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Today, Alex did about $20 worth of laundry. (The laundromat is cheaper than the apartment laundry, and usually takes far less time, since people are terrible about getting their stuff out of the machines here.)

I even did my part by folding all my shit and getting it put away as soon as I was home from work!

So now we've theoretically also dealt with the "trash" that they thought was a problem.

Couldn't get clarification on the notice today, because management left before noon today, and won't be back until Tuesday for the long weekend.

To be honest, it *is* nice to already have a bit more open space, but I'm STILL pretty resentful.

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Next week we're house/dog sitting for my mom and Taylor. They're going back down to New Mexico to visit my aunt and grandma. My mom went to Oregon about a month ago to start dealing with my grandma's house and stuff, so I think she has some things from there to bring down. Plus just getting to see my grandmother again, and spend some time with her and my aunt.

I'm a little sad that I'm not able to go this time, but I know I was lucky to get to go down in March. (I didn't know that they were planning this trip, or I might have shifted my time off plans. But I also don't really regret taking the time I did.)

And my grandmother has certainly made it far longer than the "a few days at most" prognosis from her hospitalization at the beginning of March, so I'm still hopeful that I'll see her again, too.

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Just realized that I forgot to ever post last week's habit tracker, and I don't want to be TWO weeks behind, so fuck it, it's another two-post day, apparently.

Habit Tracking: Week 34 (August 22 - August 28)

Stickers this week are these super shiny flowers that were also among the stickers Alex found.

This week felt better than the previous, largely because it was my vacation from work! While we didn't get to do everything that we'd hoped to, we did still do things more days than not. The one thing I didn't do was write, and I'd hoped to get back to it. I still struggled with motivation on the currently in-progress fic, but I at least started to feel like I'd LIKE to work on things again.

My goals for the week:
- We did things!
* Fairmount Cemetery
* The Downtown Aquarium
* Pine Valley Ranch
* Devil's Backbone
* Fancy Dog Park
- I didn't get back to writing Connections of the Heart. I'm just... really struggling with it, and not liking my plotline for it. I think it may be the kind of thing where I have to just accept that it's not going to be great, and just release it to the wild so that it's done, ha.
- I put some laundry away
- I sorted through a box of my stuff Alex had set aside
- I cleaned Broccoli Cheddar Bomb's habitat

For tracked habits:
- Work - 0/7, vacation!
- Household Maintenance - 4/7
- Physical Activity - 6/7, mostly hiking, one lesser day where we just walked to the gas station
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7, oof
- Meta Work - 1/7
- Personal Writing - 7/7
- Other Creative Things - 6/7, mostly taking pictures
- Reading - 7/7, split between the novella at the end of Imaginary Numbers, The Last Sun, The Only Good Indians, the Mystery Flesh Pit wordbuilding stuff, and some fic
- Video Games - 1/7, I played Silent Hill 3 for a whole hour or so
- Social Interaction - 7/7

Total words of fiction written: 0

Total words of fiction written between August 01 - August 28: 2421