Another year of me
Dec. 26th, 2014 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateThe calendar tells me that I've been breathing on my own for thirty-six years, and I have retreated with the laptop, my tea, and a couple of mint-chocolate-chip cookies cadged out of the giant cookie sampler bag my mother got from her neighbors' christmas eve party. There continues a great humming and tapping of little toddler feet from downstairs.
Things I'd like to do this year include:
-write something. The present plan is to designate Wednesdays as "No, I will just disappear after dinnertime and NOT TALK TO ANYBODY." This may help.
(I also wanted to do a ceramics class again, and there's one for the spring that's not on Mondays (grauwulf's grad-school class day) only it turns out that it's on Thursdays, and he's now going to be teaching a class that day. So, yeah, maybe for summer. Also, while playing with clay is relaxing, the other classmates aren't always, so there's that.)
-a couple cons, by way of keeping a tiny bit in the writer community. Probably Balticon, Capclave, and maybe World Fantasy again, since Syracuse next November sounds almost doable. That's on my list of things to look into today. (Incidentally, Balticon is mutually exclusive with my 15-year college reunion, which could theoretically be fun, but I'm more interested in seeing what Jo Walton's influence & Wiscon's mistakes do for Balticon's writing panels.)
-Work out something in the way of better organizational tools, possibly via smartphone. (that's another post) The HabitRPG thing is still working for some stuff-- the catbox gets regularly cleaned; I've been remembering to floss my teeth-- but it has started *feeling* less new and useful. And I want to organize better motivation for managing dinners. (I've never been good at consistent dinner plans, but having a toddler who is extra wiggly-fuss around the time I want to start cooking, and who is wildly uninterested in eating most real adult food anyway, makes this harder.)
-And then there's a whole cluster of things with being overstressed and cranky and in need of alternative childcare options and some other things that I need to find ways to make less awful. Also possibly a little time to read books that are intended for people over the age of 8, because I've gotten to a point where I stare at book sales & things I ought to want to read and say, "But, I don't read anymore," which is entirely not true. I just read and re-read picture books semi-constantly, and it is not the same thing.
Anyway, I *think* the bathrooms are cleaner than they were last year.
Xposty from dreamwidth.
Things I'd like to do this year include:
-write something. The present plan is to designate Wednesdays as "No, I will just disappear after dinnertime and NOT TALK TO ANYBODY." This may help.
(I also wanted to do a ceramics class again, and there's one for the spring that's not on Mondays (grauwulf's grad-school class day) only it turns out that it's on Thursdays, and he's now going to be teaching a class that day. So, yeah, maybe for summer. Also, while playing with clay is relaxing, the other classmates aren't always, so there's that.)
-a couple cons, by way of keeping a tiny bit in the writer community. Probably Balticon, Capclave, and maybe World Fantasy again, since Syracuse next November sounds almost doable. That's on my list of things to look into today. (Incidentally, Balticon is mutually exclusive with my 15-year college reunion, which could theoretically be fun, but I'm more interested in seeing what Jo Walton's influence & Wiscon's mistakes do for Balticon's writing panels.)
-Work out something in the way of better organizational tools, possibly via smartphone. (that's another post) The HabitRPG thing is still working for some stuff-- the catbox gets regularly cleaned; I've been remembering to floss my teeth-- but it has started *feeling* less new and useful. And I want to organize better motivation for managing dinners. (I've never been good at consistent dinner plans, but having a toddler who is extra wiggly-fuss around the time I want to start cooking, and who is wildly uninterested in eating most real adult food anyway, makes this harder.)
-And then there's a whole cluster of things with being overstressed and cranky and in need of alternative childcare options and some other things that I need to find ways to make less awful. Also possibly a little time to read books that are intended for people over the age of 8, because I've gotten to a point where I stare at book sales & things I ought to want to read and say, "But, I don't read anymore," which is entirely not true. I just read and re-read picture books semi-constantly, and it is not the same thing.
Anyway, I *think* the bathrooms are cleaner than they were last year.
Xposty from dreamwidth.