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 The planner delimma from yesterday was solved by opening up Habitica and starting fresh.

Redid all my habits, dailies, and added my lengthy to-do list.

Two of my dailies are now dedicated to checking my planner in the morning and evening to keep track of appointments and scheduling.

This also means when I Order that Agendio planner later, I can probably get a weekly one instead of a daily since the page won't be filled with to do notes and what not.

Ahhhh. Constant change trying to figure out what works. XD
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 Things I have learned about myself: Keeping a planner of some sort is good for me.

Things I have also learned about myself: I really struggle keeping up with them.

Tried a digital task manager Habitca. Worked for a  bit, and stopped checking it.

Tried a Bullet Journal. The ability to push tasks forward if I didn't do them? Great system. I'm notorious for writing things down I need to do and then not doing them, but by the fifth time I write it down again, I'm more likely to maybe do it. Finishing one task out of ten is still one task done.

Bullet Journal wasn't great for planning ahead though; I never checked the "Future" logs to write things in.

Moved into a planner with dates so I could write in future appointments on the date that they happen.

Worked great.

Stopped checking it.

I have plans to invest in an Agendio planner later this year when my current journal style planner is done, but now I'm like "Will I stop checking that too?" 

So I thought that maybe I should integrate a digital planner again? But I really failed at Habitica and that was a very nice little to-do list app. But it also wasn't a *planner* were I could keep track of dates and appointments.

All this to say is I probably need to change something to force myself to actually look at my freaking planners and use them but I have no idea how to make myself do that.

I am still looking into digital apps to use as a companion to the paper journal. Or to replace it.

I don't now. Lol. 

(I would have posted this in the actual journal/planners community but I realized it's way too venty/rambling.XD)
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 Change is scary, but I somehow have switched my mobile (phone and tablet) browser over to Vivaldi.

It's pretty slick and very customizable. The sync has worked so far and a lot of webpages look better (I'm sorry, Firefox...but you have so many issues with the modern web which I'm sure is Chromium's fault lol).

When I get the time, I'll probably switch over my desktop browswer from Safari to Vivaldi, because it looks like the Desktop version is way more flexible and powerful than the mobile one.

Anyhoo, thought I'd share.

Also I bought this adorable merch t-shirt and I can't wait for it to show up. XD
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I'm following enough active people that my Reading page is now active enough to have more than 20 entires and I'm missing posts. Hurrah? I think. LOL.

Still trying to figure out the Fediverse, so that's been keeping me busy. That and yarn. I have done so much knitting and crochet to try and manage the absolute stress of the world's insanity right now. *eye twitch*

Also obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog at the moment. Sorry previous fandoms, I've moved on again. LOL. Already writing fanfic for it. I'm doomed. XD

What else? What else. Um. Yeah, that's all I've got. I'm hunkering down with Yarn and Edgy Hedgehogs.

Hope you guys are hanging in there.
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Too tired to make specific posts, so here's a few updates:

Indyx

Love the app. Haven't had a chance to use it properly because I have way too many clothes and I am nowhere NEAR done cataloging everything. I've been adding things as I wear them, but that's mostly making me realize I could probably wear a different outfit every day of the year and still have clothes leftover (exaggeration, but that's what it feels like).

Maybe one day I'll have all my clothes into the app and I can actually use it to create outfits and experiment with fashion like it's intended to do. XD

(or pay for a lookbook).

Fandom

Fairly OddParents still lingers (I love you, still, Peri) but Sonic the Hedgehog has me by the throat. Mostly Sonic & Shadow, but only because I can't find the very specific relationship dynamnics I want for Sonic and Tom or Sonic and Tails.

Also randomly reading a Resident Evil 8 fic that's Bela/Ethan and 500k. Lol.

Social Media

I am slowly figuring out Mastodon/The Fediverse. Joined Bookwyrm (Goodreads/Story Graph alt on the Fediverse).

I'm liking it, but the learning curve is steep and it makes me appreciate Bluesky more and more every day, even if it's still essentialy centralized.

Writing

What is writing.

Comics

This, I have done a lot of work on! The first chapter of Wigalf and Mordred is done (and 90% posted), and I've made thumbnails for the second chapter.

I'm still ahead of the game and riding that high. :D

Crafts

Working on a crochet sweater, started a knitted shawl (doing eyelets for the first time!) and I'm making a basket.

Conclusion

Things are busy and productive, so good overall. :D

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Happy New Year, Dreamwidth!

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and is productive in the upcoming new year. :D

I myself had a rather nice staycation for a week and a half spent getting stuff done, but nothing I had planned to get done. LOL.

For example, I had plans to update my fanfiction, get more of my comic buffer done (which is live on Fables now btw), and get some serious cleaning and organizing done.

None of that happened.

