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Rochambeau

I love the movie “Groundhog Day” – to me its message is “You learn anything a day at a time, an hour a time, a minute a time – and a minute a time, you have all the time in the world…”
Might be that I don’t learn to play piano in one day, but it starts just as with Phil, one day, and another one day in the future I can play piano.
Might be that I don’t learn to play piano today, but if I start today, one tomorrow I know how to play piano.

“Is this how you spend eternity?”
We all have all the time in the world… is this how you spend it? Wasting time by doing nothing, just aimless surfing, watching television, perhaps doing something little every now and then.

I am good at compiling things. I should re-start my God book. It’s already 7th day of this new year.

337th day of 1001

What have I actually done of my 101 things?

I have got myself 5 new fairytale books.
I have written somethings
I have a laptop
I have managed to frame 3 pictures
Geocities “fixed” my website for me :->
The apartment is sort of cleaned… not decluttered.
I have learned to bake the Danish rye My husband had tears in his eyes
I have used only high-heeled shoes for a week, and it went well. I think I can say I can use them
I have lost 8 kgs – 1/5 of the goal

So – 1/3 of the time gone, a little less than 1/10 of the list done, and not even that properly! Oy vey!

New year, new ideas – but mostly old ones :-D

I haven’t done squiddily nothing about my 100 things in 1001 days. Typical.

I have found two more interesting blogs: Fascinating People and Risky Regencies.
I found them when I was searching for a Polyvore set about my fashion style. I would like to be a Quaintrelle too. I suppose it won’t ever happen. But I was well dressed this Yule week while visiting my sister. Not as I’d like to dress, but very stylish and fashionable. It felt good Too bad what I like is not flattering to girls with wide shoulders, square hips, no bottom and short waist and neck. Also, I’m fat. (Yes, I may say so. It’s not putting myself down, but accepting reality. My BMI is 35, and that is “obesity”.) (Yes, I know that one can be fat and fabulous, and I am, but when I think Dita von Teese and Vargas chicks are beautiful, even Duane Bryers’ pin-up girl is absolutely adorable, I am not my ideal. I’m not hourglass shape, but a goblet, and I’m not all smooth and silky, like Bryers’ girl, but drooping and full of cellulite.)

Well… I suppose there’s always a lot of room to play in

I have a new winter coat and boots, and even when they are black (as said, I’m fat. The fashion industry seems to think fat women want to wear only black, burgundy, navy blue and other dark, dull colors. One might find something else, but then it’s usually too expensive to my budget. Or then one has to sew oneself. *sigh*) they are very flattering and beautiful The coat is princess shaped and the boots are laced “granny” boots with 2 inches (5 cm) Louis heel. I love Louis heel The only problem with the shoes is that they are very slippery!

A little more inspiration and such :-)

Found another interesting blog :-)

Art Propelled

I have been thinking about my art – which really isn’t much art. I manage to do something that might be called art every now and then, but mostly it’s just… pottering and doodling

I was thinking about “writers write” – artists make art. If writing prompts and NaNoWriMo will teach me the CRAFT of writing, the similar take on art would teach me the CRAFT of making art. If writing a lot of crap will make me write more and better, drawing/painting a lot of crap should have the same results – make me draw more and better, make me paint more and better, make me do more art…

I was watching Project Runway season 4 again – and I was reminded that in order to create fashion I have to watch fashion, follow fashion, see fashion, touch, hear, taste, smell – eat and breathe fashion. I haven’t been into clothes for a while now, and the consequences of that is that I am not that into fashion The more time I spend at Polyvore, the more interested I become.

Half a year later…

Pictures from Wary Meyers and Apartment Theory

Promised some blog links

So here they are:

Imagine, Create, Inspire

Toxophily

The Moldy Doily

Ruffing’s Fine Art Giglées and Originals

Elizabeth Holcombe: Words and Whimsies

and if you follow the links given on the link list and in the text, you will have hours of lovely time

Unfortunately…

I picked a meme from allsorts…

“Unfortunately Sanna can’t take part because a rule means you can’t take part for three years in a row”
“Unfortunately, Sanna inherited my Hideously Sensitive Skin”
“But unfortunately Sanna had to work overtime that day and asked; “maybe we can go out and eat tomorrow?”"
“Unfortunately, Sanna…I got it right away”
“Unfortunately Sanna I understand your frustration”
“Unfortunately Sanna has left me now to take on Marocco”
“Unfortunately, Sanna had to leave us on Saturday morning due to a heavy migraine.”
“Unfortunately Sanna’s second stint at Colwyn Bay barely lasted five minutes before jarring his back and having to be replaced”
“Unfortunately Sanna had to “sit back” while I campaigned my Erin to her title”
“Unfortunately, Sanna lost to a shinobi named Ukon in the first round but Shinku managed to defeat a ninja named Tsuki”
“Unfortunately, Sanna does not remember the technical aspects of how that would work”
“Unfortunately, Sanna realised she’d left her purse including passport, money, everything on the ledge we’d just been sitting on before getting ourselves comfortable on the back. “
“Unfortunately, Sanna didn’t hum the first few bars of Empty room”

Fascinating… intriguing… I think I am going to write a story of this Sanna, who went to Morocco though she left her passport on the ledge after loosing to a shinobi because she forgot the technical aspects and did not hum the first few bars of Empty Room… Poor girl has migraines and a friend who likes to tell her HE got it right away. Nasty guy. No wonder she has migraine.

I haven’t done about anything for my 101 things. On the contrary, I have added like 101 more things to my “to do” list. There’s project spectrum going on, and I am seriously inspired! So much things! People are so talented, creative, imaginative… I’ve been surfing Etsy and Flickr and WOW!

I’ll share more about that tomorrow. I’ve found more blogs, you see

Why is it…

…that other people’s “to do lists” seem to be easier to “do”?

For example “replace make-up collection”. Sounds like an easy thing to do. Just whack out what you have and go to your favorite store and buy new ones.
But – what if one doesn’t have money?
What if one has social anxiety disorder, like I do?

It’s partly things like that that makes it harder to do what’s on my list. Of course, most of it is because I’m a relaxed procrastinator, and choose to do something else – or nothing – rather than what I “should”. Like writing. It doesn’t cost one penny, I don’t need to meet anyone to do it, but it takes dedication, commitment, and I obviously lack those things. :->

I have been writing. Not what I should be writing, but I managed to read the Love (I love the ending… I wish GGM had stripped 1/3 of the book, but I like the ending ) and I got somewhat inspired by it too. I have also managed to bind some of the old stuff to new stuff, so – I suppose there’s some progress.

I have managed to decide what I will do for the toy drop. I have also planned where I’ll drop some of the toys.

I have also cleaned up a lot of our home and thrown away a lot of unnecessary stuff. I have been able to let go of useful stuff we won’t ever use.

The weight loss stopped totally in February. I wish I manage to keep the diet in March as well as in January. I lost 10 kilos in January! That’s really nice!