August 31 check-in + Wrap-up for the month

[larryhammer]

1. Did I post another translation? Yes (a ghost 👻 poem), for I have enough backlog to post daily for two weeks straight. No actual translating done today—during the day, too busy with day job, and during the evening, too busy parenting.

2. No progress, see #1. 😓

3. No plinky, see #1. 😔

This month has been pretty good—especially on the collection. Without that concrete goal of “work on it” I doubt I’d be anywhere near as far on it as I am. Yeah, I’ve basically not touched it the last five days, but so it goes. I actually have a plan for restarting work, namely reviewing progress so far, including ones marked to come back to, which I’ve hopes will prime the well again.

For the main translation work, over the month I went from a backlog of, what, two or three poems to over a dozen. I could have posted more than the three to four a week than I did. And, indeed, now need to.

As for the uke, well, that’s self-care. I was gonna do that as often as possible anyway.

Thanks all for the support and encouragement and structure of goals. This has been helpful yet again. I’m looking forward to our next iteration.

---L.

August 31th and wrap up

[lauand]

I finished the second pic. Went to bed at 6am today, but I did it.

 

The wrap up:

I managed to exercise with moderate regularity, which is good. Not as often as I would have liked, but that's life.

I managed to finish two pics of the three I wanted to do, which is less than ideal, but it's better than nothing. At least I'm moderately happy with the results. I'm better than I was, even if it takes actually longer to produce anything. Damn bar.

I managed to do a bit of the bonus goals. Especially the bikes, I worked a lot on them. Not so much the adulting, but it's fucking neverending.

I more or less kept my sanity, which is more than I actually expected considering the circumstances.


So, all in all, not bad?

Thank you, everybody, for your help!



 

August 30-31 and Wrap-Up

[lassarina]

Writing
15 of 15 days written
2 of 6 chapters finished, plus two different half-chapters.

I had a lot of days where I panicked and threw 100 words into my phone notes before bed instead of sitting down and doing a focused writing session. In my defense I was on vacation for a week, then whirlwind 7 hour solo roadtrip to and from a wedding, and then about two weeks of migraines. So. I'll take it, I guess. It's still more than I started with.

Media
4 of 6 books read
0 of 2 games cleared

I probably could have pushed myself to finish more media, but I didn't, and I'm ok with that.

Tarot
11/11 cards

Sat down last night and blew through the last five, so good for me.

Overall: I did not get nearly as much done this month as I wanted (I had several goals I was not tracking here as well) but I have to remember that it wasn't fully under my control. So, not bad.