tielan: a vivid quilt in a rainbow of colours (quilting)
Monday, January 20th, 2025 09:14 am
I went back to my "2024 goals" post here and discovered that I indeed got some of my goals achieved!

2024 goals
1. Complete rough draft of The Nullifae: Agent of Change. (And it can be very rough. But she has to have closed the portal and Dion has to have offered her a job. I know how these scenes go, I just have to write the other scenes before them.) - DONE: and it is indeed very rough
2. Finish The Gathering Clouds (MCU: Psy-Changeling AU)
3. Get the roof repaired - DONE - and the ceilings repainted.
4. Produce apricots. (I have no idea how to prompt this. Really no idea.)
5. Finish and/or make 12 quilts/major fabric works. (clothing and curtains both count) - DONE


That's 50%, right?

Finishing the Gathering Clouds is still a pipe-dream. Apricots were unsuccessful (so were mangoes), and I think getting the ceilings repainted is going to be an expensive proposition. Trying to find anyone to do anything right now is an expensive proposition.

And here's the dozen quilts finished (most of them made in previous years but only FINISHED finished just now:

images, one two many lots )

And there are two more that have come back from te quiter and now need to be bound. *sigh*
tielan: ant in a line diverges because: bookstore (books - shiny)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 08:42 am
Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be e to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good!

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text


ambitions for 2025 )

Today, I am wearing a tiara while WFH. I have for much of the day. Just because.
tielan: Yoda, deal with it (SW - Yoda deal)
Monday, January 23rd, 2023 09:04 pm
Snowflake Challenge promotional banner with image of crystal snowflakes on green leaves on a dark blue background. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Challenge #12

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


3 Fannish Goals
1. Complete The Nullifae: Book 1. At least.
2. Write the final installation of Meeting Halfway.
3. Finish two of the multitudinous multichapters that sit, half-complete, on my AO3 account.
tielan: Maria & Steve walking in sync (MCU - Maria/Steve2)
Saturday, January 29th, 2022 08:17 pm
Yes, I'm doing this before Day 14, which is a scavenger hunt which I'll get around to later...maybe.

Snowflake Challenge promotional banner featuring  an image of a coffee cup and saucer on a sheet with a blanket and baby’s breath and a layer of snowflakes. Text: Snowflake Challenge January 1-31.

Challenge 15

In your own space, create your own challenge. Leave a comment to this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


This year, I'm challenging myself to finish the 'Meeting Halfway' series. There are several other series/stories that I'd like to finish, but I'd really like to complete Meeting Halfway. It's been a full decade since I started the series and now it's time to finish off the last few and close that chapter of my fannish life.

I'd like to complete 'The Gathering Clouds', too, but that one has always gone at a glacial pace and I don't anticipate anything much will change on that front.

So, Meeting Halfway it is. Five more stories. And one will be out in February. So, four more stories.

*breathes*
tielan: ant in a line diverges because: bookstore (books - shiny)
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 07:20 am
Challenge #4

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Land safely, don't melt )

No, I won't achieve them all, but having them here in front of me makes it easier to see what I wanted at the start of the year, and where I finished up at the end of it.
tielan: (Default)
Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 08:48 am
Day 3

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


1. Fannish
a. finish sedoretu
b. finish the 30 Days of OTP
c. finish a practical acquaintance with bees
d. finish Sokovia, Suburbia, and the Senate

2. Quilting
a. get 5 tops quilted
b. complete 4 WIPs
c. make the pattern for 'Swarm by Sel'.

3. Gardening and house
a. get water tanks and water barrels installed
b. switch to gardening with rainwater instead of mains water
c. work out a pattern for crop rotation

4. Writing
a. complete one original manuscript

5. Spiritual
a. read through the Psalms

6. Activist
a. regularly support 1 Australian refugee organisation
b. get involved with a local political group to counteract local government leanings
c. write more letters to the NSW senators
tielan: Maria looking resolute, walking away from a chopper (AVG - maria2)
Saturday, January 11th, 2014 10:00 pm
Short version: I'm going to sell the unit, get it off my hands, buy a house (hopefully with B1, but that depends) with a mortgage, and work things out.

real estate things )
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