Habit Tracking: Week 01 (January 01 - January 3)
Feathered serpent sticker from Featherbone. Shedding the skin of the old year and all.
Second half of the week! This week ended mostly on the note of miserable uncertainty about the entire geopolitical landscape. Trying not to let that overshadow everything... It doesn't really feel like a new year! I am trying to get into the mindset a bit, though. (At least completing last year's reading goals and now setting some new ones feels like something of a dividing line, so there's one thing that feels like closure and restarting!) I am glad I took Friday off, to give myself an extra day to try and get my life together, haha.
Goals for the week:
- I did read more of Manhunt
- I posted my 2026 intentions
- I posted my 2025 books
- I did not yet post my 2026 reading plans
- I did set up my 2026 reading page
- I did set up my tracking grids for January
- I did not patch the seat in the truck
Tracked habits:
- Work - 1/3 - we were closed on NYD, and I took the 2nd off
- Household Maintenance - 2/3
- Physical Activity - 1/3
- Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/3
- Non-fiction Writing - 2/3 - both over 1000 words
- Meta Work - 2/3
- Personal Writing - 3/3
- Other Creative Things - 2/3
- Reading - 3/3 - I read more of Manhunt; Alex and I read some of The Sun Dog
- Attention to Media - 3/3 - Thursday we watched three episodes of Stranger Things, and later some reviews; Friday there was storm chasing and reviews in the background; Saturday we watched some paranormal videos, the reviews later, and then news coverage after getting a late-night alert.
- Video Games - 0/3
- Social Interaction - 2/3
Total words written: 3022 on plans and reflections
And after Bella's invisible ears in the previous post:
Here's a picture of her that Alex took on New Year's Eve, complete with ears!

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Ears! ^_-
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I'm not sure that's ears. I think that might be a bat hiding behind her ;)
You got a lot done, by the sound of it!
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(I used to tease Cy for having "flappy bat ears" when he'd trot down the hall, because his ears really did flap like he was going to take flight, haha. Bella's aren't quite as dramatic when she moves, but they sure are silly!)
Thank you!
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I used to call Cy "flappy bat ears" for the way his would flap when he was walking. Bella's don't bounce quite as much when she moves, but they look extra silly when she holds them forward like that, haha.