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red_lasbelin) wrote2010-01-01 08:52 pm
red_lasbelin) wrote2010-01-01 08:52 pm
Entry tags:
out with the old, in with the new and gratitude posts 3-4-5/5
2009. It was a pretty good year? I have some time management problems. I got work done, but my free time was a bit less organized, ended up playing more internet games and watching tv than writing and reading? Or posting in my lj. :D But fandom wise, I wrote two stories I really love. I am so happy I wrote them. I just wish I had more than a few stories a year sometimes. But I read some really, really good stories, some really good books, found some great music and made good memories with people I love.
For 2010?
I really want to write more. I already have one story on my list - signed up for Slashy Valentine. But other than that, I have some bunnies that have been sitting gathering dust for two years now. I need to put some effort into writing them, even if they don't wind up getting posted. Just - something I need to do for myself. So, Hal Valinor bunny has got to get written this year for sure, or it needs to be canned. It's been hanging around too long.
Also it would be nice if I sat down and finished the timestamp requests. There are some really good ones there, and I keep meaning to, but again, I never schedule time to write so it doesn't get done.
I'd like to do some more reading. There's fiction I'd like to read - namely Swordpoint and the Nightrunner series, because they have been on my list for what feels like forever. There's non fiction as well, I found a history of the Papacy (Keeper of the Keys of Heaven) that sounds fascinating. Along with that I also found the Cambridge's World History of Food. And it's two huge books, and I am daunted. But I thought it made a nice personal goal for this year.
Gratitude posts have to be tweaked a bit, life threw at me a few unexpected punches and I didn't roll with it as well as I could have. But:
Day Three:
Being able to read. I'm really grateful for that. I don't think about it much but there's so much you can do with it - learn, imagine. Read history, feel like you're there. Or imagine the future with sci-fi, entirely different worlds with fantasy. And internet has made it much easier to find things.
Day Four:
Critical thinking - I've been taught that, encouraged and had plenty of opportunities to hone argumentive skills with my family. See, that's looking at things with a positive light. *grins* I like being able to see facts and conclude from my own reasoning what's going on, not have to rely on someone else to tell me what opinion I should have.
Day Five:
A sense of humour. You can get through life and the hardest things if you just know when to laugh, when to realize things are damn funny if you look at them in the right light. It means nothing's impossible.
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Oh, and I thought of reading as a gratitude first, I didn't lift from Kei. I just was slow in writing the other two and by that time she had already posted, and I was horrified. LOL!
For 2010?
I really want to write more. I already have one story on my list - signed up for Slashy Valentine. But other than that, I have some bunnies that have been sitting gathering dust for two years now. I need to put some effort into writing them, even if they don't wind up getting posted. Just - something I need to do for myself. So, Hal Valinor bunny has got to get written this year for sure, or it needs to be canned. It's been hanging around too long.
Also it would be nice if I sat down and finished the timestamp requests. There are some really good ones there, and I keep meaning to, but again, I never schedule time to write so it doesn't get done.
I'd like to do some more reading. There's fiction I'd like to read - namely Swordpoint and the Nightrunner series, because they have been on my list for what feels like forever. There's non fiction as well, I found a history of the Papacy (Keeper of the Keys of Heaven) that sounds fascinating. Along with that I also found the Cambridge's World History of Food. And it's two huge books, and I am daunted. But I thought it made a nice personal goal for this year.
Gratitude posts have to be tweaked a bit, life threw at me a few unexpected punches and I didn't roll with it as well as I could have. But:
Day Three:
Being able to read. I'm really grateful for that. I don't think about it much but there's so much you can do with it - learn, imagine. Read history, feel like you're there. Or imagine the future with sci-fi, entirely different worlds with fantasy. And internet has made it much easier to find things.
Day Four:
Critical thinking - I've been taught that, encouraged and had plenty of opportunities to hone argumentive skills with my family. See, that's looking at things with a positive light. *grins* I like being able to see facts and conclude from my own reasoning what's going on, not have to rely on someone else to tell me what opinion I should have.
Day Five:
A sense of humour. You can get through life and the hardest things if you just know when to laugh, when to realize things are damn funny if you look at them in the right light. It means nothing's impossible.
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Oh, and I thought of reading as a gratitude first, I didn't lift from Kei. I just was slow in writing the other two and by that time she had already posted, and I was horrified. LOL!