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[katallison]

So, the vacation begins. Five weeks without having to go in to the job. And just like last year, I am flagrantly grandiose in my dreams of what I can accomplish during this time.

The current to-do list includes:

1. Clean out the basement. (This has been on my to-do list every summer since the late 90s, and one of these years I fully expect to get around to it.)

2. Get the dead car hauled out of my garage. (The dead car has been there since...1998, maybe? Whenever it was that eliade moved to Seattle, because on her stopover here we drove to the video store to rent "The Sum of Us" and that was the last trip that car ever made.)

3. Get the new website finished, up, and running, which includes figuring out the code for the photolog.

4. Do a great deal of photography.

5. Get to the gym every day.

6. Quit smoking.

7. Reorganize all storage space in the house.

8. Finish the dS novel-in-progress. (Ah HAH hah hah hah hah....)

9. Finish at least one of the two Methos stories that have been in progress for at least the last four years (you're *killin'* me here...oh, my *sides*...)

Five weeks. Yes, right, OK. I guess I'd better get started then, eh.

Comments

vaaaaaacaaaaaaaation!

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

Now you can come over and make me quiche!

If I had five weeks, I'd help you clean out the basement! And you could teach me how to make quiche.

You may be able to donate it to a local vo-tech. THey might come and tow it away. I think there are a bunch of places you could donate it to.

http://www.carsforsight.org

http://www.donateacar.com

http://www.donateyourcar.com

http://www.carshelpingpeople.org

Re: vaaaaaacaaaaaaaation!

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I think courage center does this too.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Bless you, Dawn, for getting all those links in one place! I am sending you virtual quiche, in gratitude. (And truly, it's dead simple to make. Some eggs, some milk or cream, some grated cheese, some whatever-sounds-good-for-a-filling, mix it up, plop into one of those frozen pie shells, bake maybe 40 minutes, voila.)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

7. Reorganize all storage space in the house.

AIEEEE! Stick with doing a great deal of photography. It's better for your mental health.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

There is much truth in what you say; but I think my mental health would also benefit by my being able to find things around here, at least once in a while. At least the most important things. Probably.

[rhi]

::laughing:: I only *wish* I'd had the sense to clean out the basement or garage last summer, Kat. Moving convinced me that from now on, Good Will runs/clear-outs get done no later than every 18 months.

Good luck on your summer 'to do' list, and enjoy your vacation!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Rhi! And yes, my life was *way* less cluttered when I used to move every year or so. But after being in this place eleven years, things are pretty dire.

[rhi]

::nodding:: We'd been there nine and a half. I understand *all* too well! Piles of books, papers, more books, shtuff, old clothes that didn't fit or weren't fit to wear, all of it stuck away where I wouldnt' have to deal with it.... Good luck, definitely!

(The car donation sounds interesting, too.)

[rusty76.livejournal.com]

Wow! Good luck!

:)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll definitely need all the luck I can get!

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

10. Help Jackie assemble bookcases ?????? (big puppy eyes)
11. Help figure out how everyone is going to get to Vividcon. Are we all going together this year? Is anyone else coming with us?

10. Make a poll

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Ask your faithful readers which of these nine things they feel you absolutely must accomplish in five weeks. (I vote for #8, of course.)

My annual downtime is in November, when it is cool and dark and rainy, and I just want to go outside and look at the sky and be far, very far, from my keyboard.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I really wish I could arrange my off-appointment time for fall, but alas, the academic calendar doesn't work that way. Mmm, cool and dark and rainy sounds heavenly.

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

I definitely live in a heavenly climate zone. :)

[dine.livejournal.com]

wow - you've got quite some ambition, don't you?

I hope whatever you do accomplish, you enjoy - failure to complete all items on this list will likely *not* cause permanent harm nor friends to sneer.

if you care about others' opinions, my vote leans toward #2, #4, #8 & #9 - the first should be pretty easily accomplished, and the others possibly provide you some creative satisfaction. for the rest, cleaning & organizing leaves one feeling pretty happy, but don't kill yourself in the process.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Dine! I know better than to expect that I'll actually accomplish all of these; I guess if I can complete even *one* I'll feel better about myself.

