Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

2012 Goals — Week 6

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Two very sick children, so this will be brief.  Monkey L had a barfy night, which means I had a night of laundry and baths and other icky stuff.

Exercise in some capacity for at least 15 minutes 15 days a month. It’s snowing,so I’m hoping for some fun outside time with the boys. I am so physically uncomfortable and exhausted chasing after two boys that parenting has become my exercise most days.  When baby arrives, family walks (or – gasp! mama walks!) will be daily. Air for baby, smaller ass for mama.  Win!

Write here every day for at least 5 minutes and for at least 2 minutes in my “Line a Day” 5 year journal. Doing well. I’m happy.  Again, I seem to be crushed for time these days.

Have something I write/create be shared in a public space (à la performance, someone else publishing it, etc) by end of year. As I mentioned yesterday, I am writing up proposals for three versions of a show I inquired about yesterday. This also explains where the exercise time went.  Interesting how hard it is for me to write three one-page proposals two or three words at a time. TIME. I NEED TIME! But I am so excited and pumped about this! That’s a wonderful feeling.

Re-learn the piano, playing at least 5 times a week (emphasis on playing) Shelved for now.

Make two new gal pals and/or strengthen relationship with 2 women I already know so I can consider us good friends and not just acquaintances. Having coffee/pie/dessert/meetups with two women in the next two weeks. These things always happen when I am crunched for time. Friends only seem available when I need to get some writing/creative work done.

Figure out how to make turning 40 fabulous. Fabulous 40 will depend on these other factors.

Take one picture a day for the entire year.  Still loving it….