self-portrait taken for my One Little Word project – “bravely” make-up less

watched:

• Diner
• Saturday Night Live season 4
• Sleepwalk with Me
• Manhattan
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (the book was far better)
• Bad News Bears (I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this movie before! I love sports movies)
• Downton Abbey season 3
• Game Change (ugh. Poor John McCain)
• The Hobbit (!)

read:

• The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Withinby Natalie Goldberg
• A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler
• Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
• The Martha Rules by Martha Stewart (actually only half of it. BORING)
• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
• Gone Girl by Gillan Flynn
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

listened to:

• caught up with the last month of Writing Excuses podcast. Love that one.
• caught up with Stuff you Should Know and Stuff You Missed in History Class
• In the Heights soundtrack (on CD even) when iPod stopped working

discovered:

• my nephew is the cutest ever. Obviously.
• putting the Dropbox app on my phone to automatically back up my photos. Miraculous. How have I not done this before!!?
• Photoshop. SO much fun to play with!
• remembered how much I love Ricky Nelson. He hosted an episode of SNL that I watched.
• I have a way with words. I need to be reminded of that every once in awhile. A friend asked for my help in shaping up her TV show idea treatment.
• I would be nowhere w/o Kam. We’ve been trucking on our 30Lists progress and I couldn’t do it alone!

wrote:

(holy cow, a LOT this month)

• Brave intentions for Ali’s One Little Word class
• announced One Year of Journaling self-paced email courses!!!
• and did an interview on The Nerd Nest about them
• my Productivity workshop including resources one, two and three
• Do: drop the excuse
• Don’t try to balance
• Decide what you will NOT do
• RescueTime
• Manage your time
• practice starting
• all kinds of 30Lists announcements! Announcing the official March 2013 dates, announcing self-paced pdf downloads for previous rounds, announcing our kit collaboration with Simple Scrapper, and announcing fun giveaways for this coming round!
• how to read a book a week
• My December Daily Blurb book arrived
• my One Little Word for 2013
• A Year of Brave : week 1 and week 2 and week 3
• the next great American novel(s) – and about 600 words of my next novel (ugh. disappointing)
• our 2012 in objects and the Blurb book of our 2011 in objects
• what to use to make minibook covers
• How to choose a website designer
• finished up Project Life December 2012 and a little discussion of what I’m doing with Project Life 2013
• updates to What’s in my Camera bag with the Diana Mini and Konica vintage film camera and the vintage B-2 Cadet box camera
• writing resources and blogging resources and creativity resources and scrapbooking and memory keeping resources
• a seed of inspiration: Wired for Story
• non-artsy inspiration: 5 more podcasts
• more free fonts
• around here in January
• visiting friends in Phoenix