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Well hello there!
And Happy New Year to all of y'all!
So many possibilities!
2009 was a doozie in many respects, and practically speaking the page has not yet been turned on all the accumulated difficulties of the last twelve months just because I got to break out my new (completely AWESOME) weekly planner (I think the pocket in the back is a gateway to a better alternate reality. Let us call it Listopia.). But it really does feel like there's been a shifting of the gears or a refocusing of intent.
As I had mentioned previously, I've weaseled out of making resolutions outright, but have done so by sort of getting a jump start on things by beginning to make changes prior to 01/01/10.
F'rinstance, this morning was the beginning of Week Four of my Totally-wrong, But Will Do For Now Workout. I'm at the halfway point of Stage 1! I am, if anything, heavier than when I started - but that was to be expected. Between the weight-lifting and the competitive-eating-style binging of the breads (as of today I have baked seven batches of crescent rolls, six loaves of pulla, and two batches of assorted onion rolls as gifts and to accompany meals - note the stress on “baked”… but that doesn’t mean I didn’t, you know, sample and/or keep back a few of the goods during the baking), it was bound to happen. The upside is that I have already started to see a shift in my body composition readings (on my admittedly not-very-accurate digital scale, but it's at least the same inaccurate measurements taken over time). So woo for those little, completely arbitrary victories. (woo!)
Step 1: Eat. Step 2: Hibernate
Another recent big change has happened in my work-life. I was finally removed from partial phone-answering duty for the company at the end of November and experienced a rebirth of sorts in my job. New projects are falling in to my lap from all quarters - which is still more exciting than it is terrifying (For now. We’ll touch base in a few months, yes?). It's just nice to be able to take a bathroom break at three o'clock without having to announce it to the world. Feeling like I had been “demoted” to a receptionist position was starting to really pick away at my sense of self worth far more than I ever realized.
Most of my new projects all have to do with project management (or as The Mister likes to call it "Project Damaging") which is so completely up my bossy-pantsed, spreadsheet-obsessed, people-persony alley it’s rather ridiculous that I haven’t been doing this all along.
Thus far the exponential increase in my job duties has not experienced a proportional increase in my pay, but I’m hoping to put together another compelling presentation of facts to rectify the situation in the near future.
Slowly evolving from Office Monkey to Office Guru
I’m finally reading Tooth and Claw after having recommended it to a few of y’all (that are also my FB friends). It’s been a good, quick read. I put it on my library queue because I’m having that annual Jane Austen resurgence and simply cannot re-read/watch P&P again (though that did not stop me from Netflixing “Lost in Austen” which I pretty much loved all the way through, even though it was pretty much just a green-lit adaptation of fanfic… because I would have totally written that fanfic, yo. Austen let me finally embrace my inner girlie-ness with the thin veneer of respectability that reading litter-achure applies. Of course I want to Mary Jane all of that s***.).
No, no, no... I said the dragons wear the hats!
Completely predictably, my biggest non-resolution hurdle is getting over the giant hump of the backlog I’ve made out of my "to do" craft list. I have projects on this list that I’ve been intending to do for years. The first step to rectifying this is probably making it into an actual, physical, cross-off-able list. So… that’s on my list. Ahem. Also this is the (unspecified amount of time) that I (word-that-is-not-resolve) to finally, finally, FINALLY put something in my daggum Etsy store (no link provided because it is an empty store). Daggummit.
Maybe someday...
I made these pretty freaking cute felted animal figures (dog, cat, and monkey in coordinating onesies) for my nieces this year that held little magnetized necklaces strung with a single, lozenge-like square bead with their first name’s initial applied in a lustre glass. This means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t currently working with glass, but it’s kind of a big deal for me because it was the first time I was able to a) spell something in molten glass, and b) successfully use a reduction flame to create that lustre effect. Do I have pictures to document the crafty/cutsie goodness? Of course not. So really, it didn’t happen.
So... here's to the new year, whenever it may have happened for you! May the next vaguely defined period of time bring you peace, prosperity, plenty of good eats, fascinating encounters, and the time to post about it here!
