February 2024 in Review

[rowyn]

Health and Fitness

Didn't do too terribly on exercise this month: 18 times. Albeit that counted things like "laundry" and "installing toilet" as exercise. Still, I've done worse. Tracking consumption did not go well; I think I tracked for maybe half the days in February and guessed for the rest.

Ooh, I just remembered my "exercise so you can spend money in Time Princess" incentive plan from December. And Time Princess actually has some things I want to spend on right now! That will be useful.

(stops writing post in the middle in order to exercise, since already spent a little money on TP today) 

Writing 

Only Apothecaria entries, and mostly just the minimum to keep my daily streak going. 

The Business of Writing

A Dragonling's Family is now 71% complete on edits! \o/ I added a few things to the list but managed to reach my two-thirds goal anyway. The only things left to do are (a) decide if I want to either add any explicit sex scenes or remove some explicit foreplay (I might just leave this as it is, although my instinct is that I should either have less foreplay or more sex) and (b) the final readthrough before I find first readers for it. This is extremely doable in a month, so I plan on finishing that in March.

Art

I illustrated 30 Apothecaria entries, through 344. March will mark the 1-year anniversary of my Apothecaria journal!

Social

I did a social thing this month! I went to my friend's birthday party on the 18th. I had a good time, although it was a somewhat odd experience. About three hours of the party was at an event center that had an arcade, bowling lanes, pool tables, some kind of American-Gladiator-inspired rope thing, laser tag, and "mini escape rooms". And possibly something else I forgot. Oh, and a bar.  

I didn't do any of these things. It's not that I specifically didn't want to; if the party had been for bowling or pool or laser tag or an arcade, I would've done any of those things. But since my goal in attending the party was "be social" I wanted to hang out with my friend and not wander off to do something by myself. I thought about asking some of the other attendees if they wanted to do $Thing-With-Me but did not muster up the social energy to do so. Also, I only had around two hours of time to potentially "muster up social energy and then play game", because we spent 15-20 minutes waiting for folks to arrive and then I had to leave early to get Lut for the "get dinner at nearby restaurant" part.

My friend played some pool with his brother, who is a regular pool player and therefore good at it, unlike the rest of the crowd. That was fun to watch.

Anyway, at least I left the house once in February to see people. Yay! That doesn't happen every month!

Gaming

Lut and I did not play much Kill Team in February. Instead, I've been painting miniatures and terrain. The store manager managed to salvage the miniature that had not assembled correctly, although even he found it a struggle to put together. I touched it up post-assembly and Lut varnished it, so it's finished now. I partially assembled six void dancers and started painting them. The theory is to assemble a few bits, paint them, and then add more bits and paint those until it's done. So that I don't end up trying to assemble fully-painted pieces only to have assembly fail like that last time. Although it really doesn't look like that was a risk with these models, which have a much more straightforward assembly than the Death Jester. Honestly, the Death Jester was probably a fluke. On the other hand, having the miniatures partially assembled makes my brain think of them as much closer to "done" than when I was trying to do almost all the painting while the pieces were still on the sprue.

Not close enough to done to serve as motivation for working on them more, though.

Goal Scorecard

• Help Lut: Yup!
• Keep in touch with parents: I did not do well at this one. I don't know why it's challenging for me to call my parents more often. o_o
• Track exercise & consumption: ehhh not great but I didn't completely give up, at least?
• Pay bills: done!
• Check goal list occasionally: did that too, even if it wasn't enough to get me to call my parents more. It did remind me to pay bills on time, though.
• Get 66% (combined) through editing one or more drafts: Done!
  

 February Stretch Goals

(this section extremely does not want to format normally and I don't want to muck with Markdown to do it so NO BULLET POINTS FOR YOU.)

Illustrate 28+ Apothecaria entries: aw yeah

Other productive stuff: Did some miniatures painting

Post an Apothecaria page every day: Streak still going!

Keep up the blogging habit: Only five entries in February (including the review post) so much less of a habit. But I haven't quit, either, so I'll count it.

 

 

Goals for March

I am reasonably happy with how my goals in February went, despite failing at a couple of them. So basically just gonna do those again:

• Help Lut
• Keep in touch with parents
• Track exercise & consumption
• Pay bills
• Check goal list occasionally. Remember to glance at stretch goals too.
• Finish editing A Dragonling's Family and send to first readers.

That looks good enough.

March stretch goals:

• Illustrate 28+ Apothecaria entries
• Post an Apothecaria page every day.
• Keep up the blogging habit
• It's not too late to do that 2023 Illustration Retrospective you want to do but keep forgetting about
• Work on the cover for A Dragonling's Family
• Add more detail to the Be That Way outline
• Work on a new outline (or start drafting Be That Way, or start editing one of my other pending drafts)
• Any other productive stuff

Comments

[tuftears]

Yay, Dragonling's Family! Wait, it's going to have sex in it? ... (looks at the word 'Family') (looks at the book) That is going to make for some confused reviews.

Void Dancers makes mew think of, well, black cats in mid-air dance poses. ^.^

[rowyn]

The void dancers used to be harlequins, but rebranded to sound cooler. They still look like harlequins, tho. :D

A Dragonling's Family will have "a polyamorous romance" in the blurb. Lots of romances include stuff about families AND sex, it's very genre-normal. n_n

[tuftears]

Void dancers would be better if they actually were dancing black cats. *nods wisely* But maybe I'm a bit biased. ^.^

I haven't actually been in many romance sections in bookstores so I'll trust you on that subject!

*flops and eyes the altogether too cold-looking and rainy outside*