Roundup for 2013; Advanced goals for 2014

So. This has been 2013 for me in a lot of respects:

Well, not really. I have done a lot, and have had a lot happen, most of which I really don't feel like getting into on this blog that nobody reads but me, so why do I have to elaborate? Duh. But between switching jobs and new jobs and moving and re-moving and traveling and selling swimsuits all summer and making things and writing things and stopping making things or writing things because I was too busy and unhappy to do much, though finally coming out ahead with a completed Nanowrimo, I finally feel like I'm back in a place to make stuff happen. So, while I did do a lot in 2013, let's just skip ahead to what I want to have happen in 2014.

Creatively, that is. Personally is a whole other basket of live, writhing vipers.

First, I need to remember how to go in and change that stupid sidebar, which is still stuck on stats from last December. Basically, I want to make it so that I at least create one piece of art per month, write at least 20,000 words on various works, read books, and effectively manage the outside work required for my job. Also, it would be good to re-open the store this summer, though I'm not sure how interested I am anymore in making swimsuits. We'll see.

In any case, that's what I'm looking at. 20,000 words of material per month (at least), some kind of art production, continued sewing efforts (which will be easiest, since other people are actually riding on that and I have very specific deadlines), and reading in both an enjoyment and professional capacity. Aw yeaaah. I should probably do actual professional writing too. Ugh. Boring. Blah. WHO WANTS TO BE AN EFFECTIVE ADULT ANYWAY? GOD DAMN IT.

That seems to be my primary sign off for most of these entries. I'll just go with it.

Of Grocery Stores and Bloodied Hands

Today, I have to do a variety of things. Naturally, I proceeded to put them off. It is now 3:00 pm.

Oh well. Better late than never.

First, I have to be a functioning adult and go to the store. We're out of necessary things like toilet paper, q-tips, and orange juice. I'll probably have to use an actual cart. Wtf.

I want to know who looks this attractive and put together at a grocery store. Normally I glare at the produce until it wilts in defeat. Also, why is she holding her basket like that?

Then, when I get home from skulking around the grocery store, I should probably get started on the slightly less orthodox side of things, such as looking into my fabric stash for the new Harley Quinn Skirted Swimsuit I've been commissioned to make. I'm actually pretty excited about it - it's a new idea and a new concept, thanks to the order-er. So there's that.

Then I have to go and paint a bloody hand.

Since Brian's being kind enough to be Jaimie Lannister at SDCC, I suppose that I should make the costume look awesomely awesome. I have to fix up Cersei too, so maybe I'll start that tonight too. So, grocery store, examination of fabric stock, Jaimie's hand, and some of Cersei's seams. Oh, and a Sherlock meeting. I can work on Jaimie's hand during that, really. It'll be fine. 

My life is strange. 

The Blog That Time (Well, Okay, That I) Forgot

Oops.

Well, it seems as if I sort of forgot about the fact that I possess a blog, again. In my defense, I've actually been quite busy in the meantime, though that doesn't help so much since if I'd been blogging about it, I wouldn't have to justify myself now. But honestly, out of the nine goals to finish by the end of the year, I accomplished about 5 out of the nine by year's end. As of now, I've done about 7.

Dominion Jar has been finished and test printed, and is about to be officially finished very soon.

Strange Children was my NaNoWriMo project as a re-write, and that's completed.

Woolf and I (I forgot about these stupid nicknames. Oh boy) did extensive discussion on our graphic novel project, and wrote some test plots and stuff, and have momentarily decided to shelve it (though I anticipate that after SDCC I'll be back in the game for that again).

I admittedly gave up on the t-shirts, though I've been thinking about that again and may make some new attempts. Maybe.

I've successfully done more artwork, both for myself and also as favors for others.

I have OPENED MY OWN ONLINE SWIMSUIT STORE, which WTF self, can't believe you actually did that.

I purchased a new camera to take more and better photos with, and my own Shoot the Birdie photos are the ones featured with my swimwear.

I did manage to fit up, though I need to get back on that train soon.

And... well, poetry and short stories also jumped ship and drowned awhile back, but maybe their corpses will get reanimated someday. Who knows.


But in addition to that, I've begun work on my second book for the Dominion series (or whatever I wind up calling it), and I've been doing some reading, though that's more fits and starts than anything. I've sold some swimsuits, and have several costumes to complete and all that good stuff. I want to put new stuff in the store, and want to keep working on random writing projects along with finish more art projects for friends and family and my own apartment. I'm off for the summer, for better or for worse, so I'm going to be getting things done. It'll be exciting! Especially since fall will probably be very, very painful.

And heck - as the great prophet Tina texted me (I'm going to give up the random Biblical references) when I told her I was going to start blogging again, "Hobby number ten thousand and twelve?", I think that sounds like a good number of hobbies to have!

And then maybe I'll update that sidebar. God damn it.