As most of you who pay attention to my page here, or my journals on any other of the sites that I haunt, I know that I have been less active on line.  There has been a lot going on in life in general right now.  Wyatt is almost walking on his own and into everything like a little 9 month old should be.  Including managing to climb to the top part of my couch without help.  If it's not Wyatt drawing my attention away, it's something else.  There's been a lot of health problems in my family recently, among several other dramas.  It's hard to keep myself focused, and I find what little time during the day that I manage to pick up a pen or a piece of clay very therapeutic.  There for in an attempt to keep myself more focused than I have been, I've decided to share my goals for this coming year.

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1.  Buy a better vacuum cleaner.
               (The one that I have only seems to pick up dust, and I find myself trying to sweep a carpet a lot of the time.)

2.  Research better foods, and try to introduce better things to eat into my families meals since that is a big thing now, for both sides of my extended family.

3.  Make a schedule and keep a calendar.  I know that right now with a 9 month old, my home schedule is not something that I should expect to have written in stone, but if I at least write it, with specific goals, I hope to half way follow it.  Especially since I would like to continue doing the things that keep me sane, like my ink sketches or my writing that I haven't done or kept up with in so long.

As far as my artistic related goal:

1.  Finish my resin projects.  I learned about casting in resin last year and I have a unfinished mask blank that is waiting for me.  As well as a dragon head that I am working on skulpting now that I hope to cast again for a few plushies.  This is tiedius work to a degree but also a lot of fun.

2.  I need to work on rebuilding my personal illustration portfolio.  By next year I would like to replace at least 4 of the pictures in it with new ones.  (4 seems managable at the moment.  We will see if I add to that number as time goes on.)

3.  Really this goal is up every year.  I just want to continue my practice with meterials, anatamy, and color.  Especially painting on 3D ish subjects like my sculptures.

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Really there are more goals than this, but if I were to write all of them down, I could fill a novel.  These are the ones that I believe are most important to me.