Happy New Half Year!

[elvenpiratelady]

We're halfway through the year! Six months, 182 days and however many hours have passed since 2008 officially began, but it's at this time of year that I find myself lagging. Australia is currently in the depths of winter, which is a normal part of every year and I do enjoy the season, but the Winter Solstice was at least a week ago and it's still cold and dark in the mornings*.

*Not that I'd know myself, arising as I do at around 9.30. But I have reliable witnesses.

So! In any case, I present the holiday of New Half Year - an excuse to have a drink or partake of your favourite food, and congratulate yourself on surviving half of 2008 without being killed/kicked out of school or uni/fired/attacked by sentient alien mushrooms with death rays. And there are New Half Year Resolutions if you so desire - the ones I've drawn up are more like resolutionettes, but I intend to stick by them.

Resolutionettes - life

1. Eat at least one piece of fresh fruit every day.
2. Go for a walk every day.
3. Obtain paid employment.
4. Practice driving once a week.
5. Pass all of my subjects this semester.
6. Be more adventurous.
7. Find a good tree to climb, and climb it.
8. Complete my 50bookchallenge list.

Resolutionettes - fandom

1. Finish 50lyricsfanfic already.
2. Do not join any more fanfic challenge communities until the ones I currently have are finished.
3. Review everything I read.
4. Write more PPC missions.
5. Write down plotbunnies instead of trying to keep them all organised in my head.
6. Practice the 'write first, edit later' method of ficcing because that seems to be faster.
7. Find an icon-making program, because Paint is inadequate.

These are my resolutionettes, and I resolve to stick by them until the year ends/all of them are completed, whatever happens first. If I fail in my quest, I will go and revise Latin noun declensions in penance.

Happy New Half Year!

Comments

[morethmusing.livejournal.com]

Gratz on the half-year survival! (Why do I think I'll take the Latin nouns? ;P)

Spring is on the way... And what happens in your Spring? Do you get rain? No, you're probably too far south for that(?).

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

Gratz to you too! (Melbourne isn't that far south, but calling September 'spring' is a bit of a misnomer, really - it's in October when we start to get sunny days and warm weather. In July, we get sunny days and freezing weather, and in August and September we get rainy days and freezing weather.)

[kunenk.livejournal.com]

Happy Half New Year! *toasts with hot chocolate with marshmellows in*

*grins* Yeah, I'm also getting up late- hurrah for semester break!- so I'm judging more by it getting darker later in the afternoons. Just as well, four-thirty is a stupid time to be turning on the lights.

I will second your second general life resolutionette, and add 'go for a swim'. Least there's a swimming centre kind of within decent walking distance for me, I guess.

[elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com]

And Happy Half New Year to you too! *hands ginger beer around* Hmm. I shall have to investigate swimming pools - there's a lake near me, but it's not exactly pristine...