2014 New Years Resolutions!

lose weight again, I was doing well until my cyst came along, got the surgery to get rid of it, now that I’m mostly healed I can hopefully get rid of this extra weight I gained…

I don’t really do New Year Resolutions, but I do have some planned goals/happenings occurring next year:

-Be VERY glad that 2013 is DONE and GONE and kicked to the curb like a bad habit.
-I will receive some very cute tadpoads in January. ^_^
-My choir will have an amazing concert in January, featuring composers from Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, and Europe and sung in English, Latin, Russian, and Norwegian.
-I will take and complete 2 more courses in my 4 course sequence (ending May 2015) and will have another computer cert under my belt.
-The first of several college student loans will be paid off, if not two of them.
-Attempt to get more sleep and not burn out this year between work, class, and care giving.

Oh yeah–resolutions–more promises to make and then break! Well I want to continue to get more organized. Get my house in order and do some much needed maintenance and repairs. Try to watch my spending–oh yeah, broke that already–those 3 new tadpoads–how can one resist? I’m already doing some healthy things and I plan to continue doing them. And for some fun, go to the local Rosicurcian Egyptian Museum we have here. Yeah, and take myself out for lunch and dinner more–there goes that watching my spending thing. Oh the heck with it–just have more fun! Life is so short!

-Getting my poor Bronco running again, which means a new engine. Done trying to fix the one that’s in there or getting any other second-hand engines. This means I gotta save a lot of money! 🙁
-Get my Bronco painted after it’s running again! I’ve almost finished fixing the interior how I want it and I can’t wait to get the exterior painted! Means saving more money… yikes
-Get a couple or few more Windstones that I want, although in light of the above and other financial stuff, that’s difficult 🙁
-Either move or get well on our way to being ready to move, not that this house is bad but my husband and I would like to be roommate-free!
-Make better progress with writing my stories. I love writing and love some of my ideas but I tend to make such slow progress on it. I could be working on that now, for example.
-Make good use of the gym membership that my husband and I got last month. We’ve been doing quite well with it so far and I hope we both keep it up!
-Hopefully not owe taxes, or money back to Obamacare if my estimate of what we’ll earn this year was a little too low :~
– Visit my family once or twice in CA (I try to make it out there at least once a year. My parents pay for half the travel expenses and for basically everything while I’m there so that’s how I afford it!)

Sure!

– Draw more humans/bipeds (so far doing STELLAR at this) I did a great job last year but I want to up the ante
– Move out with my kitties (I miss my freedom!)
– Get my passport
– Visit my best friend who lives in Texas for the first time (passport will help immensely with this if I can even afford to do this which I kinda doubt)
– Sell art! (Three pieces including a PYO for sale right now, so I’m just crossing my fingers for the right person to come along. Proceeds will go to my meeting my Texan buddy.)
– Visit my other friends in Vancouver
– Go on at least one type of awesome adventure somewhere new!
– Make lots of sequential art (storyboards, comics, etc.)
– Finish the current version of my manuscript to my specs so that I can send it to my UK beta reader without cringing about anything. (I am VERY picky.) Be confident enough to fully print the draft. Start the next manuscript in the trilogy.
– Paint more PYOs!
– Make a calendar of my art; finish some of the art series that I have started
– Make more art in general!
– Plan my future comic more and design the human characters whom right now I tend to ignore…
– Keep drawing every day

Many, many resolutions haha.

Mine are:

1. Do more Windstone PYOs – already have base coats on four! Then post the finished PYOs in the forum and in my dA Gallery… EDITED 2/14/14: Two Muses are done and in my dA Gallery! Two other PYOs have been base painted – I’m moving along! 🙂

2. Buy two or three more PYOs to do (new Foo Male PYO, new Ki-Rin PYO and the new Oriental PYO when they hit the store?), although I do have a Foo Mom and a current Ki-Rin in the wings waiting for base coats …

3. Try to repair a few of my chipped Windstones… I’ve gotten some Apoxi-Sculpt and small carving tools ready to go.

4. Write more of my HT Fanfic, and actually post some of it on my dA Gallery…

5. Buy at least one ‘Bandit’ (Hoarder) Dragon and perhaps one of the little GB Keeper Dragons when they are in the store…

6. Buy a Young Peach Poad …

7. Save up and maybe be able to win one of the eBay pieces… EDITED 2/14/14: While I haven’t been able to WIN one of the eBay pieces, I did get the chance to buy one from a fellow Forum member recently! I’m now the proud owner of the ‘Indigo Forest’ Male Dragon painted by PS! Yea! Thanks mdragon83 for helping me fulfill one of my 2014 Resolutions! I’m still going to try and actually win one from eBay, but if not, my ‘Indi’ is good enough for me! 🙂

Here’s How I Did! 😀
1. EOY Results: DONE! I completed 5 PYOs total this year and started a Kitsune! I’d like to do more in 2015 though, and I still need to post one of my PYOs in my dA Gallery (Wickedly, my Fall Swap dragon for Bodinetoo).

2. EOY Results: DONE! I have gotten more PYOs to start! The Foo Father & Pup, Fancy Ki-Rin, Unicorn, Kitty Griffin, and a Kitsune! 🙂

3. EOY Results: Nope 🙁 Didn’t get to do this – oh well, maybe next year?

4. EOY Results: SO-SO. I did write some, especially a good bit of my overall story line, but still not enough to post any part of it to my deviantArt Gallery – not even close yet. Maybe I’ll get farther along in 2015?

5. EOY Results: Working on It! The Horder/Bandit Dragon hasn’t gotten to the store yet, BUT I am close to buying one of the Production Mini-Keepers! I’m looking at the Violet Flame, but am now hoping that an Autumn Leaf one might be done *PLEASE-PLEASE!* – So, perhaps in 2015… 😉

6. EOY Results: DONE! (Sort of) The Peach Young Poad doesn’t really go with my collection anymore, so instead I’m getting a ‘Leaf-Berry’ GB Young Poad from a Forum Member (Thanks SkyLover!) – final payment being sent on 1/5/15! 😀

7. EOY Results: DONE! Not only did I get a previous eBay Test Paint in February, but I WON my own eBay Auction for one of the ‘Grab Bag Edition’ Curled Dragons in October! I’m Soooo Happy! 😀

I actually did pretty well! 🙂