Resolutions Re-revisited
My resolutions for last year:
Res #1: Take piano lessons
Res #2: Take french lessons with my Mum (she wants to learn too)
Res #3: Concentrate on doing pencil portraits and other pencil art. I have a nice set of graphite pencils courtesy of Nantalith. Also have a bash at all my comic and manga projects.
Res #4: Concentrate on starting my business. Just the preliminaries such as corp. identity development and the website.
Res #5: Don’t stop saving money. This goes without saying.
Res #6: Do all the household jobs I’ve been planning (painting, shelves etc)
Res # 7: Start ballet!
Most of them got done, I started both piano and ballet even though I didn’t continue which counts. The piano I will resume once I have an instrument on which to practise. The French did not get started but my Mum now has some CDs which will help with the process.
The art was so-so and the business was pretty good. Picked up some new clients, although the website is still in limbo.
Resolutions for 2010:
Res # 1 Learn French
Res # 2 Go to the dentist
Res # 3 Plan for trip to India in Dec 2010
That’s about all I can think of for now, perhaps one of them should be not to make anymore unrealistic reoslutions 
-Aki
Firsts of 2010
Thing you saw?: Paper lanterns drifting high in the night sky
Word you said?: Don’t recall
Thing you heard?: People yelling Happy New Year from the back of a bucky driving past
Person you looked at?: Nantalith
Song you heard?: A remix from Overclocked
TV show you watched?: None yet
Movie you watched?: Sherlock Holmes
Book you read?: Nation (Terry Pratchett)
Person you kissed?: None yet
Person you hugged?: My Dad
Thing you wrote?: Twitter post
Outfit you wore?: Swimming costume
Comment you left?: None yet
Person who commented you?: None yet
Survey you took?: None yet
Website you went to?: Wireless Online
Word you typed?: My email address
Person you called?: None yet
Person you texted?: My Mum
Person to call you?: None yet
Person to text you?: My Mum
Thing you ate?: Oatsoeasy
Best friend?: Sakana-chan
Boyfriend/girlfriend?: None
Picture you took?: Attempt at the paper laterns with my phone camera. It didn’t work.
Thing you laughed at?: Something somebody said in the car on the way home. Can’t remember what it was though
Person who laughed at you?: No idea
Time you cried?: None yet
-Aki
Renovations
Our renovations look set to be done by the end of this week.
What I’m trying to figure out is if I feel like I can’t take much more because I know it’s almost done or if four weeks is my limit for living in a dusty, crammed bedroom.
Maybe a bit of both…
-Aki
The Saga Continues
After the very prompt phone call from MTN, the promised follow up call (within half an hour I was told) never happened. I was resigned at this stage to either A) Give up or B) Send them another email, this one a little more scathing than the last.
Imagine my surprise at receiving a call this morning from a courier company who wanted to know if it was alright if they delivered my new cellphone to my place of work this afternoon.
I don’t know if cellphone companies usually do this, but it makes me feel kind of special.
-Aki
Prompt (after a long wait)
Not sure if it makes up for the long wait, but I sent MTN a complaint via their website about being unable to get a contract with them and I’ll be damned if I didn’t get an immediate phone call.
On the upside, it would appear I now have a contract. On the downside, giving info over the phone means my name is probably going to be misspelled.
-Aki
Create your own font
Depending on whether or not you like your own handwriting, this is quite an fun thing to do. I created a font from my handwriting for my ongoing cookbook project.
- Aki
A rather unsatisfactory conversation
Not all telesales people can be as dim as this guy it would seem. A call I received the other day was quite the opposite to my previous encounter.
The caller was looking for Nantalith, who at the moment is on extended leave from home. I gave them my default answer.
Me: “She doesn’t live here anymore.”
Telesales person: “I’m calling from Telkom. The account is in her name.”
Me : “Oh er, well, she’s away. For a long time.”
Telesales person: “When will she be back?”
Me: “I can’t really say.”
Telesales person: “We wanted to offer her X.”
Me: “Well, she’s not here.”
Telesales person: “So you don’t know when she’ll be back?”
Me: (annoyed) “No.”
Telesales person: “Well, I’m going to call again.”
She probably didn’t intend for it to sound like a threat.
-Aki
Marketing
I’m busy writing up a marketing proposal for work and I’ve noticed that there is a disturbing tendency for repetition in this kind of work.
When writing, loquaciousness comes naturally to me, so dressing up my theories and ideas with florid words and long winded yet poignant explanations happens automatically.
Advantages of this include the fact that my proposal is a sufficient number of pages long. Sufficient perhaps to impress, however I do wonder if my superiors will notice that I’ve repeated the same point an average of twice per sentence.
Added to this, I’ve been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett lately and, coupled with the Ben Trovato article I read recently, there is also the urge to be subtly satirical and scathingly sarcastic.
-Aki
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