Week 4

Yes!  Four weeks into the year. A whole month.  How are we doing for staying on track?  For me, it's a mixed bag.  Here's my status update for the week:

Fooling Mother Nature (First Draft):  No progress.

Polar Bear on the Loose (Revision, using How To Revise Your Novel):  I've been working on Lesson 7, but I've also skipped a few days this week. 

750words.com: I've written at least my 750 words each day and have a current streak of 229 days.  I've written 23505 words so far this month.  My next badge to earn is the Double Flock -- 250,000 words.  I'm currently at 223,077 words.

Internet Responsibilities:
- Two blog posts this one, one was the philosophical blog post for the month -- not the one I had in draft and was working on but another one.
- I've done a little work on the FM project and added another small project to the list. Not enough progress, but at least some.
- I did an update on the writing blog, which is my goal.  It's kind of cheating -- I copy and paste the part of this post that's above Internet Responsibilities in this entry and post it on NatRogers.com as the week's writing entry.

Pets:
- I put the new tags we got for the dogs last week onto their collars this week.
- Dazzle is going through a spry period right now where she's reasonably active and nimble.  I'm pretty sure she can't see for beans, so I have to watch her closely when we go for our nightly walk to make sure she doesn't walk into anything that will hurt her.

Property:
- Hubby's lift is assembled
- We picked up another shop vac for the shop as well as a water heater blanket for the house today.  Our water heater is in the attic, and in the winter, I think a blanket will help it work more efficiently.  Hey!  If you were forced to live and work in an unheated attic, you'd appreciate a blanket, wouldn't you?

- I helped hubby assemble the scaffolding on the front of the house so he could putty the cracks in the wood we primered I don't know how many months ago.

Health:
- I rode the recumbent bike two days this week for ten minutes each time. (Yeah, I might just be getting carried away with this.)   Max heart rate was 151 both times (down from 161 last time and 169 the time before).