2025 Weekly Challenge, Week 23: Busier and Busier

I feel like Alice in Wonderland, except instead of "curiouser and curiouser," the theme is busier and busier.  The rabbit hole analogy is about right, though!

Last week was — as advertised — a little freer, with more time at home.  I struggled with motivation for a few days when the weather was gloomy, but ended in a rush of productivity over the weekend!  (When the weather was nice — go figure.)  Looking back, it was a more successful week than I thought at the time, despite the rainy day blues.

Writing

Once again, I got four days of writing in last week, Monday through Thursday.  It's been a little tougher to maintain on the weekends because we've been working so hard on our garden and patio projects.  I also wrote two blog posts and posted twice on my author Instagram.  So all in all, I did pretty well at achieving my writing goals for the week.

Decluttering & Organization

The flower bed is mostly finished and I'm very happy with it!  The patio is also mostly finished; I just have a little general cleanup and junk removal to do, but it's in a usable state right now, which is everything.  Gardening and working on the patio is almost all we did over the weekend.

This coming week, I need to get to work on organizing and going through my doll stuff, partly because I've been wanting to work on my doll room next and partly because I need to get together what I want to sell at the pop-up doll shop coming up in two weeks (*gasp*).

Dolls

I thought I would make more progress on doll projects last week, but I didn't.  A great deal of it was because of my struggles with the weather and motivation.  If I had gotten more done those days, I likely would have gotten around to working on the dolls.

Taxes

I succeeded in working on my taxes catchup three days last week — just a little each time, but I feel good about starting to make a habit of it.

Lessons Learned

If there's any lesson here, it's probably that I need to not be so hard on myself when things don't go as planned.  Midweek I thought I was doing terrible at everything.  I had no motivation and felt so sluggish.  But as it turned out, I actually didn't do so badly last week.  I wrote four days, worked on taxes three, and got a whole lot done on my current "organization" project over the weekend.

This week I need to ramp up my time spent on doll projects.  I have a sale in just under two weeks and not a lot of time left to prepare!  I also need to do some social media marketing for the sale so that people need to come.  Sharing photos of current projects should help with that.

Other than that, I hope to keep up my habits of writing and working on taxes a little every day (ish), and also to keep working on decluttering and organizing around the house, especially with stuff that will help prepare me for the pop-up doll shop.