Doing Things

jazzfish has been posting links to various new years' resolutiony things which lead to the discussion about being a person who Does Things and how this is far easier if you're surrounded by a network of other people who also Do Things and then talk about them, by way of inspiration. And then we commiserated about the brief flight of the motivation of men comm, and how that was nice while it lasted, but half the people on it don't ever post to lj anymore, and the two of us have migrated to posting from dreamwidth so it doesn't show up in our "post to" menus. (man, I miss laeticiav, although having double checked with her school's website to make sure she's not dead before sending out holiday cards, I choose to believe that her disappearance from the internet indicates a renewed devotion to her actual work...)

At any rate, I don't generally make new year's resolutions; I know my capacity, and a month or two of personal stubbornness is about all I'm good for in terms of working on life changes. Not only am I likely to run down a bit or move on to some other potential life change, but I don't want to discourage myself from making promises-to-self at other times of the year as needed. This has not stopped me from buying a whiteboard to keep a 50 projects for the year list on (listmaking being one of my better motivational tools) and so far I have four crossed off, which is more or less on track, numerically.

I'm also working on adding a little more scheduling to my life; I've signed up for two aquarium days (monday afternoons and thursday mornings) to replace the lost horticulture stuff; I'll miss working with the plants (particularly outside) but I'll for the present be working with (or at least around) snakes and lizards and birds and sugar gliders, which should be fun. I've also signed up for another round of yoga, and am considering finding a singing group somewhere. I hear the Lochmere choir is pretty decent... Possibly with all this going out of the house, I might get a bit farther with inviting people up for dinner or getting together with them.

( Pictures: white board, gratuitous cute doll photo, & a memento mori for zagzagael )

I have been thinking about but not posting a great many other things, so there may be more relating to food or to writing sometime soon. Also, my mother dug all of her canning equipment out of the basement for me, so I can make marmalade without having to store it all in the fridge now. Classy!

Doing Things

jazzfish has been posting links to various new years' resolutiony things which lead to the discussion about being a person who Does Things and how this is far easier if you're surrounded by a network of other people who also Do Things and then talk about them, by way of inspiration. And then we commiserated about the brief flight of the motivation of men comm, and how that was nice while it lasted, but half the people on it don't ever post to lj anymore, and the two of us have migrated to posting from dreamwidth so it doesn't show up in our "post to" menus. (man, I miss laeticiav, although having double checked with her school's website to make sure she's not dead before sending out holiday cards, I choose to believe that her disappearance from the internet indicates a renewed devotion to her actual work...)

At any rate, I don't generally make new year's resolutions; I know my capacity, and a month or two of personal stubbornness is about all I'm good for in terms of working on life changes. Not only am I likely to run down a bit or move on to some other potential life change, but I don't want to discourage myself from making promises-to-self at other times of the year as needed. This has not stopped me from buying a whiteboard to keep a 50 projects for the year list on (listmaking being one of my better motivational tools) and so far I have four crossed off, which is more or less on track, numerically.

I'm also working on adding a little more scheduling to my life; I've signed up for two aquarium days (monday afternoons and thursday mornings) to replace the lost horticulture stuff; I'll miss working with the plants (particularly outside) but I'll for the present be working with (or at least around) snakes and lizards and birds and sugar gliders, which should be fun. I've also signed up for another round of yoga, and am considering finding a singing group somewhere. I hear the Lochmere choir is pretty decent... Possibly with all this going out of the house, I might get a bit farther with inviting people up for dinner or getting together with them.

( Pictures: white board, gratuitous cute doll photo, & a memento mori for zagzagael )

I have been thinking about but not posting a great many other things, so there may be more relating to food or to writing sometime soon. Also, my mother dug all of her canning equipment out of the basement for me, so I can make marmalade without having to store it all in the fridge now. Classy!

Experimentally cross-posty from dreamwidth. Comments encouraged in either location.