Instead, I spent almost the entire break reading Sonic the Hedgehog Fanfiction (Sonic 3 is really good lol) and yarn crafts. I finished a sweater I've been working on since last year and started a new cardigan. So that's always a win, regardless. XD

But my  break is over and it's time to get back to work. :D

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I bought a Sentro 48 pin circular knitting machine. I used it a little last night and it is so fast. Lol. I love it.

As much as I love crochet, knitting has always been one of those things where I really like the look, and I know how to do it, but I am really slow at it. I've never gotten the hang of speed knitting because the only way I can consistently knit with the same tension and stitches is with the throw method (I wrap the yarn around the needle from the right).

I've dabbled a little bit in loom knitting (small kid craft kits), but never bought a full sized ring becuase it looked just as tedious as hand knitting.

ENTER THE SENTRO.

It's circular loom knitting but automated and I can already tell I'm going to have fun with it. I have already planned out getting a smaller one for socks later down the line. Ha ha ha ha.

Actual knitting machines are something I've thought about (because once more, faster), but man are those big flatbed things complicated. Looking at the instructions for them makes my head spin. Video tutorials, too.

I'll stick with the cheap loom knitting for now. XD

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I've used my Clever Fox Daily Undated Planner for one day. That's enough to have initial thoughts, right?

Pros:
  • I am in love with the thick paper. I feel like I could use permanent marker and it wouldn't show through. Makes for a really thick book, but that's fine.
  • I like the Weekly Goal set up page and the Weekly review at the end. Especially with the little built in habit tracker. I really failed at habit tracking on the Bujo, but being able to change what habbit I want to focus on each week and only tracking seven days makes it more manageable.
  • I mostly like the Daily page layouts, particularly the "Most important task" and regular to-do list placements.
Cons:
  • I have so many blank daily pages I have no idea what to do with because each blank month has to be set up for (5) weeks, and b/c I wanted to keep weeks together, so I only have like three weeks... (Ex. A week that as the end of one month and the start of another:  26, 27, 28, 1, 2, 3, 4).
  • I don't know what to do with these blank pages. I know if I had a dated journal it wouldn't be a problem, but I just HAD to start at the end of the year instead of waiting until January. *throws confetti for me*
  • I don't really  need all the goal setting stuff for the year. I'm attempting to use it, but I'd rather have note pages to be honest.
  • The times only got from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. So if I want to book anything after 9 p.m., I'm going to be annoyed it doesn't fit onto its time block. I don't do a LOT of things after 9 p.m., but it could happen. A 7 to midnight would be better. Lol.

That about sums up my feelings so far. I don't know if I'll stick with Clever Fox for the full six months this planner covers, but I want to at least use it for two months to get my money's worth.

Do you have a favorite undated planner? Or a favorite planner in general that might make one?

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Last year, I started keeping a therapy-ish journal, where I'd write down my vented feelings and frustrations. I used to talk to friends about that sort of thing, but 1) the friends I spoke to stopped contact (not related) and I also felt like I was burdening people, despite trying my best to spread it out.

So a journal it was! And it's been very helpful (when I remember to do it).

That said, it's also a little pit of negativity. On really bad days where I dump multiple things, I try my hardest to end it with some positives to lift the mood, but it's still overwhelming negative content when I flip through older entries.

So I decided today to start a Gratitude and Wins pocket journal to carry around with me. I'm going to use it to list only good things, so I can browse through it when I'm feeling down.

(And maybe a vent entry here or there if I'm desperate, since I'll have it on me, unlike the vent journal that stays at home.)

My goal is to have it in more of a list format so it's easier to browse.

Ex.
  • Win: Joined Ellipsus.
  • Gratitude: My friends are great.
We'll see how that goes. I've been making lots of big life changes lately, so it's been a pinch overwhelming. Time to focus on positivies and keep that mental health going. XD The Lexapro can't do it all.

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I've had a love hate relationship with my original writing and anxiety since I published my first novel in 2012.

I love my characters and stories, but man does anxiety hit me in a way with my original stuff that it doesn't with fanfiction. The end result of that, is when I start getting anxious...I just write fanfic instead and that leaves me with a lot of series with no book two and unfinished novels galore.

Which in and of itself causes more anxiety. XD

So, in a step to combat that just a little bit, I've joined Ellipsus.com - which is a collaborative, online writing app. It's main goal is to give you a place to write that has in depth collaborative tools, such as for co-writing, beta reading, and full on editing.

Writing is much easier with someone else, so I hope I actually use the tool to get something done (or at the very least help by beta reading someone else's work).

The site is also VERY fanfiction friendly and has an Export to AO3 tool. Which is great!

Still waiting on chapter divisions though. At the moment, everything is in a single large work which isn't super great for many things even if there is an outline tool that tracks headers. Ha ha ha.

Is anyone else using Ellipsus? Do you like it? Let me know! :D

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A couple years ago, I decided I needed to be more organized in my life with scheduling and to-do lists (yay for adulting...), which was very overdue considering I'll be 40 next year...better late than never! XD

I've never been good at keeping Planner-Planners (they gave me a free one at my previous job ever year and they uh, went entirely unmarked).

