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The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

End date: Sunday, October 4, 2020

Starting over with new and improved goals. In no particular order.

1. Edit Empyrean Book 1
2. Send Empyrean Book 1 to beta readers
3. Publish Empyrean Book 1
4. Finish rough draft of Empyrean Book 2
5. Edit Empyrean Book 2
6. Send Empyrean Book 2 to beta readers
7. Publish Empyrean Book 2
8. Finish rough draft of Empyrean Book 3
9. Edit Empyrean Book 3
10. Send Empyrean Book 3 to beta readers
11. Publish Empyrean Book 3
12. Finish rough draft Whiskey Book 1
13. Edit Whiskey Book 1
14. Send Whiskey Book 1 to beta readers
15. Publish Whiskey Book 1
16. Finish rough draft of Whiskey Book 2
17. Edit Whiskey Book 2
18. Send Whiskey Book 2 to beta readers
19. Publish Whiskey Book 2
20. Finish rough draft of Whiskey Book 3
21. Edit Whiskey Book 3
22. Send Whiskey Book 3 to beta readers
23. Publish Whiskey Book 3
24. Explore Queen of Hearts antique store
25. Explore Status Home Design in Dacula
26. Paint master bedroom
27. Have art on the walls in the master bedroom
28. Paint the game room
29. Repaint the dining room
30. Paint the master bathroom
31. Paint the hall bathroom
32. Install faucet in the powder room
33. See Rock City (weekend trip to Chattanooga)
34. Grow emergency fund to 6 months worth of expenses
35. Start an IRA
36. Research beginner investments (and then invest!)
37. Learn Spanish
38. Go on a trip to a wacky attraction
39. See cirque du soleil
40. Digitize photos
41. Go to a civil war reenactment
42. Take the Lawrenceville ghost tour
43. Take a trip to Savannah
44. Print, frame, and hang photos I've taken in the dining room.
45. Go to Momocon again
46. Organize recipes
47. Attend a fair/festival
48. Go to the Georgia botanical gardens in Athens
49. Paint the family tree and hang in the stairwell
50. Work on the little red riding coat
51. Organize/clean up the basement
52. Get raven tattoo (reward for book publishing)
53. Get rabbit tattoo (reward for getting healthy)
54. Reach level 5 on NF Academy
55. Reach level 10 on NF Academy
56. Reach level 15 on NF Academy
57. Declutter master suite
58. Declutter boys room
59. Declutter kitchen/dining room
60. Declutter game room
61. Take the family on a picnic
62. Complete the guided journal pages
63. Finish 5 craft projects
64. Fence the backyard
65. Go to a roller derby match
66. Repair the kitchen table and refinish it
67. Fix the table chairs and reupholster the dining table ones
68. Get a heavy bag
69. Paint interior doors
70. Switch all outlets and light switches to new style
71. Paint doorknobs
72. Send 3 more rounds of postcards/mail to the fiction fam
73. Read 50 books in 2018
74. Read 5 books in 2017 from the physical TBR pile
75. Read 10 books in 2017 from the ebook TBR pile (must be books added to the list pre-January 1st)
76. Read 60 books in 2019
77. Read 6 books in 2019 from the physical TBR pile
78. Read 15 books in 2019 from the ebook TBR pile (must be books added to the list pre-January 1st)
79. Hike somewhere new
80. Ride my bike somewhere new
81. Take a vacation to Smuggler's Notch
82. Go indoor rock climbing
83.  Get my DVR'd shows to 0
84. Get to level 10 in nerd fitness academy
85. Complete a photography challenge
86. Dance party no less than once a quarter
87. Organize the basement
88. Move the cub scout crap into the basement
89. Make the laundry sign/hanger
90. Paint the laundry room
91. Organize the laundry room
92. Get a new mattress for the master bed
93. Answer the "50 Question that will free your mind"
94. Participate in Bookcrossing with at least 5 books
95. Include a bookmark and an inspirational note in each book
96. Clean out my wardrobe with extreme prejudice
97. Go to the Center for Puppetry Arts and see the Labyrinth exhibit
98. Go to a small town festival (Ideas: Fire and Ice Festival, Bostwick's Cotton Gin Festival, Raptor Fest, Bear on the Square)
99. Spend 20 minutes a week learning Spanish
100. Take the fam to Washington DC and visit all the museums
101. Complete at least 50% of this list

Mouse in the sun after running himself silly so it's not a wall-o-text post:



I've almost reached my Camp Nano goal! I can't really express how excited I am by this. I have never finished a first draft before. Yes, it's crap rough but I figure I'll give it a week to simmer and then do a first edit. My goal is to do a full edit during July's camp. Then I can work on a sequel in November.

Anyway, my goal was 40k, which I figured would be a good start to the 60 or 70k I want to have eventually. I'm just 3k short, which I hope to finish up today. If I can stay off the internet.

I didn't take as many this trip as I usually do because I was helping out working the cows, but I did get a few good shots.



Erik, Jake, Ginger (my sister) and Callahan (my nephew).





The boys decided I needed flowers in my hair.



Covered in blood with cow snot in my hair is my happy place. Haha

I wonder if there's ever been a squirrel that's afraid of heights. There must have been, I guess, since we have chipmunks. So somewhere along the evolutionary process a rodent like critter looked at his friend and said, "dude, let's go up in the trees. That'll be awesome!" and his friend was all like, "nah man, that shit's scary."

For anyone else wringing hands over getting your pics from LJ Scrapbook, this post details how to use Semagic to get them all in one go. When the popup appears saying you have to login to IE I ignored it and all seems to be fine. I downloaded 467 images in under a minute and all of them appear to be present and accounted for.

Yay!!!

