new month, new year, new shoes

[seventhe]

who doesn't like lists. if you don't like lists you are at the wrong journal.

I've made a "Words and Workouts" pact with justira. Our goals are low, but meaningful: 1500 words per week; 3 workouts per week. We will have lovely charts to share. I mean to stick to this - both of them. Here are some thoughts...

• So, I am in fact wordsing again. The shameful part is that it's Harry Potter fic. HP is like my shame comfort fandom - when I am ill, I browse AO3 and look for fics with high kudos and pairings that I like, no fucking regrets. I was ill for like 93% of last week which meant I read a lot of trash. I am now writing HP trash. I don't even give a fuck. It's words and I will have fun, even if HP fandom is beyond the grave.
• If I can get moving again with the writing, I want to work on original stuff this year, but I also want to get back to dabbling in fandom - prompt memes and the like. I miss the sense of connection that comes with fannish writing. Hang me.
• Right now my workout goals are more about consistency than actual workouts. I want to focus on swimming first - that's my best and favorite sport, and why not do a workout that I actually enjoy? After that, I'd like to go back to yoga, then running and biking. Of course there's weightlifting and punching the bag in there too - I'll make a plan once I've shown that I can stick to 3x/wk for more than, say, one wk.

My other lofty goals for 2016 include:

• Start fucking going to bed on time. I want to get up earlier in the mornings but (a) I am so lazy and (b) I tend to sulk about my life late at night and stay up until, say, 01:00 in a snit of because I can which doesn't work so well when you want to get up at 06:00. If I could get my arse in bed between 22:00-23:00 I could get up earlier and either get to work earlier (to leave earlier) or have some time in the morning just for me. Either one sounds better than the usual snooze-button-festival party-of-one I have going on in my bed for an hour and a half every goddamn morning. That's such a waste of time.
• Half hour of chores every night. This is hard to keep up with because of fibro - some days I come home and crawl into bed and get up 4 hours later to eat a pop tart before returning to blankets. However, this leads to having to spend all of a weekend day catching up on chores that have slipped (dishes, laundry, mail/bills) which is equally exhausting. 30mins is reasonable on all but the worst evenings and should allow me to have more relaxing time on weekends, which is good for fibro.
• Learn to chill about work. I will never not be platonically married to this place or this job, but getting stressed leads to high interaction costs leads to overstimulation leads to me being too exhausted to fucking blink. I'm already working to set this year up as an improvement - more support, more help, less projects overall - so I need to keep to that course.
• Empty my life. I have too much going on, and too many things taking up space (physical and mental). It's time to clean it out.

More specific goals will have to wait until I have brains to deal with them.

Comments

[pict]

I've started emptying my life, in terms of physical space (and mental, since HAHA SUCK IT SCHOOL I'M OUT, but my current focus is on the physical) and it is really rewarding. Tedious and exhausting when you're in the middle of it and in the process of purging one shelving unit you end up with a pile of crap on the floor and once you've gotten rid of the stuff you don't want you still have to put back all the stuff you do want and oh god kill me now--

Once you get past that part, it's really helpful.

[seventhe]

That's good to know, actually. I've accumulated things due to a variety of weird circumstances (my gramma) and weird headspace quirks (growing up without much money for a wardrobe means I hang on to every piece of clothing ever), so I know it's time for a general Life Purge, but. MY GOD IS IT INTIMIDATING.

[novel_machinist]

Good luck in the future! You got this

[seventhe]

I swam today! That's a plus!

[crankyoldman]

My grad school best friend had to do a major physical purge of things which I helped her with, so if you ever need someone to tell you to "go through that box" and "no you don't need that" I have a talent for this.

[lassarina]

I am cheering you on! We will do the things!!