Last week was a busy week, as advertised. Between the shortened week, two trips out to the barn so my leaser’s daughter could ride, and a day of puppy sitting, there was a lot I didn’t get done. I had expected it, but it’s still hard sometimes not to focus on everything I didn’t do.
Writing
I wrote four days out of seven, same as the previous week, which I’m pleased about. I did not achieve my perhaps overly optimistic goal of 2,000 words per day. I had a couple days of 400-600 words, and a couple days of 20-30 words, so while I did manage to keep up the habit (for the most part) I could stand to devote a little more time to it this week.
I also got a couple of blog posts finished, and a couple of social media posts on my author Instagram to go with them.
Decluttering and Organization
I knew I wasn’t going to have a lot of time to finish up the work on the garden, but between my busy week and the weather, I didn’t end up working on it at all. I did, however, start some organization in the doll room, which I’m pleased about. The toughest thing right now will be managing my impulse to abandon the garden half-finished so I can focus on the doll room. I do hope to finish the major work on the garden this week, but it’s going to take some effort not to jump ship without finishing it.
Dolls
As expected, I didn’t have time to work on any doll projects last week. I do need to get back to work on that this week, though, since I have the doll pop-up shop coming up at the museum in (gulp) just under three weeks.
Taxes
This category saw a surprising and dramatic increase this past week, and is probably part of the reason why I didn’t get to work on the garden. On Saturday I started working on downloading records from PayPal, and ended up working on tax records for several hours. It was satisfying to get a bunch of work done on that. I still have a ways to go, but hopefully spending about four hours on it on Saturday will help to jumpstart momentum for the future.
Lessons Learned
Last week was a challenging week because it was so busy, but I think I did surprisingly well at managing it, all things considered. This week should be much easier, thankfully, with fewer demands on me away from the house (but still a couple). I want to take advantage of the chance to establish a good routine for working on both my novel and taxes catchup, and also hopefully use the opportunity (weather permitting) to finish up the garden. And later in the week I hope to get going on doll projects, so that I have more dolls rehabbed in time for the pop-up shop on the 21st.
With that in mind, writing starts NOW!