Habit Tracking: Week 37 (September 08 - September 14)

[mistressofmuses]

This week, my beetle washi tape. I haven't used it in a while. Turned out to be fitting, since we saw so many bugs on Monday. :)

This was a mostly good week. The beginning of the week was really nice, as it encompassed most of my four-day weekend. We didn't go out and do a whole lot, but I was pretty productive at home on things like reading and working on my current writing goals, plus just a bit of life admin type stuff. Unfortunately, my lasting impression of the week was just how stark the difference was between how good those days felt and how miserable I was when I got back to work. My first day back was rough, and I spent a lot of the day trying to think of a way that I could quit and not fuck us over. (Unfortunately, I still don't see a way that wouldn't be really difficult to weather.) It got better after that day and settled back to the usual baseline level of "ugh", but it was painful how immediately I lost all energy and motivation as soon as I was back to work.

Goals for the week:

• I still haven't set up that phone
• I did read more Aftermarket Afterlife
• We signed our lease for the next year, and I'm already dreading the $100/month rent increase
• I did my tracking grids for September
• I did finish all the outline/thought dumps on the original fics I was considering
• I hosted writethisfanfic
• I did not finalize the fan and original fics that are going in the "to work on" pile
• I didn't do a September writing goals/calendar post (and it's more than halfway through the month, oops)
• I watered my plants, which had apparently been really overdue somehow

Tracked habits:

• Work - 4/7 - I took Sunday off
• Household Maintenance - 5/7
• Physical Activity - 3/7
• Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 3/7 - all three over 1000 words
• Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
• Meta Work - 4/7
• Personal Writing - 2/7
• Other Creative Things - 1/7
• Reading - 5/7 - mainly on Aftermarket Afterlife, but also some of my ebook
• Attention to Media - 7/7 - Sunday we finished season 1 of Outlast, then watched Tarot which was kind of a generic horror, but also not as bad as I'd expected, then watched Life which was pretty good; Monday we watched the first two episodes of the last season of The Umbrella Academy (though I was already warned it's not very good; I did like the first bit of it, though); Tuesday we watched two more eps of The Umbrella Academy; Wednesday we watched Alex's stormchase stream as they were looking at the hurricane, and I also listened to music and watched some youtube videos; Thursday we finished The Umbrella Academy which I didn't hate, but definitely thought was a bit lacking and felt rushed at the end, then we watched the final episodes of season 2 of Outlast; Friday we started watching Brave New World; Saturday I was at Taylor's, and listened to music after everyone else was in bed.
• Video Games - 1/7 - Taylor and I played some Final Fantasy XIV, and started the Omega raid series
• Social Interaction - 6/7

Total words written: 4680 on various story thoughts and plans