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Weekend Update Rings in the New Year
Jan. 2nd, 2016 09:05 amWoo! The new year is here! A. and I had a quiet NYE, staying in and having a few drinks while watching multiple episodes of The Avengers (the show gets more ridiculous and hilarious the more I watch it). I may have also done a bit of TPoM editing as well. We were both in bed by 10 and did our usual bit of bedtime reading until we finally passed out around eleven. We were of course woken back up an hour later by the city's fireworks (both the official ones on the Embarcadero and the countless illegal ones in the neighborhood) and a few bros on the roof woohoo-ing. Hello 2016! Now shut up and let us sleep. We're old. :p
Yesterday we went for a long walk around the neighborhood, as it was a gorgeous day for it...not a cloud in the sky. We walked up Lake to about 4th Avenue, cut over to Clement, and stopped for lunch at Koja, a relatively new restaurant of fusion Korean-Japanese cuisine. We'd heard great reviews, and were not let down. Their umami fries (waffle-cut and drenched with pulled pork, coconut milk, sriracha, and onions) were amazing! Definitely a place to hit again. After that, we headed over to Green Apple Books, where I found a used copy of the new Greil Marcus book I've been looking for (he's my favorite music writer) and the new Maile Meloy YA book, which I didn't know was out. The rest of the day was spent about the house. I may have spent New Year's Day doing boring errands such as laundry and doing a bit of cleanup in Spare Oom. We also watched the classic movie Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. That movie was so much more fun than I remembered it being!
But! I also spent it doing a lot of writing-related things as well. January 1st is always when I update the writing schedule whiteboard above my desk, so I thought about what I wanted to put up there. Two of my longterm projects (Books 2 and 3 in the trilogy) will finally be finished and released out into the wild later this year, so I chose to leave them off. Instead I focused on newer projects: the Walk in Silence book, hitting daily practice words, and maintaining a schedule for my two WordPress blogs. [After WiS is released, my next focus will be on the new Mendaihu Universe novel (and possible side stories).] I purposely left the weekends open for the time being, as I was planning on using those as either days off or project catch-up. And of course post here at the LJ.
After updating the whiteboard, I made good on it: I wrote 900 practice words, updated my personal journal, wrote a few WiS pages, and updated the WiS blog. Once I got into the rhythm, I just kept going with it. I even had time at the end to sit back and goof off a bit at the end of the evening. Yay!
Looking forward to this year...it's going to be busy, but in an extremely good way. :)
Yesterday we went for a long walk around the neighborhood, as it was a gorgeous day for it...not a cloud in the sky. We walked up Lake to about 4th Avenue, cut over to Clement, and stopped for lunch at Koja, a relatively new restaurant of fusion Korean-Japanese cuisine. We'd heard great reviews, and were not let down. Their umami fries (waffle-cut and drenched with pulled pork, coconut milk, sriracha, and onions) were amazing! Definitely a place to hit again. After that, we headed over to Green Apple Books, where I found a used copy of the new Greil Marcus book I've been looking for (he's my favorite music writer) and the new Maile Meloy YA book, which I didn't know was out. The rest of the day was spent about the house. I may have spent New Year's Day doing boring errands such as laundry and doing a bit of cleanup in Spare Oom. We also watched the classic movie Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. That movie was so much more fun than I remembered it being!
But! I also spent it doing a lot of writing-related things as well. January 1st is always when I update the writing schedule whiteboard above my desk, so I thought about what I wanted to put up there. Two of my longterm projects (Books 2 and 3 in the trilogy) will finally be finished and released out into the wild later this year, so I chose to leave them off. Instead I focused on newer projects: the Walk in Silence book, hitting daily practice words, and maintaining a schedule for my two WordPress blogs. [After WiS is released, my next focus will be on the new Mendaihu Universe novel (and possible side stories).] I purposely left the weekends open for the time being, as I was planning on using those as either days off or project catch-up. And of course post here at the LJ.
After updating the whiteboard, I made good on it: I wrote 900 practice words, updated my personal journal, wrote a few WiS pages, and updated the WiS blog. Once I got into the rhythm, I just kept going with it. I even had time at the end to sit back and goof off a bit at the end of the evening. Yay!
Looking forward to this year...it's going to be busy, but in an extremely good way. :)
