BThis is my second weekend since starting the new job. I managed to get all the chores done today (Saturday) and wrote about 1000 words (but I might write a bit more). These early weeks are all about experimenting with the time I'm not at work so I can find out the most efficient ways to get done everything that needs to be done. Once I figure out the chore schedule (although after that second and probably third and fourth paycheques I'm going to have to go shopping in the city centre) I can fit writing and dancing around that. Shopping won't normally be a consideration. Within the next few weeks I'm going to have to sort out the garden too, which won't become part of my weekly chore schedule. It is paved so there's no grass to cut. I do need to pull weeds out from between the paving slabs and sweep. And with pigeons...
Well, this is my first year with pigeons. I'm hoping to get them a shed or something in the upcoming months. I know they don't want to be caught but I don't like the idea of domestic pigeons living completely wild (there's pictures a few posts below this one).
Writing. I looked up the NaNoWriMo daily word count. 1667 words seems like a good daily target to aim for. That obviously won't always be on the same piece. Sometimes I have deadlines so have to put things on the back burner and other times, I get bored with something and need to give it a rest until I'm excited about it again. And if I get writers block, I have visual art. And if I get a block on that, I have circuit bending. And if I have a general creative block I have a TV and there's so many books I want to read. But again, these early weeks are all about experimenting with my schedule and finding what works and what doesn't.
Dancing. This one is really important. If I don't do it, or skip too many days, everything hurts (like that REM song Everybody Hurts, except it is my entire body and all the time). I prefer doing it in the morning. Dancing away the lingering traces of PTSD I wake with really makes a difference to my overall mood (the PTSD usually settles within an hour or two of being awake, but getting rid of it within the first half hour of being awake makes everything better). Even just 15 minutes is enough to improve my day and ensure I don't ache. It obviously didn't help with my weight loss but walking to work and being away from my kitchen are dealing with that (how the actual fuck am I meant to lose half my body weight!?!, fuck that shit! It will eventually stop coming off with the lifestyle changes and when it does, that will be a good healthy weight and I will buy nice clothes and anyone suggesting I need to be the same size I was when I was 21 can GFT).
I'm going to mess around with wake up times this week so I can get writing and dancing in before I have to go to the job. Even on days I'm going to wake at 5AM it won't be that bad because I no longer need to sneak around and I'm doing what I want to do. I know I used to get up at 5AM when I had a hateful day job that left me in tears every single fucking goddamn day but this is different. The toxic people are gone and I have a job I actually enjoy. Not only do I enjoy it but I spent eight very long years re-training so I could work it (obviously when I finished university the plan was to freelance because my mother and then freelance when my son was too young to come home to an empty house - fuck all those people that tried to get me to work in a supermarket when he was five, really? leave a five year old home alone, what the fuck is wrong with you? those people included teachers at his school, instead of leaving me alone to build up a business and freelance so we wouldn't be in poverty, they harassed me into deeper poverty, I hope they choke on a cock).
This past week's book release did mess with my writing and dancing schedule a bit so I will remember that for future book releases. Good to get one in there early though. But this week will be about finding a writing and dancing schedule that works for me. The book release was Tainted 07/The Human Connection. Two short stories, one book, 50 cents, only on godless.
Drawing just gets done when it gets done unless it is a book cover for something I'm self-publishing. If I'm not knitting when I'm watching TV then I'm probably drawing because I still can't just sit there.
Social Media. I'm starting to see how I can post on social media and keep up with people. However, my phone is dying. I will get a new one probably not with that second paycheque, but with the third and then I'll be back to my usual posts. The selfies won't be every day anymore though but I will start messing with the filters again. TikTok must be the biggest battery drain of them all. And obviously there are going to be times when I'm busier than usual. I still don't know what I'm doing with the YouTube account other than posting videos on there so I can then embed them on here (maybe I should just get a paid website rather than this free one?). Originally I set it up for the Broccoli moving image and soundscapes but I never finished those. But in the future (maybe next year) I might start getting back into that sort of thing. I still have some of my Broccoli footage on my old Mac. I have some designs for The Panda Says No! too. And I still have a project for 56 Seconds planned in my head (it hasn't even made it onto paper yet).
And as this coming week is the worst financially I am still asking for donations if you can afford to do so. Or a food delivery (contact me on social media for that one).
Well, this is my first year with pigeons. I'm hoping to get them a shed or something in the upcoming months. I know they don't want to be caught but I don't like the idea of domestic pigeons living completely wild (there's pictures a few posts below this one).
Writing. I looked up the NaNoWriMo daily word count. 1667 words seems like a good daily target to aim for. That obviously won't always be on the same piece. Sometimes I have deadlines so have to put things on the back burner and other times, I get bored with something and need to give it a rest until I'm excited about it again. And if I get writers block, I have visual art. And if I get a block on that, I have circuit bending. And if I have a general creative block I have a TV and there's so many books I want to read. But again, these early weeks are all about experimenting with my schedule and finding what works and what doesn't.
Dancing. This one is really important. If I don't do it, or skip too many days, everything hurts (like that REM song Everybody Hurts, except it is my entire body and all the time). I prefer doing it in the morning. Dancing away the lingering traces of PTSD I wake with really makes a difference to my overall mood (the PTSD usually settles within an hour or two of being awake, but getting rid of it within the first half hour of being awake makes everything better). Even just 15 minutes is enough to improve my day and ensure I don't ache. It obviously didn't help with my weight loss but walking to work and being away from my kitchen are dealing with that (how the actual fuck am I meant to lose half my body weight!?!, fuck that shit! It will eventually stop coming off with the lifestyle changes and when it does, that will be a good healthy weight and I will buy nice clothes and anyone suggesting I need to be the same size I was when I was 21 can GFT).
I'm going to mess around with wake up times this week so I can get writing and dancing in before I have to go to the job. Even on days I'm going to wake at 5AM it won't be that bad because I no longer need to sneak around and I'm doing what I want to do. I know I used to get up at 5AM when I had a hateful day job that left me in tears every single fucking goddamn day but this is different. The toxic people are gone and I have a job I actually enjoy. Not only do I enjoy it but I spent eight very long years re-training so I could work it (obviously when I finished university the plan was to freelance because my mother and then freelance when my son was too young to come home to an empty house - fuck all those people that tried to get me to work in a supermarket when he was five, really? leave a five year old home alone, what the fuck is wrong with you? those people included teachers at his school, instead of leaving me alone to build up a business and freelance so we wouldn't be in poverty, they harassed me into deeper poverty, I hope they choke on a cock).
This past week's book release did mess with my writing and dancing schedule a bit so I will remember that for future book releases. Good to get one in there early though. But this week will be about finding a writing and dancing schedule that works for me. The book release was Tainted 07/The Human Connection. Two short stories, one book, 50 cents, only on godless.
Drawing just gets done when it gets done unless it is a book cover for something I'm self-publishing. If I'm not knitting when I'm watching TV then I'm probably drawing because I still can't just sit there.
Social Media. I'm starting to see how I can post on social media and keep up with people. However, my phone is dying. I will get a new one probably not with that second paycheque, but with the third and then I'll be back to my usual posts. The selfies won't be every day anymore though but I will start messing with the filters again. TikTok must be the biggest battery drain of them all. And obviously there are going to be times when I'm busier than usual. I still don't know what I'm doing with the YouTube account other than posting videos on there so I can then embed them on here (maybe I should just get a paid website rather than this free one?). Originally I set it up for the Broccoli moving image and soundscapes but I never finished those. But in the future (maybe next year) I might start getting back into that sort of thing. I still have some of my Broccoli footage on my old Mac. I have some designs for The Panda Says No! too. And I still have a project for 56 Seconds planned in my head (it hasn't even made it onto paper yet).
And as this coming week is the worst financially I am still asking for donations if you can afford to do so. Or a food delivery (contact me on social media for that one).