Vacation

Heading out for my first real vacation since New York. This one will be decidedly more relaxing. Headed out on my first cruise!

I feel pretty great knowing that my dog is in good hands at the vet and that I have someone staying at my place to take care of the cat.

12 in 2012

Brushing up on the classics.
I will be reading one of these each month in 2012. These are authors or works that I have always been meaning to read, but haven't.
Pride and Prejudice
Things Fall Apart
The Secret History
Wurthering Heights
Infinite Jest
American Gods
One-Hundred Years of Solitude
Beloved
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Gulliver's Travels
Play is as it Lays
Leaves of Grass
Alternates; A Man Without a Country, Ender's Game, Microserfs

12 challenges in 2012

January-no sugar
February-No processed foods
March-Move at least 30 minutes everyday
April-No spending
May-No Alcohol
June-30 minutes with my dog EVERY day
July-Spend 30 minutes every day cleaning / decorating / uncluttering my home
August-Meditate every day
September-spend 30 minutes a day learning to quilt
October-Bike to work every day
November-No complaining
December- 10,000 steps everyday

How to let your friends know you are not participating in NaNoWriMo

I have so many things that I would like to focus on, and I am clearly no writer, so I will not be participating in NaNoWriMo. This sucks because I may have sparked the idea accidentally.

Here are some ways you can tell your friends the bad news
a) Passive aggressive blog post (is there any other kind?)
b) Letter
c) Email (oh wait, you did that)
d) Singing Telegram
e) Carrier Pigeon (pigeon is like, really hard to spell, you guys, you can see why I am not participating)