Thoughts on Resolutions

Hi darlings,
 It's me again. I know, I haven't been keeping very good track of what I'm doing and I'm genuinely sorry for that. Now, I will try to update you guys at least once a week with the various comings and goings of my week.

I've realized very recently...like today recently, that I'm very nearly done with my new year's resolutions. I had three very specific ones and they're all very close to me. I wanted to read more, so I set myself the challenge of 15 books for the year. That way I wouldn't be too burdened during the school months and stress myself out more but I was actively seeking books to read and finding myself in a good place. I think I'm about three off that score. I'm about a fourth of the way through another book and have a couple rereads that I want to go through. So all in all, that should be done by the time I go back into school in the fall.

The next goal I set for myself is to write a novel this year. Well, that looks like it is rapidly approaching completion because I've started Camp NaNoWriMo. I'm now about 42K words into the whole thing and about 21K into my actual NaNoWriMo part of that. Which means I'm about half way done with nano part. This makes me super excited because seriously, it took me the first twenty years of my life to write a full length novel and now I've almost written two of them. That's a freaking craziness. By the time I reach twenty one, I could have written almost three novels. That just totally blows my mind away. It makes me so proud.

The other one I haven't really done is getting through all of the vlogbrothers videos and make Nerdfighter Challenge videos on it. Even then, I got through the first year which was probably a very good chunk of them. About 200 or so videos. So I'm pretty happy about all that.

The thing about all of these things is that I would have never gotten them done any other year. I never would have had the willpower. Being in college made me different yes, but more than that, meeting these people, these internet people, who inspire me everyday to do better has helped me so much. It makes me want to be a better person. It makes me want to achieve my dreams. And I'm so proud of that. People give the internet a pretty bad kind of name, but I love it so much. I love the people I get to see everyday because of this great technology.

So since it's June and it's the halfway point in the year, how do you think you are doing on your new year's resolutions? any outstanding progress? if so, what's it attributed to? and if not, why do you think that is? I mean it's a marathon, that's true but sometimes it feels so good just to get that sprint out of the way, that you don't know what it was like just going so slowly. You want to feel that floating sensation everyday.

DFTBA darlings,
Nina x

Nerdfighter Challenge: Blog Update

Doing the nerdfighter challenge, I've already gotten through two benchmarks and I haven't said all I need to say.

For all of those curious and not caught up on what I'm doing, I suppose I should clear it up for you.   There is this channel on Youtube, VlogBrothers, and they have 900+ videos.   These are about 4 minutes in length and it's spanned five years.   This is pretty significant.   I am watching them from the very start of the video blog, back when it was called Brotherhood 2.0 which was a challenge that John and Hank took on of John's invention.

That being said I've briefly talked about stuff on my channel BloggedLifeNina about how I feel that is going and for the most part, all I have to say is it's going continually awesome.   I really like how it feels to watch a project from its very beginning.   And because I've been so infatuated with them for the past six months this project kind of warrants my attention.

All in all, there are a few things that I did not say in the videos that I have wanted to.  One of those being that John has not been good with days pretty much from the get go.   And now he's got me questioning my sanity with the days.   Often times they are titled wrong or he says the wrong day in the actual video itself and this is not an inherently bad thing because it's cute for the most part.   I mean we all kind of know the days for him.  I've also come to appreciate Hank more.  I used to find Hank kind of the lesser brother as this went on, but he actually has some pretty good insights.   And he can sing.   Quite frankly the only time that John can sing...well, at least, is when he's singing stuff on your head or singing to henry.   Which is cool.

It has also made me think about all the projects that I'm doing.   These are pretty simple things but in general, I'm doing projects that are internet based.   And Vlogging from my webcam is great but it's not necessarily getting the job done.   Also the sound sounds funny, but till I figure out how to fix that I'm kind of stuck with it.

Also very soon I'm going to do Hank's survey from 2007 which he apparently gives out every year but we haven't heard about since 2007 or maybe I haven't heard about it.  Who knows?  That's what's so great about this project is that I'm going to find out.   Hope anyone who is doing this is keeping up with it.   I Salute you!

DFTBA Darling,
Nina and Her BloggedLife