It's what's for supper!

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Emily's diorama: de Vaca shipwrecks on Galveston Island. :-)

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A view from the stage at Hempstead Hall!

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Ribbon cutting at Hempstead Hall

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Drive-Time Tunes

I hit shuffle on my iPhone and let the music play on my way home from work. Here's what I heard:

Melt with You (Carls Stop the World remix)
DJ's Got Me Groovin (Girlio)
A Complicated Song (Weird Al)
Magic Carpet Ride (Crystal Method Remix)
Give Me Your Eyes (Brandon Heath)
Step Up 2 the Floor (my own AcidPlanet remix)
Come Together (Michael Jackson)
Soul Thing (Taylor Hicks)
Some Nights (fun)
Yeah Yeah (Willy Moon)

SAGA preps for their routine! Almost showtime!

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Our baby girl hanging out until she gets her cheersport on!

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Linnie and Kannon meet for first time!

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Great idea! Stop, drop and roll...

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This church has a pass-thru wall with a play place. Very cool! #parkplacelr

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Emily and Bailey played with glowing necklaces and bracelets last night.

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Look who showed up!

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Taking the option of control

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Playing with angles and stuff

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I always feel like... Somebody's watching me...

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

On this day one year ago, I set a few goals:

1. Post more here on my blog,
2. Write a new novel,
3. Enhance my existing novel and rerelease it,
4. Cross at least one item off my bucket list.

Let's see how I did:

2011 - 80 posts, 2012 - 90 posts = Mission accomplished, I guess.

I do plan to post more on here and a few enhancements should help in that regard. For example, InstaGram is now on IFTTT, so I created a recipe to auto-gen posts from my pics. I am also working on a few other recipes to help auto-post plus I have my own lengthier posts to put on here which will help build content as well.

New novel: Yeah, that went nowhere. I still plan to write it, but too many false starts and dead ends left me frustrated and dejected about the whole thing. I am hoping to find renewed vigor for the novel in 2013.

Enhance "Summer Breaks:" Yeah, that didn't go anywhere either. Maybe 2013 will prove a better playing field for my words.

Bucket List: I was able to cross TWO things off the list in 2012 - Ride Washington Incline and See Indians Play in Cleveland.

So, I went 2/4. Batting .500 isn't too bad. But, now, where do we go from here?

On the "to do" list for 2013:

• Post more in 2013 than in 2012
• Start "Somewhere Main and Maple Meet" over from scratch; bonus points for finishing it.
• Add missing pieces to "Summer Breaks;" bonus points for republishing it.
• Cross at least one item off my Bucket List
• Perform a semi-anonymous random act of kindness at least once a month; bonus points for doing it more than that. semi-anonymous? That means I won't tell the people, but I may post about it here. I may not post about the acts, though. I wouldn't be doing these RAKs in order to brag or boast, so posting about them might seem that way. That is not my intention. Sometimes, though, performing a RAK may lead to personal insight and/or observation that I'd want to share.

I'm not setting unrealistic goals like "be less sarcastic" or "lose weight." I think knowing one's limitations and potential is key to successfully keeping one's "resolutions."

Happy New Year, Everyone!

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