The Quests
This year instead of resolutions or even goals I’m giving myself quests. Progress is inching, but satisfactory so far.
Today I worked on Unfucking My Den, that is my quest to live a cleaner, more organized life. I cleaned out my fridge, went through my Tupperware and tossed that which was lidless, broken or generally useless. Part of why I avoid this is because I love picking up little dollar store cooking devices, you know shaped silicon bakeware for muffins or pancakes, cookie cutters, little stamps for putting writing on toast, and going through this stuff makes me really want to bake, and realize how much of this stuff I’ve never used. Also it reminds me of the stuff I still want to do, like more canning this year.
Quest two is I Am More Than a Cardboard Cut-out of a Person. I went grovery shopping today and got healthful food. I actually love healthful food, but I spent twice as much today on just Jason and I as I usually spend in a week on all four of us. And I totally snatched up the clearance and “oh shit this is about to expire” stuff. I also got some neat stack able lunch containers which will hopefully help me eat better rather than in my usual insert-frozen-meal-into-lunchbox. I even made myself a salad, sand which and fruit cup meal for tomorrow with said lunch containers. Also I had a nap, since it was my day off and I was tired.
Quest three is I Know I Was Supposed to Send This in Last Month….aka, my MonsterLibrarian/Reading Bites work. I’m working on updating our vampire ya list, add zombie and were-critter versions, wrote a review of Christopher Pike’s Final Friends series, and worked on getting all our ML archive reviews up on Reading Bites as well. Progress!
Almost last is I Am Too a Real Writer. I worked on edits as prep for a submission and went through my files to reorganize my To Edit, In Progress and Circulating folders. Also I’m stopping by here before bed.
Finally is my Friends, Family, Other, you know spend time with and enjoy what I have. I failed to walk the dogs today (it was seriously cold) but I remembered to buy kitty litter. I gamed with some friends, cuddled with the kids, picked up afterwards and gave the dogs some positive attention too.
Not a bad day, but nothing got completely done. Progress, I tell myself, that’s the important bit.