randomling: Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) (kira)
Ugh, this is exactly what I mean by resilience.

The fact that I got a cold and have been out of action for a week and am back to getting out of bed at 1.30pm instead of 9am.

The fact that I haven't got dressed for three days and am struggling to get even tiny things done and am avoiding checking my voicemail and returning phone calls.

All of this because of a cold.

This is the problem I am talking about, the one I am struggling to fix.

Ugh.
randomling: A wombat. (Default)
I have goals, people.

I posted these on [personal profile] jjhunter's awesome Quarterly Intentions meme and wanted to preserve them here too as I'm going to come back and work on them.

1. Some kind of progress on the novel. I might have to figure out what a useful wordcount goal is.
2. Finish the Intensive Questionnaires for Danny, Tess and Shri, and add Joel's unanswered questions to his.
3. Work my way up from 2 days to 3 days a week at the gym, and from 15-minute walk/run sessions to 20-minute walk/run sessions on the treadmill, with a view to starting Couch to 5k in March or April.
4. Apply for Enough Jobs (figure out how much that should actually be, self!), get invited to/attend at least 6 interviews, OR land a job.
5. Work out a useful HBA1C goal for April-ish with my diabetes nurse and try to achieve that with the new meds + diet and exercise.


So how does this fit into my overarching goals?

In which I ramble )
randomling: Peter Bishop (Fringe) ponders something. (pondering)
I'm not sure how many things yet, but I'm trying to talk more about the things that happen in my head because of, um, reasons.

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It's Christmas! Happy Christmas if you celebrate, happy holidays if you don't! And happy Wednesday if you really don't. I've had a nice day (a bit of family stress, but who's surprised?), a DVD-heavy haul of pressies (all the Iron Man films yay!), and a nice dinner including ice cream for dessert. Now we are doing Richard Osman's Pointless Quiz.

I also received lovely gifts from [personal profile] flippac and [personal profile] kaberett, who I love and adore. Thank you! <3 [personal profile] llamabitchyo, your card arrived at my old house and is on its way to me, thank you much!

I have failed at presents beyond the family and at doing cards at all this year. If I get a job soon, I might end up doing random midwinter cards at some point.

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I received three excellent stories for Christmas this year! One from Make the Yuletide Gay and two(!) from Yuletide. I haven't read any more stories yet, but here are the ones I received!

awake my soul
Justin/Lance! 19th century AU! H/C!

Tell Your Story Walking (6434 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Haven
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Duke Crocker/Audrey Parker/Nathan Wuornos
Characters: Duke Crocker, Audrey Parker, Nathan Wuornos
Summary:

No matter how long he lived in Haven, Duke Crocker would never actually be able to believe the shit that went on in and around his hometown. It wasn't that he hadn't lived through totally unrealistic crap for way too long, it was just that it seemed to keep getting more and more completely unbelievable.

The fact that there was a guy standing on Main Street in the full sunlight putting off sparkles like a damned frosted Christmas ornament was pretty high on the list.



Unknown Similarities (480 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sleepy Hollow (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abbie Mills & Jenny Mills
Characters: Abbie Mills, Jenny Mills, Maddie (Sleepy Hollow)
Additional Tags: Yuletide, Yuletide Treat, Sibling Bonding
Summary:

Abbie and Jenny find some common ground between them.



Eeeee, stories! I have several open in tabs and a mission to download allllll the fic onto my Kindle.

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Thanks to the generous tuition of [personal profile] flippac, I have been getting into electronica a bit. Specifically, hard trance has grabbed my heart with an iron fist and won't let go. I have lots to say about the interesting things it's doing to my brain, but that needs a post of its own to unpack really. But it looks like it has the potential to be a really excellent brain hack for certain things, and I'm looking forward to playing with its potential more.

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I've decided on a theme for 2014 - and tentatively, a theme for 2015, too! 2013's theme was "recovery", and though I didn't do much with it in the journal or consciously, the truth is I have actually got a lot better and am working on improving further. So that's a good thing. I'm hoping to consolidate on this year's successes with 2014's theme, which is going to be "resilience". At some point before the new year I'm going to sit down and write a post about my aims for the year and the tools I'm going to use to help and support me along the way. (2015's theme is, provisionally, "escape".)

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I have a daily theme post to write today, and lots more 31 days to catch up on, too. I'll get there, though I suspect some of those topics will get pushed back to January!

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