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thegreatratsbywe're so back! doing things in a slightly different order than last year: first, reviewing the 2024 resolutions.
--> get back on a regular workout schedule: swimming 1x a week, weights once or twice a week. would like to try and work towards my One Pullup goal again. would also be cool to try and work towards a hand/headstand.
Ha Ha. yeah. no. did not do great with this one. definitely did a non-zero amount of exercise but I probably averaged about 1 gym visit a week, if that. I think I am going to add a "working out" section to next year's weekly roundup, right now I've been posting that on dreamwidth under my 'gains' tag but I think slapping it in the weekly roundup will help a lot. I've been doing a lot more yoga than normal in December so I would like to keep that going in the new year - I paid for down dog last summer and have actually used it which is good, and I'm doing their 'every day January' challenge thingy so that should be a good place to start. realistically after January I will not do yoga Every Day but I bet I can make it happen 2x a week. more on that in the 2025 resolutions section.
--> try and be more mindful. i'm going to continue the grief therapy but also think about meditating more, doing more yoga, and so on.
I got ghosted by my grief therapist at the end of January lol <3 and was quite bad about meditating and journaling especially this year - in 2023 I was really good about regularly journaling and I think it was really good for me but that fell off almost entirely this year.
--> there's a gallery on main street that solicits work from local artists for bimonthy themed exhibitions and i really want to submit at least one thing to it this year! the one due by end of january is themed 'florals', and the one two months after that is 'layers', so i'd really like to submit something to one of those.
weeps cries throws up. I didn't even submit to the artists' choice show for December. I should have though - I peeked in the gallery and based on the caliber of work. I absolutely would have made it in. Oh well.
--> more weird art! use that big canvas i bought in literally 2022! paint!!!
did essentially Zero painting this year besides some watercolor in a travel journal, Ha Ha. did not do anything particularly weird or fun.
--> finally put together that travel journal from korea & japan (and also scrapbook-ify the papers i have leftover in a pile from that)
also did not do this :'D I DID work on my travel journal for England somewhat though.
--> also, maybe do current scrapbook a little different? might need a new binder at the very least.
kind of! I did portion off the current binder into just 2021-2022, I have separate 2023 and 24 events in chronological binder sleeves but now that those years are done I think it would be cool to do them in a more traditional book format.
--> hang up that expensive quilt i bought in august
IT IS STILL IN A PLASTIC BAG IN MY CLOSET .... however, I DID move into my own place this summer, and my boyfriend is going to help me hang it up in January when he's visiting after the holidays, so. it wasn't done but it's imminent.
--> speaking of quilt: do some hand quilting, english paper piercing! i have so much fucking fabric!
did do some of this! have not finished that exact project but I did do some of it! I also have done a lot of Thinking about fabric projects which I know doesn't count but it has been marinating is all I'm saying.
--> find a new apartment to move into that hopefully won't suck!
completed! only sucked a little bit to do, and the actual apartment itself is good, if a little dire in terms of insulation!
--> try to secure some sort of summer internship or project that will let me develop some new skillsets that i might not be getting with my current research
this failed for last summer but I learned a lot from the process and am very optimistic about this coming summer.
--> finish the masters degree
did do this!
--> write...a paper? for the work i just presented???
did not do this! it's complicated! big pain in the ass!
--> keep tweaking neocities and make some more pages
basically didn't touch neocities at all this year.
--> keep track of recipes this year as well in my making section
this was a success!
i might start a little spreadsheet this year to keep better track of all my stuff because i really did Not want to go through all my separate listening and reading sections and extract what i liked the most, etc. this post required me to first back up a few extra early tuesdayposts from this year to dreamwidth, and then skim all of them to accumulate the above, and that was kinda a pain. and i love an excuse to start a new spreadsheet.
