2009 Resolutions

by **chrisbishop** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:41 am

Okay, I might be late with this, but at least we're still in January - so these resolutions still count!

My resolutions for 2009, regarding this website, but not necessarily in order of importance:

Well... That sure promises to be a busy year... :lol:

by **Marion** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:44 am

Goodness, you shame me with your industry, Chris!
Knowing that, even with the best intentions, I so rarely manage to keep any resolutions, I don't usually make them. Plus, Real Life has a habit of taking over and then my priorities change...
My 2009 Wish List would be something like:
- Work part-time again (for the same full-time money, of course)
- Get 26 hours out of every day and spend the additional 2 writing
- Think of some decent plots :roll:

- Get my daughter to tidy her bedroom and find the missing Christmas present she bought for her father and 'hid'...
- Print out my favourite CS fics and replace my bookshelves with a TARDIS, so I can store them somewhere... in fact replace entire house with a TARDIS, so we're not forever moving things from one inappropriate storage place to another when we need to use the space for something else.
- Go through every CD case and make sure it has a CD in, and - even better - the right CD... then padlock all CDs to their rack, so my daughter can't take them into her bedroom never to be seen again...
- Get the bunnies moved into their own house... so we can redecorate the front room secure in the knowledge that they won't strip that wallpaper....

I think that's about it for now, but I'm bound to be able to think of more later :grin:

by **MMK** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:33 pm

Marion wrote: - Go through every CD case and make sure it has a CD in, and - even better - the right CD... then padlock all CDs to their rack, so my daughter can't take them into her bedroom never to be seen again...
- Get the bunnies moved into their own house... so we can redecorate the front room secure in the knowledge that they won't strip that wallpaper....
I think that's about it for now, but I'm bound to be able to think of more later

:lol: I sometimes do that with CDs (take them into my bedroom, i mean :wink:

)
Bunnies are fairly good paper shredders, Marion :wink:

. Mine used to rip up the newspaper under their hay :roll:

... i can just imagine them up in 'bunny heaven' doing that right now.

My 2009 resolutions:

(looks like that's one thing on the list done already :razz:

)

by **Elentari** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:01 am

My 2009 Resolutions will probably end up broken but here goes:

# Next time I get an idea for a story I will WRITE IT DOWN.

# Resolve not to take work home, no matter how hectic things get.

# Try to write the 'difficult bits' of a crossover story I started about 5 years ago. :roll:

# Do the housework more often. :oops:

# Buy a few things that have been on my 'wanted list' for years.

Website · by **Sage** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:57 am

I have a few, but the fan related ones ...
# Finish my outstanding writing challenges/prompt tables. And not start any more until then.
# Submit more stories to SHQ, not just post fic on my journal then forget about it.
# Write for other fandoms (yes, sacrelige

) and/or other characters and genres. More variety to my output anyway.

Then some other IRL stuff like passing my driving test, doing nanowrimo again, and working out.

by **IKeepFishInMyEpaulettes** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:30 pm

Right.
Resolutions she plans to make and then actually DO:

- Actually finish the story(ies) that she has been neglecting, and post it.

- Find at least ONE Troy/Marina fic somewhere on the internet(if anybody knows of one, feel free to help me:D).

- Remember to post online more often.

Over,
Chuck

by **Clya Brown** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:31 am

Maybe I can help you with the last one there: Troy and Marina both feature in "The Concordian Legacy" (as long as you don't mind Scarlet complicating their relationship a bit), and Marina turns up alone on Cloudbase in the role of Pacifican ambassador to the World Government in "Meet the Enemy", both on this site:

http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/fa ... legacy.htm
http://www.spectrum-headquarters.com/fa ... _enemy.htm

More for naughty giggles, you'll find an article much in the style of the News of the World discussing their relationship in "Not TV21", also Troy has his own Uncyclopedia entry, in which you'll discover among other things that he really met Marina in a nightclub in Singapore:

http://webspace.webring.com/people/wn/nottv21/page1.htm
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Troy_Tempest

by **Marion** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:15 pm

And very good stories they are too.

I have singularly failed to accomplish most of my resolutions so far this year:
I am working longer than ever, for a start, and the days seem to be getting shorter as I collapse into bed at some unearthly early hour these days.

My daughter never did find the missing Christmas present... and her room got tided by Yours Truly when she left for college.
Still haven't got a TARDIS - or printed out all my favourite stories :oops:

And the bunnies are still ruling the household with claws of iron in velvet paws...

