Your doing perfectly fine in my opinion. We all have to learn, and the only way is to get experience. As to me, well, I'm going on vacation end this week, taking a cruise with the GF and she put her foot down and said no computer, so there you go... be gone most of october so miss canadian turkey day and doubt be back in time to do a halloween one.
Maybe remembrance day, which is nov 11th. Being canadian I should do the special Canadian holidays. Tomorrow is one for the native people (don't ask) but I couldn't be bothered. :)