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Look at this badass, posting two days in a row. I almost lost the tempo there; after writing that sentence I opened up YouTube and came close to just losing myself to YouTube. I was good, though. Just one video and I'm back on the horse. Go me!

Today I have less time than usual to do stuff. Nicarus is getting off work early and then we're going out for lunch with a friend of our's. In a weird way it's making me more motivated to get shit done. So the game plan for today is one hour writing, one hour putting clothes away, one hour cleaning the bathroom, one hour cleaning kitchen, then the rest of the time back to the computer to write. So as of right now I have about fifty more minutes of writing before it's clothes time.

As for what to write, let's see:

- Discussion topic for school\
- Fanfic x two
- Original fic rough draft
- Original fic first draft

That's a good amount on the plate. It'd be nice to make some real progress on the fanfics so that I can start posting and hopefully start connecting with people. Not only for the feedback but hopefully to have some convos. But I'm getting ahead of myself a bit there.

Yesterday I downloaded and played with a program to make games. So far I'm finding it to be one of the better game creation software out there, and I'm already getting grand ideas that I would like to try someday. It's called, simply enough, Gamemaker if anyone is curious. The standard edition is free and I'm so far finding it very easy to use. Definitely worth a look if you ever were interested in giving game creation a try.

Otherwise today I'm planning on doing a good chunk of writing. I have parked my laptop on the island in the kitchen rather than me sitting at my desktop in the living room. For some reason sitting at the island makes me want to be a little more productive than if I were at the desktop. Maybe it's easier to avoid the siren song of video games and Reddit out here. Or maybe I just need a change in surroundings every once in a while. Who knows, all that matters is that it works.

Oh, and I also am planning on posting a recipe, with pictures! Yes, I actually did something I was planning on doing for once! I'm so proud of myself. I'll be posting that sometime soon.

I also really want to change up the layout of this journal. It's been a long time since I played around with coding and layouts, and I would rather like to get back into the habit. A project for later, I suppose.

Oh, and I also finally signed up for a wedding planning website. Now to actually start posting... Eeek. This feels rather odd for me. I mean, I am excited to get married, but the wedding was never something I had ever thought about in my life. I never had an idea of my "dream wedding", so now I'm feeling rather lost with how to go about this. Hence, the wedding planning site. Wish me luck.

I guess I chose a bad week to start this little resolution. I'm working all this week, about 42 hours in total with possibly more to come. As long as I can get through this week it'll be better, but with the Christmas season in full swing I'm going to be feeling fairly dead by the end of the week.

To that end I don't really have time to focus on anything other than work and rest this week. This is going to be rough, but there's not much to be done for it. On the other hand, let's talk about something else, eh?

I've been considering trying something else lately. I might just scrap the daily theme thing if I do so, but I really want to try my hand at reviewing stuff again. I'm horribly out of practice, but I want to get better at it and hopefully be able to write better meta in the meantime. I think it could be fun, and I get an excuse to watch some old favourites and gush about them. I'm considering starting out with Stargate SG-1 since I have access to the whole series. We'll see, though. I might decide to start with something smaller as to not to overwhelm myself.

To be fair, I think part of the problem with reviewing, at least for me, is that I don't really have a good outline for doing one. I'll figure something out, I'm sure. Might as well start with something I know somewhat well and build up from there.

Welp, another day down. I didn't do a post yesterday due to work, but I'll try hard to do one everyday. Like I said, the goal right now with fourteen days straight. Here's hoping.

Now, I'm going to go off and try to make sense on some computer stuff. To Google!

I'm really in the mood to listen to some podcasts. I blame The Boy for this fact since he was listening to the Freakonomics podcast earlier. Unfortunately I really don't know where to go looking for some good ones. Anyone have any suggestions for any good fandom related ones? My preference is something panfandom and is somewhat lighthearted (meaning: none too social justice-y. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just not my cup of tea), but I'll give a look to fandom specific ones too.

Otherwise life goes on. I finally got around to cleaning up all of the cat stuff :-(. I'm still finding the odd toy here and there, which I'm dutifully gathering into a box to ship out to Fort Mac. Luckily from the sounds of things the cats are settling in quite nicely with their owner, and he's ecstatic to have them back. The Boy and I are already talking about adopting a couple of cats in the future, but not immediately. We're thinking that once we both have new jobs and a new place to live we'll go for it.

Speaking of jobs... The Boy had an interview on Wednesday with an energy company. Apparently the interview felt more like an interrogation and he doesn't think that he'll be hearing from them, but he's said that before about most of his job interviews including the ones he actually got so I'm holding out hope. If he gets it then he'll be shipping off to Germany for training, which would be awesome for him. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for him.

