Habit Tracking: Week 05 (January 26 - February 01)

Some cute washi tape with sea stars on it. From the "Tidal Treasures" backerkit campaign by artist Aspenhearted.

We went to see Presence

This was a pretty productive week. I had that one day where I did a lot of cleaning (more than anticipated), and I also did a lot of reading, writing, and reviewing the things I was reading. So I do feel good about that. Everything else in the US feels like it's an absolutely insurmountable mess, and I don't know what to even try to do. It's definitely wearing on me, and while I'm trying to stay at least somewhat positive, it's hard to, because everything just seems so utterly fucked. Taylor is still not doing well. I'm trying to find small joys in reading and writing and such, but it feels very small.

Goals for the week:

• I did finish reading Trouble and Her Friends
• I continued reading Never Say You Can't Survive
• I did clean off my bedside table
• I did get the Xmas stuff (mostly) put away
• I did not sort out my closet shelves
• I did not prep my NaMoPaiMo model
• But I did remember to enter NaMoPaiMo, just before the deadline
• I did keep writing
• I didn't update my reading page
• I did write my thoughts up for the books read in January
• I did work on my friend's book
• I finally got my phone set up - unfortunately, it was just as frustrating and anxiety-producing as I'd thought it would be, and took nearly six hours by the time it was done, so it completely validated my desire/decision to put it off for months. The phone itself seems nice.
• We did get crickets
• I did my getyourwordsout check-in: 24,147 words (I probably should have picked a higher goal)
• I did my February grids in my tracker
• We went and picked up Cy's meds from the vet
• I started reading Beneath the Sugar Sky

Tracked habits:

• Work - 5/7
• Household Maintenance - 4/7
• Physical Activity - 2/7
• Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 4/7 - two days of over 1000 words, two days of over 500
• Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
• Meta Work - 4/7
• Personal Writing - 5/7
• Other Creative Things - 1/7
• Reading - 7/7 - I continued with Never Say You Can't Survive, I finished Trouble and Her Friends, read a little of my ebook, and started Beneath the Sugar Sky
• Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday and Monday we half-watched some tornado videos; Tuesday we went and saw Presence, which I enjoyed, then later a storm chase stream; Wednesday more storm videos in the background; Friday I don't remember; Saturday I listened to some youtube videos while at work.
• Video Games - 0/7
• Social Interaction - 4/7

Total words written: 7119 on my current WIP and two long DW posts (about books read and reactions to NSYCS)