And Happy New Year to all of y'all!
So many possibilities!
2009 was a doozie in many respects, and practically speaking the page has not yet been turned on all the accumulated difficulties of the last twelve months just because I got to break out my new (completely AWESOME) weekly planner (I think the pocket in the back is a gateway to a better alternate reality. Let us call it Listopia.). But it really does feel like there's been a shifting of the gears or a refocusing of intent.
As I had mentioned previously, I've weaseled out of making resolutions outright, but have done so by sort of getting a jump start on things by beginning to make changes prior to 01/01/10.
F'rinstance, this morning was the beginning of Week Four of my Totally-wrong, But Will Do For Now Workout. I'm at the halfway point of Stage 1! I am, if anything, heavier than when I started - but that was to be expected. Between the weight-lifting and the competitive-eating-style binging of the breads (as of today I have baked seven batches of crescent rolls, six loaves of pulla, and two batches of assorted onion rolls as gifts and to accompany meals - note the stress on “baked”… but that doesn’t mean I didn’t, you know, sample and/or keep back a few of the goods during the baking), it was bound to happen. The upside is that I have already started to see a shift in my body composition readings (on my admittedly not-very-accurate digital scale, but it's at least the same inaccurate measurements taken over time). So woo for those little, completely arbitrary victories. (woo!)
Step 1: Eat. Step 2: Hibernate
Another recent big change has happened in my work-life. I was finally removed from partial phone-answering duty for the company at the end of November and experienced a rebirth of sorts in my job. New projects are falling in to my lap from all quarters - which is still more exciting than it is terrifying (For now. We’ll touch base in a few months, yes?). It's just nice to be able to take a bathroom break at three o'clock without having to announce it to the world. Feeling like I had been “demoted” to a receptionist position was starting to really pick away at my sense of self worth far more than I ever realized.
Most of my new projects all have to do with project management (or as The Mister likes to call it "Project Damaging") which is so completely up my bossy-pantsed, spreadsheet-obsessed, people-persony alley it’s rather ridiculous that I haven’t been doing this all along.
Thus far the exponential increase in my job duties has not experienced a proportional increase in my pay, but I’m hoping to put together another compelling presentation of facts to rectify the situation in the near future.
Slowly evolving from Office Monkey to Office Guru
I’m finally reading Tooth and Claw after having recommended it to a few of y’all (that are also my FB friends). It’s been a good, quick read. I put it on my library queue because I’m having that annual Jane Austen resurgence and simply cannot re-read/watch P&P again (though that did not stop me from Netflixing “Lost in Austen” which I pretty much loved all the way through, even though it was pretty much just a green-lit adaptation of fanfic… because I would have totally written that fanfic, yo. Austen let me finally embrace my inner girlie-ness with the thin veneer of respectability that reading litter-achure applies. Of course I want to Mary Jane all of that s***.).
No, no, no... I said the dragons wear the hats!
Completely predictably, my biggest non-resolution hurdle is getting over the giant hump of the backlog I’ve made out of my "to do" craft list. I have projects on this list that I’ve been intending to do for years. The first step to rectifying this is probably making it into an actual, physical, cross-off-able list. So… that’s on my list. Ahem. Also this is the (unspecified amount of time) that I (word-that-is-not-resolve) to finally, finally, FINALLY put something in my daggum Etsy store (no link provided because it is an empty store). Daggummit.
Maybe someday...
I made these pretty freaking cute felted animal figures (dog, cat, and monkey in coordinating onesies) for my nieces this year that held little magnetized necklaces strung with a single, lozenge-like square bead with their first name’s initial applied in a lustre glass. This means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t currently working with glass, but it’s kind of a big deal for me because it was the first time I was able to a) spell something in molten glass, and b) successfully use a reduction flame to create that lustre effect. Do I have pictures to document the crafty/cutsie goodness? Of course not. So really, it didn’t happen.
So... here's to the new year, whenever it may have happened for you! May the next vaguely defined period of time bring you peace, prosperity, plenty of good eats, fascinating encounters, and the time to post about it here!