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Cursing my health for how it limits me, because the last month felt like a wash. I spent almost a whole month recovering from a cold that threw off my whole schedule, so a lot less got done. But I'm back to normal now, and I've got a promise of treatment for one of my health issues on the horizon, so things are looking up.

I didn't make a ton of progress on my large fic, but I'm taking a break for now to take my mind off of it and rejuvenate with a oneshot. 

I'm mostly up to date with my temperature blanket, only a week or so behind.

I drafted a poem! And I think it turned out pretty good.

I found one geocache nearby, which is a start!

• 4 books read
• I finished 3 TV shows (Kevin Can F*ck Himself was fantastic) and 18 movies (Yeah I don't know what got into me, I was on a roll)
• For writing, I finished the second "season" of my 50 chapter fic and drafted a new fic. 
  • I spent a total of 6 hours 24 minutes drafting 5,870 words (~15 wpm)!
• I completed one craft-- a wall art project for myself. I should probably post that sometime. I want to make a tutorial on how to do those
  • I spent 8h 23m on my 2025 crochet temperature blanket
  • I spent 1h 11 min on tatting
• I made 4 baked goods, a fantastic buttermilk chocolate cake recipe I found

• 7 books read
• I watched 3 movies
• For writing, I've been focusing on the 50 chapter fic
  • I spent a total of 14 hours 48 minutes drafting 14,887 words (~17 wpm)!
• 0 crafts completed, but I've been starting a new temp blanket and some tatted bookmarks
  • I spent 4 hours 23 minutes on crochet
  • I spent 3h 23 min on tatting
• I made 4 baked goods, including my first attempt at ermine buttercream (I cheated and used pudding mix to help, but it was delicious!)

• 7 books read
• I'm not sure if comedy specials by youtubers count for my movies/tv/musicals bullet point but I did get to see the Terrible Influence Tour live, and I watched the recordings of their 3 other specials in preparation.
• I did not complete any writing things but I made decent progress on a fic I hope to finish and put out near the end of December.
  
  • I spent a total of 8 hours 24 minutes drafting 9,266 words (~18 wpm)!
• 0 crafts completed (you see how much crochet is below this? that's the same scarf. i keep frogging it and remaking it. i need to mail it a week from now. save me.)
  
  • I spent 8 hours 57 minutes on crochet
  • I spent 38 min on tatting and got nowhere
• I made 4 baked goods, including my first attempt at bagels where I didn't slice my hand! (The universe did right itself just this week, when the day before my birthday I stubbed my pinky toe on my bedframe, tripped, fell, tried to catch myself, and somehow sliced my hand open on a rug. The hand of the same arm that had allergy testing the day prior. My life is a slapstick comedy right now.)

I know I just put these out into the void with no real plan for people to see them but I'm just gonna talk into the void a little more right now. Life fricking sucks. I thought that doing this would be a nice way to show me how much I actually accomplished in a year. But to see that now-- when I'm working a 9-to-5 and should theoretically have plenty of free time-- I'm doing only as much as I was in school full time with a part time job and managing several campus political circuses kind of sucks. My health really sucks right now and I feel like it's holding me back from doing the things I really want to do. It's driving me nuts to feel like I have no access to my creative outlets AND not as much to show for the rest of my life.

IDK. UGH. I'm just so tired.

I'm trying to stay optimistic that 2025 will be a good fresh start. That I'll be able to figure out my health issues and take charge of my life and do so much more. But I'm scared that I'll set new goals for myself and completely fail because they're too high for what I can do. I feel like I'm living an icarian fate . . . even if there's some parts of that fate I wanted. Ugh,

• 12 books read (I have been stuck in best resting A LOT, plus 4 of them were poetry collections or comic collections that were shorter/faster)
• 1 movie, and 1 TV show watched (and that last season of Umbrella Academy REALLY sucked, didn't it?)
• 1 flashfictionfridayofficial  prompts filled (you can read them on fourohfourrealitynotfound )
  • I spent a total of 10 hours 12 minutes drafting 12,186 words (~20 wpm)!
  • I think this is the second most words I've written in a month since January, when I was on my last Christmas vacation and able to spend much more time and energy on writing. Much of this has been a "summer fling" style fic that has captured my writing and taken me straight through to fall. When will it be done? Who knows.
• 0 crafts completed
  
