Happy 1/1/11!

Happy New Year!  And new decade!

As you can see, I’ve set up a shiny-new wordpress site on a shiny-new domain.  This is all thanks to my forward-thinking husband, who registered a bunch of domain names years ago.  I’m kind of sad to see the old add-ridden livejournal page go, but it was time for it to retire.   I did import all of my old posts, just for nostalgia’s sake.  Ahh… the pantry project!  Lectures about my tattoo(s)!  And a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t even remember writing!  Woot!

Anyways, since it’s a new year I’ve decided to resurrect blogging.  I’m starting with my new things list.  I need ten of them, and I need to be able to realistically complete them in one year.  I did pretty well in 2008 and 2009.  And for some reason I fell off the face of the earth in 2010.  Go figure.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

10.  Play Uncharted 3, all the way through, all by myself.  This counts as a new thing because I’ve never actually played an RPG on my own.  Stephen usually does most of the playing while I tell him to kick that barrel and blow up that dude.  But I do love me some Nathan Drake (and Nathan Fillion), so this seems like a good place to start.

9.  Decaf.   I should try it, at least once.  It can’t be all that bad, right?

8.  Kayak Jordan Lake at night.  It’s supposed to be cool, and I recently discovered that kayaking is awesome.

7.  Skydiving.  Apparently, there is a place in Winston Salem and it’s $230 for your first jump.  Anybody wanna come with?  Stephen’s already in.

6.  Join a writer’s group.  Now that I have my shiny new literary agent, I probably should start taking advantage of all the cool resources out there for people who write.  This one is free and hopefully non-scary.  So I need to get my act together and go to a meet-up or something.

5.  Take Edward to the Smithsonian.  It’s been a while since I’ve been, and I’m pretty sure there are enough electronics around to hold his interest.

4.  Drink a beer while taking a shower.  Yeah.  You read that right.  Every list needs a gimme.

3.  Nanowrimo.  I write pretty fast, and I *think* I could crank out 50K in a month.  It would be a BAD 50K, but I would probably enjoy myself.  Anyway, hopefully by November I’ll be done with the next novel in my series and be in the throes of editing.  In which case I might need a break to write something crappy.

2.  Geocaching.  Looks like fun, right?

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