A proto-post
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kraitI still want 2018 to be the year I post more regularly on DW!
In the spirit of "post what's happening, not what you think is interesting" and "three things make a post," here is what I've been up to lately:
* Watching Yuri!!! On Ice and loving it so far! Halfway through; may finish tomorrow. I know Many Spoilers because of its general popularity and my not being the sort of person who is vigilant about spoiler avoidance. So far it's fabulous; I'm not much for most sports or sports anime, but figure skating is one of the few sports I do enjoy watching and YoI is doing such a good job with it!
Please, YoI fans on my reading list, hit me with all your squee and meta and fic recs! I am so ready to have a newish, active-ish fandom again and I already love all the characters I've met so far! I also need all of the vids of their skate routines, and I offer up this fabulous AMV by MoonlitxShadows in the spirit of giving what I want to receive. :D
* Took a random day off work because I was feeling stressed and burned-out (boss was off sick for two weeks, I've been basically doing her job for those two weeks). Didn't make any particular plans, except that I was going to do Something Productive with the extra day. Ended up cleaning out my bedroom and closet, a project I've had on the to-do list for at least three months.
Guys, the amount of clothing I own is insane. I'm the W O R S T when it comes to hanging onto old stuff; either because it's still wearable, or I'm deludedly convinced that I'll lose enough weight that it will one day be wearable, or because it has sentimental associations of some kind, or whatever; there's a list of excuses as long as my arm. I'm also the laziest git on Earth where laundry is concerned, because I hate every step of the process and am prone to procrastination. So basically I had laundry on every surface of the bedroom and closet. Sometimes I'd try to sort a little, but there was nowhere to put it and the sheer volume was overwhelming.
I had this moment, once I started, when I was staring into the depleted box of 50 new hangers, when I thought, Well, if I run out, I can buy more. ...What am I thinking?! Nobody needs that many hangers; if you need 150 hangers then what you actually need is fewer clothes. I made myself try on everything that wasn't already on a hanger and make an honest judgment, and ended up culling two huge bags of stuff to be donated.
There's still clothing all over my bed, but I feel a lot better! Tomorrow I can finish up. And I vacuumed the bedroom floor for the first time in months!
* Related to both items above, I've decided that it is beyond time to lose weight. My current weight makes me unhappy, my current wardrobe isn't up for it (whereas I have plenty of clothing in smaller sizes, in good condition), and watching a bunch of fictional athletes do amazing things is reminding me that there are some forms of exercise I enjoy and would really like to get back to. I'm mulling over plans, now.
* Also trying to get back into the writing habit. If I can write just a couple of sentences in any story each day, it would really help. I think of myself as a writer; if I'm not writing, then I feel frustrated with myself.
* Got my hands on the latest Foreigner novel and am halfway through! I, uh, still tolerate more than enjoy the Cajeiri-POV parts, but am ultra-excited at the idea of Bren and aishid actually going to Mospheira! Breaking new human-ateva interaction territory (which it feels like we haven't done in a while, since Bren got lordship'd) and so much opportunity for fish-out-of-water and culture-clash fun from the opposite side! I hope it lives up to the potential.
* Foreigner icon, because I don't have a YoI icon yet!
In the spirit of "post what's happening, not what you think is interesting" and "three things make a post," here is what I've been up to lately:
* Watching Yuri!!! On Ice and loving it so far! Halfway through; may finish tomorrow. I know Many Spoilers because of its general popularity and my not being the sort of person who is vigilant about spoiler avoidance. So far it's fabulous; I'm not much for most sports or sports anime, but figure skating is one of the few sports I do enjoy watching and YoI is doing such a good job with it!
Please, YoI fans on my reading list, hit me with all your squee and meta and fic recs! I am so ready to have a newish, active-ish fandom again and I already love all the characters I've met so far! I also need all of the vids of their skate routines, and I offer up this fabulous AMV by MoonlitxShadows in the spirit of giving what I want to receive. :D
* Took a random day off work because I was feeling stressed and burned-out (boss was off sick for two weeks, I've been basically doing her job for those two weeks). Didn't make any particular plans, except that I was going to do Something Productive with the extra day. Ended up cleaning out my bedroom and closet, a project I've had on the to-do list for at least three months.
Guys, the amount of clothing I own is insane. I'm the W O R S T when it comes to hanging onto old stuff; either because it's still wearable, or I'm deludedly convinced that I'll lose enough weight that it will one day be wearable, or because it has sentimental associations of some kind, or whatever; there's a list of excuses as long as my arm. I'm also the laziest git on Earth where laundry is concerned, because I hate every step of the process and am prone to procrastination. So basically I had laundry on every surface of the bedroom and closet. Sometimes I'd try to sort a little, but there was nowhere to put it and the sheer volume was overwhelming.
I had this moment, once I started, when I was staring into the depleted box of 50 new hangers, when I thought, Well, if I run out, I can buy more. ...What am I thinking?! Nobody needs that many hangers; if you need 150 hangers then what you actually need is fewer clothes. I made myself try on everything that wasn't already on a hanger and make an honest judgment, and ended up culling two huge bags of stuff to be donated.
There's still clothing all over my bed, but I feel a lot better! Tomorrow I can finish up. And I vacuumed the bedroom floor for the first time in months!
