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Friday night
- write 500 words
- hanging sleeve

Saturday
- make basil pesto
- turra massage
- chiro appt
- eat soy sauce chicken
- make blocks for Break Free Or Build Upon
- do nails
- make creamy tuna pasta for dinner
- write 500 words

Sunday
- wash dishes
- preserve lemons
- make blocks for Break Free Or Build Upon
- make green tomato chutney
- make red tomato chutney
- plan make-up roll
- write 500 words
- plant oats in fence bed and mulch over
- go see Wonder Woman again

Monday
- roast + leftovers (beef, beets, leeks, potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts, garlic, just about anything else that can be thrown into the oven and baked)
- make apple cinnamon muffins
- make blocks for Break Free Or Build Upon
- thread burying on Duct Tape Galaxy
- plant out brassicas
- plant out alliums (garlic)
- plant out umbelliferae (leeks, onions)
- write 500 words
- write another 500 words

1. Linked In - update
2. Concert Ticket - purse
3. Salmon for dinner - lime, ginger, and shallot (check if still suitable for sashimi)
4. cut the pieces for the next hourglass blocks (slightly wonky, so will need to be larger size 5.5" or 6"
5. write 500 more words to sedoretu
6. read email about health program

DO ALL THE THINGS!

1. finish YT pinch hit
2. write Captain Hill Secret Santa
2a. try to avoid making it EPIC
3. make gifts for cousins (zipper pouches)
4. make Christmas cake
5. plant potatoes
6. job agency questionnaire
7. drop a few emails
8. finish making a dress pattern I cut out yesterday

And that's on 4 hours sleep.

At some point, I'm going to have to lose some weight, I'm rapidly edging up to the heaviest I've ever been and while it's not affecting my health, it's affecting my ability to fit into clothing which is never a nice or comfortable feeling.

Last card call for 2016: Dreamwidth | LiveJournal

I have too many things to do right now.

• Get my resume out. I need to restructure it, because 20 years of work at a dozen different clients is a bad and brain-blowing way to try to inform someone of your skillsets. On the other hand, I made the recruiter I saw yesterday laugh when I noted that I'd been working with this system for two decades and was practically an 'old lady of SAP'. (Note: I look like I'm in my late 20s, so most people boggle when I talk about being middle aged, let alone 'old'.)



• Contact former co-workers asking if they know anyone who's looking for contractors.



• Sort out present for younger stepbro with whom we are having 'Christmas Dinner' on Monday. Also possibly sort out present for older stepbro and wife.



• Sort out presents for my cousins' kids. Six of them: five are receiving quilts - the youngest is 2 and probably won't appreciate one just yet; I'll give him a couple of years. I have at least two that need quilting and I can get those done reasonably fast - no fancy quilting, just the standard fiery curls.



• make up fliers for New Years Eve street party: apparently I'm the only one who's willing to do it - park down the road, people bring a dish, the kids run around screaming, it's all good. If the worst comes to the worst we can probably hold it at our house. Or possibly at the house of the guy down the road who's just sold his place...



• call endodontist: I'm going to have the RC redone, even though I suspect the tooth will eventually have to come out. A friend had the same symptoms that I did, but her tooth ached and ached and ached and ached until it went nuclear and HURT LIKE THE FUCKING GET ME TO HOSPITAL. I don't know that I want to wait that long (although it might turn out cheaper)


• garden things: I want to grow ALL THE THINGS. Right now, the tomatoes are going off (they always do) the early corn I planted is rotting with only one decent cob in a planting of about 20, and has been significantly overtaken by the later corn. I need to plant another set. I have a capsicum that is doing nicely, a brussels sprout that probably isn't going to make it through the summer, and a couple of eggplants that are doing their level best to grow as fast as possible. Oh, and an oakleaf lettuce that's gone a little monster.



• fruit trees: grargh argh. don't even ask.



• yuletide: haven't even started, although I got a missing piece of the puzzle last night, so that's helpful.


• captain hill secret santa: no idea what i'm going to write for this - do I write one of my existing plotbunnies even if it gives me away? Or do I start something entirely new?


• treats and stockings and whatnot: fandom_stocking | chocolateboxcomm are up and running, and I have a dozen YT treats and no time or brain to write them...


I know that technically, not working should give me more time to do this. But it's that whole 'expanding resources' paradox that some of us experience; we always overbook ourselves, whether the resource is time, money, or justice for the world. (Ironically, miserly people in mind are also miserly in money, time, and justice for the world. It's like it's not how much money or security you have, it's whether you're capable of decency in the first place, and then you'll use your resources accordingly...)


• gifts: for my bible study ladies, for my spiritual mentor, for various friends...



• cards: gotta get these out, dammit ( I do this every year.)

One pbam Stack fic a day.

500 words to one other story.

30 minutes of quilting each day.

30 minutes of gardning each day.


Seeing as it's already Friday afternoon, I'd better get a move on that PBAM fic...

sixbeforelunch asked: Gardening. How did you get started? What do you most enjoy growing? Any memorable successes or failures?

My mother was a gardener in her spare time; she pottered around, growing a variety of ornamental plants and flowers. Succulents and ferns were particular favourites of hers, but she was never into vegetable gardening.

I was *handwobble* about gardening until I hit about 20, and a friend loaned me a book by an Australian, Linda Woodrow's book Permaculture Home Garden in which she described herself as a hippie who wanted a way to stretch her household budget, a less energy-intense way of living, and food that hadn't been sterilised, poisoned, or otherwise meddled with to grow. It revolutionised the way I thought about food and gardening. From that point on, I wanted a garden like that.

( long story short )

Things I need to do for the garden during January
1. make a planting plan - when to plant and where.
2. add more perennials - things that don't need planting every where - plant once, repeat harvest.
3. make some really good, rich compost - the banana and the avocados are going to need it
4. plant potatoes, garlic, and other bulbs for winter/early spring next year.

1. roof cavity - check
2. cut dining tablecloth
3. sow:

( TEMPERATE CLIMATE )

4. Quiltcon Press Release (?!)
5. I can't think of the other things right now. Editable later.


Goals for Quilt Show 2016:
- The Promise of Spring (
- Plain Jane Passacaglia

1. plant a number of things in the garden
2. add to compost pile
3. cook pumpkin pie
4. clean dishes
5. package up BPAL parcels and send off
6. finish quilt top
7. write fic

...I think I'm being a bit ambitious...

Tuesday Night:
- put wardrobe up on freecycle
- put sale items on FB

Wednesday:
- dig out gardening boots

Thursday:
- no-dig garden setup: raspberry fence & start one of the backyard beds, also look at prepping along the fence?

* string/rope
* scissors
* plastic gloves
* gardening gloves
* vermicast from worm farm
* shovel & pitchfork
* garden hose
* 3 bales lucerne, 4 bags manure
* sprayer head

- take novels for charity
- photograph other items for sale

1. Hockey promo poster for RSL
2. sheppard_hc fic
3. sga_beya fic
4. Update hockey website
5. hire and watch The Losers for ante_up_losers ficathon
6. start Rail Fence quilt
7. watch Sanctuary (MUST WATCH ALL THE THINGS!)

Also:
- go to gym
- fill green bin
- trim overgrown trees
- wash quilting fabrics