2025 Weekly Challenge, Week 24: Crunch Time (Again)

Well, here we are, once again less than a week away from a hard deadline with a pile of dolls to rehab.  Why am I like this?

To be fair, last week was challenging.  I was having some pain from a suspected repetitive strain injury that was making typing — and other motions needed to accomplish the things on my to-do list — uncomfortable.  I’ll write about that in more detail in another post.

We also went to the No Kings protest on the weekend, which basically eliminated my entire weekend: We got stranded downtown afterward, as they stopped all light rail service to accommodate the march, and I was exhausted and unable to focus on Sunday.  We slept in and then napped in the afternoon, so yesterday was not much more than a recovery day.

So last week’s goals progress was less than spectacular, and I’ll have a lot of cramming to do this week.

Without further ado:

Writing

I worked on my novel Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday (I could have sworn I had Wednesday too, but I guess not), and then fell off the wagon for the weekend.  My word counts were pretty low too.  I don’t expect to do well this week, but hopefully next week I can start making up for lost time.

I only got the one blog post, but I did post on social media several times with pictures from the protest.

A huge reason I didn’t write more was how uncomfortable it was to type.  Thankfully, that seems to be improving.

Decluttering and Organization

I had good intentions of working on organization last week, but it never happened.  I blame the pain in my hand.

Dolls

Samesies.  I actually can’t imagine working on dolls last week, with my hand so uncomfortable.  That would have been even worse than typing.

Taxes

Same as above.

Lessons Learned

The lesson here?  Sometimes our bodies make us take a break (even if we try to ignore it and push through).

This week is crunch time, with a sale coming up on Saturday.  Fortunately it’ll be a small one but I still want to feel prepared!  I may need to sacrifice some writing time so I can focus on getting dolls ready.  We’ll see how the week goes.