I did not actually MAKE the spreadsheet til December but fucking whatever I did do it. and it was great.
of those roughly 15 notes, if I am very generous in what I count as a success, I accomplished about 7 of them! about a 50% success rate implies to me that I was a little too ambitious. this was a 2023 not 2024 resolution but I did partake in bandcamp Friday this year also so that's fun!
now. THE DATA. there is a part of me that really, really wants to whip out some old bokeh macros to sexy-ify this data. that could be fun to host on neocities and/or my real-name website as an example of my data viz prowess. but for now, google sheets plots will suffice. they are not very accessible (color blindness, etc) unfortunately.
behold! a bar chart! this data isn't necessarily 100% correct or perfect, some of these numbers are deffo estimates.
listening:
saw more live music this year for sure - saw Haken, St. Vincent, ELO, and Sammy Rae live and they all slapped. lots of podcasts, even more music. April doing some heavy lifting there due to the spotify algorithm playlists, especially the release radar but also other miscellaneous generated playlists.
my bigass 2024 playlist!
reading:
I THINK I read significantly less AO3 this year but I read a lot of other articles and a few books! notables were Bunny (bad) and The Left Hand Of Darkness (good) (which I think mirrors last year, which was also [modern lit book] bad [ursula le guin] good if I recall right)
watching:
more youtube in the second half of the year than the first. something about background noise maybe.
playing:
largely dnd with a smattering of video games and magic the gathering.
making:
mostly pottery with some fiber art in there.
eating:
yay recipes :-) adding this section was a roaring success. considering compiling a 'favs of 2024' pdf to distribute. should be pretty easy to do so stay tuned for that.
misc:
finished masters degree! saw the eclipse in April! became a member of my local temple this year! england/scotland trip!
the 2025 goals!
- once again: workout routine! setting this at 1 day of cardio, 1 day of yoga/adjacent, and 1 day of weights per week. this feels sustainable. would like to make it through the yoga every day down dog challenge for January.
- reintegrate journaling into my day-to-day.
- clean up some digital clutter; organize photos and files, empty..my tumblr likes ...... [80k posts]
- generally move away from perfectionist tendencies (in writing/journaling (feeling compelled to record Everything), painting, etc)
- submit to the gallery on main street for real this time
- finish the travel journals
- learn some quilting
- get back into neocities! maybe start crossposting these on there?
- read like...10 books this year
- pass my prelim exams ;_;
onwards and upwards. good night and good luck. here's to 2025 :-)
--> get back on a regular workout schedule: swimming 1x a week, weights once or twice a week. would like to try and work towards my One Pullup goal again. would also be cool to try and work towards a hand/headstand.
Ha Ha. yeah. no. did not do great with this one. definitely did a non-zero amount of exercise but I probably averaged about 1 gym visit a week, if that. I think I am going to add a "working out" section to next year's weekly roundup, right now I've been posting that on dreamwidth under my 'gains' tag but I think slapping it in the weekly roundup will help a lot. I've been doing a lot more yoga than normal in December so I would like to keep that going in the new year - I paid for down dog last summer and have actually used it which is good, and I'm doing their 'every day January' challenge thingy so that should be a good place to start. realistically after January I will not do yoga Every Day but I bet I can make it happen 2x a week. more on that in the 2025 resolutions section.
--> try and be more mindful. i'm going to continue the grief therapy but also think about meditating more, doing more yoga, and so on.
I got ghosted by my grief therapist at the end of January lol <3 and was quite bad about meditating and journaling especially this year - in 2023 I was really good about regularly journaling and I think it was really good for me but that fell off almost entirely this year.
--> there's a gallery on main street that solicits work from local artists for bimonthy themed exhibitions and i really want to submit at least one thing to it this year! the one due by end of january is themed 'florals', and the one two months after that is 'layers', so i'd really like to submit something to one of those.
weeps cries throws up. I didn't even submit to the artists' choice show for December. I should have though - I peeked in the gallery and based on the caliber of work. I absolutely would have made it in. Oh well.
--> more weird art! use that big canvas i bought in literally 2022! paint!!!
did essentially Zero painting this year besides some watercolor in a travel journal, Ha Ha. did not do anything particularly weird or fun.
--> finally put together that travel journal from korea & japan (and also scrapbook-ify the papers i have leftover in a pile from that)
also did not do this :'D I DID work on my travel journal for England somewhat though.
