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Resolutions in the New Year

Jan1

Weight and Health:

  • Lose 36 lbs over [48/36] weeks.  Fit comfortably in [my smallest jeans/a size 6]. 
  • Be active a little every day, a good amount (1/2 hour+ once a week, a lot (2+ hours, a hike) once a month)
  • Get rid of encroaching flab under arms; have a stomach I don’t mind being seen in a swimsuit.
  • Eat more vegetables: at least half the plate at least 3x/week
  • Be able to handle the stairs at any of the given local parts without panting. 

Writing:

  • Have Rin/Girey finished and ready to Kickstart by April at latest (this allows for working on it in JaNoWriMo and MaNoWriMo)
  • Submit at least one story a month for publication
  • Addergoole:
    • Get Addergoole E-books available
    • Work on B-sides and have at least 10 5 available before the end of the Addergoole Year


Social:

  • Go to at least three social events this year
  • Make at least one friend I feel comfortable hanging out with for, say, coffee once in a while


Emotional:

  • Set boundaries. Tell people when they’re making me uncomfortable.
  • Language: learn how to speak in un-ambiguous language and ask for clarification when I think someone else is being ambiguous


Etc:

  • Find an marginalization organization plan that works and stick with it. (so far ToDoist seems to be working very nicely.

Phew!

How about you?

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Tiny Houses

Dec29
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100_9882, a photo by aldersprig on Flickr.

Awesome gift from Kelkyag, with hens-and-chicks planted in them.

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I got these in the mail just after Christmas… what a surprise! And how awesome, too. They are, she informs me, drafts, inspired by something I pinned months ago, but lookit them! Aren’t they adorable?

(“C” is the Thorne Family initial IRL)

Late Harvest

Dec28

So, Wednesday – that would be the day before the major snowstorm, but certainly after a bit of snow – I went out into our garden and pulled the leeks out (most of them), and cut the parsley, sage, and oregano back to the ground.

Parsley is amazingly resilient stuff! It will do just fine as long as you brush the snow off. But with a food of snow coming… it was time for it to get cut.

I used this idea and rolled it into a log, which went into the freezer.

Oregano and sage went into freecycled little jars, topped off with cheap (barely virgin at all) olive oil. That’ll go in the freezer after T. rearranges the freezers this weekend.

The leeks? Deep fried and eaten. Delicious.

I love that it’s December and I’m still pulling things out of my garden. 😀

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Cat Signal (like a Bat Signal only… cattier)

Dec20

Just a general service announcement/apology:

Between work currently being very busy and rather full of overtime, and IRL being… stressful… I’m not putting out words as fast as I’d like.

I’ll write all the words, I promise. Just… not tonight.

Please be patient while I get through this.

Thanks,

The Lyn

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Names and Conlanging

Dec3

Things!

First, vis [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith, This blog post about names.

There was quite a bit of thinking about names this weekend, as Rion-who-calls-me-Lyn was visiting. 🙂

Names have power. Choosing your own has quite a bit of strength.

I should write a piece about someone being forcefully renamed.

And second!

Via haikujaguar, I hear there’s this thing called #Lexember.

I will be creating a word a day (2/day today and tomorrow) for the language in the Rin & Girey story.

What sort of words would you like to hear? What sort of cultural tidbits would you like to see along with them?

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Thanks giving.

Nov22

Today is Thanksgiving in the US. Along with the football and the feast, there is supposed to be some time to give thanks.

And I do. I am so grateful for the awesome people in my life, for friends, for family, for my awesome husband.

I’m sad to have lost Drake, but grateful for Oli and Theo.

And today, I’m grateful that we have the wherewithal to feast – and I accept eating just a bit too much food today as a celebration of a year of doing well.

And, dear readers, I am thankful for you, without whom my writing would be so much more lonely and so much less fun.

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On Politics and Being Decent Human Beings (repeat from Tweets)

Nov20

Guys, whatever your political belief, remember that the people you’re talking to and about are PEOPLE. Be polite. Be respectful. Be HUMAN.

I am, continue to be, immensely angry at the rudeness of people who assume that a difference in political beliefs entitles them to be mean.

In addition to “don’t be a horrid person,” please don’t assume that a difference in opinion from you, or in political affiliation, is from ignorance or evil. It is a difference in experience and opinion. That is all. Don’t assume that a difference in opinion voiced is a request to be corrected. Ask before attempting to correct someone.

If you wouldn’t want someone wanting to convert you to their faith, why would they want you to try to convert them to their party?

Seriously, dudes. Act like human beings. Stop being mean to some of the awesomest people on the internet because they’re different.

(Ppsst. Being different is part of why they’re awesome, remember?)

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Holiday Cards!

Oct30

Hey, it’s that time of year again!

If you would like a holiday card from me, please let me know.

If I don’t already have your address, please send it to me.

If you would prefer the card not say “Christmas,” please let me know that, too.

<3

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Storm-Safe but sick

Oct30

FrankenSandy passed over the Finger Lakes yesterday, bringing with her a run on the stores but, AFAIK, no real damage in our immediate area.

On the other hand, I’ve been sick since Friday, so I’m mostly a lump. A dry lump, though.

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What I Did on my Summer Vacation

Oct12

(Hey, it was 80 in Raleigh this weekend!)

My grandmother had three grandchildren, all girls – myself, and my mother’s brother’s two daughters. This weekend, the older of my cousins finally got married. In Raleigh, NC.

I can say finally. She started dating the guy about the same time T. & I got together – in a year that started with 19-!

Despite some confusion on my extended family’s part, I would gladly drive to California if one of my cousins asked me to. So T. & I may have been the only ones not surprised when we packed up the car, hired a pet-sitter, and drove 600 miles south in a single day.

We stopped for gas, stretching, coffee, dinner, and nearly stopped in DC for 2 hours (ack traffic. Ithaca doesn’t have traffic), but we got there before Thursday was over.

Friday, we had breakfast with some family, lunch with my parents, and then explored Raleigh. We went furniture-shopping, too, though we didn’t buy anything (for some reason). Saturday, we went hiking in a pretty park with my mother (Mom & Dad flew down) and then Wedding Wedding Wedding.

It was lovely. The bride was glowing. The groom was smiling. Everything was awesome, the way weddings ought to be.

Two very nice touches: there were candles lit for those who had passed, grandparents and other relatives. And in lieu of favors, the bride & groom made a donation to the Kidney Foundation (both families have been touched more than once by kidney disease).

T. and I took two days to drive home, stopping in Gettysburg on the way back. We spent several hours there – I’ll try to get pictures uploaded to Flickr this weekend – and then hit the road again.

We’d planned on hitting this place we saw on the way down – with a Giant Chicken – but they were closed, sadface. Happily, there was an antique market right next door.

A three-story flea-slash-antique market.

Two hours later…!

All in all, it was a lovely weekend, full of lovely driving and lovely weather (Except Sunday night, when it was cold and rained) and lovely wedding. I should take vacations more often.

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