My Chaotic Realm

Goodbye to 2019... hello 2020 December 29, 2019 First let me start off by wishing everyone a bountiful, joy-full and ART-full year. :-) Second, I have just reread my goal list from 2019 and, of the 5 goals, I met 1. However, in my defense, I was a bit busy beating cancer then returning to work (a bit too early, honestly) only to find we were short-staffed and I have been working 4 days a week ever since (my job is full-time @ 43 days per week, FYI). #1) participating in my art group's "Birthday Club" & send a handmade item to those celebrating birthdays. MET!! #2) 2019's weekly scrapbook layout challenge over at the Scraptacular Cropping Club Missed 8 of the 52, mostly near the end of the year when work gets all crazy and people take off for the holidays. #3) the 52 Weeks Being Me challenge over at the Words of Me Project Quit early on in the year as it was just not resonating with me. Good idea, well done.. just not for me. #4) the Monthly lottery challe...

Well, my Yule Circle has been moved to tonight because Saturday is 100% rain. Ugh. Lots to do and prepare for. Spent another week on the bike because car was in shop (clutch, this time). This is not the time of year for that... 25 degrees and wet at 3am. Also multiple parties from now until the new year starts. Eek. On the horizon though I have GOOD NEWS! Angel (Yes, that is her name) starts @ SKC full time...and needs NO TRAINING! OMG I am so excited. We will be fully staffed again starting 2020! OK, lots to do and off I go.

I suck at weekly posting. Maybe because I just don't see a lot of the things that happen in my weeks as exciting and needing to be shared? So, instead... what HAVE I done in the last 4 weeks? We had a majorly early freeze so L made a greenhouse for all the plants for the winter. I started on (and completed and mailed) my Holiday Cards. I cut the list (and the postage) by half this year. And please, do not be offended when I call them Holiday cards instead of Christmas cards. Think of it this way: “Holiday” includes Christmas whereas "Christmas” leaves out everything other than Christmas. I have many friends and not all of them celebrate Christmas. L got us tickets to the "Hee Haw Show" in Gulfport on the 16th of November. That was a hoot! Attended a funeral for a friend who's mother had passed. Rode with some friends on a few really nice weather days. Met a new friend. I canceled my gym membership. I paid off all my medical bills using a zero percent credit card....

and now it is off to the Planner Play group for a lunchtime gathering then the PT gig. So far this week I have worked 22 hours, pulled in all the plants so she could build an enclosure for the winter (since it hit freezing here already), held a book club meeting, a full moon fire circle and made some tarot ATCs. Whew!! See ya!

#1) Participating in my art group's "Birthday Club" and send a handmade item to each MET #2) 2019's weekly scrapbook layout challenge over at the Scraptacular Cropping Club missed 10/16 & 10/23 challenges... life and work. 10/30 still on my plate. #3) Monthly lottery challenge in my ATC Art Group on IO Groups. Did not participate in the October lottery due to vacation. #4) Follow my budget and pay off my ALL debt by this year's end. This is not going to happen as I just got hit with a $700+ car repair bill. UGH. But I am continuing to follow my plan and avoid getting farther behind on medical bills and such. What have I done? Uploaded all the photos from the Big Vacation :-) and ordered prints for my scrapbook. Also uploaded Days 146-191 of my CCJ365 Project. Feeling pretty good about that! And we hosted a lovely Samhain Circle. Today I finished setting up my 2020 Big Happy Planner and added my budget and bill pay pages, Birthday Master List and sabbat da...

It is raining on the Coast... has been for DAYS..... and since my car is in the hospital getting an expensive repair I ham on 2 wheels. The brighter side is that L took me to cancer follow-up yesterday and we had a lovely day filled with good news, lunch and puttering in Mobile. I have planned an event for Samhain, rain or shine. That means I will be having a bonfire Circle regardless of who does or does not show up due to weather. Sigh. I am in the process of fine-tuning the details but it will be very low key, even for me. :-) One of the items on my "Do this THIS year!" list is almost complete and I am stoked! There are several things on that list: Turn all my CDs into digital files. Destash art supplies I am no longer using. Clean out clothes in my closet I no longer need or want or wear. Completion of some of my older "I want to do this" art projects. And indexing all of my stones and giving them a new home so that they are easily accessible and readily availa...

#1) Participating in my art group's "Birthday Club" and send a handmade item to each MET #2) 2019's weekly scrapbook layout challenge over at the Scraptacular Cropping Club Missed 2 challenges while on vacay. #3) Monthly lottery challenge in my ATC Art Group on IO Groups. Did not participate in the September lottery. #4) Follow my budget and pay off my ALL debt by this year's end. This is still very much a work in progress.