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NancyBrooke
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 Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: Happy New Year, Everyone |
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Happy New Year, All.
Any New Year's resolutions to report? if you think you might need help, I'm sure we're all here to bolster your will with ridicule and teasing.
Any fic around the corners? Films you're particularly looking forward to? Milestones coming about in the year to come?
I will be turning 44, many of my friends celebrating their 50ths, and my father turning 80. I have two fics I hope to finish currently, a company I hope to start, and a puppy to housetrain.
I'm reasonably confident about the birthdays ... only time will tell on the other things.
How about the rest of you?
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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I have no idea how that posted twice ...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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Happy New Year, Nancy.
That's quite an impressive set of resolutions. Especially the one about the company. Best of luck! It is far more work than anything I'd ever want to do.
My New Year's Resolution...which is the same resolution I've made the past two years...is to decrease the list of unfinished fics on my hard drive. I've got them all listed. There are thirty of them. 
(I wish I hadn't made the list. It's depressing.  )
One story is finished but in need of a good beta reader. The rest are in various stages of incompletion.
Happy New Year to everyone and all the best for 2008.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Happy New Year! 
| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Any New Year's resolutions to report? if you think you might need help, I'm sure we're all here to bolster your will with ridicule and teasing. |
I just spent an hour to unclutter my desk  Perhaps that's a good one. But I need to stop my kid from putting toys on it as well.
For the rest, reading & reviewing more fan fic I think. And write just as much as I did the past year! Like Haleth, start finishing wip's instead of being hit by a plot panda! Finish editing my nano-novel and post it!
| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Any fic around the corners? |
Yeps.
| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Milestones coming about in the year to come? |
Kid will be going to toddler gym (kinda pre pre school) later this year, so that will be one of those big moments. For the rest I am hoping for an uneventful year, last year was a bit too much.
Yay, ficcage Nancy!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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I'm hoping to finish my novel by summer or fall, and other things I've been meaning to do, like quit being lazy. 
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I plan to not look like bread dough with legs on our vacation to Florida in the fall. It would be nice to be confident enough with my chubbiness to wear a bright, colorful bathing suit while I'm down there. (BTW: Any favorite activities in the Orlando or Miami areas that Taller Half and I shouldn't miss?)
Beyond that, I'd like to get my Gamling series of fics progressed up to the War of the Ring, and if it gets farther, so much the better. 
I also hope to keep better track of the books I read this year. I lost count this year, but know I usually read more than fifty. I'm curious about actual numbers though. (BTW: any suggestions for titles/authors to look in to?)
And then there's the whole "I need a driver's license and a car" thing. 
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: |
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I don't make resolutions because then I seem less likely to do anything about it. I do have goals without a real timeline so I don't end up scaring myself outta doing them by putting a date on them.
Goals for Fanfiction -
I plan to get Paradox back on track (my big WIP) and maybe actually finish it. At least have 12 more chapters done (gosh I hope that'll finish it lol) Thats a chapter a month minimum. Also, I want to get my two VV stories that are currently in the beginning stages on to actual WIPs. One of those will require me to motivate Vlad (my co-writer) as well. 
I've started reading a bit of HP fanfiction and I need to read (and review of course) some more LOTR. Soooo many fics I haven't read that I need to.
Goals for life -
Continue making progress after a horrible 2007 that ended really well. (December was my month!) Motivate my son to make some very needed and mature changes in himself *ahem* And just general working on some personal issues I'm trying to improve on. I've become my biggest WIP lol I have a list of things I want to change about myself and I'm slowly working through it.
Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!
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Oh another thing - I'm not signing up to do/lead anything else. MY goal this year will not be to volunteer for anything more lol I keep overextending myself then end up feeling frazzled.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Happy New Year, Everyone |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | Happy New Year, All.
Any New Year's resolutions to report? if you think you might need help, I'm sure we're all here to bolster your will with ridicule and teasing.
Any fic around the corners? Films you're particularly looking forward to? Milestones coming about in the year to come? |
Resolutions:
1. Get back online (again) - Done, thanks to the parental units sending out an extra power supply to last until Motorola gets me my new one.
2. Teach new kitty (or furry land-shark, as I've come to suspect) that power cords are not delicious snack things. Neither are speaker wires, clothespins, or my ankles.
3. Get back to my lapsed habits of eating right and being active. Just as soon as I finish off that raspberry pie in the fridge.
4. Write. Anything. At all. I can understand why the muses took a vacation, what with the flurry of activity surrounding the move into the new house, but just as soon as I can calm my brain down, I'd very much like them to return. (One said hello in a dream, at least. That's somewhere to start.)
