As 2012 comes to a close...

I start figuring out what I want to do and get accomplished in 2013! I hope to be updating here more often. This might hit a snag some time this year, as I plan to start house hunting for something in the country enough that I can do ceramic firing using the pit method (as I'm very inexperience at ceramics and don't want to dump a lot of money into a kiln at this point). Granted, I wouldn't be able to move right away; I'd primarily be using said house as studio space for myself and my sister, maybe have some friends stay there, until my folks are more financially stabilized again. Still, good time to look, I think. But this mean I need to get prequalified, and then I have to get preapproved, and *then* I can start--panicking? ^^; Yeah. *ahem* Anyway, housing desires aside, I was actually considering the idea of posting work-in-progresses herein, instead of just the finished pieces. Any thoughts about this? Meanwhile, I have my to-do list made for the year. It's primarily 12-point font, divided into four sections, 3/4 of it is done in two rows, and it takes up a full printed page. I have the following sections: -Cleaning and oganization. This is kinda self-explanatory; I have notes and papers dating from projects and classes running all the way back through high school. These are going to be sorted through, scanned into my computer and transfered to my back up hard drive. If my computer is capable of it, Ill burn them onto disc, too; gotta check my drive specs first though. This list also includes organising my embroidery floss, which is current sorted into four color sections (red/orange, purple/blue, green/yellow, and black/brown/white) in a 6" x 16" x 16" plastic box. I'm wasting time sorting through it for the colors I need, so I'm going to get them all carded and labeled with the color. Whee~! -Back-up and Recovery. Not quite so self-explanatory. Basically, it's a list I need to keep track of what posession lists I've updated and which I have to make. This is primarily in case of theft, fire, or other house destruction, for insurance purposes. One of the guys I watch on FA works for an insurance company, and one of the primary things they have to get from you in the case of item replacement is documentation that you actually owned what you're claiming. So, photographic records. A lot of them. Yay? -Projects. The projects I want to at least start, if not finish, during the course of the year. Most of them are projects for new items in my store for at conventions, but not all of them. I've actually had to pencil in two things I forgot when making my list. Luckily, they're both relatively easy; one is repainting my floor lamp from work gold and brown to silver and sage green, though, and that has to wait until spring (I think? I need to ask my mom about that...). I've been meaning to repaint the lamp for about 4 years now, though; with it on my list, hopefully it'll actually get done! XD -Goals. This mostly has to do with studying, learning new things, and picking up my learning where I left off. I've opened my Genki I textbook about 5 times since I bought it almost ten years ago - it's past time I get through it and move onto the second book! This list also has things like getting my bicycle tuned up and being more active, language and music goals, that kind of thing. Overly ambitious? Maybe. Still, I've already checked one thing off the list, so things are looking up, I'd say. :) Oh, and I've also rearranged my room for the new year! I turned my captain's bed so it now has a long side and the head against walls, instead of just the head. I had to reinforce it, you see; apparently, my rolling over so much was causing some things to pull apart, and I have been known on occassion to sleep like an egg beater, so to speak. The metal shelving unit is gone, and the one bookcase is now at the foot of the bed. I now have a much larger area of clear floor space! The cats don't seem to know quite what to make of it. XD The down side of this is that to complete my back-up and recovery section, I'll have to move the book case in order to get some of my items out from under the bed to list and photograph them. C'est la vie, I guess? Happy New Year! :D

Of Course it is.

Well, they have announced the venue and time for the 2013 My Little Pony Fair that I've been hoping to go to. Indianapolis, Indiana sounds like it'll be a good place for us! On the down side, it's also the same weekdn as Anthrocon, which is something of a staple for me. If for no other reason than becuase I get to see my boyfriend Matt. So now we get to figure out how we're going to do this. I was going to be the driver for at least one other person, not to mention my sister. She's all for the pony con, but the other one would have been going to AC with us. Matt has suggested he could run the AC table, if I decide to do that, and I would see him a few days, but I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of this. Quite frankly the pony con wins out, mainly becuase it's closer and less expensive. So instead of going to AC this year, I will definitely be going to the MLP Fair. I just wish it was a different weekend, you know? Ah well. Can't have everything, right?