accidental bullet journal
Mar. 7th, 2019 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I posted a photo of it on Instagram Stories, but-- well, Dude and I share a Prime membership by just both logging in as him, which is sometimes hilarious-- I review things a lot, and it's under his name, and so "he" has not only reviewed a lot of books but also a lot of women's undergarments and such, it's kind of funny. Amazon of course loves to predict what else you want to see, based on what you've looked at and bought, and it can't decide-- do I have kids, am I a man or a woman, do I like computers or gardening? It's frequently confused.
Anyway.
I mostly don't buy much from Amazon nowadays, but listen sometimes you have to. Dude dropped one of his banjo fingerpicks and it skittered off into another dimension, it's gone forever, so he had to buy another set pronto and get it in time for tonight's lesson, so he got some that were on Prime. And then for some reason we always feel like if we're going to buy anything we might as well buy everything at the same time, so. Well, drink had been taken, and I impulse-added a couple of things to the cart. I have the same impulse-control problems as any ADHD types, and I've worked pretty hard on getting my impulse-buying problems under wraps, and the only success I've had is that I am weirdly obsessive about not spending money, so. Anyway, when that snaps, it snaps. I spent not a ton of money so it was okay. But one of the things I couldn't resist was a Lightning Deal on a nice fake-leather-bound blank book.
Well, it's a bullet journal, with stuff all filled in, and then it comes with a packet of stickers with the months of 2019 so you can put them where you like. Which suits me fine; i'll start with march, then, and not waste a chunk of the book!
I decided that I'll write down my daily wordcount, if any, and my daily progress on hexagons or other sewing projects, and whether I walked to work or not. So that's nice, and I'm doing that, and whatever. Oh maybe I'm doing it for Lent, right?? Sure! At least, I figure I've got a headstart: I've taken up bullet journaling a couple years in a row as New Year's resolutions, and usually I have totally fallen off the wagon by March, so starting it as of March 1st gives me a big leg up. I figure I'll abandon it in like, May instead, and that'll be some variety at least.
At any rate, it's kind of a funny coincidence that I started tracking my wordcount right at the same time as I was pushing through a blockage on the Mammoths thing because Monday was like, 100 words, Tuesday was maybe 300, and then yesterday I made over 3500 words.
So, that's good I suppose.
Banjo lessons tonight and I've practiced every day for two weeks and I would put actual money on predicting that I will sound like I have not touched the instrument since I last walked out of the teacher's house two weeks ago. (last week no lesson because of his schedule, so.) Sigh... pray for me. (I'm kidding, pray for important things. It's just very frustrating to be bad at something like this.)
Oh, speaking of hilarious "you might like this" algorithm predictions-- at work we use Etsy, and I'm the only one that really does anything with it. So the "you might like" thing is always stuff I've looked at, and since I don't log in on my personal computer, it's only things I click around on while at work. (Sometimes I do so idly, sometimes I do to see how other sellers market stuff like what we've got, sometimes I do just because I get tired of looking at the same recommendations and want some variety so I pick a rabbit hole and really quick open a bunch of tabs and close them again.)
Well, the other day it was full of crocheted things, which I know I hadn't been looking at. I thought, hm, some coworker must have logged in-- the guy who works right next to me checks the email so he has the login, sometimes he responds to convos and processes refunds and such-- and must've been looking around Etsy. I almost mentioned it, then didn't.
Well, this morning it was all vinyl fetish wear, so. Now I definitely won't mention it.
Anyway.
I mostly don't buy much from Amazon nowadays, but listen sometimes you have to. Dude dropped one of his banjo fingerpicks and it skittered off into another dimension, it's gone forever, so he had to buy another set pronto and get it in time for tonight's lesson, so he got some that were on Prime. And then for some reason we always feel like if we're going to buy anything we might as well buy everything at the same time, so. Well, drink had been taken, and I impulse-added a couple of things to the cart. I have the same impulse-control problems as any ADHD types, and I've worked pretty hard on getting my impulse-buying problems under wraps, and the only success I've had is that I am weirdly obsessive about not spending money, so. Anyway, when that snaps, it snaps. I spent not a ton of money so it was okay. But one of the things I couldn't resist was a Lightning Deal on a nice fake-leather-bound blank book.
Well, it's a bullet journal, with stuff all filled in, and then it comes with a packet of stickers with the months of 2019 so you can put them where you like. Which suits me fine; i'll start with march, then, and not waste a chunk of the book!
I decided that I'll write down my daily wordcount, if any, and my daily progress on hexagons or other sewing projects, and whether I walked to work or not. So that's nice, and I'm doing that, and whatever. Oh maybe I'm doing it for Lent, right?? Sure! At least, I figure I've got a headstart: I've taken up bullet journaling a couple years in a row as New Year's resolutions, and usually I have totally fallen off the wagon by March, so starting it as of March 1st gives me a big leg up. I figure I'll abandon it in like, May instead, and that'll be some variety at least.
At any rate, it's kind of a funny coincidence that I started tracking my wordcount right at the same time as I was pushing through a blockage on the Mammoths thing because Monday was like, 100 words, Tuesday was maybe 300, and then yesterday I made over 3500 words.
So, that's good I suppose.
Banjo lessons tonight and I've practiced every day for two weeks and I would put actual money on predicting that I will sound like I have not touched the instrument since I last walked out of the teacher's house two weeks ago. (last week no lesson because of his schedule, so.) Sigh... pray for me. (I'm kidding, pray for important things. It's just very frustrating to be bad at something like this.)
Oh, speaking of hilarious "you might like this" algorithm predictions-- at work we use Etsy, and I'm the only one that really does anything with it. So the "you might like" thing is always stuff I've looked at, and since I don't log in on my personal computer, it's only things I click around on while at work. (Sometimes I do so idly, sometimes I do to see how other sellers market stuff like what we've got, sometimes I do just because I get tired of looking at the same recommendations and want some variety so I pick a rabbit hole and really quick open a bunch of tabs and close them again.)
Well, the other day it was full of crocheted things, which I know I hadn't been looking at. I thought, hm, some coworker must have logged in-- the guy who works right next to me checks the email so he has the login, sometimes he responds to convos and processes refunds and such-- and must've been looking around Etsy. I almost mentioned it, then didn't.
Well, this morning it was all vinyl fetish wear, so. Now I definitely won't mention it.
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Date: 2019-03-07 08:29 pm (UTC)How's the Cat Business coming along, by the way?
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Date: 2019-03-07 08:34 pm (UTC)cat business-- she hasn't been on the calls lately, i guess? but she definitely came into our bedroom yesterday morning, yelled at us to get up, then climbed up onto the box where she sits to look out the window, and proceeded to barf all down the side of the box. our precious princess.