5. Does doing the dishes count? I'm quite sure I'll have to clean them before the end of the year, lest they gain intelligence and try to eat me.
Fic:
There's always something around the corner, since I rarely finish anything. Whether I ever make it around that corner is another story...
Films:
Still need to see 'Sweeney Todd' - I suppose that's a resolution too. Hoping for the next installment of 'His Dark Materials' or maybe more Bond or whatever else Daniel Craig might like to do.
Milestones:
I plan to have a birthday at some point. If all goes well, there will be cake.
Also, unless the world ends in the next month or so I fully intend to see my first live and in person Red Wings game. And if the world does end in such a way as to prevent that, I will be exceedingly miffed.
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Alassante
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You forgot to include getting your butt kicked by your co-writer if you don't write your part of the first chapter to our co-written story lol Come to think of it - I hope I still have MY part of that. I have a feeling I'll be digging around my laptop hard drive tonite.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Rhapsy wrote: | | For the rest I am hoping for an uneventful year, last year was a bit too much. |
Seconded. I hope for a peaceful year with no surprises such as a torn Achilles tendon
As for writing, maybe a drabble once in a while... if the muses decide to be generous. 
Happy New Year Everyone!
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| Rhapsody the Great wrote: | | I just spent an hour to unclutter my desk Perhaps that's a good one. But I need to stop my kid from putting toys on it as well. |
Wow. Let me know how that one works for you...... After the holidays we managed to be gifted with enough toys to fill a whole new kid's toy chest! Fun times.
Onto Nancy's question.... Now that the baby's 6 months old, I hope to be online here more, reading and reviewing and writing work. Out of desperation last year, I finally churned out a complete mini-story and was pleased with the results.... so now that THAT bar is set.... I want to either tackle something more (more chapters than 7) or take on a whole new novel approach. More drabble challenges too, as Rhaps has been more or less keeping that boat afloat for the past year (Go Rhaps!!)
Wish me luck on all this!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | | You forgot to include getting your butt kicked by your co-writer if you don't write your part of the first chapter to our co-written story lol Come to think of it - I hope I still have MY part of that. I have a feeling I'll be digging around my laptop hard drive tonite. |
Right, that too. Actually I *wrote* a page or two, I just haven't managed to *type* said pages.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| Rhapsody the Great wrote: | | I just spent an hour to unclutter my desk Perhaps that's a good one. But I need to stop my kid from putting toys on it as well. |
| FatiferousPoet wrote: | | Wow. Let me know how that one works for you |
Yeah ... if you figure out how to make that one stick pleeaaase let me know you manage it.
| FatiferousPoet wrote: | | Now that the baby's 6 months old, I hope to be online here more, reading and reviewing and writing work. |
Take heart, Fatey Ol' Dear, there's a lovely period of babyhood (pre independant locomotion, of course) when the naps are regular and long, the need for escape strong, and much reading and fic wriitng can be accomplished! Ahh ... the good old days ...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Nancy-who can give Borormir a run for the money -Brooke wrote: | | Rhapsody the Great wrote: | | I just spent an hour to unclutter my desk Perhaps that's a good one. But I need to stop my kid from putting toys on it as well. |
| Fatey - licensed wonder mommy- Poet wrote: | | Wow. Let me know how that one works for you |
Yeah ... if you figure out how to make that one stick pleeaaase let me know you manage it. |
Well so far quite good. I had one stack of paperwork with a blue paper notebook in between (always have one with me because when one of the muses strikes, you gotta pin them down) and a few pens (I kept the post-its out of reach because the past months my kid thought it was cool to stick them everywhere and I mean everywhere). However yesterday mr decided that the notebook looked very shiney and pulled it out of the stack of sorted paperwork: look a paper fountain! Mommy was not pleased. Tally so far: a wooden locomotive and a lorry. Oh and all my pens are missing. But hey, 6 days into the year, ask me again in a month.
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| Fatey wrote: | | Now that the baby's 6 months old, I hope to be online here more, reading and reviewing and writing work. |
Take heart, Fatey Ol' Dear, there's a lovely period of babyhood (pre independant locomotion, of course) when the naps are regular and long, the need for escape strong, and much reading and fic writing can be accomplished! Ahh ... the good old days ... |
Hmmm yes, but the nap times remain because I rather have my near 2 year old napping during the afternoon, instead of dealing with a cranky and tired toddler who thinks his dump truck and my keyboard can play so well together. This year he killed 3 keyboards and with this one, I fear the worst... Stack up on those Fatey.
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