2011 Goals

Alan Lastufka inspired me to write this. He wrote a blog recently on his to-do list for next year, and I thought that that was a fantastic idea, especially if I got to look back and see everything that I accomplished at the end of the year.

Short Term
- Exercise every day. (I struggle so hard to exercise, but I know it's the key to keeping the weight that I lost off. So this is number one on my list.)
- Finish updating my website. (It's almost done! I just need the gallery in there.)
- Get my own domain for said website. (I don't want to be sith.headlock.ws anymore or jbutler16.gcsweb.nait.ca or whatever my school website was. I just want a jodi.a.butler.com or something.)
- Read more offline. (I read a lot online. Blog posts, Facebook notes, fanfiction...I want to take that reading offline. Well, some of it.)
- Ask Remus for coffee. (Remus happens to be the guy I like. I'm not going to actually tell you what his real name is, but he is the Remus to my Tonks. Or at least, that is my hope.)

Long Term
- Write a blog at least once a week. (I really enjoyed VEDA, so I'd like to try to start posting again. About real stuff, mind you. Not me venting and all that nasty stuff.)
- Finish a big writing project that is not fandom related. (I love fandom stuff so much. But fanfiction is pretty much all I've been writing lately and I have so many ideas that aren't fandom related. But they never get written because fanfiction is easier. So I want to write a novel, play, screenplay, or hell, even a series of short stories that has nothing to do with a fandom.)
- Meet the Vlogbrothers IRL (...nuff said.)
- Do more for the HPA (I feel like I don't do enough for this amazing amazing organization. And I want to change that.)
- Maintain my weight loss. (I'm terrified I'm going to gain all the weight I lost back. So, that's why this is both a short term and a long term goal.)
- Less time doing nothing online. (I spend so much time just clicking and clicking and clicking and doing nothing. I could be accomplishing something during that time!)
- Read every book on my bookshelf. (I have a lot of unread books on my bookshelf. 15, actually. So I want to read those, and all of the ones I've already read, because they're good.)
- Attend LeakyCon 2010. (I fully plan to, but money is tight, so this is still a goal, and not quite a given at this point.)
- Go to my first wrock concert! (LeakyCon will take care of this baby for me)

Fandom-related (aka goals for LeakyCon)
- Go to my first wrock concert!
- Meet as many HPA peeps IRL as possible!
- Get photographs with every single HPA person I meet.
- Fill up my fandom journal.