stuff done: Monday-Thursday
Mar. 2nd, 2017 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfalling1. Photographed my peppers.
2. Changed the scented wax in my wax melter.
3. Bought, wrote, addressed, stamped, sealed, and mailed birthday cards for my sister and my cousin Ben.
4. Ordered a birthday present for Vicky. It will not be shipped until the 17th, because reasons, but it's paid for and she knows it is (eventually) on its way.
5. Withdrew some cash from the bank in order to pay for laundry, pizza dinners at Stewardship committee meetings, and general food costs at the youth group lock-in this weekend.
6. Put away my remaining laundry.
7. TOOK A NAP. (Monday)
8. Stewardship committee session was moved to Tuesday this week, in order to get the pledge request letters put together and mailed out in time for the pledge drive kickoff this Sunday. I missed the first hour because of work, but arrived in time to eat some pizza and seal and stamp a whole bunch of envelopes.
9. Took kitchen compost to the backyard bin, and took the bin to the curb for pickup. (I am not sure whether it actually WAS picked up and replaced. I should probably go check on that tonight...)
10. Finished and posted An Unexpected Meeting, an Enchanted Forest Chronicles fic about Cimorene and Kazul dealing with some unexpected ambassadors while attempting to have a picnic. That was the last fic from the mini-ficlet prompt meme I ran in August 2016. (Due to depression, I didn't really start writing any of the prompts until January, and due to overwork and general grumpiness it took me a whole month to finish the last one, but I won in the end. \o/)
11. Arranged a phone date with Vicky for next Saturday. (I will, of course, call her briefly on this Saturday as well, to sing Happy Birthday to her over the phone, but I expect to be dead tired from the lock-in and didn't want to commit to a proper conversation.)
12. Made a packing list for the lock-in, and gathered together as much of the stuff as practical before tomorrow afternoon. (I can't gather all of it, since I'm using some items tonight and tomorrow at work.)
13. TOOK A NAP. (Thursday)
14. Made a functional (albeit sketchy and a bit slapdash) outline for Vicky's super-belated gift story. Took a few stabs at making a similar outline for Susan's super-belated gift story, but stalled out since I am still not entirely sure what kind of weirdness I want to use in the worldbuilding. Maybe if I pin down some stuff about the main character and her life/friends, that will constrain the shape of the world around her. *ponders*
In any case, if anyone has suggestions for either story, I am all ears!
Bonus 15. This actually belongs on my previous 'stuff done' post, but since I forgot to write it down there, I will mention it here. I read The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis, which I bought for Dad as his Christmas present and then asked to borrow once he was finished because I wanted to read it too. It is about Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists whose work is at the foundation of the study of humanity's systematic errors in judgment and decision-making; it is both about their theories and about their unlikely friendship. Michael Lewis writes readable and engaging prose, and doesn't get in the way of his own (fascinating) topic. I recommend this book a lot. :)
2. Changed the scented wax in my wax melter.
3. Bought, wrote, addressed, stamped, sealed, and mailed birthday cards for my sister and my cousin Ben.
4. Ordered a birthday present for Vicky. It will not be shipped until the 17th, because reasons, but it's paid for and she knows it is (eventually) on its way.
5. Withdrew some cash from the bank in order to pay for laundry, pizza dinners at Stewardship committee meetings, and general food costs at the youth group lock-in this weekend.
6. Put away my remaining laundry.
7. TOOK A NAP. (Monday)
8. Stewardship committee session was moved to Tuesday this week, in order to get the pledge request letters put together and mailed out in time for the pledge drive kickoff this Sunday. I missed the first hour because of work, but arrived in time to eat some pizza and seal and stamp a whole bunch of envelopes.
9. Took kitchen compost to the backyard bin, and took the bin to the curb for pickup. (I am not sure whether it actually WAS picked up and replaced. I should probably go check on that tonight...)
10. Finished and posted An Unexpected Meeting, an Enchanted Forest Chronicles fic about Cimorene and Kazul dealing with some unexpected ambassadors while attempting to have a picnic. That was the last fic from the mini-ficlet prompt meme I ran in August 2016. (Due to depression, I didn't really start writing any of the prompts until January, and due to overwork and general grumpiness it took me a whole month to finish the last one, but I won in the end. \o/)
11. Arranged a phone date with Vicky for next Saturday. (I will, of course, call her briefly on this Saturday as well, to sing Happy Birthday to her over the phone, but I expect to be dead tired from the lock-in and didn't want to commit to a proper conversation.)
12. Made a packing list for the lock-in, and gathered together as much of the stuff as practical before tomorrow afternoon. (I can't gather all of it, since I'm using some items tonight and tomorrow at work.)
13. TOOK A NAP. (Thursday)
14. Made a functional (albeit sketchy and a bit slapdash) outline for Vicky's super-belated gift story. Took a few stabs at making a similar outline for Susan's super-belated gift story, but stalled out since I am still not entirely sure what kind of weirdness I want to use in the worldbuilding. Maybe if I pin down some stuff about the main character and her life/friends, that will constrain the shape of the world around her. *ponders*
In any case, if anyone has suggestions for either story, I am all ears!
Bonus 15. This actually belongs on my previous 'stuff done' post, but since I forgot to write it down there, I will mention it here. I read The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis, which I bought for Dad as his Christmas present and then asked to borrow once he was finished because I wanted to read it too. It is about Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli psychologists whose work is at the foundation of the study of humanity's systematic errors in judgment and decision-making; it is both about their theories and about their unlikely friendship. Michael Lewis writes readable and engaging prose, and doesn't get in the way of his own (fascinating) topic. I recommend this book a lot. :)
