Ahhh so a new year begins. *breathes in* Can you feel it? The air is electric with opportunity. A lot of my 2015 was spent setting up for this year. I worked hard and I'm planing out an outstanding 2016. With many goals from last year I move on to a successful 2016. Always moving forward.
With that said there are still a few things I could work on to keep myself on task.
Last year I stated that "Any great person knows they are only ever in competition with their past selves." And I plan on maintaining my moon high goals by practicing the 1 1 1 1 rule. . .ok so I think I kinda made it up for me but it really works.
1 hour Art
1 hour Activity (cleaning or workouts ect.)
1 hour rest
1 hour Mene Modly things
RL Goals for this year
Keep my Deviant Art account up to date with new stuff TWICE a week. Even if it's a different version of the same piece.
Renovate the basement.
Create 2-4 solid Cosplays AND GET GOOD PICTURES of them!
Sell some originals/take more commissions (if I add a few more every year I'll be happy and able to "retire" to my art and only create things for a living)
Go for more walks
Do the 1 1 1 1 rule!
Mene Goals for this year
Update my memory jar everyday with the awesome new prompts that were added this year.
Brought in the new Year with a bunch of great friends and meet 2 new really awesome people I jived with automatically. All 3 of us are artists of different sorts. We'll be meeting again soon at the next convention party! It'll be a blast for sure. Chris was happier than a pig in a blanket dancing with us three ladies. It was an amazing night. OH and We won a few of the draw prizes including a HUGE bottle of Sailor Jerry's Spiced rum and a box full of glow sticks. The only thing I regret is forgetting my camera. Pirated themed new-years was amazing.
January 2nd
Chris and I took Lilith and my Nephew Daniel to see their first movie of the new year. Star Wars. It was great. It had a lot more moments that I identified with than the first 6. Strong females FTW! Leia was great in her Slave outfit and all but Rey is just wow! Her hair was never princess perfect, she was a really great character in so many ways. I need to re-watch it to see a few of the bg characters, but in the end we all had a great night out.
January 10th
Hung out with friends and had a blast. Found out what the baby's name is going to be. Played a lot of Cards Against humanity.
January 23rd
Went out with friends to a Karaoke event. Didn't take any photos because I'm a derp. XD
Rescued my sister from a dangerous situation. Insane drama ensued. To the point where I had to call the cops because some idiot wouldn't get off my property.
* Keep my Deviant Art account up to date with new stuff TWICE a week. Even if it's a different version of the same piece.
* Re-Visit some of the ideas in my monster girl challenge series push them further without a daily time limit and turn them into print quality images.
* Create 3-5 solid Cosplays AND GET GOOD PICTURES of them!
*Drink more water/ less coffee/sugary drinks (this may be a set up for failure on my part)
*Sell some originals/take more commissions (if I add a few more every year I'll be happy and able to "retire" to my art and only create things for a living)
Mene Goals
* Update my memory jar everyday with the awesome new prompts that were added this year.
* Continue my success with the "Guess the CI and win" Thread
* Buy all of "The Runway" shop
* Maintain shops already bought out in my Quest
* Try and get back up to 150K in between events as I would like 100K to be a base line for under my avatar. Why? CUZ I CAN THAT'S WHY (Also dragon blood..wouldn't be a good dragon if I didn't stock pile gold now would I?)
* Update my runway thread more regularly.
So let's see for Real life. . . check, check, check...except the "good" picture part. They were average, check and check
And for the Mene part...Check, Check - My runway thread was updated but not very busy. Not at all like a hangout like I hoped it would be, Check, Check and then some, FAILED the runway one BUT I used my journal as a more efficient method of sharing/documenting my outfits, at least in my head.
I set up this thread
Started switching over some on my event commons to their drawers
Went for a Walk with Chris
Brought some fruit with me to work for my co workers to start off the new year sweet. :)
I've listed all my goals up at the front in the first post. :D I also want to spend the weekends with family/friends instead of working. With all my preparations for this year I feel like I wasn't always present with those I love.
