First week of 2011 and the goals have gone mostly untouched. Alas. The first cold of 2011. The game changer. I made New Year’s Eve dinner of 40 clove garlic chicken to feed James and Aurora and her sister Lee. I took pictures of everything as it would be my first post for the recipe blog for 2011 according to Goal #5. We sipped some wine and hung out until 11:30 before Brandon and I shambled home before the drunks got back out on the road. We kissed at midnight and promptly crawled into bed. So, no. I wasn’t out...
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Before we move forward, let’s see how I did with 2010 goals, shall we? Goals for 2010: 6 out of 10 1. SUCCESS: Lacto-vegetarian Tuesdays. I totally rocked that. Sure, there were some accidental lapses and a few intentional ones, curiously some of those cases involved bacon. But more or less, I did REALLY good. And I even threw in no alcohol to that mix. So yay me! 2. FAIL: One hour of piano/guitar/singing, twice a month. Another victim of my television habit. 3. SUCCESS: Keep up with Italian. Still going strong despite feeling like the village idiot in class....
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It has been a crazy year. You can tell by the infrequency of my posts. Despite the fact that I have given up my involvement with Thrill the World almost completely (I still do twitter for TTW headquarter), I managed to remain as busy as ever. I mean, look at how neglected this blog is!!! Let’s take a look back this year, see what all I did, and give out some 2010 awards, shall we? 2010 in Pictures: Drinking Buddy of the Year: Bus Buddy Amanda We’ve been riding the bus together for a few years and carpooled together numerous...
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I lost a former colleague yesterday. Well, I lost him once before when he retired last year. But this time it’s forever. He was an older gentleman whom we all adored. For most of us, if not all of us, we have never been in this office without him. He was youthful for his age and I chalked it up to his childlike wonder. His office was the first one I have seen since my dot com days to have toys in it. He particularly liked all variety of Elmos and those dancing and singing ones which annoyed his assistant...
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12,470. That’s as far as I got, which is not too bad considered the constant cage match with my Inner Editor and my serious time management issue. Writing was quite fun but at 1,500 words a day, that has proven to be a little bit too much for me and my crazy fall schedule. I may not have reached the 50,000 words. Or even my personal goal of 18,000 words. But I do have in my hand $230 donation (with a little bit of interests) to send back to the General Mangkorn Phromyothi Foundation in my mother’s memory, and a...
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My inner editor must die. Seriously. As I continue to get encouragement emails from the main NaNoWriMo people as well as my regional leader, I keep finding myself doing all the wrong things which they said would happen anyway. I can’t just keep writing things out; I go back and rework things as I go. And that’s not really the point of NaNoWriMo. Being a blogger also doesn’t help as I try to rein things in to keep you folks interested. It has become a second nature for me to start cringing when what I’m working on started to get...
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