So I have a goal on Goodreads to read 50 books by the end of the year... I am going to come up WAY WAY short.... only 22 completed and I am working right now on Hollow City.... which I probably will NOT complete by year end... So this is a bummer for me... I really thought that I would be able to read a book or so a week last year.

Not sure what my goal will be for 2016... I am thinking I will stick with 50 as well... I think it's a reasonable goal.  

But a goal is a goal.

ALSO.... I am dumping links and blogs from my feedly reader by the dozens... I decided that I am only going to read things that make me happy... ie: no gossip sites and no fake news sides... so buh buhye Gawker, Gothamist, UpRoxx, Defamer, DListed (i know  i know... I should keep that one soley for the "hot slut of the day" and follow ups on Richard Simmons... but I simply can't), Hollywood Reporter, Neatorama and Vanity Fair. Seriously and I am going to direct you here:  Vulture from NY Mag actually will cover ALL of those listed above.... without taking away the smarts. 

I am getting rid of also some other blogs that I generally just click through because I can't keep up.... Bored Panda, Cool Hunting, I Spy DIY, 1000 Life Hacks, Boing Boing (I simply can't keep up with it), Consumerist (how I wish I could keep up with it) and Mashable (why did I even pretend that I could keep up with it).  

Yeah and this is embarrassing... I have a tumblr.... What? The? What?!  I had it linked in my feedly.  I don't understand Tumblr actually so it's no surprising the last thing that I linked there was over 500 days ago.  Can I let that go?  I suppose I will have to.  Nope... just found the post it button... so welcome back oh tumblr... I have missed you????

I have to dump SoBadSoGood soley because of the autostart durge of videos on their feed... It completely pisses me off because the videos always seem to start from halfway down the page and completely unexpected.  It's too much and a bummer because it's a good feed actually.

I am down now to 48 linked blogs/sites. From over 300.  In less than an hour... and seriously not at all as painful as I was thinking it would be.

Now for the hard stuff... Pinterest.  I have 5987 pins.  My goal?  I dunno... something managable that I can actually do?  I mean I want to move things into my "I have done this" board... sooooo I have to keep only the things that I actually am going to do, make, cook, buy, craft, play, read.  There currently only lives 134 pins of things that I have done from my pins so it's time for that to get undercontrol too.

I gots some work to do.

So I not one for resolutions... but ...I resolve to use many many more ellipses in this post than I have in any other

With that "but" up there means I have conditions for myself... these have to be goals that I know that I can meet... goals that I have wanted to achieve but didn't make the time...

1).... follow fewer Pinterest boards... meaning pin less ... meaning MAKE MORE (I have to be much much more selective about which folks I follow and even more selective about which sub pinterest boards I follow too... it's nuts.  You may only meaning I may only follow 300 boards but that could actually mean 1000s of boards ... it's way too much.

2).... go to the stupid gym... I have only actually gone a handful of times this year... seriously... I could probably count on my hands (maybe a few toes) how many times I actually went to the gym... that mean's F didn't go that much either.  So we need to get on that... it's paid for (at least through January... then we reup... )so lets make that habit a habit starting now...

3) catch up on the shows I have in queue on Prime... again.. this is something I can do AT THE GYM while I am on the treadmill... It's doable, but I have my conditions... I should be at the gym.

4) last year I pledged to read 50 books on Good reads... I slacked and read 32... that isn't a bad number and it's more than half of what I pledged. So this year.. I am pledging 40 books.  It could be fiction anything.. but 40... doable.

5) write.... I mean seriously write.... hash out stuff... by hand... 15 minutes a day... maybe 30 because seriously I write VERY specifically and it's long hand and specifically time consuming... but 30 minutes is nothing right?  It's a fraction of a moment sometimes... 

6) take at least 10 pictures of SOMETHING every day.... could be Marty or Fez or what I am making for dinner or candles or a plant... something... then upload just one of the pictures...to this app called Day One which actually is pretty rad ... type in a couple sentences about what happened that day... good, bad, otherwise and boom ... after the year... publish the PDF and print it out... like a printed book... that too is completely freaking doable... DO AH BULL.... no excuses.  

Six little things... all doable... all things I kinda already do... but need to remember to do them more... so... resolutions? not so much... things to continue with... um ok... but it's out there now... 

I think I may also completely get rid of the blogger platform all together.  I haven't posted to it in oh how long.. you will have to look at the calendar over on that side -------------> of the blog since I am posting from email I can't be bothered to actually see... wait let me look at my sent email....oh dear... July.... so it's time to find another avenue. 

Looking into Mail Chimps Tiny Letter site.  It is also a free site also that seems to be used by journalists, other "vlogger" types and seems to have a very very clean interface.  I haven't zhuged my blogger since 8 bit was a thing it looks like... so.... that is also something I need to look into starting January perhaps.  

Maybe I will just cross post.  Blergh.  That is trite.  Pick one and stick with it Zoe... Maybe I stick with this.  This is my struggle... update or not... post blatherless boring nonsense or not... it's mostly been not.

It is a decision that I am going to leave for another date and another time.  

Merry Christmas and Feliz Naviblah to you Pee Wee fans out there... I am going to go make a little hot chocolate and craft up some paper stuff....

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This is the kind of stuff I am working on... need to get back to it today.