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!)