As for me... ugh, I'm more than ready to leave my job. Unfortunately not a lot of places around Halifax are hiring, but I'm still holding out hope. At this point I'll take just about anything that will offer me more than twelve hours a week. Damnit boss, I can't live off of that! Urg.

Blah, too much negativity. On the bright side, there's Pathfinder tonight. I had to miss it last week due to just being too damn exhausted after work, but apparently there was yet another player death. Luckily I haven't died yet, but I've come close. So yay for my little rogue!

A new year, a new beginning and all of that sappy crap. I always feel a bit odd about starting something on New Year's Day. It's like a little cackling voice in the back of my mind that's saying that I'm doomed to fail because I'm doing the stereotypical thing. Something I'm doing to counteract this is to not call anything a "resolution" but instead a goal. "Resolution" just sounds so... optimistic in a naive way. "Goal" sounds realistic and concrete, like you can still make a little progress even if you don't meet the goal in the end. You fail resolutions, but you fall short of goals. So, I like goals better.

So, my goals for 2012 are as follows:

- Write everyday with 750words.com. I tried this last year with Write or Die. It worked for the first few months, then I started to get lazy. Without any time limits or ultimate rewards I found myself getting lazy and it eventually dithered out. I'm hoping that this site might make me a bit more motivated.

- Write a new piece of fiction every month. Fanfiction, original, long or short, incomplete or no, I don't care. I just need to get writing, damnit! I really need to expand my portfolio and start actually finishing some short stories and sending them out and hopefully selling a few.

- Do some sort of big fannish project. I have something in mind, but it's something that I will have to really commit to as it will take a long time. What I'm thinking is that I'll get at least ten parts of it done first before actually posting them, then see if it drums up an interest and if it does I'll see if I can keep going with it. I'm thinking if I can get far enough ahead on it before I start posting then it'll take off some of the pressure. As long as I can maintain that cushion, of course.

- Write a big fanfic. That sort of ties into the above goals, but it's still something that I really want to do just for the sake of doing it. I have a couple of ideas banging around in my head that I'm itching to get out.

- Finally something not writing related: get a new job. I've definitely outgrown this job and desperately need something new. Especially if I want to get a new apartment in the near future, then I need something which will give me more than twelve hours a week. It's a tall order for Halifax, but I'm staying optimistic.

- Get out of debt. More desperately than ever I need to get out of this debt hole. I'll easily be able to pay off my student loans this year, but my debt to the university might be a bit harder. I'll get there, though. I'm determined to. I desperately want to go back to school, and I can't do that while I still owe another place money. Blah.

And with that I think I've run out of goals. I do have a few other more vague ones, like do more creative stuff period. I really would like to try to get back into sculpting and painting, but it's just a matter of actually scheduling myself and working into my day to day life. I think I can do it, but I just have to get motivated. I also want to meet more people and get involved in more fannish things. Maybe I'll get involved in a challenge community or two.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Trying cross-posting one more time. I think I have it right this time.

Today I managed to write about 1200 words worth of fic. It's not bad, but I am sort of worried that it might be kinda boring. It's just a little friendshippy one-shot for New Year's, but I still want it to be entertaining. Hm... well, I'll worry about that once I actually finish writing it and start with editing.

Tonight I think we're going to go and hang out with our D&D group. I don't know if D&D is in the cards for tonight, though. We'll see what happens. Only thing I know for sure is that I'm not planning on drinking a lot; I'm saving that for tomorrow. I cannot drink heavily two nights in a row, there's just no way. Either way it should prove to be a good time.

Anyway, let's see if this cross-post will work properly this time. Here's hoping!

Christmas was fairly quiet for me this year. The Boy and I went to see my dad again this year. We couldn't stay for very long, but it was long enough to see my dad and visit Rachel and her family. We ended up spending most of the time sleeping and watching the Doctor Who marathon. As for the present haul I got a disappearing TARDIS coffee mug, a few shirts, a neat leather-bound notebook, a sushi set, and a bag full of socks which I desperately needed.

Now I have to get this apartment cleaned by Friday and get ready for New Year's. Our D&D and Rogue Trader groups are coming together for a big party. Luckily I don't have to worry about work that weekend so I can actually stay up late and recover from any resulting hangover. 

Otherwise I really want to do a New Year's fic of some kind. I have a Lupin III fic bouncing around in my head, so maybe I'll start working on that tonight.

Now, let's try this cross-posting thingy. Here's hoping that it works!

First post in a new journal, so what to talk about?

Whelp, for now I'm just going to use this journal as a back-up, but if the drama going on with LJ doesn't get resolved then I may use this as my main journal eventually. For now though I'm just going to cross-post the fannish things to this journal and keep the personal stuff at LJ.

Now, to fiddle and play with this new-fangled thing.