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An update on all things Flare, if you will:
Last month I made an entry that was a very basic rundown of all the stuff on here that I want to see done or caught up on as soon as I can manage it; that entry can be found here if you want to reference it. Part of my getting my stuff into my bucket was making this list public.
In that entry I said I would post an updated version on the first of this month, that way I know I am held accountable for what I do not get done; for the first time ever my not posting something at the time that I had originally planned was my very own doing, on purpose, and in accordance to a plan I have been meaning to make live a long, long while back: I want to make weekly posts in here, updating what I have done and what I have plans to do in order to keep everyone posted, since there are precious few of you that have not been hit in some way with my having fallen behind.
As I said in the last entry on this topic, posting this list is my way of saying I know I need to get to work and also so I have a barometer of what I am doing/not doing, getting done/not getting done. It's bare-boned to make it easier on my poor OCD brain; I have learned I work better if I baby-step it instead of just going off and trying to take it all on in one day. I like detail, I like taking my time and giving whatever I am working on my full attention. I like to show I care with my work, instead of just slopping it out and throwing it out into the world before it is ready. I am a perfectionist; I dare say it shows by the fact I never get anything done because nothing I do is ever good enough. xD
I've needed and received ample amounts of a**-kickings recently, both in ways that some have seen and in ways I have kept to myself. It's been a marvelously amazing, surreal and at turns hideous fall down the rabbit hole these past few years, but lately in the past few months the spirals and twists have just been even more of everything I just typed. It's been a wicked fall; while I hope I am not cursing myself and the people I hold near and dear around me, I have started to see the light again. I think I am finally starting to get my bearings again.
With that being said I want to say I am taking better control of my time from here on out. For those who want to call me on having said that before you are quiet right, I have. Over and over until I am blue in the face. But with all that has been going on and all of what has went through my head I think it is only fair to myself and the people that have to deal with me that I do something to, as one of my dear friends told me recently, find my damn bucket and then start getting my brown-word together.
In all aspects. Not just on Gaia, but because Gaia is such an accurate tool to see how I am doing with things and because Gaia means more to me then what it might seem like on the surface I can think of no other way then to get my butt into gear on every level then by starting here. One might say that Gaia is a micro-world for me; as such it is very easy to judge where I am at with other things by how I am doing on here. If I have my grip firmly on other things it shows on Gaia and vice versa.
And because the line between Here and There has blurred so readily and worn the borders of the two realities thin, I have to mention that by motivating myself to get matters in hand on here it motivates me highly to get my crap together offline as well. There are a handful of you that deal with me both Here and There and because of that I feel like I've been letting you guys down the most; which is why I again have to say thank you and I love you guys. heart Your support and kindness has went a long, long way with me.
On a few random notes, I just finished reading my favorite author's newest short-story collection, Stephen King's Just After Sunset. I want to be half as good a writer as he is. I brought this up because there was a couple of lines in the story "N." (and don't think that I did not get a giggle out of the title) that really got to me.
"...Sometimes we drift, do we not? Into places where the choices are no longer simple, and the consequences of picking the wrong option become grave. Perhaps life- or sanity-threatening."
I really, really liked that, because it is very, very true.
I've also become and find myself becoming more and more entranced and mired with the TV show Lost. One of my bestest friends has been trying to get me to watch it for two years now and recently she has let me borrow her DVDs of it; the boyfriend unit and I have managed to make it through to the second or third disc of season two and ohmygoditbreaksthemind. I knew I would enjoy the show- I love a good mind-freak- but had no idea. No idea at all.
And two last things- I find it funny that Gaia's summer event is centered around camps and such because the Shenanigan Crew is getting together on Dragon's birthday weekend to go camping. Yeah. His birthday is the twenty-first and we are going to camp from then until the twenty-third and already I can't stop chuckling over all the potential fun to be had. We went to check out the place we will be camping the other day and there's even a playground; hopefully this time there will be no taking anyone to the emergency room. >.< I am really looking forward to this and I hope that everyone has fun. With this group I can not imagine the weekend being anything but. heart
I love you guys. Honk honk honk! heart
 Art done by Mighty Maxz, who I dare say I would love to commission again if he can stand to work with me once more. xD Stop by his profile and give him some love or drop him a PM if you like his style. He's very cool. ^.^
This is the last shot I have received so far of a theme I've been going for and I really like it. Thank you, Maxz! ^.^
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The following list is broken down mostly from my last To-Do from the July 1st, 2009 entry. I have modified it to fit what I am currently working on. To see the full list please refer to the link provided above; for the sake of simplicity I have narrowed down specifically what I want to work on this week and this week only.
Work On This Week:
* Keep on top of PMs
- As of 10:39 PM I have nineteen PMs to get answered. Nine are RP replies, one is OOC stuff, five fall under the "Shenanigan" label, and the other four are art-related. My goal is to make people wait no longer then a week for replies. I figure even with work and personal stuff I should be able to do this, if I would just put my foot down and make the time to work on them, instead of just hoping the time will fall into my lap. I've really got to work on my time-management skills.
* Save all profile comments to current and then answer what can be answered.
* Need to talk with certain people about Red; you know who you are. ninja
* Get and keep inventory in order
- Mostly trade off certain things to certain people who have been asking me for certain stuff; Hatter, thou art insane.
* Get thread subs in order
- There's a couple I have saved that I no longer need to have, I do believe. For the most part I think this has been done, but I want to scour over it one last time just to be on the safe side. Damned OCD. sweatdrop
* Clean out Friend's List
- I mentioned that I've already done this a few months back but it really does need to be done again; currently I have sixty-seven people on my list and that was after taking off over one hundred names the first time. I want to narrow it down even more because I hung onto some people simply because of the sentimental value; many of these accounts have not been logged on since my join year and a few had posts saying they had made new accounts...so really, it is time to clean it out again. My goal is to get it around four pages or so since I am OCD about the number four. xD
Wish me luck and thank you for reading these things. heart </div>
 RadiantFlare · Sun Aug 09, 2009 @ 01:21am · 2 Comments |
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