mistressofmuses: Image of nebulae in the colors of the bi pride flag: pink, purple, and blue (Default)
mistressofmuses ([personal profile] mistressofmuses) wrote2023-12-31 10:24 pm
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
  • Current Mood: content
  • Current Location: my apartment
Entry tags:

Habit Tracking: Week 52 (December 24 - December 31)


A frog with a gift, and a Christmas-y color scheme.

This was a nice week! I got to spend Christmas with my mom and Taylor and Alex, and while it holds no religious significance for me, it's always a nice chance to spend time with people I love and exchange gifts and bake cookies and such. I'm very glad I took an extra day off, which was a good mental health break for me. It helped me feel a little more "set" for the new year. The week between Christmas and New Years always feels a little weird and liminal, and this year was no exception. An extra day off, and a mostly quiet (or at least easy, even when busy at work) week helped with that. I did have the chance to reflect on the year, which was most of what I wanted.

Goals for the week:

  • I did go to mom and Taylor's for Xmas eve
  • We baked our butter cookies and molasses cookies
  • Christmas was good!
  • We bought crickets for Broccoli Cheddar Bomb
  • I did my final GYWO check-in (182682 words for the year)
  • I joined both GetYourWordsOut and InkingItOut for 2024, with goals of 75k again
  • I did catch up on Dreamwidth, post-holiday
  • I finally put my laundry away
  • I watered my plants
  • I did my hoped-for end-of-year reflections: reading, writing, favorite pictures, and how my goals went
  • I haven't yet really set my new goals for 2024
  • I did pay up the car insurance
  • Today is New Years Eve!

Tracked habits: (8 days this time, to end at the end of the year)

  • Work - 4.25/8 - one extra day of PTO post-Christmas, a half day Christmas Eve, 3/4 day on NYE
  • Household Maintenance - 5/8
  • Physical Activity - 4/8
  • Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 3/8, all over 1000 words
  • Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/8
  • Meta Work - 5/8
  • Personal Writing - 6/8
  • Other Creative Things - 3/8
  • Reading - 4/8 - I read the novella at the end of Sleep No More, and then have been reading a semi-trashy kindle freebie romance
  • Attention to Media - 7/8 - Sunday I finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher with mom and Taylor; Monday we watched Christmas Vacation and Christams [sic] Twister; Tuesday we watched A Christmas Story and Muppet Christmas Carol; Wednesday had some more of Gordon Ramsay Uncharted on in the background; Friday we half-watched It Lives Inside (Indian possession horror) and In the Earth (trippy indie eco-horror), both of which we'd seen before; Saturday rewatched District 9; Sunday we half-watched Hollow's Grove (mediocre ghost hunt horror) and Danika (mediocre "the real horror is she's crazy" horror.)
  • Video Games - 2/8, playing Final Fantasy XIV with Taylor
  • Social Interaction - 8/8

Total words written: 7978 words.

Total words written in December: 15172*

Total words written in 2023: 182682

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only
vriddy: Cute dragon hatching from an egg (Default)

[personal profile] vriddy 2024-01-01 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds like a lovely time off :) I'm intrigued about doing both GYWO and inkingitout at the same time. I was considering it (mostly so I have a better chance of meeting at least one goal, if I pick one more ambitious than the other one? XD) but I'm not sure if it's worth it for me at this point. How do you juggle both? 👀
mistressofmuses: Image of nebulae in the colors of the bi pride flag: pink, purple, and blue (Default)

[personal profile] mistressofmuses 2024-01-02 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
It was a good break!

The two challenges - GYWO and IIO - are basically just different communities where I'm tracking the same thing, haha. It's nice to be part of both comms, though I hope to manage a bit more on the social side this year. Back in 2021 I did declare different goals, 150k for GYWO and 100k for IIO, for that exact reason! If I didn't meet the more ambitious one, at least I had a better shot at doing the smaller one.
galadhir: a blue octopus sits in a golden armchair reading a black backed novel (Default)

[personal profile] galadhir 2024-01-01 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)

Yay! I'm glad you had a nice week and feel ready to start a new year. What a lot of writing you did in 2023! My goodness, how many novels is that?

Hope 2024 is a good one for you!

mistressofmuses: Image of nebulae in the colors of the bi pride flag: pink, purple, and blue (Default)

[personal profile] mistressofmuses 2024-01-02 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
It was a good week, and though today was a sad start to the new year, I'm hoping it looks up from here.

Thank you! That is a pretty high number of words (and I'm trying to figure out just where they all went, haha.) Hopefully I'll be able to turn this year's words into something that provides something more to show for the effort.

I hope 2024 is a good one for all of us!
galadhir: a blue octopus sits in a golden armchair reading a black backed novel (totoro)

[personal profile] galadhir 2024-01-02 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)

Amen to that :)

raistrykes: (Default)

[personal profile] raistrykes 2024-01-03 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Aww the little frog sticker is adorable!
And I'm glad you were able to have a nice Christmas, that's great. It seems like you had a lot going on that week. You also wrote a lot this month! And this year overall. Congrats, you did amazing!
mistressofmuses: Image of nebulae in the colors of the bi pride flag: pink, purple, and blue (Default)

[personal profile] mistressofmuses 2024-01-03 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was a cute little seasonal sticker to use.

And it was a nice holiday. And a surprisingly busy week! And thank you on the writing - I'm hoping this next year provides more targeted writing, haha.
raistrykes: (Default)

[personal profile] raistrykes 2024-01-03 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
No prob! It's super cute!
You're welcome, it's super impressive! I'm sure you got this down packed, I'm rooting for you!
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only