more stuff about stuff

[edenfalling]

Stuff done so far today:

1. Worked two shifts at the recycling sale, both of them in the Holiday/Crafts room. (We jam the two categories together because neither can fill a room alone.) I now have a concrete schedule for what I will be doing Sunday and Monday: namely, Sunday I will staff Housewares from 9am-12pm, and Monday I will be sitting/standing outside to sort of generally keep an eye on things from 10am-2pm.

2. Poked around once I was relieved from duty, and bought a replacement wallet for when my current one falls apart, a box of Christmas cards so I won't have to spend twenty bucks on an identical product come November, and a replacement pajama t-shirt for when my current ones inevitably fall apart. (I am very particular about my pajama t-shirts.) This loot cost me all of $4, and since I found a five-dollar bill somebody forgot to remove from the wallet I just bought... :DDD

3. Hardboiled eight more eggs. I also started a batch of veggie sidedish plus chicken (and slightly tweaked spices) to which I will add rice around, oh, let's say 10pm. I feel very productive on the food front.

4. Applied to Not the IRS for the 2017 tax season.

5. Read and reviewed another Ladystuck Remix fic. I will defeat the archive in the end!

6. Narrowed NFE options down to three. I am leaning toward one of them, but I think I will wait on a final choice until I try some preliminary brainstorming/outlining for each tonight.

And now I am going to take a nap.

Comments

[transposable_element]

I'm reassured to hear that I am not the only one just getting started on NFE. I finally had an idea that seemed to have an actual plot trajectory (plot is hard for me).

Good luck settling on an idea!

[edenfalling]

I have picked an idea! It's actually a very OLD idea, one I attempted to write several years ago but never got much of anywhere on -- or at least, it's half of that idea, but this time I'm melding it with a different second thread which I think will work better than the original second thread ever did. So I have a slight advantage, in that I have ~400 words already written... but I still need to pin down my new outline and make sure those pre-existing words still work in the new plan. :)

Good luck with your plot trajectory!

[heliopausa]

This is impressively productive, on all fronts! and go, you, on the NFE writing. \o/

[edenfalling]

It's nice to keep a list of stuff done -- I think sometimes it's called a ta-da list, as a joke on both to-do lists and 'ta-da!' as in 'hey, look at this cool thing!' -- as a counterbalance to the parts of my brain that like to insist I'm a useless layabout. :)