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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2003-12-29 10:02 am

Oaths, challenges, resolutions, and other obligations


To ritual teams: Become a resource for ritual material. Memorize as many songs, invocations, ritual patterns, etc as possible, and know where to get more.
Doing pretty well on this, I think. I'm keeping a small notebook of bits that I capture and/or create as I wander about. My library is expanding, and I had to learn so many stories in order to reasonably execute my part of adult ed this year that I think I'm on the right track on this one. Expires: Next ritual teams dedication.

To Lugh: Learn three new skills. So far, since taking this oath, I've learned to make T-tunics (in my size and in monkey size). I've made a lame-ass attempt to learn to crochet, but could do a bit more on that. I think that's all though, so work continues. Expires: Lughnassadh.

To the dwarves/earth elementals: Give up smoking entirely. Check. If I could get someone to take the remainder of my last pack of cloves off my hands, I'd consider that more or less done. Expires: Never.

To myself: Finish [livejournal.com profile] 50bookchallenge. Not gonna happen. I've read 34 books since I started (36 if you count new gaming manuals, but I'm not). However, I did only give myself 6 months instead of a year, so 34 in six months is not so bad. I'm going to do it again next year. Expires: Dec. 31.

To the gods and everybody: Try new things, even if I don't know how well they'll come out - accept failure as well as success. Be not neophobic. Er....Check. Expires: Dec 31, but likely to be extended.

To myself: Stop drinking for 30 days, beginning Jan 1.

I think that's all, but this post may be updated as I remember more.

tall list of short orders

[identity profile] delascabezas.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
good luck on making and keeping your resolutions!

You're a hero.

[identity profile] saffronhare.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
That is all.

wow!

[identity profile] capriciouslass.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
I just have to respect the fact that you can at least keep track of them and are on your way to completing them. The first thing I need to do is to pare mine down to 'doable' instead of 'completely insane'. After that I'll set deadlines...

Re: wow!

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'm part gnome, after all. And gnomes are *like* gremlins - The difficult we do right away, the impossible takes a little longer.

Anyway, these are just the ones I remember. There might be more that have fallen so far by the wayside that I don't remember making them.

[identity profile] kcwitch.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
well mac will be brewing again before lughnassadh so when he does you can come over here and learn to brew. that would be your 3rd new thing to learn. i will take the cloves off your hands and give them to another who will smoke them. as far as the others, eh...i can't help with that.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That's right! I was going to go play with beer with Mac. I knew there was something I was already thinking of... Thanks!

[identity profile] kcwitch.livejournal.com 2003-12-29 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
you're welcome. always glad to help.