just a time from now

In order to complete this task, I will need to read about five books per month which, frankly, is daunting but I managed last year so...maybe. And it is a task I did NOT complete for October. Not even close!!
38_A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin
Task 17_Project_100 MOVIES_DONE!!
In order to complete this task, I will need to watch about 10 movies per month, a task I completed for October &, frankly, for 2017. This task is done!
91_Sixth Sense_1999_Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette
92_Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies_2008_Art Documentary_Martin Scorsese, Chuck Close, Julian Schnabel
93_Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens_2008_Biography
94_The Last Picture Show_1971_Timothy Bottoms, Cybil Shepard, Jeff Bridges
95_The Cool School_2008_Documentary about the LA Art Scene in the 1950s & 60s
96_Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things_2015_Ryan Nicodemus, Joshua Fields Millburn
97_Exit Through the Gift Shop_22010_Banksy, Mr Brainwash, Shepard Fairey
98_Cave of Forgotten Dreams_2010_Historical Documentary of Cave Chauvet
99_Saving Banksy_2014_Documentary
100_American Masters: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film_2006

Dribs & Drabs
13_A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin_Finished the last book of the Ice & Fire series, published in 2011 which concerns me. Martin left most everyone in very bad places and I am looking forward to how he will complete their stories which will necessarily differ from the Game of Thrones series. I loved reading this. I only wished it were done :(
18_Complete SKETCH JOURNAL_I've been trying to fill a sketch journal for like THREE years and finally have. From here on out I want to complete one drawing journal per year. The more you do the more you learn & improve. All the sketches below were done with an HB pencil & in 30 minutes.

These two pages represent my daily activity, one of petals and one of random stuff, a dried Thanksgiving goard, a Christmas stuffed reindeer from the 1950's, a wooden toy car David bought me 30 years ago, and a ceramic pencil holder Aaron made in elementary school. Each sketch was done in 30 minutes not each page!


Left is quick sketched ideas for one of drawing styles for the kid's book I'm hoping to do. Right is a landscape that was not done in 30 minutes. More like four hours :)

These are back to the 30 minutes deal, a lemur pup's face, a Margay cub's eye reflecting forest-y bits, and a joey's ear, it's placement being upside down. When 30 minutes is up, it's up as can be seen especially by the lemur.
52_Watch 25 Art-related Documentaries_As can be seen from my Watch 100 Movies list above, I decided in October to wrap Task #52 up. I will do this again for next year's mission as I learned so much & was so very inspired.
79_Create list of Family Holiday & Seasonal Traditions_This list,which includes everything from when to decorate for the next holiday to what fruits & veggies are truly in season, will only continue to grow and was so fun to compile..
81_FreeRice_ 100,000/ 100,000_A long-running yearly task of donating 100,000 grains of rice while also happily improving my vocabulary if not my spelling.
98_Take 6 Online Courses_1 Journalism with Dan Rather; 1 How to Publish a kid's book, and 4 art-related courses, this year all through udemy.
99_Work up design for backyard_Design is done, I handed David a rudimentary pencil sketch and he turned it into an actual plan, and so now all that remains is actually start the project. First up, moving a tree from one side of the yard to the other.

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Task 16_Project_50 BOOKS
In order to complete this task, I will need to read about five books per month which, frankly, is daunting but I managed last year so...maybe. And it is a task I did NOT complete for August
34_A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
35_Bookclub recommendation_Mrs Houdini by Victoria Kelly
36_ART_5_Creating Texture in Colored Pencil by Gary Greene

Task 17_Project_100 MOVIES (To include completed series)
In order to complete this task, I will need to watch about 10 movies per month, a task I completed for August
71_John Wick: Chapter 2_2017_Keanu Reeves, Ruby Rose, John Leguizamo
72_Bride of Frankenstein_1935_Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
73_Edge of Tomorrow_2014_Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
74_Dunkirk_2017_Harry Styles, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh
75_National Gallery_2014_Behind-the-scenes documentary at the National Gallery in London
76_Logan_2017_Hugh Jackman, Boyd Holbrook, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant
77_John Reacher_2012_Tom Cruise, Werner Herzog, Lee Child, Rosamund Pike
78_Spider-Man: Homecoming_2017_Zendaya, Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei
79_Brillo Box (3 Cents off)_2016_Art Documentary
80_The Royal Tenenbaums_2001_Gene Hackman, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Danny Glover, Ben Stiller, Alec Baldwin

Dribs & Drabs
11_ I readthe third book in the Ice & Fire series, A Storm of Swowrds
53 to 54_Read 5 art-related books
1_The Complete Colored Pencil Book by Bernard Poulin
     I book I had long had but never bothered to read but from which, now that I really want to explore colored pencils, I learned a lot.
2_Eyewitness Art: Color by Alison Cole
    A book I had bought for Aaron back in the day which touches on all the fundementals of color
3_A Girl Reading by Katie Ward
     The only book I bought for this task, it tells the stories, through historical-fiction, of several through-the-ages paintings and more recently social media, of women reading.
4_Painting With Water-Soluble Colored Pencils by Gary Greene
5_Creating Texture in Colored Pencil by Gary Greene
     Nos 4 & 5 were books that had belong to my dad and that I now have also read :)

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Tumblr is my fun place, my mindless, for the most part, place, easy in-easy out so the main thing here was to clean up my feed, removing those who are no longer relevant and, toward the future, adding those who will be, a WIP. I want tumblr to be informative but not heavy and probably focused mainly on art & fun-facts science, happy gifs, Did You Knows, and so on. Easy :)

66_Organize Livejournal_my problem child

Currently I'm having a nearly one-way conversation, so I went through my Friends-List removing almost all of those who hadn't posted in over a year & some of those I comment to but who never comment to me. Two-way street, people. Didn't leave many so in doing this I realized I need a different kind of f-list, one less focused on the etherealness of fandom. Although the friends I've garned through fandom, I love, I need more friends focused on lifestyle which a few of my famdon friends have become.
          I also cleaned up my Scrapebook, which is actually pretty fun, scanning through ALL the photos I've posted over my years on Livejournal. And finally, I updated my Profile to better reflect my new focus so, I'll see how it goes. Oh and user icons. So many parts!

67_Organize Email_my where-everything-funnels-through child

I lightened the load by about 800 no-longer-needed emails some, since I am something of a hoarder when it comes to messages from friends, dating back to 2009.

64_Organize Twitter_my socio-political child

My twitter feed was also heavily skewed toward a fandom-focus. Instead, I've made into my socio-political place-to-go, deleting many lovely people I not longer feel an affinity with, following some senators, one an actual Republican (Mitch McConnell) so I can bitch bitch bitch, a few congressmen, and orgs that fit my mood, suit my attitude, support my world-view. Oh and journalists like Dan Rather.
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As an unnecessary aside, I've joined Facebook but only with an extremely limited focus, three friends so far, who I love but who live far far away so I never get to see them. As we grow older I would like to refind them on a more daily basis :)

A happy happy sigh

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