Habit Tracking: Week 19 (May 03 - May 09)

[mistressofmuses]

Time for my new notebook! To break it in, I used a sticker that I'd been extra reluctant to use because I like it so well, haha. It's a magpie from "Visionary Vultures."

My layout is pretty much the same for now, though with a few differences. I didn't draw a full grid on the tracker because of the dots, but I'm not sure if I like it that way. Since each line is smaller, there's more empty space around to accommodate the sticker, but I do like that fine. The smaller lines also mean that I wound up with a lot more empty space on the second page even after making all my daily entries (which I don't post), so I wanted to find something to fill that space with something.

Since reading is the thing I'm currently putting the bulk of my free time toward, I devoted the space to that:

A chart showing which books I read on which days.

I'm not 100% sure I love it, but I also don't think there's really a better way to lay out the same information, so I'll probably keep it. I don't always read multiple books every day, though I did this week.

The week was pretty good overall. Started rough with the really depressing/distressing doctor appointment, and the snow on Wednesday sort of sucked, but otherwise everything was fine. Bella's vet visit was fine. I did a pretty good job on my to-do list, got a lot of reading done, and also kept up decently well on writing up reviews.

Goals for the week:

• I did finish reading The Return of the King
• We went to FastCAT on Sunday
• I went to my doctor appointment (unfortunately, lol)
• I did not work on my reading page
• We took Bella to her vet appointment
• We paid rent
• I didn't clean off my DVD shelf
• I did post my books read in April
• I did go through my pics from the festival
• I sort of caught up on Dreamwidth
• I did read The Ballad of Black Tom
• I got gifts for Mother's Day
• We did go buy crickets
• I started reading Fallen

Tracked habits:

• Work - 4/7 (I took Sunday off)
• Household Maintenance - 5/7
• Physical Activity - 5/7
• Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 0/7
• Non-fiction Writing - 4/7 - one day over 1000 words, three over 500 words, plus two additional days of less than 500
• Meta Work - 5/7
• Personal Writing - 7/7
• Other Creative Things - 1/7
• Reading - 7/7 - I finished reading The Return of the King, I read The Ballad of Black Tom, and started reading Fallen, I finished Heated Rivalry as my ebook side-read, and then started reading some short stories from the Forward collection. Alex and I started reading Camp Damascus.
• Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday watched storm chase, exploration, and paranormal videos in the background; Tuesday had some news and later game videos in the background; Wednesday had storm chase and later game videos in the background; Thursday had explore and then game videos in the background; Friday had storm chasing in the background, watched a camping video, listened to music, watched game videos; Saturday had exploration and then game videos in the background.
• Video Games - 0/7
• Social Interaction - 5/7

Total words written: 3683 on reviews.

And here is the new notebook, which is so much more plain than my previous one, ha:

Plain green, a little darker than the picture makes it look.

I like it for being hardcover, and I wanted to give a dot grid notebook a try instead of lined. It also has two ribbon bookmarks, haha.

Trying to decide if I should decorate the cover with some of the extra loved stickers, the ones that I'm still reluctant to use even on the page layouts. We'll see! (But then, do I add them all at once? Do I add them periodically when I feel like it? Do I put them on there at semi-random, or do I try to have some overarching aesthetic? Oh, such choices!)

Comments

[vriddy]

Oooh that reading tracker chart looks pretty neat!! So much reading and every day, too. Have fun with the new notebook! :D I get very plain ones too (100% for cost reasons), and I usually decorate with a postcard, either that a friend sent me (bonus associated happy memories!), or treating myself to an inexpensive cute card. Or printing something haha. The special stickers sound lovely, too!

[ashelterofpages]

Maybe make the cover stickers it's own reward? Like, if you manage to keep up with something in particular, or if you do An Impressive Thing, or even hell, you have another terrible doctor's appointment and you want to give yourself points for getting through it?