* Related to both items above, I've decided that it is beyond time to lose weight. My current weight makes me unhappy, my current wardrobe isn't up for it (whereas I have plenty of clothing in smaller sizes, in good condition), and watching a bunch of fictional athletes do amazing things is reminding me that there are some forms of exercise I enjoy and would really like to get back to. I'm mulling over plans, now.
* Also trying to get back into the writing habit. If I can write just a couple of sentences in any story each day, it would really help. I think of myself as a writer; if I'm not writing, then I feel frustrated with myself.
* Got my hands on the latest Foreigner novel and am halfway through! I, uh, still tolerate more than enjoy the Cajeiri-POV parts, but am ultra-excited at the idea of Bren and aishid actually going to Mospheira! Breaking new human-ateva interaction territory (which it feels like we haven't done in a while, since Bren got lordship'd) and so much opportunity for fish-out-of-water and culture-clash fun from the opposite side! I hope it lives up to the potential.
* Foreigner icon, because I don't have a YoI icon yet!
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Date: 2018-01-28 03:57 pm (UTC)Good luck with your losing-weight plan. I'm coming back from a serious injury followed by a month in which I had nearly no time to myself (I normally exercise daily, and I managed three very short sessions) so I've got to do the same myself. Not that I'm overweight by anyone's standards other than my own, but I want to get back to where I feel comfortable with my body again.
Hooray for a new fannish obsession and for writing again! (I enjoyed YOI but didn't feel fannish about it, so I'm afraid I can't give you recs.)
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Date: 2018-01-30 05:51 am (UTC)How's it going with the recovery? Sounds like you're doing good! I'm so envious of people who are daily exercisers; I hate it in pretty much every form and am very limited in what I'm either willing or able to do (sure wish I could run! Too bad my leg bones and joints hate me.) so it's doubly frustrating. I've got to figure out what I can feasibly do with the limitations I've got, but it's kinda depressing to consider.
I enjoyed YOI but didn't feel fannish about it
Heh, sometimes that happens! It was my exact response to SW:TFA, honestly. Walked out going, "well, that was enjoyable but my fan-o-meter is at zero" and never touched it again, pretty much.
I have to say, though, I've got the Yuuri/Viktor tag on AO3 open in another tab, and it's amazing that like three times now I have hit Refresh and another story pops up. The joys of being in an active, currently-running fandom!!
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Date: 2018-01-28 05:10 pm (UTC)I can recommend the “My Fitness Pal” app, it’s very handy if spreadsheets are not your thing. It keeps track of the calories you’ve eaten, the amount of exercise, has a bar code reader to add bought food and calculates the calories in recipes.
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Date: 2018-01-30 05:52 am (UTC)Thanks for the app rec, too! I am still not smartphone-savvy, but will try to remember to look into it.
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Date: 2018-01-28 11:14 pm (UTC)Bren and his hijinks have been missing from my life for far too long.
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Date: 2018-02-05 06:50 am (UTC)I keep cracking up because the newest one has a title that doesn't end in R! Did Cherryh run out of titles?! Took long enough! Or maybe she got tired of never being able to remember what order they come in and which one is newest, like I always do, and decided enough was enough? :D
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Date: 2018-01-29 08:45 am (UTC)Way to kick ass on reducing the clothing count. I suck at that, too.
And best of luck with more writing!! *shakes pom-poms*
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Date: 2018-01-30 05:57 am (UTC)Reducing clothes-count is awful, isn't it? I'm very proud of myself for doing a bit more today - I did laundry and didn't have enough drawer space for it, so I made myself dig out stuff from the bottom of the drawers and try it on. A couple of things got demoted to the pyjama drawer, and enough of the rest got put in the donation bag that at least I could make everything fit. But I really ought to go through every drawer before, say, the end of February.
Yay, pom-poms! :D So far the writing is going okay! I have been trying to write even just one sentence in any document I feel like opening, and today I slapped down a whole paragraph. It felt good. :D Even if it's just self-indulgent OC nonsense that will never see the light of the Internet, it's something to know that I still love these characters and that I haven't totally forgotten how to put words on a virtual page.
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Date: 2018-01-29 09:50 pm (UTC)Every time I go on a break from the Foreigner books, I lose track and have to start again from the beginning. The plots are so very political and densely written and complex, I can't keep them in my head when I'm not actively reading. But I'd so love to get back to them.
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Date: 2018-06-06 06:03 pm (UTC)I haven't been tempted enough to read fic than to do more than dip my toes into AO3 - and not finding anything I liked right away, stopped looking. I like this vid, though: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9874562
This is the worst :) ! I got rid of a bunch of clothes the last couple of months, most of which was me finally admitting I will never fit into them.
How are workout plans going? Am struggling myself, but keeping trying to get back into a rythm is better than not trying, even if it's not as awesome as actually being in a rythm?
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Date: 2018-06-08 02:45 am (UTC)Workout plans are... still going! I've finally codified them a little; it sort of worked out that my goal is to walk 10K steps at least three days a week. (Since I have a pedometer, using it seemed like a smart move, and gradually I settled on this target after seeing what my typical step counts were per day.)
I don't always make it - especially since I walk outside when I'm trying to hit 10K and we had a couple of weeks of very unwalkable weather - but I'm still working on it! Hope you can get yourself back into a rhythm with your own workout plans, too.
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Date: 2018-06-09 09:03 am (UTC)Awesome!