36 ODD things about you!

(I keep reading that as OCD and it keeps confusing me.)

1. Do you like blue cheese? No
2. Have you ever smoked cigarettes? For much of my youth, which I regret terribly
3. Do you own a gun? Yes
4. What flavor Kool-Aid? Pink Lemonade or blue
5. Do you get nervous before a Dr Appt? Not for MDs, but every time for DDS
6. What do you think of hot dogs? Slather mayo on the bun and cover it in sauerkraut and they're wonderful.
7. Favorite Movie? I'd need categories. The first that comes to mind is Galaxy Quest, but that's probably because it was on tv recently. Guardians of the Galaxy, The Thing, The Star Trek reboots...
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Tea or Diet Coke
9. Can you do a push up? Not very well
10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? I don't really wear jewelry. I have a few necklaces I favor, but I guess I'd have to say my engagement ring.
11. Do you have a favorite hobby? photography, sewing
12. Do you have A.D.D.? Nope
13. Do you wear glasses? No
14. Who was your childhood idol? Barbara Hambly who wrote Dragonsbane. As an early teen I thought this book was the penultimate example of story telling.
15. Name 3 thoughts at this moment... I need milk, but don't want to get dressed. Pilsbury needs to SHUT UP. It's not time for him to eat yet. Is Erik jumping on the couch? Yeah, I think he is.
16. Name three things you drink regularly. Tea, diet coke, water
17. Current worries: Getting the boys back to a normal sleeping pattern so they'll get up and not be too cranky Thursday morning when school starts back
18. Current hates: Hates? Ignorance I suppose.
19. Favorite place to be? Home. Covered up with animals and kids.
20. How do you bring in the New Year? Asleep Haha
21. Where would you like to go? Scotland
22. Name 5 people that will do this questionnaire.
a)This is dumb. Why do questionnaires always put this in there?
23. Do you own slippers? yes. Pink bunny ones.
24. What color shirt are you in? gray
25. Do you like sleeping in satin sheets? I did as a teenager. Now I just prefer really soft cotton ones.
26. Can you whistle? not well
27. Where are you now? kitchen
28. Would you be a pirate? I'd rather be a ninja
29. What song do you sing in the shower? I ... haven't sung in the shower in a while, come to think of it.
30. Favorite sports team? University of Alabama Football (Roll Tide!)
31. Favorite food? sushi and mexican
32. What's in your pocket? I'm in my pajamas, which sadly have no pockets.
33. The last thing that made you laugh? The boys being silly
34. What's your favorite animal? Wolf
35. Worst injury? Messed my knee up but good a long time ago. It still hurts. I break my pinky toe on a fairly regular basis (always the right one. What's up with that?). Probably my "worst" injury is my broken brain. Migraines, Depression, my brain is a bitch.
36. How many TV's in your house? In my house? Technically two. But one is in the basement and hasn't been used in several years and we should probably get rid of it.

With a heavy heart I am moving my journal to dreamwidth. I've been on LJ for 15 years, and weathered many "LJ is going down!" panics, but this one is different. This time I'm joining the mass exodus prompted by the servers being moved to Russia, and more concerning, the elimination of secure pages. I seriously doubt anyone's going to be data mining my journal, but the very idea makes me uncomfortable and I feel like I can no longer support LJ.

Instead I'll move to a paid account on DW and post there exclusively. I do have my account set to crosspost all of my entries, so technically my journal will be mirrored on LJ, but I won't be checking it or commenting there. I hope all of my friends make the switch as well so I can keep up with you. DW has very easy migration tools and it took less than an hour for them to import my 8,000+ entries, all their comments, and my complete profile.

I'm going through my friends list and looking for posts saying if they've moved to DW and what their username is there so I can add them. If I've missed you, please comment on the DW post and I'll add you posthaste. This post over there is public for exactly that reason.

https://wolffe.dreamwidth.org

Love, and happy new year!

Kenzie

Jake had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle party yesterday. Many friends and one classmate came. I think next year I'll just invite the whole damn class, since he invited 7 friends and only 1 showed up. Anyway, I didn't make near as much stuff this time as I usually do, owing to the fact there was a lot of mass market merch readily available in his chosen theme. I did make ninja masks and mutagen ooze* and I folded 5 origami ninja stars for a simple party game, but that was it. I also had temporary tattoos for everyone. I didn't take a lot of pictures, unfortunately.


Course, 10 minutes after they all got here they were huddled around the Kindle Fire playing Minecraft.






The ninja masks took a while to catch on, but once they did all the kids wanted them.

And the chair picture:



Of course, this is how most of them came out. LOL

*this was way more fun, and more successful than I imagined it would be. The ooze was a big hit as a favor with both the boys and the girls. I have plenty of borax and one bottle of glue left, so this will be a summer activity as well. How to located here.

Here's a picture of a beautiful spider who has taken up residence in one of our Leland Cyprus trees.



I've never bothered to identify them, but we get one or two each fall. This year we have loads. I suspect because the increased rainfall led to increased insect population, ergo more spiders. That's cool with me since they give me a false sense that we could win the battle with the gigantic mosquitoes and flies.

Found the wig for my Andorian costume today.



I need a wig brush because it needs some serious styling. It's super cheap, and the bangs are super annoying, but it'll do.

Now all that's left is to buy some blue paint (I have to go downtown to the Norcostco for that, so probably next week sometime), sculpt the antennae (I've got the model magic and wire for them though), and alter the dress which is way too big for me right now.

I'm considering getting blue contacts as well, but I've never worn contacts so I dunno. We'll see. I look pretty weird with white hair and my natural coloring though.

Anyway, wigs are fun but damn it's hot under there!