mistressofmuses

One of the things that using stickers on my weekly layouts was supposed to do was give me a "safe" place to use the stickers I really like. I'm a sticker hoarder, and I never want to "waste" a sticker I really like, which means I never use any of them. The tracker was supposed to give me a place to use them! And yet, I've mostly remained utterly reluctant to use them at all.
BUT. This week I used a new sticker that I really liked. (This was admittedly slightly cheating, because I have the same design as a pin, and the sticker was a freebee along with it, but still.) It also wound up being a really appropriate sticker for the week, because then I wound up with Summer "Berry Mad" Refresher, the Woodhouse's toad.

This week was pretty good. We did more than nothing, and it was nice to get outside for at least one day. I am excited and happy about my new toad. I did get some writing done, and stayed on top of doing the check-in posts. I got some reading done (even if it wasn't the book I meant to be reading). There was more political upheaval, but it actually ended with a sense of actual hope, which is more than I can say for a long time, even if I'm afraid it won't stick. Work remains a huge drag, because we're so understaffed (apparently) that there's just... no way to keep from falling impossibly farther behind every single day, but I'm doing what I can.

Goals for the week:

• I remembered to host the week's check-in posts for WriteThisFanfic
• I did not read more of The Name of the Wind
• I did update my reading page in my tracker
• We did coordinate picking up models that a friend picked up at BreyerFest for us
• I still have not set up my new phone
• I did work on more fic outlining
• We went to the pet store for toad habitat supplies
• I got Summer "Berry Mad" Refresher's habitat set up
• I did not put my laundry away

Tracked habits:

• Work - 5/7 - a demoralizing experience
• Household Maintenance - 3/7
• Physical Activity - 2/7
• Wrote 500/1000+ Words - 3/7 - all three days over 1000 words
• Wrote on 2nd+ Draft - 0/7
• Meta Work - 3/7
• Personal Writing - 3/7
• Other Creative Things - 1/7 - working on my reading page layout
• Reading - 6/7 - not reading my intended book, but reading bits of a new ebook
• Attention to Media - 6/7 - Sunday we watched the fairly okayish The Ward; Tuesday we went to the theater to see Twisters which was better than anticipated and I might share brief thoughts on, then later watched Aliens which is always good; Wednesday half-watched Alex's stormchase livestream; Thursday we watched Alien 3; Friday we watched Alien Resurrection, which I had never seen, and Prometheus; Saturday we watched Alone and Alone: Australia, and then a bit of Olympics coverage.
• Video Games - 0/7
• Social Interaction - 7/7

Total words written: 4157 on outlining various fic ideas