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Dec. 5th, 2012 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleSo I guess the thing I keep having to relearn/remind myself of is that as a single person with very few friends of the local variety I have to make my own fun events. I've been bad about taking myself to the movies lately. I think somehow I'm programmed to think that once the time change happens and its dark when I leave work that I have to take myself straight home and stay there.
But I'm trying.
To that end I've printed off the schedule of the town's big Victorian Christmas celebration this weekend. And I just ordered a ticket for a one person reading of A Christmas Carol that I've long wanted to see. A local professor has been doing it for years and I've never gone. Well this year I am. And I might follow it up with a screening of It's a Wonderful Life on the big screen at the Performing Arts Center. I mean, as long as I'm there anyway... I will not miss my annual weep! (It's playing a handful of other times that week so I'm sure I can get to one of the showings at any rate!)
I'm bad at making myself go out and experience things. But actually, keeping my scrapbooks (2012 will run to 4 volumes!) seems to help with this as it helps me to think "hey this will be a fun thing to make a scrapbook layout about." I could easily fill those books with 7,000 pictures of Jinx the cat and my feet on the couch as I watch tv, but its not the MOST exciting things to document over and over ;)!!
I've been sort of all over the place lately in my head. But doing some thinking about stuff that worked this year, and stuff that didn't and trying to figure out what to work on for next year. And I think I have my focus word for 2013 ... but I'm still thinking about that too.
Plus I've got to finish up my secret santa fic this week so I can rustle up a quick beta at some point next week. Must carve out some time for that actually. I'm at that stage where I'm telling myself its going to suck and thats' making it hard to keep working on it. Stupid writing pains!
But on the plus side ... there's only 12 more working days this year...
But I'm trying.
To that end I've printed off the schedule of the town's big Victorian Christmas celebration this weekend. And I just ordered a ticket for a one person reading of A Christmas Carol that I've long wanted to see. A local professor has been doing it for years and I've never gone. Well this year I am. And I might follow it up with a screening of It's a Wonderful Life on the big screen at the Performing Arts Center. I mean, as long as I'm there anyway... I will not miss my annual weep! (It's playing a handful of other times that week so I'm sure I can get to one of the showings at any rate!)
I'm bad at making myself go out and experience things. But actually, keeping my scrapbooks (2012 will run to 4 volumes!) seems to help with this as it helps me to think "hey this will be a fun thing to make a scrapbook layout about." I could easily fill those books with 7,000 pictures of Jinx the cat and my feet on the couch as I watch tv, but its not the MOST exciting things to document over and over ;)!!
I've been sort of all over the place lately in my head. But doing some thinking about stuff that worked this year, and stuff that didn't and trying to figure out what to work on for next year. And I think I have my focus word for 2013 ... but I'm still thinking about that too.
Plus I've got to finish up my secret santa fic this week so I can rustle up a quick beta at some point next week. Must carve out some time for that actually. I'm at that stage where I'm telling myself its going to suck and thats' making it hard to keep working on it. Stupid writing pains!
But on the plus side ... there's only 12 more working days this year...
