Recently in 1000 days Category

Of the past one hundred days, I’ve spent nearly eighty living out of boxes and suitcases. I spent November with limited internet access and no phone connectivity. I can’t count of the days lost to packing, and moving, and unpacking. I’m still not properly settled.

Today I hit the half-way point in this little project I’ve undertaken.

This is where I start to panic.

For the first time since I started this project I’ve made it a full 100 days without skipping a single one. And I haven’t miscounted this time. Not much of an achievement, I’ll grant you. But I’m only 100 days from the half-way point in this little project, and, given the way things have been going lately, I’ll take what I can get.

I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to. But, looking back at what I actually did do, I can see that it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought when it was actually happening.

From here out, I’m only going to do these updates on milestone days—every fifty, or a hundred, I haven’t decided yet. (And they’ll fall on the actual milestones. Not the Monday after, like this one.) It’ll make for longer and (hopefully) more interesting entries, that will show some actual progress being made.

Things are still going well.

I’m kind of surprised, actually—NaNo has completely screwed up my schedule.

My hand’s healing nicely. I’m back to being able to type, anyway, which means NaNo won’t be too painful. Not too physically painful, anyway… I’m still terrified about the actual writing.

It’s amazing, how much easier it is to get motivated when you actually know what you’re aiming for.

Or maybe it makes perfect sense.

I’m feeling more optimistic about this whole thousand-day thing than I have since I started. I’ve certainly managed to do more stuff.

It’s tricky, trying to sit down and write an entry about what progress you’ve made in the past week, when you don’t feel like you’ve made any.

The worst part was, I did make progress last week. More than I have in quite a while, actually.

Things are picking up again, after the poor progress I’ve made the past few weeks.

Despite my best intentions, this past week was one of the ones where I did manage to accomplish something every day, but nothing really worth talking about.

So, I’ve finally skipped a day.

No way around it, really—I spent this past weekend running around with my father, doing little trips around the province, and I couldn’t really fit anything in. I don’t feel particularly guilty, which is good. Getting out, seeing parts of the province I’ve never been to before, has cleared my head nicely.

The whole jewelry-making thing seems to have taken over my life this week. I blame Marie Antoinette.

Honestly, at this point I can’t tell if I’m being picky, or just procrastinating.

Kind of a slow week. I did a lot of reading, and I did some work on the budget. I spent some more time pricing out the craft supplies I’m going to need.

Things took a bit of a left-turn this past week. I spent a lot of time doing stuff that, two weeks ago, hadn’t even occurred to me.

Last week was both incredibly busy (with stuff not related to this whole thing), and weirdly productive, but not in a way that I really noticed. All week, I was convinced that I wasn’t actually doing anything, but now, when I look back over it… it was one of my best weeks since I started this.

When I first started this project, I’d planned to sit down every six months or so, go over what I’d accomplished, and what I hoped to accomplish. A thousand days is a long time, after all, and I fully expected some of my long-term goals to shift in that time. I also knew I’d need an occasional kick in the pants to keep myself on track.

Another long weekend, and another Monday when I almost didn’t get an entry in. (Spent the morning making seven dozen cookies, despite the heat. I’m a little worn out. But still… seven dozen cookies. I’m not going to complain.)

Still stuck… haven’t skipped a day yet, but I’ve been pretty half-assed about the whole thing.

Some adjustments may be in order.

I said this week would have a theme? It did, sort of, but then the theme kind of fell apart in favour of stuff that was more fun.

Another one of those weeks where I did a lot of stuff, but without any sort of pattern to it.

I’ll say it again—long weekends and I don’t mix. I completely forgot it was Monday, and that I was due to make an entry here.

This past week was all about lists.