  • I spent 1 hours 43 minutes on crochet
• I made 4 baked goods! (including a couple of fantastic chocolate cakes)

• 5 books read
• 2 movies and 1 TV show watched
• 2 flashfictionfridayofficial  prompts filled (you can read them on fourohfourrealitynotfound  ), 1 fic drafted, and 3 posted!
  • I spent a total of 4 hours 48 minutes drafting 5,483 words (19 wpm)!
• 1 craft completed (coasters to protect my new coffee table)
  
  • I spent 3 hours 30 minutes on crochet
  • I spent 1 hours 55 minutes minutes on tatting
• I made 2 baked goods! (red velvet cake, whoopie pie ice cream sandwiches)

I graduated college! This means I've had a lot more time on my hands, and my hobbies have picked up. Let's see how the stats stack up for May.

Goal Updates

I finished my temperature blanket! It's posted over here.

Otherwise I've been a little bit consumed with prepping to move at the end of June.

• 6 books read
• 4 TV series finished, including my watchthrough of Supernatural, catching up on Umbrella Academy (just in time for a new season??) and Dead Boy Detectives (it's cool! check it out!)
• More editing than writing, but I've gotten started on some fics for my first ever bingo, the whatif_au  anniversary bingo
  
  • I spent a total of 3 hours 16 minutes writing 4,008 words (20 wpm)!!!
•  4 crafst completed (2 blankets, a couple small gifts for a friend, and a scarf)
  
  • I spent 29 hours 57 minutes on crochet (I might have quite a bit of TV time on my hands)
• I made1 baked good (from-scratch brownies)!

I thought I'd have more time in March, but it flew by so fast! The end of school has gotten rough. I've got a couple big projects to get done in April, but I'm hoping I can squeeze in some time for my 2024 goals

I'm also hoping to post a bit more on Dreamwidth soon. I've got a couple ramblings I want to type up for here, so maybe those will get done in April or May.

• 7 books read
• 6 movies, 1 musical, 1 show, and 1 season of Supernatural watched
• 3 flashfictionfridayofficial prompts filled (you can read them on fourohfourrealitynotfound ) and 2 fics drafted
  • I spent a total of 8 hours 39 minute spent writing 9,506 words (18 wpm)!!!
•  1 craft completed - 3 fridge magnet scrappy canvases! (I need to take photos of what I mean at some point)
  
  • I spent 12 hours 28 minutes on crochet
  • I spent 14 minutes on tatting
• I made 7 baked goods! (Including some sourdough bagels that I nearly sliced off a finger for! and some divine brown butter chocolate chip cookies)

I've decided to do monthly check-ins on my 2024 goals to help me say on track! This will also include a bit more stats about hobby work I've done over the past month

Goal updates

Honestly, I haven't had much time to work towards a lot of goals, because of some extracurricular stuff I'm wrapped up in through the end of February.

I have managed to do a bit of writing for "damn, baby, you've got me good", revive my sourdough starter, and read 6 books towards my goal of 75! Pretty good for a very stressful month.

January Stats

• 6 books read
• 2 movies, 1 musical, and 2 seasons of Supernatural watched
• 3 flashfictionfridayofficial prompts filled (you can read them on fourohfourrealitynotfound), 2 fics drafted, and 1 fic edited
  • I spent a total of 18 hours 1 minute spent drafting 16,298 words (15 wpm)!!!
• 2 crafts completed (my crochet hook holder and a couple crochet dumbo octopi)
  • I spent 6 hours 40 minutes on Tunisian crochet
  • I spent 11 hours 42 minutes on crochet
• I made 3 baked goods! (A self-rising flour cake, a sourdough loaf, and some pumpkin chocolate chip muffins