.
- RE-quitting sugar … effective the day after my birthday. Purchased this book in anticipation of recommitting to no sugar. I’ll be blogging more about it at Those Crazy Schuberts
- Planning more travel for later in the year – excited! I’m getting a little twitchy. We haven’t gone on a PROPER vacation since August 2011
- READING. I love to read. I have so many good books requested from the library.
- helping Andrew a little with launch strategy for his next record release
What do you have planned this month?
- getting new headshots taken tomorrow morning by Maggie Keegan Gross
- continuing to work part-part time as the Studio Manager for Maggie Keegan Gross photography (that’s my new little bitty job, did I tell you?)
- celebrate 1 year of living in our house!! Taking as-is tour photos this weekend
- Start my 1st year at home Blurb book for it.
- read more (I feel like I didn’t read enough this past month)
- list list list
- hopefully get Game of Thrones season 2 from Netflix (it just came out on DVD recently)
- Working with a couple consulting clients
- work on pitching some guest posts
- start my Blurb book for the Day in the Life project
- nap more. Naps are my favorite.
- eat more veggies. Eat less sugar.
- get back into working on writing my second novel. It’s been on the backburner w/ 30Lists launching.
Turns out I don’t have a TON planned … but I’m sure my days will fill up
What do you have planned this month?
- being brave
- Registration opens for March 2013′s 30 Days of Lists! On Monday. Make sure you’re on the email list for first notice
- Valentine’s Day. We don’t really do anything special, though.
- SMASH begins! Love that show! Excited for Jeremy Jordan to be on this season
- Working at my new parttime job. More on that later. Not quite yet.
- planting, I think. Our backyard is a WRECK but if I want to plant veggies I think this is the month
- That’s what Sunset tells me anyway
- playing more with Photoshop. The last few weeks (teaching myself) has been super fun. I just wish I had more time
- Maybe painting. We got a handmedown table and chairs that I think I’m going to sand down and paint.
- reading a lot. I have a bunch of library books coming soon
- Writing. I want to write ~15,000 words of my new novel each month. Needless to say I’m behind.
What do you have planned?
(Now that I’ve announced everything today I feel like I can be truthful with this post … )
- Productivity online workshop
- starting writing my second novel
- Finish putting together my December Daily Blurb book and order it – I actually think I’ll do it today.
- watch Downton Abbey on PBS.org (2nd season was available on their site after each episode aired. Hopefully this new season will be too)
- Beginning Project Life anew for 2013
- 30 Days of Lists progress (we have a new little twist this round that I’m excited to share with y’all)
- Keep up with Ali’s One Little Word workshop
- and be brave
What do you have planned for January?
- December Daily 2012
- so between that and Project Life I will be spending most of December taking and editing photos
- getting a big Christmas tree for our front window
- trying to keep the cats from climbing all the way to the top
- Working on posts for my annual L&R blog party! (so I’m not doing them all the day before as in previous years)
- My parents’ 35th wedding anniversary (!)
- Andrew’s work’s Christmas party
- *should* be slow at the day job for me most of the month
- 4 day weekend for Christmas. But back to work Dec 26. And also working New Year’s Eve. Til 8p. So that’s awesome.
- watching Christmas movies! I can rewatch those over and over …. favorites include Elf, White Christmas, and an old TV movie called A Muppet Family Christmas
- Going to see The Hobbit at midnight (! the first movie we will be seeing in the theater since HP7.2)
- and taking that day off work. Just because.
- getting the last of the little Christmas gifts we need to get
- planning several big projects for after the first of the year
- need to take new headshots….. to go with my new site design which should be up by the end of the month!
- snuggling with the babies
What do you have planned?
- A good friend’s wedding in AZ
- and seeing my brother while we’re there (he’s coming from Colorado)
- Andrew and my 7th wedding anniversary (!!)
- lots of friends and family’s birthdays
- I’m contributing to an ebook and its coming out this month …. more details soon!
- Angry Birds Star Wars .. what? I’m excited!
- Election Day!
- getting acquainted with my new computer. Haven’t gotten a new one in 5.5 years!
- Thanksgiving
- 4-day weekend from the day job for me
- possibly going to Arizona that weekend
- Christmas shopping. I should have a lot more done by now.
- my day job is moving to a new office. Not sure how the whole logistics will work since we only close for about 36 hours a week
- Project Life – every week!
- still working on a new L&R design … I am loving what my designer has come up with so far
- prep work for December Daily – tentatively planning on doing a Blurb book like last year
- NaNoWriMo
Do you have any big plans for November?
- Scary movie month! Only scary movies (and TV shows) this month!
- and hot apple cider … YUM
- I love autumn
- my sister-in-laws birthday!
- 3 of my grandparents’ birthdays
- my friends Allie and Megan are launching a new site today – Document Life Workshop
- plugging along with Project Life
- and participating in Project Real Life class from Big Picture Classes
- plugging away on my Scotland Blurb book (still trying to get photos of the trip from my mom)
- Christmas shopping. I try to finish by Thanksgiving
- Onward and Upward is still going
- Andrew is going to an industry conference at the end of the month in San Francisco
- house guests the weekend before that
- work on the house
- working on a new design for Lemon and Raspberry (!!!!)
- and by “working on” I mean answering questions for my designer. More on that later.
- working on some other personal and work projects that I’m not *quite* ready to talk about yet…
- … but that I need to get my momentum going for again
- maybe trying some new soup recipes. The weather is not *really* cold here yet, but we can pretend.
What are your plans for this month?
- Labor Day – off from the day job. I’ve volunteered to work the holiday the last 3 years, but not this year! Not this year!! (she said shaking her fist in the air!)
- Onward and Upward 2012 officially begins Tuesday!
- We’re beginning 30 Days of Lists TODAY!
- between those 2 things I haven’t really thought about the rest of the month …. that seems like enough, don’t you think?
- tentatively shooting an engagement session in Santa Barbara
- attempting to keep Andrew and I on a new strict budget. Just to see just how little we can get by on.
- working on super secret L&R project and another secret personal project
- Going to try to finish unpacking all our boxes that are still sitting around the house (since we moved in in March)
- Continue staying up to date with Project Life
What do you have planned for this month?
- Onward and Upward registration – If you’re interested in the pre-reg discount please sign up for the L&R email list!
- 30 Days of Lists registration (opens today!)
- Phoenix for a baby shower
- friends over to our house for a lunch date
- *Possibly* Boulder, CO (depending on Andrew’s work schedule)
- deal with plumbing issue at our house. Sigh.
- try to keep up with Project Life (doing pretty well so far)
- plan the next big blog series here on L&R
- put together my minibook for our Big Bear weekend away
- keep plugging away on my Scotland Blurb book (been listening to Rick Steves’ podcast and now I’m more inspired!)
- more reading reading reading…
- “August Break” on Those Crazy Schuberts
- watch the kittens growing! Too fast!
- brainstorm something special for L&R email list subscribers
- So …. basically WORK. But fun work…
