omnia_mutantur | (no subject)

These days I'm trying to come up with the things to do in twenty minute chunks. And I've decided to try not to talk about household maintenance anymore, since I feel like there's probably a reason I don't see anyone else talking about it but it feels like that ends up being half of what I spent my time doing.

But I did feel like a failure yesterday, despite what I did get done, because I didn't cook or help Prof move. And I know I waste time, and I know some of the time wasting is self-soothing and some of the time wasting is the equivalent of drinking to numb myself and I need to find where the line goes.

Things that teeter dangerously close to the self-medicating side of the line are my numbers game, merge dragons and endless episodes of criminal minds. I need to spend some time thinking about the lines I draw between fanfiction and published fiction to see if I shoud stop denigrating my desire to read fanfic, or if I should give myself some sort of limit. I keep almost going back to another old time-absorber, online jigsaw puzzles and maybe I should give myself a little of that a day instead of the merging.

Different ways to spend time in hopes of feeling a little less stalled out

read an ebook

read a paper book

read a cookbook

listen to a podcast

stitch

find things to learn on the internet

read bookriot emails

read/respond to emails

research local shows/talks/etc

In other news, Delight and Goodhugs bought matching adult and child size armchairs and Delight got a picture of me and spark both reading in our respective chairs and even if it's still hard to look at myself, it's also the best picture ever.