{"id":3012,"date":"2010-09-30T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2010-09-30T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:44:51","slug":"meetup-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/meetup-october\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meetup :: October 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hello Meetup-ers! Hope your September has treated you well. With the slow start of school and adjusting to a new schedule, this past month has been challenging time-wise.
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\nI have been drawing more and more, which is great. Now I need to see the drawings through to a completed piece and list in my stores. I have quite a few designs that live on my PC that I need to set free! (And yes, I’m a PC, don’t judge.)
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\nI did create Office Hours (you can read the post here<\/a>) and it’s been great to define these for myself and my family. Still working out a few kinks, like fitting in exercise in my non-office hours, but it feels like a big accomplishment.
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\nAnother big one… blogging every day, Monday to Friday, on both the card and dog blogs. Whew! I didn’t really mind the schedule until this last week of the month. I think I was energized by all the newness of the posts at the beginning of the month. For October, I will go back to five days a week between the two blogs and analyze September numbers to see if blogging daily on both is worth it.
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\n\"\"With a nod to Paper Mango’s, Melanie<\/a>, I will be handwriting my goals this month.
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\nOctober is going to be a month of making and listing, over and over again. My father-in-law is getting married in December and asked me to do the wedding suite for him. That’s the first priority, but I also need to finish the grocery notepads I’ve been working on for awhile and finish the prototype of my home product. Then the holiday prep, which includes Craftland (oh boy!) and I must stop neglecting the Dog Paper. I have some cute dog drawings that I’m pairing with patterns for a new line of paper goods, but it’s another design stuck inside my laptop.
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\nI’m excited about my personal goals and I think they can all be met. I failed miserably with my yoga goal last month, but I am ready to commit to it this month. I’m also running again and have took up the challenge to run 50 miles in October from one of my favorite people on the interwebs, Cathy Zielske<\/a>. And with the change in season, I can start getting up at 5am again.
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\nOkay, that’s my long-winded goal post for the month. Looking forward to reading yours!
\nIf you’d like to join The Meetup, check out Liz’s blog, Athena Dreams<\/a>.
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