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Thursday, December 31, 2009
2011 starts the new decade. NOT 2010! 2010 is the FINAL YEAR of THIS DECADE! It goes 1-10, not 0-9.
*grumble* Get off my lawn! If I had a lawn, that is. Rah Bah Bah!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
 One of the new Clockpunk Ornaments I made this holiday seasonI tend to get introspective this time of year, when the old year is ending and a new one is just beginning. While I don't really do the *resolution* thing, I do tend to make my plans and goals. It is the end of a business year, so I reflect on what worked and what didn't work for me in my business, as well as creatively/artistically and in my personal life. In my personal life, it was a year of great change and growth. While it was often difficult, there is so much happiness. I knew that this year would be difficult as I tried to balance my new life with work and my career, but it was important for me to spend time and energy on the relationships in my life and to let them grow and become important to me. I even found love again, which was unexpected and scary at first, but is very welcome and makes me feel content now. Artistically, this was a bit of a frustrating year. While I feel like I came up with some new ideas and implemented them, there were many more things I was not able to do. Business was good, and I knew it could have been better if I worked harder, but I needed to not work as hard and crazy as I had in the past. And since most of my business has been production focused, when I was busy, I was not really indulging my creative side. This has always been a difficult part of my business, and I think I was successful with the start of transitioning away from so much production and into more unique works. I plan to continue this transition into the new year. I plan to use this blog space in a more fulfilling way. I feel like I have neglected it and haven't used it to its full potential. I have planned some new blog projects to keep me going, and want to push myself to work on other projects for it. My blog is such a great tool for my creativity and my business, and I really need to respect it more. Hopefully, my plans will integrate my business, writing, blogging, and creative projects together in unison! That's one of the New Year goals, anyway! Tick Tock, time is getting away from me today. Have a great New Year's Eve tomorrow! I will be back soon with lots of exciting new ideas and will share them with you!
The latest Comic Geek Speak Anthology is now available on IndyPlanet.com!
Issue 2 should be out soon. I have work in both issues!
Buy it now! :)
Current mood:  accomplished
Monday, December 28, 2009
 A scattering of Steam Bits that I made for Fusion BeadsI had a wonderful Christmas! There was much time with family and friends and good food and lots and lots of delightful gifts! I feel really spoiled this year, with all the great presents I got from my parents and brother and Alex and his family. Wow! There was a lot of celebrating and fun, but I needed to return to work today. It has been hard doing this today... I am pretty deeply in a vacation momentum, even though it was a short one. I feel pretty disorganized, with the studio in shambles from the cleaning I did to make way for entertaining, and along with the addition of the aforementioned new gifts to find homes for, and I am left feeling rather scattered. But I made a start, and got out the clay, and am feeling more motivated tonight. I have been making the clay bits that I need for my kits for the Bead Cruise, which is coming up very soon! It's good to have a specific goal with a deadline to get my butt moving. Anyway, this post is mostly a bit of rambling of what is in my scatter-brain, but I needed to post it to get back into the swing of it.
Would anyone care to help me move the doom couch out to the curb sometime this week, preferably early?
EDIT: the deed is done! thank you, The Alex!
Got back from Wisconsin to find a house full of hungry kittehs and a driveway full of snow. I think something happened while we were away...
Hate doing a 48 hour turnaround on that trip, but there was no way we were going out on Sat nite, so it's okay.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Okay, we just saw Waters of Mars and End of Time pt 1 back to back...
And that was some serious "uh oh." WoM is a real powerful downer that acts as proof positive that the doctor needs someone next to him to tell him off. And EoT - woah. That's some scary stuff.
Can't wait to see next week!
Ma Nature's decided to turn Chicago and Rockford into snowy wastelands, so no trip tonight. We're taking off early tomorrow, instead. :)
Gonna watch us some Waters of Mars and End of Time pt 1 starting at 7:45 :D
Cj and I are back from O-hi-O as of 9 this evening. Had a good trip down and a good - if wet - trip back up. Had a good time with Mom, scored and gave good loot, had a great turkey and my mom's amazing stuffing, and made it back up in record time.
Travels are not over, though. Tomorrow, after work, it's back into bluestreak for another Wisconsin trip off to Rusty's. Hopefully this will not be like last year, where the last half hour was turned into an hour-long slog through an unexpected blizzard. No no no - we don't need to do THAT again.
But wherever you are, and wherever you're going, I wish you all a great and safe Christmas.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
11:41AM
The piece I did for the City Pulse has released today.
It was fun to do and I hope it gets well received.
My wonderful hunny, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) realmjit, helped me with the lettering and inking the borders.
Check it out here!
Click the cover to read the entire issue. It's bookmarked for easy navigation.
Current mood:  artistic
First,
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO ERIN AND MELISSA!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Planned a wedding and got married
Moved to Europe
Bred and Hatched baby snakes
Helped shear sheep and washed and prepared fleeces for spinning
Started Substitute teaching
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really make resolutions, but as always I need to find ways to get more exercise.
3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
Probably watching fireworks in Frankfurt.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Just Germany. More big plans for next year!
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
An internet business selling my yarn/fiber stuff
A better grip on the German language
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The day Joe and I went ring shopping, and our wedding day of course :)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
sounds narcissistic, but planning that wedding so quickly, and being happy with it.
9. What was your biggest failure?
falling out of the exercise habit.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
nothing out of the ordinary, but we got new knives a week ago and I've already cut myself twice.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My 50 gallon corner aquarium, which I miss terribly.
A new computer for my mom.
And I'm getting a drum carder for xmas, but I didn't pay for it so that doesn't count.
12. Where did most of your money go?
FOOD. Car, rent.
13. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Anything Lady Gaga.
14. what do you wish you'd done more of?
Gone to Yoga at the awesome Patterson park studio
15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Made excuses about working out. (SECONDED)
16. What was your favorite TV program?
-Top Chef
-No Reservations
-Dexter
17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Hate? I don't think I hate anyone.
18. What was the best book you read?
The Omnivore's Dilemma, and all the Sookie Stackhouse books were fun too :P
19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Bat For Lashes
20. What was your favorite film of this year?
Watchmen, also Star Trek was a lot of fun.
21. What did you do on your birthday?
If I remember correctly we went to Cheesecake Factory and saw Harry Potter.
22. What kept you sane?
My wonderful Husbeast, who knows how to calm me down and make me laugh when I'm being a stressed-out nervous wreck. Also my spinning wheel.
23. Who did you miss?
I miss everyone, now that we've moved! SO MUCH!
Also, my fishes, Charlie our other cat, and the geckos and snakes. And my Mazda.
24. Who was the best new person you met?
Frank and Maria here in Germany are pretty cool.
25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
no. I hate trying to think of this crap.
25. What things are you looking forward to in 2010?
Seeing lots of new places! Also going home to visit friends and family!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Today counts as one of the better Yules in recent memory. I spent the early afternoon at the car shop getting a problem taken care of that, if it hadn't picked today to go off, might have crimped travel plans for later in the week. I also got to test the "holy shit" emergency friends network and found it was in excellent shape (she knows who she is, and she rocks). And then, after Bluestreak was all fixified, Ceej and I STILL had time to run some campus errands, hit the bookstore for things for people, whereupon we saw that Greg B still lives, and do dinner at Claddagh, whereupon we did see our pal Eric and some of my favorite waitstaff in action.
A very good day, hopefully to become a very good evening, too. I hope everyone else out there is having a similarly very good day... hopefully without luck-affirming trips to the car dock.
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