I was rather pleased by my Halloween plot though :wink:

- so 1 out of 8... I think that suggests I could do better. :roll:

by **Clya Brown** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:11 pm

An excellent story, to be sure! And ah yes... the ones that haven't got done yet... Well, I suppose the only reason anything got written at all is that I can't finish off the one story that was supposed to have been completed about four years ago. This is called displacement activity, of course: throwing yourself into doing what you want to do so you can convince yourself that you haven't got time to do what you're supposed to be doing. Among all the other things I haven't got time to do - because I'm up to my neck in writing things like this post - are:

a) Clearing out the loft, which now contains almost everything from my parents' old house that wasn't taken with them when they moved two years ago, including a portable gramophone from about 1929 that's the size and weight of a create of lager, fifty 78 rpm records to play on it (except that I can't, because the spring's broken), including "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Johnny Marvin and a 1935 recording of Ravel's Bolero (split up onto four separate disks, so you have to make sure you play them in the right order), two sewing machines and about twenty badly-painted garden gnomes dating from just before World War II;

b) Cutting swathes through over 100 old VHS videos that I'm never going to watch again but which I can't bring myself actually to throw away because there could conceivably be something really interesting on one or two of them;

c) Transcribing a few minutes - and in some cases a few seconds - from each of about the same number of audio cassettes that have been lying in one of my drawers for the best part of 30 years, using a cassette player with an MP3 connection that I bought two years ago and which is still lying unopened in its box;

d) Copying the "Battle Stations" drum sequence from my 1965 TV21 minidisk "A Trip to Marineville" so I can use it as a ringtone on my mobile phone whenever my mother calls (if anybody just happens to have either this and/or the corresponding "Action Stations" sequence as MP3s lasting more than just a couple of seconds - or can tell me where I can find them - could you let me know please?).

e) Finish my website so I can send customised Christmas cards with its address printed in it to all my friends... and then never have to send them any more Christmas cards ever again because they'll be able to just log onto the website. (Except that obviously I'll need to send them a card each year to remind them what the website address is.)

I'm sure there are others as well, but I haven't really got time to work out what they all are - because right now I'm supposed to be doing something else... :oops:

by **IKeepFishInMyEpaulettes** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:19 pm

Thankyou!
If you do find succede with the action stations venture please tell me, as it would be perfect for my grandmother. I love the old woman to pieces, but she's as nutty as a box of frogs

*scurries off to read her spoils*

Ta,
Chuck

by **IKeepFishInMyEpaulettes** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:05 pm

Has finished her spoils.
Completely and utterly blown away.
She has also discovered a new ship.
....and she loves it!

by **Skybase Girl** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:16 pm

Doc Brown said;

) Cutting swathes through over 100 old VHS videos that I'm never going to watch again but which I can't bring myself actually to throw away because there could conceivably be something really interesting on one or two of them;

With you on this one, Doc. I cannot possibly get rid of old VHS tapes because there may be be crucial recordings of ballet performances which must be kept for posterity, along with the entire four seasons of "Chicago Hope" broadcast on BBC before they ditched it ( for those unaware of this ground- breaking drama, it was aired about the same time as "ER", but was much darker and funnier - one of the incomparable David Kelley's finest moments).

I cannot bear to part with a second of at least three recordings of "Out of Africa" and "The Bridges of Madison County" ( just in case one gets deleted by accident ). It's possible that I may even find re-runs of "Daktari" and "Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion".

Our spare TV is going to be moved up into my loft space, complete with the video recorder. This will fool my other half into believing we're getting rid, but will in fact, be feeding my nostalgia habit :-D

by **hazel** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:05 pm

Crumbs, 'Daktari'... haven't seen that, or even thought of it, for donkey's years!

I have been very good. I've just got rid of two shelves'-worth of books and videos. Just another couple of dozen to go... And today, I threw out a load of old clothes, having finally come to the conclusion that I will never be a size 14 again. Dammit.

Anything to do with Scarlet, or indeed, anything Andersonian, is, of course, sacrosanct.

by **Carrie** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:46 pm

I evidently did not get around to posting any 2009 resolutions,
Generally speaking I try not to make resolutions , I prefer to cal them 'objectives',and I do feel quite smug for completing several important projects this year.

a) Converting all my digital camcorder tapes onto DVD, editing out all the crap bits and adding in suitable (or so I thought at the time...) music.
b)Painting my garage doors (a job I have been putting off for some time..like three years.)
c)Learning to bake cookies for the first time for the school PTA.

Speaking of VHS tapes. I spent the best part of and hour last night trying to find the one with last weeks episode of Stargate Universe. Never did find it, and I discovered that rather a lot of the tapes didn't contain what I'd put on the label. :oops:

. Still, I had fun watching the adverts, some of which went back ten years, and I think I probably won't be able to to throw all my tapes away just becuase I dont want to delete a bit of history...well, thats my excuse anyway. perhaps I should convert those to DVD too?

by **Intensity Angel** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:12 am

I wish I had seen this sooner! Curse my stupid eyesight! It's never been the same since that hockey accident. These are the ones I made, and I've broken a couple already. :twisted:

I'm no angel really.

1. Actually tidy room this in 2010
2. Pass driving test
3. Finish off fan fiction projects before the deadlines I've set
4. Go to university
5. Don't stress over exams
6. Find a part time job or temporary work
7. Get 'Robbie' on the road, it's been six years since I first started restoring him.
8. Stop wearing my Rover hat all the time, I have other ones!!

I've broken 1 and 5. Dad tidied my room up instead. :grin: