Done This Week
Nov. 5th, 2023 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksOut of the frying pan, into the...vacuum? Yes, that’s right, it’s once again National Clean Your Home Month. I have genuinely been looking forward to this for months. Could I clean all year, any time I wanted to? Sure, I guess, but now it’s an EVENT, and that’s obviously more fun. ♪(´▽｀)
It is ironic, though: NaClYoHo was conceived in part as a substitute for NaNoWriMo. Having successfully done NaNoWriMo a number of times but no longer finding it a useful writing experience, I was happy to have a replacement. However, now that I’m doing Whumptober, I still, almost inadvertently, end up writing over 50k in a month. Which all just feels like very silly, very me behavior.
I have several planned targets for cleaning. I want to detail my car interior, which has slowly devolved over the years (mostly from other people using it, rather than me) into a bit of a mess. I also want to scrub the living daylights out of both my bathroom counter and my shower/tub. Everything else is sort of small stuff here and there.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written
Day job: none hours with left beef!
Cleaning: cleared out the accumulated Bokksu boxes and stored the ones I want to keep for future usefulness, cleaned off the “winter wear and cookbook” chair, winnowed the contents of my daily backpack
Reading: finished David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock (tried to get through this once before and got bogged down, quite enjoyed it this time though, took tons of notes on musicians I want to explore), read almost half of The Hobbit to mum while traveling
Listening: Bury the Lede by Dessa (been looking forward to this one since it came up for pre-order, charmed by “I Already Like You”), The Original Hits by Sylvester (disco, baby!)
Other: trip to our favorite apple orchard, trip to my hometown for appointments
Whumptober: 10057 words written across five fills, completed the event with a total of 55182
It is ironic, though: NaClYoHo was conceived in part as a substitute for NaNoWriMo. Having successfully done NaNoWriMo a number of times but no longer finding it a useful writing experience, I was happy to have a replacement. However, now that I’m doing Whumptober, I still, almost inadvertently, end up writing over 50k in a month. Which all just feels like very silly, very me behavior.
I have several planned targets for cleaning. I want to detail my car interior, which has slowly devolved over the years (mostly from other people using it, rather than me) into a bit of a mess. I also want to scrub the living daylights out of both my bathroom counter and my shower/tub. Everything else is sort of small stuff here and there.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written
Day job: none hours with left beef!
Cleaning: cleared out the accumulated Bokksu boxes and stored the ones I want to keep for future usefulness, cleaned off the “winter wear and cookbook” chair, winnowed the contents of my daily backpack
Reading: finished David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock (tried to get through this once before and got bogged down, quite enjoyed it this time though, took tons of notes on musicians I want to explore), read almost half of The Hobbit to mum while traveling
Listening: Bury the Lede by Dessa (been looking forward to this one since it came up for pre-order, charmed by “I Already Like You”), The Original Hits by Sylvester (disco, baby!)
Other: trip to our favorite apple orchard, trip to my hometown for appointments
Whumptober: 10057 words written across five fills, completed the event with a total of 55182
