Life of a Blogger is a weekly feature hosted by Jessi at Novel Heartbeat. Each week a non-bookish topic is chosen to talk about to allow you all to learn more about the person behind the blog.
This week’s topic: Goals & Dreams
This is a really hard topic for me. I’m generally really happy with my life. I have very little that I have to complain about. I make an effort to live a very stress-free lifestyle, which makes it harder to dream because you usually dream for something to add to your happiness.Dreams
The main dream I have is to get a novel finished so I can self publish. I have quite a few I am working on, but they feel like they are never going to happen. I was on a roll with my writing and then I got pregnant and couldn’t focus on anything. Now I have a nearly-5-month-old and still not much time to sit down and get things done since I am too busy adjusting to being a mother. I’ve wanted to publish a book since I was young. I never wanted to be an author, just to write a book.Goals
I try to make rather short term goals, since those are more attainable. My current goals have a two year span. 1) My husband is in the Navy. His enlistment ends at the end of 2016. He hasn’t made a firm decision on if he will re-enlist yet or not, but I am preparing for him getting out either way. He joined the military to help our financial situation. The military pays dick though, but we knew this. It was the job training and college funding that made it the way to go. We have a steady check, which is something that we looked forward to. We could be in a better situation if I worked as well, but we consolidated to one car and we both wanted me to be a housewife anyway. I’ve been working on our budget the past few weeks and getting things really tight. I am becoming a scrooge until he is out and penny pinching. I want to get us a nice emergency fund in the bank, as well as save up what we would need for deposits for wherever we live when we move back home. I can easily make it happen, it is just going to take dedication. Luckily, I have a huge stash of books and a ton of galleys, so limiting myself to only a few books over the next two years won’t be too painful. 2) I want to get in shape. I have been overweight and in really bad shape for years. Long story short, I let a guy get in my head and ruin me back in 2005. The end result was me losing all of my confidence and self-worth and ballooning from 147lbs to 270lbs at my heaviest over the course of about six months. Getting to 235lbs was easy and I stayed there pretty much since. After a bunch of crazy diets that had me losing to 180lbs just to gain it all back, I realized that I needed to revamp my self esteem and get my confidence back. So I went from being generally awesome before he ruined me, to being mother f-ing fabulous now. It took a while, but I’ve never been so happy with myself as I am now. So in a way, I have to thank him for being a coward and attacking me like he did. However, loving yourself is bad when you are overweight. You become so perfect, there is no reason to change. So I am horribly out of shape and I want to lose the weight for Rose and for myself. I want to be able to keep up with her when she starts walking and to be healthy so I can live as long as I possibly can for her. I ordered the PiYo system and I am so super excited for it to arrive. It’s low impact, which is something I need with my bad knees and weak ankles. The end goal is to get back to about 150lbs, but my starter goal is to get down to 175lbs. My doctor told me if I could get below 180lbs that I would stop being at risk for generally every health problem that runs in the family. I’m not concerned with getting skinny. I just want to be toned and healthy and back to a healthy weight.The post Life of a Blogger: Goals and Dreams appeared first on Fictively.