Why tomorrow? Today is not exactly an auspicious beginning. It is well past eleven o'clock in the morning. My house is a mess. I have barely showered and am still in my jammies. I've eaten first breakfast ... and second breakfast. My laptop keys are sticky with drool (the dog's - not mine).
Excuses.
Bilbo Baggins also woke late on the morning of his great adventure. If he'd waited until tomorrow, it would have been too late. There would be no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Middle Earth. Peter Jackson would be a nobody film director whose best movies were The Lovely Bones and District 9 (which was waayyy too creepy for me).
And so my adventure begins today. January 4th 2012. One thousand days from now, it will be Thursday, October 1st, 2015 - assuming http://www.convertunits.com/dates/daysfromnow/1000 is correct (which I doubt, but I have better things to do than count 1000 days ahead on Windows Calendar).
I don't expect to be there and back again by 2015. But on my journey to the Lonely Mountain, I want to have faced and fought trolls, giants, orks, goblins, and wargs. And Gollum, of course. My precioussss...
Here are my professional goals:
- Have at least one published book on the market
- Be a locally-recognized artist
- Earn a living wage from my creative work
My personal goals are more fluid, but include investing in my marriage, living healthier and happier, and renovating our basement apartment.
Today is Day 1. Join me. I'd love help packing the dishwasher.
(BTW: Don't actually come. I have to clean my house first.)
(BTW: Don't actually come. I have to clean my house first.)
A pencil drawing of my husband Nate. (He's the one in the sweater.) I drew this during March Break 2012, and it turned out so well I've been terrified to draw anything since.
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