However! Then I came across the Bullet Journal method, and I thought "maybe that will work." And it did! For a spell, anyway.

At first I tried the more elaborate, decorative spreads, but that got overwhelming very quickly. I ended up watching a Youtuber who recommended going back to the Bare Basics, and you know what? She was right.

I stripped everything down to the absolute bare basics of the BuJo method with only a Monthly Log and Daily Logs, as well as switching to a pocket sized Leuchtturm1917 to carry with me, and that's been working well for nearly a year.

Until it hasn't.

I am very bad about not checking my Monthly log to see what is coming up on my dailies, as well as leaving it in my purse where I forget about it. Tis past weekend I didn't look at it at all!

I had to remind myself that change is good and if something isn't working, you can modify it. You can change it!

So I am switching to a Planner that has pages already filled for all the days. That way I can write upcoming events and appointments directly on the date instead of on a monthly log I need to check every day.

I am hoping this works, and if it doesn't, I'll just go back to the bare basics BuJo method with my trusty pocket journal.

I need to be more flexible and stop anxiety from winning every time I want to change things in my life.

And if anyone is curious, this is the planner I chose (for now):
Clever Fox Daily Planner 2nd Edition – Undated Time Block Task Organizer with Hourly Schedule & to-do List – A5, 6 Months (Rose Gold) https://a.co/d/i8H8kOg

It has some added things like Weekly Reflections and gratitudes that I did at the start of my BuJo journey and then stopped as time went on.

Wish me luck! :D

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I now know why a server I am in is on its death throes.

I want to go back to when I had just assumed everyone was busy. T-T


Fables.pro

Nov. 14th, 2024 09:08 am
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Guess who finally finished updating the last of her Comic pages to Fables.pro? Me. Lol.

I have had a very bad habit of never talking about my webcomic over the past few years. Around 2014 (a very big ish for that year), I was depressed (not that I knew that's what was going on at the time) and it left a big mark on the quality of my comic.

It lingered for a long time (as in, this year), which made me keep working on the comic, but I was ashamed to share it, despite having a handful of very loyal readers still.

Yesterday, I finally made the decision to reboot my comic (something I'd been thinking about since that depressive episode), which required making big changes.

One of which was to get my comic off my personal website and onto something more modern. A lot of webtoons sites weren't appealing, and then Fables.pro arrived!

The site is still in the early stages, but I love what I see and I'm glad to make it my new home for comics.

The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred (Classic) is now fully hosted alongside a ton of amazing indie comics of all skill levels.

I'm looking forward to being in love with my characters again.

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 I may have made a mistake crossposting things.

Because I'm looking back and seeing that I have only a select few Fanfic crossposted....out of hundreds.

I only have a handful of Tumblr posts crossposted...out of thousands.

My "ALL OR NOTHING" internal anxiety is now like "What do."

Because I am not going through the mass crossposting again. And deciding "what's good enough to double and fill out my Dreamwidth Journal" and "What can I leave on Tumblr" are competing in my head.

Followed by "Because you backdated posts, your first Dreamwidth Blog post is now no longer the first post if someone goes all the way to the end."

AND THEN while reading the Latest page and seeing everyone's daily activity journal entries I'm super nostalgic for the Live Journal days when I used it for near exclusively a journal. And I miss that. Despite having two physical journals next to me (one for daily things and one for venting). 

Which all just results in internal screaming. Lol.

P.S. AND SPEAKING of Live Journal nostalgia...I need more icons. T-T

Edit: I've added some icons. Makes me feel better. XD
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I was going to vague post about something that was bothering me, but I remembered I have a journal where I can do that instead.

A win for me.

Another Day

Nov. 7th, 2024 08:14 am
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Under a cut for politics.


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Why am I arguing about Peri on Tumblr. I am getting into discourse discussions again.

Over Periwinkle Cosma.

Curse you, fairy man. You're made your way into the all time favorite obsessions along with Kylo Ren, Vox, and Hot Rod.

Edit: The person blocked me. Lol. I guess I was too annoying. XD;


Likes

Oct. 26th, 2024 08:41 pm
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I sort of wish Dreamwidth had a "Like/Love" equivalent for posts.

I know it's more of a social media thing, and typically is used for algorithm stuff, but it's my favorite way to say "I don't have a specific reply to this thing at the moment, but I want you to know that I read it and it wasn't shouted blankly into a void." 

 
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 It's fun when you can pinpoint the moment in a fanfic that you lost most of your readers. LOL.

When chapters go from 10 to 12 comments per chapter and then plummet to 4 to 5 and then down to 1, it's pretty clear where you lost them. Heh.

I'm trying not to let it bother me, because I'd still go that direction with the story if I did it all over again, but it still sucks to lose half your readers. XD 

whyyyyy

Oct. 15th, 2024 04:13 pm
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The "oh lord I've annoyed someone" anxiety is very real.
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