#resound11

Prompt 1.  One word to describe 2011.

Growth.
Almost three years ago I signed up for Mission 101 in which I had to choose 101 goals to achieve in 1001 days. It was a challenge and I picked some stupid goals (unreached)  and some pretty good goals. One of my goals was to get out more. I worked pretty hard on that one in the last year and in achieving that goal I was also able to simultaneously reach many other goals on my list. I did a lot of travel, I got out to see my friends instead of always making them come to me and I made some changes in my life that were positive and growth oriented.
One thing I didn't do was to ever really finish the challenge by going in and posting my final results. I really should check back and see how some of the others did.
I highly recommend the Mission 101 as a way to really see what things are important to you and really see just how you can challenge yourself. There are many goals on my list that I didn't reach and that's ok with me. I realize that I didn't really take the time to prioritize things. I joined up to the Mission 101 at the last minute and threw my list together quite quickly.  Still, there were things on the list that were just things I needed to get done and accomplishing them helped me immensely with having time for some of the more personal growth style goals.     I'm proudest, though, of my social growth. I stepped out of my comfort zone many times in the past year and made myself go to new places and talk to new people and experience new things. It was nice to get out of the rut and I hope to continue in this vein for the next year, too.
Cheers to growth!

Last day of NaBloPoMo

The prompt for today is: What did you learn from doing NaBloPoMo?

I learned a lot from this year's NaBloPoMo.

1. I learned that I have changed and no longer feel excited to blog for the  month of November. That might be in part due to the fact that many of my blogging buddies are no longer doing NaBloPoMo. Most of them aren't even blogging at all.

2. I learned that I don't like Blogher

3. I learned that  forcing myself to partake in something because I "do it every year" is not a good idea.

4. I learned that I need a new and exciting outlet for my writing and a new direction for my blog. (or something like that)

5. I learned that I am not alone in being tired of NaBloPoMo and wanting to move on to something new.

6. I learned that I can complete a task (or series of tasks) even if my heart is no longer in it but that there is no real sense of satisfaction involved.


There are probably more things I could put down, but I'm tired now and want to go try my new Zelda game.

The prompt.

For today and tomorrow I am going to use the prompts. Today's prompt is "What is the last thing you do before bed?"
Before I go to bed I am usually on the computer falling asleep at the keyboard. I am usually drinking my last cup of coffee while I'm playing Farm Town and Gnome Town. While harvesting and taking care of my towns I doze off and sit here nodding around until I can't take it anymore and take myself to bed.
Of course, in the time that it takes to take my cup and whatever else to the kitchen, turn off all the lights, go to the bathroom, brush my teeth and get myself ready to get into bed, I come alive again and then don't feel sleepy. So I get my phone all hooked up to the table stand/charger and either read a book (Kindle App.) or play a game on the phone to get sleepy again. This seldom takes more than five minutes and I am out like a light!

Dragging to the end.

Only two more days of blogging and NaBloPoMo will be done. I don't feel excited to have done it. I am just glad it is almost over. I am posting this so that I can say I posted for thirty days. I have no idea why. I am truly sick of NaBloPoMo and all the blogging yuppies that it supports. I've already learned to hate Blogher. I can't say why. It's just too big and caught up in itself.   Blogher is a very difficult site with too many choices, too many ads, too much of everything and it seems the only goal there is to be 'discovered' and paid to write. I am tired of cutesy mommy bloggers, sick of the same people being highlighted over and over and somehow I feel like it's just high school all over again.
On another note...thank goodness for the undo button because a fly just landed on my touch screen and his motion made a little circle on my screen and  **PRESTO** my blog was erased. LOL
That's about how I feel about it, too.
Sigh.

November is almost out of here...

I hate how fast time goes sometimes. I also love how slow time goes on days like today. It was a very relaxed day of getting stuff done and enjoying my grandkids and cooking a nice turkey dinner. Other than the fact that I spend way too much of my time with my computer, it was very satisfying. Of course, the computer time was satisfying, too, but I just need to take less time with the computer and more time actually getting real work done. Imaginary work is a lot more fun, though.
 Honestly my mind is completely blank right now. I wanted to post mushroom pictures, but I can't find the names of some of them. But maybe I will just post them anyway. I want to get back to getting stuff done.

I have never seen these before.

This stump was covered in mushrooms.

Another odd variety that I haven't seen.

I thought this was some kind of rusted gear when I first saw it sitting on a downed  log.