Yikes again!

Wow, I cannot believe that I haven't posted in so long here! I really thought my summer would slow down and there would be more time to get some writing in, but alas, I allowed myself to get sucked into doing other things. Maybe I'll try to commit to posting here once a week and see how that goes for a month or so, then decide on a future posting schedule. One definite step: Farmville usage is getting cut way down. It's really just mindless entertainment, and for every 10 or 20 minutes I spend on that, I feel guilty because that's time that could have been spent reading, writing a blog post, working on a crochet project, or something way more productive than harvesting virtual crops.

I'm also training for a marathon, and that takes up a good bit of time too, so I'll need to be better about how my time is used. I haven't missed too many runs on the training schedule so far, which makes me think that a schedule for other things would be helpful also (like posting on this blog!). Once a week here should definitely be doable. I'm also signed up on 750words.com, which encourages you to write 750 words every day. That should be a good site to help build a daily writing habit; I've been signed up since mid-September, and so far have missed 3 days, but I signed up for the October challenge, which is just saying that you'll write every day for the month of October, and if you miss a day, your name goes on the Wall of Shame. If you write everyday, your name goes on the Wall of Amazingness (want!). That's my goal for October, write on that site every day, and here once a week.

What are some goals that you've set for yourself recently?

It's been awhile...

It's been a few months since my last post because I've been a busy busy bee! Work, my kid's school and baseball schedule, running (or trying to!), and other daily life stuff has kept me from posting on a regular basis. I really want to get on a more regular posting schedule, at least twice a week, and will work on incorporating that into my schedule this summer since things should be a little calmer.

Here's to getting some blogging done!

Wil Wheaton's Hunter

Last night I downloaded and read Wil Wheaton's short story Hunter. He's offered it up as a "pay what you want to" thing, which I think will work out great for him. He professed to being nervous about how this story would be received, which I feel was absolutely not warranted. This was a great sci-fi story. Having never read his work (other than his tweets and occasionally, his blog), Hunter was a good intro to what he is capable of. I'm looking forward to reading more of what he's written.

Catching Fire review

Next up in The Hunger Games trilogy is Catching Fire. Katniss and Peeta survived one Hunger Games, now they must survive another! In a terrible twist, they are cast back into the arena, along with other Hunger Games winners. Some great characters are introduced here, Finnick being my favorite I think. There are some behind the scenes things going on that you don't find out until the end, and since I didn't see it coming, it was a pleasant surprise. This sounds cryptic, I know, but I don't want to give away too much.

I really enjoyed this one, not quite as much as the first, but still a good book.

Learning to Crochet

I've been learning to crochet off and on for the last few months, and recently decided it was time to get more serious about it if I really wanted to learn this. Lion Brand's website has some great tutorials on learning to crochet, and on knitting as well, which would be the next thing I'd like to tackle. So far, each type of stitch looks to be pretty easy, and what I was thinking of doing was making a washcloth size piece in each type of stitch to help learn them.

I hope to post some pics soon of things I've crocheted, so keep checking back, and I'll write more about the progress I'm making. In the meantime, if you're interested in learning how to crochet or knit, check out http://www.lionbrand.com/ and click on the Learning Center button and check out the videos and other tutorials.

Make today great!

The Hunger Games review

My niece told me about The Hunger Games books a couple of months ago and how much she enjoyed them, so I read some reviews on Amazon and then started reading. I'll give each book it's own separate review.

First up is The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins has created a world where districts offer up "tributes" to compete in The Hunger Games, where they are literally fighting for their lives. Without giving away too much for those who may not have read or heard of these, this book was a pleasant surprise. There were plenty of moments that make you gasp because you do not see them coming.

I loved this book and definitely recommend you give it a read.

Getting back in the saddle

I haven't posted in some time, but that will change this year. I plan to post something here 3 times a week, and am stockpiling some posts now. There's been too much procrastination and not enough action in my life, and I want to change that! How often do you, or other people you know, say things like, "Oh, we should do this" or "We should go there" but it never comes to fruition? One of my goals for 2011 is to act upon those words more instead of just wishful thinking.
What's your goal for this year?