[aerye.livejournal.com]

If you promise to concentrate on #8, I will buy a ticket, fly out there, and spend a week taking care of #1, #2 and #7.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

And I'll come over on the weekend to help eyrea while you're writing, if there's beer.;)

[aerye.livejournal.com]

And I'll buy the beer!

(Though I make no promises about not locking you in Kat's bathroom with a beer, a pad of paper and a pencil. I'm just saying...)

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

As long as there's beer and I'm already in the bathroom, what do I care? Although you'd have to let me out for a cigarette once in a while, and I suppose while I was in there I could clean it, and take a nice bubble bath. For inspiration, you understand. Oh, and could you slide some pizza under the door?

[katallison.livejournal.com]

OK, seriously? If you would handle even just #2, let alone #1 and #7, I would buy your ticket out here, put you up, feed you lavish meals, and rub your feet. And work on #8, of course.

[eliade.livejournal.com]

It was 1998. :) But wow, I don't remember going to the video store at all. I remember that supermarket near you, though, that had those wonderful pastries. Is that still there?

You are very ambitious. I am impressed. Hey, what if you got all the crap stuff done in the first week and then just mellowed, slept, wrote, ate good food, read fan-fiction, and slept some more? ;)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

It was 1998. :) But wow, I don't remember going to the video store at all. I remember that supermarket near you, though, that had those wonderful pastries. Is that still there?

It is indeed; they also now have a free olive-sampling bar, where you can taste any of their 20 varieties of olives. ::making happy sounds::

Hey, what if you got all the crap stuff done in the first week and then just mellowed, slept, wrote, ate good food, read fan-fiction, and slept some more? ;)

Well, then I would be one of those people who's capable of work-before-pleasure, or broccoli-before-dessert, or whatever. Which I so am not. *g* But I think if I try to chunk up each day so I've got some time for writing, some time for scut work, some time for wandering around with the camera, etc. ... that's what I'm going to try, anyway.

And I *may* conceivably get out to Seattle some time in August; not sure, though. Will keep you posted.

[eliade.livejournal.com]

And I *may* conceivably get out to Seattle some time in August; not sure, though. Will keep you posted.

Yes, I've been meaning to get back to you on that and make little squeaking sounds of anticipatory delight. Which I will do now.

Eeeeeeeeee! Eee! Eee!

{g}

Long Hot? Summer....

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Summertime and the living is easy...YAY! Enjoy your summer and if your faithful readers get to vote on the list, can I vote for #9????? But do get to the gym and quit smoking; you are very dear to all of us and anything that you can do to improve your health gets my vote. About the cleaning out and the reogranization - how about doing one section per day? Don't make a huge all day or all month project; just one section at a time. My brother, sister and I just came back from a week at my mother's house and we had to clean out boxes of "stuff", old newspapers, old clothes, old food that had obviously decayed, etc. I think that Americans are the pac-rat Queens of the World! I came home and had a frenzied house cleaning and it's a great feeling. I organized, threw away, labled files, bought a 4 drawer file cabinet and if a file didn't fit into it, it got thrown away. I now have labeled folders for all my art files (sorted by artist), files for collage and bookmaking material, files for money stuff...I am now in charge of my domain! Well, at least for the next couple of days.

Anyway, relax, enjoy, do what you can and I will send good weather vibes from SF!
namaste Nancy

bugging you as promised

[lapillus]

Here is my first daily inquiry into the state of your writing. Consider yourself officially asked.

As for the rest, don't sweat it. In particular the basement cleaning is a sufficient substitute for going to the gym on any given day. As a matter of fact I heartily recommend NOT doing both on the same day. (My mother, who is reading over my shoulder, wishes you luck with the basement.)