It’s been two months since I kicked off my 11for11 challenge for myself and I thought it was time for an update. I was ridiculously pleased to cross off the first item — finishing Home Staging in a Hurry and publishing it through Smashwords. I owe a big thank you to Mike, too, for fixing up the supporting website, virtualstager.com.
After that, I dove right into my next task: listing my existing craft stock in my Zibbet store — since I bought a life-time membership, I thought I should get my money’s worth. That went well for a while but then I forgot about things and it wasn’t until the end of February that I realized I’d only halfway reached my goal of 100 items by the end of February. I managed to add a few more — 63 listings that represent about 75 items; some listings are for multiple items. I will continue to move ahead on this until I hit 100 — it’s not for lack of stock, just procrastination.
On the other hand, I have moved forward on something else I’ve been wanting to do, drawing from my 43Things lists: “publish something in a respectable journal, magazine or edited website.” After the success of getting some of my photos published on LifeAsAHuman.com Photography, I decided to submit some articles to the main site. Both have been published (I dreamt of you last night and Working without a pattern.)
I was surprised by just how happy it made me to see those published to the front page, if only briefly (there are usually 4 to 5 new articles added to the feature page each day). Now I want to write more but of course this is one more pursuit in my mix of eleventy-seven. Question is, how bad do I want it? Time will tell but right now it is scoring pretty high on my to-do list, especially since a couple of the other 11for11 projects are writing-related.
One more thing that I’m happily (well, sometimes begrudgingly) doing is more walking. Mike and I started doing this in January: I take the bus to the mall which is about 2 km from home. Mike walks to the mall to meet me and then we walk home together. It takes us about 25 minutes and includes a considerable uphill section but we get to catch up on our day without either one of us focused on the traffic (except at crosswalks, gotta stay safe). I’d like to report that I am losing weight as a result but, unless our scale is broken, that is not the case. Sigh.