Good Morning, Wednesday, 12/31
@just4him (320381)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
December 31, 2025 9:50am CST
Good morning from cold Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It's 21 F and feels like 16 F. Snow starting soon. Never mind, I just looked outside. It's already started. 
Happy New Year's Eve. We've come to the last day of the year again. How was 2025? Did you travel, stay home, experience something new, complete all your resolutions and goals, or did you give up before you had a chance to start?
My goals for this year got sidelined in a good way. I started the year by opening a Dove Promise candy wrapper and read: Write Your Own Fairy Tale and Be Your Own Hero. My first challenge of the year. It had been a long time since I wrote a story. I've been working on editing and publishing for several years and writing very little. That changed in February when I came up with the first sentence to a new book. It took six chapters before I had the title as something more than My Fairy Tale. Firestorm was born in February and completed in November. I consider it one of my best books and can't wait until I can share it with the world. Until then, I have four books I want to get published ahead of it. Two of them were goals for this year: Faith to Believe and Love's Illusion. I have them as my goals for 2026. If all works the way it should, I should have Faith to Believe published in January. I still need to find a proofreader. I'm working on Love's Illusion. I hope to have it published by June. I will also continue writing two other books that were also sidelined this year. Wilderness Cry and Wilderness Call books two and three in the four book Wilderness series. The fourth book: Wilderness Courage hasn't been plotted yet. I also have two books I want to publish for 2027 - In the Hands of Mighty Men and my first Science Fiction book - Guns of War. Yes, that means Firestorm is a few years before I will be ready to publish it. As you can see, I have a lot of work to do in the publishing field.
As for other goals for 2026. I will continue to try to lose weight. I would love to make that goal a reality this year. I've been trying to lose weight since 2016 when I started out at 255. I'm under 200 again for the first time in a long time. At 4'9" I should weigh 115. There are people who tell me it won't be possible to lose that much weight. I hope to prove them all wrong.
I also plan to keep up my social activities - Rock Painting at the ADRC, Bible Study, and get back to the pool, and of course Writer's Guild.
Those are my goals and plans for 2026. What are your goals for 2026? Let me know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year. Image courtesy of Pixabay
Happy New Year's Eve. We've come to the last day of the year again. How was 2025? Did you travel, stay home, experience something new, complete all your resolutions and goals, or did you give up before you had a chance to start?
My goals for this year got sidelined in a good way. I started the year by opening a Dove Promise candy wrapper and read: Write Your Own Fairy Tale and Be Your Own Hero. My first challenge of the year. It had been a long time since I wrote a story. I've been working on editing and publishing for several years and writing very little. That changed in February when I came up with the first sentence to a new book. It took six chapters before I had the title as something more than My Fairy Tale. Firestorm was born in February and completed in November. I consider it one of my best books and can't wait until I can share it with the world. Until then, I have four books I want to get published ahead of it. Two of them were goals for this year: Faith to Believe and Love's Illusion. I have them as my goals for 2026. If all works the way it should, I should have Faith to Believe published in January. I still need to find a proofreader. I'm working on Love's Illusion. I hope to have it published by June. I will also continue writing two other books that were also sidelined this year. Wilderness Cry and Wilderness Call books two and three in the four book Wilderness series. The fourth book: Wilderness Courage hasn't been plotted yet. I also have two books I want to publish for 2027 - In the Hands of Mighty Men and my first Science Fiction book - Guns of War. Yes, that means Firestorm is a few years before I will be ready to publish it. As you can see, I have a lot of work to do in the publishing field.
As for other goals for 2026. I will continue to try to lose weight. I would love to make that goal a reality this year. I've been trying to lose weight since 2016 when I started out at 255. I'm under 200 again for the first time in a long time. At 4'9" I should weigh 115. There are people who tell me it won't be possible to lose that much weight. I hope to prove them all wrong.
I also plan to keep up my social activities - Rock Painting at the ADRC, Bible Study, and get back to the pool, and of course Writer's Guild.
Those are my goals and plans for 2026. What are your goals for 2026? Let me know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year. Image courtesy of Pixabay4 people like this
4 responses
@DaddyEvil (164449)
• United States
2h
Good morning. It's currently 36F here, according to the thermometer on the front porch. (The National Weather Service isn't working and hasn't worked since yesterday some time. That's very annoying.)
I hope you manage your goals this year. Good luck!
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@DaddyEvil (164449)
• United States
50m
@just4him You're very welcome.
Our thermometer shows 48F at 12:10 pm.. I don't know why it's not working. It's just taking spells of working and then not working. *shrug*
@just4him (320381)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
2h
I can't play an instrument. Both take a lot of hard work.
@AmbiePam (109058)
• United States
2h
Happy New Year, and good morning! You definitely kept busy this year, which is obviously very good. And you’ve done so much work on your books!
This year I got to travel a little, which was nice. I needed a steroid pack to do it, but who cares, it was a good time. 
I also got to sell some things, which was much needed. I seem to be closer to my sister as well, which is really great.
I also got to sell some things, which was much needed. I seem to be closer to my sister as well, which is really great.1 person likes this
@Marilynda1225 (87599)
• United States
2h
All your goals sound doable Valerie and I know that you'll be successful. I still don't know how you compartmentalize all those books and characters without getting them mixed up 
Guess that's why you are able to write books and I don't. I have enough trouble keeping track when I'm reading a book.
Good luck with your continued weight loss journey. Keep moving forward and I'm sure you'll surprise those naysayers who don't believe you can reach your goal.
I have small goals set for this upcoming year. My main focus is to drop a few pounds too. Last year I gave up sugary foods and was successful. yay me! This year I'm going to try to add more protein to my day. Also, move more and sit less. That's going to be hard since my knees don't want to cooperate.
Sounds like we're off to a good year ahead
Guess that's why you are able to write books and I don't. I have enough trouble keeping track when I'm reading a book.
Good luck with your continued weight loss journey. Keep moving forward and I'm sure you'll surprise those naysayers who don't believe you can reach your goal.
I have small goals set for this upcoming year. My main focus is to drop a few pounds too. Last year I gave up sugary foods and was successful. yay me! This year I'm going to try to add more protein to my day. Also, move more and sit less. That's going to be hard since my knees don't want to cooperate.
Sounds like we're off to a good year ahead 1 person likes this
@just4him (320381)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
1h
Each book is different, so it's easy to keep the characters separate. If I wrote books that are in one genre only, and looked and sounded like the last book I wrote, I might get the characters mixed up. But I don't stick to one genre, I write several, and I try not to have the same storyline as the last book I wrote. If there's anything the same about my books, it's that my main characters all have a best friend. Friends are necessary in life and in fiction.
Good luck with your weight loss journey. Kudos for taking sugar out of your diet.