Balance and happiness is really what I seek. :)
I switched my siggy
I'm ordering pizza and taking My daughter and Nephew to see star wars. :D
I need to get Lilith's phone more time and pick up a few things
I went to see Star Wars Finally. :D It was great. :D I can't wait for the next one. I want to see it again because of all the background stuff. Every scene was packed with so much detail. There we're a few interesting previews in it for other movies coming out as well.
My kitchen is really small. It has yellow and green wall paper from the 70s so it looks very dated. But it's where I spend a lot of time with family. It melts into the bg and its never and issue. A lot of our stuff is pretty old come to think of it. They've all worn well and been taken good care of so they would last.
Currently covered in a thick blanket of snow. It's resting right now, come spring I hope to do a bit of gardening. It's a small area, but workable. My bf got me a gift card to a garden supply shop. I love going there in the summer it smells so nice.
So I finally got around to posting an Art Commission Sheet after a melt down. This past week I've gone threw all the "Am I good enough?" to last my a year. Or at least it's in the pending tubes. I feel like throwing up. I'm working on the "will do/Won't do list" Just every time I go and look at it I'm like...AAAARG! >.<
Gonna kill some stuff in D3 to calm myself.
I entered R U B Y's contest yesterday, I forgot to mention it. >.<
A lovely mini vodka skull. :D Chris picked it up for me on whim a while back. He saw it and just got it. XD It's so cute I don't want to drink it. I'm not normally sentimental about items, for whatever reason this little thing stays unopened and on my computer desk. My daughter really wants me to drink t because she wants the skull from it. Yup she's mama girl. XD
Had some yummy mini quiche for dindin.
I need a massage. I got twisted up on some icy patch and fell. Graceful. XD
My little Nikon 16.0 Megapixel "coolpix" camera. Oh buddy, I wish I didn't forget you so often when I'm going out. I guess I'm to busy living rather than posing but still. So many cool costumes. >.<
Today at work was crazy for some reason. On Friday it's to be expected but this was even more crazy. We were down a person because of the weather/ bus schedule. I was only scheduled until 3 but I couldn't just leave them like that. I knew they were about to get slammed. I got out around 5:45 man was I hungry when I got home. They were very thankful. Lilith had already made us some Tuna Casserole so yay! One less thing for me to do at home for chores.
Tomorrow Chris and I are continuing the fun job of getting stuff out of the basement. O.o I'm so lucky to have him. Truth! He's been making the reno plans go SO much smoother.
I got my self a list to do tonight. XD ...mene stuffs
There are a few places I'd love to visit in my lifetime. India, Europe (particularly where my family came from) Egypt, Brazil, Mexico. So many areas! So little time and money T.T
I'm going to be going over to a friend house later. So yay fun times ahead.
Started organizing my inventory with the new items from last event.
Changed my siggy to reflect yesterdays purchase
I'm only using my alt right now to quest the store. Only 129 items left to get from the female side for it. :D My next batch will have the awesome rave pants in it. Something I've been wanting for a while but have been to busy questing the big items.
The Oculus Rift is now out for people to purchase. The kick starter was originally made to get 3D technology over the pricing hump that leaves many people unable to purchase. The price point was suppose to be at 300-350 but turned into 600ish. So it kinda failed in it's original vision. But I guess it doesn't really matter since they already got paid for the idea and it was bought out.
I would have given it a try at the original price point but 600 just isn't happening. I can't wait till some of the copycat companies start putting their products out to compete.
I can't wait for holodecks to be a thing. :D
Art Day. :D
Did a bit more of stuff to the inventory.
My back is really stiff today. Not to bad. But just enough to know it's there. A bit of stretching should take care of that.
Sadly I've been listening to a lot of my old Jams. Bowie's Death actually hit me pretty hard. I was fine until I saw the space station tribute to him singing one of his songs. It was just. to much feels. I was surprised by the astronauts voice too.
Some more art stuff today
Thinking about what to put in (if any thing) for the pixel contest.