So Much for the Mayans

I'm writing this on Thursday, but I'm completely confident you're here to read it.

The Good Stuff:

• Cats are all fine
• Got a little yard work done
• Have made a little more progress on PBOTL
• Hubby is in Central TX finishing the final edition for the year of his lantern newsletter
• Christmas cards and gifts mailed out
• Have kitty gifts for Christmas 
• Hubby called this morning to say Peaches was sitting on the porch waiting for the food to drop.  He was about fifteen minutes early, so he was relaxing while he waited, and hubby watched and waited while Peaches waited. (In the not so good part of this, hubby did not hear the food drop -- the feeder rumbles to shake the food down, so, standing where he was, he should have heard the food drop. He will not believe me when I say his hearing is impaired. Peaches, of course was not impaired, he began eating as soon as the food fell.)
• The local high school football team won the state championship

The Not So Good Stuff:

• Weight loss from last week must have been a result of illness (not surprising)
• Only did one day of the plan to clean up in house "hot spots" 
• A certain freshly minted 18-year old is providing interesting character development fodder. 

The Week Ahead:

• Finish Christmas grocery shopping -- just need a few fresh things
• Work the house cleaning checklist to get some nagging "hot spots" taken care of
• Continue working with the cats
• More progress on the trees, bag leaves

Revisit Goals for 2012:

• I intend to continue working on my overall health and fitness.  

I think I wound up treading water on both health and fitness

• Work will continue on the various properties.

The Neverending Story is going well

• Relationship--which will remain in the "other" category.

In a reasonably good place right now

• Pets.  I probably won't report on them regularly, but they are fun to talk about --- kind of like people talking about their kids and grandchildren.

I think I've talked about them rather a lot lately.

• I've decided I need to take a more participatory role in Forward Motion.

My work with Forward Motion remains behind the scenes. With the move to the new site, I have a more active admin role. 

• I need to make better use of my on-line time.  I haven't figured out how, but I need to do something different from what I have been doing.  

I may have been doing better at this.  It usually means I'd rather be on line than doing what I'm doing, but I have dragged myself away more this year.

• That brings me to the primary reason why we're here -- writing. 

I did a little work on a novel during our May train trip, and I think a writing retreat on a train is very doable.

• I plan to continue working through "How To Revise Your Novel" with Polar Bear on the Loose. 

I'd hoped to finish this in 2012.  Instead, I'll be carrying it over, but I did make progress.

• I have several reading projects underway.  First, I'm reading The Federalist Papers by email subscription.  I'm also reading Durant's History of Civilization -- I'm on volume 1 of the how ever many volume set.  I've been winning about three books a year from LibraryThing, so I have to read them and write a review.  Other than that, my annual goal is to read 50 books. 

I'm nearly done with The Federalist Papers subscription.  I started another one a few months ago.  I'm continuing to read Durant.  I'm working on a LibraryThing review book. My worst year reading ever.

Next week, I'll post goals for 2013.