--> also, maybe do current scrapbook a little different? might need a new binder at the very least.
kind of! I did portion off the current binder into just 2021-2022, I have separate 2023 and 24 events in chronological binder sleeves but now that those years are done I think it would be cool to do them in a more traditional book format.
--> hang up that expensive quilt i bought in august
IT IS STILL IN A PLASTIC BAG IN MY CLOSET .... however, I DID move into my own place this summer, and my boyfriend is going to help me hang it up in January when he's visiting after the holidays, so. it wasn't done but it's imminent.
--> speaking of quilt: do some hand quilting, english paper piercing! i have so much fucking fabric!
did do some of this! have not finished that exact project but I did do some of it! I also have done a lot of Thinking about fabric projects which I know doesn't count but it has been marinating is all I'm saying.
--> find a new apartment to move into that hopefully won't suck!
completed! only sucked a little bit to do, and the actual apartment itself is good, if a little dire in terms of insulation!
--> try to secure some sort of summer internship or project that will let me develop some new skillsets that i might not be getting with my current research
this failed for last summer but I learned a lot from the process and am very optimistic about this coming summer.
--> finish the masters degree
did do this!
--> write...a paper? for the work i just presented???
did not do this! it's complicated! big pain in the ass!
--> keep tweaking neocities and make some more pages
basically didn't touch neocities at all this year.
--> keep track of recipes this year as well in my making section
this was a success!
i might start a little spreadsheet this year to keep better track of all my stuff because i really did Not want to go through all my separate listening and reading sections and extract what i liked the most, etc. this post required me to first back up a few extra early tuesdayposts from this year to dreamwidth, and then skim all of them to accumulate the above, and that was kinda a pain. and i love an excuse to start a new spreadsheet.
I did not actually MAKE the spreadsheet til December but fucking whatever I did do it. and it was great.
of those roughly 15 notes, if I am very generous in what I count as a success, I accomplished about 7 of them! about a 50% success rate implies to me that I was a little too ambitious. this was a 2023 not 2024 resolution but I did partake in bandcamp Friday this year also so that's fun!
now. THE DATA. there is a part of me that really, really wants to whip out some old bokeh macros to sexy-ify this data. that could be fun to host on neocities and/or my real-name website as an example of my data viz prowess. but for now, google sheets plots will suffice. they are not very accessible (color blindness, etc) unfortunately.
behold! a bar chart! this data isn't necessarily 100% correct or perfect, some of these numbers are deffo estimates.
listening:
saw more live music this year for sure - saw Haken, St. Vincent, ELO, and Sammy Rae live and they all slapped. lots of podcasts, even more music. April doing some heavy lifting there due to the spotify algorithm playlists, especially the release radar but also other miscellaneous generated playlists.
my bigass 2024 playlist!
reading:
I THINK I read significantly less AO3 this year but I read a lot of other articles and a few books! notables were Bunny (bad) and The Left Hand Of Darkness (good) (which I think mirrors last year, which was also [modern lit book] bad [ursula le guin] good if I recall right)
watching:
more youtube in the second half of the year than the first. something about background noise maybe.
playing:
largely dnd with a smattering of video games and magic the gathering.
making:
mostly pottery with some fiber art in there.
eating:
yay recipes :-) adding this section was a roaring success. considering compiling a 'favs of 2024' pdf to distribute. should be pretty easy to do so stay tuned for that.
misc:
finished masters degree! saw the eclipse in April! became a member of my local temple this year! england/scotland trip!
the 2025 goals!
- once again: workout routine! setting this at 1 day of cardio, 1 day of yoga/adjacent, and 1 day of weights per week. this feels sustainable. would like to make it through the yoga every day down dog challenge for January.
- reintegrate journaling into my day-to-day.
- clean up some digital clutter; organize photos and files, empty..my tumblr likes ...... [80k posts]
- generally move away from perfectionist tendencies (in writing/journaling (feeling compelled to record Everything), painting, etc)
- submit to the gallery on main street for real this time
- finish the travel journals
- learn some quilting
- get back into neocities! maybe start crossposting these on there?
- read like...10 books this year
- pass my prelim exams ;_;
onwards and upwards. good night and good luck. here's to 2025 :-)
