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Well, I meant to go back and do Russian and other things and instead I read through the sentences in my Latin book on the bus ride home and that was it. Oops. Extra double plus annoying because now I have to leave the house half an hour early to take the bus into work. Okay, no I don't, I just have to leave half an hour early if I want to get to work half an hour early and not barely on time for opening the store. BLEH. Bleh all around. Okay, no I don't, the boy got home early enough to drive into work and feed all the cats.

Also the whole thing where new bras take a few wearings to break in and get comfortable is fecking irritating. Though this brand is less irritating than the last I got. It's irritating in whole new ways! None of which seem to involve chafing the fabric on the skin, which I can live with. Who the fuck makes clothing that's made to be worn directly against the skin, out of material that chafes on the skin? I ask you. (Maidenform, apparently, is the answer.)

Spent the better part of yesterday fighting the urge to write a purely self-insert character into the film version of The Hobbit solely for Thranduil to become unduly fascinated with for the express purpose of it hurting more when said person punches him in the face for being a dick. It's not even a love story. (Though, yes, I do find Lee Pace attractive. I'm not sure if he's more or less attractive as Thranduil. When he's not being bratty.) It's a story about an elf finding a shiny probably-human, kidnapping them to be his pet, and then discovering the pet bites back because he's a total shitstain of a person. And having it hurt that much more. You may have guessed by now, I am cranky with Thranduil because of things he said and did in The Desolation of Smaug. Not that Thorin gets off either, I want to shake Thorin until his teeth rattle and beat him in the face with an all-night lecture, but he's less irritating that way. ... Is that the theme of today? Bras and Hobbit characters being more or less irritating than each other?

I bet that's a comparison you never thought you'd hear.

And I haven't even had any sugared cereal today.

Anyway. Okay. No UPS today, so just writing projects, tidying my desk which is making slow but steady progress. I don't think I'll take any of my language books in today, just let it be my Kindle and my Russian book and maybe do some of the knitting I have at work. Or maybe start in on some of the spinning I have to do if I end up out front... eh, no, I doubt I'll end up with time to do that. Filing, writing, and reading. That's good enough. Last night, I don't even remember what I got distracted with last night, other than a drunk friend. So, I could use some reading time.

And at least whatever head cold I seemed to have been heading towards over the weekend has gone the fuck away. This is not the best time ever to be sick. Really no time is the best time to be sick because being sick sucks, but I would really rather not be sick in the middle of a week when I already have a holiday. I want to enjoy my fucking holiday. And maybe go see Frozen.

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Okay, what the fuck is выклеен? I don't have my dictionary with me and Gtranslate goes verklempt over what it calls vykleen. Or rather I should say, I don't have my good dictionary with me. Other than that I'm on the top of page 26 and I might try to do another page if it stays as slow as it's been I also want to get things in boxes while I have some degree of time and do a bit of writing, but at least we're leaving early.

And the last of the calendars turns over. I haven't been doing a very good job of reconnecting with the Jewish part of my heritage this year, for one reason or another, I'll probably give it another try (I did manage over Chanukah! In no small part because it was over Thanksgiving and the aunt was over to light the candles with me.) over the course of the coming year. But for me the turn of the year tends to start around Samhain and end around Christmas, Samhain because pagan and it's time for everything to go to sleep for winter, and Christmas because that's when we started Courtesan school, and so that's when I make all my year-end reflections and plans for the next year.

So, most of this has already been covered privately. But just in case anyone was curious amidst the flurry of year end summaries and year ahead things, here's some of it. I did do about half? Maybe? Of the things that I set out to do. The two big things that I did not do were I did not end up losing a pound of weight every week to ten days (which is probably good because if I had I would have lost more weight than I want to lose, but I still have some ways to go in that journey. That's a whole complicated other thing.) and I was not a very observant Jew. Not that I aim to be, maybe more spiritual/mindful Reform Jew? Solitary Witch Jew. Something like that. My religious inclinations are clear to me but describing them to anyone else is a chore. For the at least one person just now seeing this, I wasn't raised Jewish so much as I was raised with an awareness of our heritage, even though we didn't practice when I was a kid. Now I'm working on reconnecting with that part of my history and figuring out what it means to me today. Anyway, the losing weight I didn't do as much as I wanted to, and the Judaism I didn't do as much as I wanted to, but gains were made in both of those areas. I also did finally publish an e-book, still working on figuring out the dead tree aspect of that, and I published a dime novel and completed the first chapter of a serial. Maybe I'll write some more on that this weekend and try to get part 2 of that at least halfway finished. Or something. Okay, that's too ambitious.

This year's goals are listed in number format on the Courtesan School entry for ease of crossing off, but they amount to: publish more, read more, practice languages more (and potentially pick at least one if not two oldnew ones up, Latin is a go, Japanese is more difficult), listen to more music, and keep up with my web presence. So, basically, more of what I'm doing right now, more new aspects of it, more doing, more of being me. More of practicing my virtues: beauty in both myself and appreciating it all around, grace in physicality (ballet mostly) and in life, wit in my writing and in my interactions, charm because it's not work at all, brilliance because I will damn well own my awesome, gaiety because life is incredibly hard without it even in small places, and timing because you have to fit it all in somehow, and good timing really helps.

So. That was 2013. It had its bad days (deaths of friends) and its amazing days (making new friends) and a whole lot of in-between days. Now I get to see what 2014 has on offer.