posted by
purplerabbits at 04:01pm on 27/12/2015
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I'm not going to answer all those questions, because they're becoming less and less meaningful to me now. I don't have a song of the year any more, because I don't listen to enough new music. I don't have enough people 'close to me' for people to giving birth and dying. I am fatter and richer and more and more tired and alone.
Yeah, I shouldn't do this at all in December - it's all too dark.
But things did happen, and some of them were for the first time and some of them were plans I'd made and carried out. So. A list that will keep the "I did nothing" voice at bay...
I paid off my mortgage. I had a huge clear out. I got a flat on the market and sold a flat and found a flat and bought a flat. And it's flatter than before cos it's on the ground. That was a plan carried out.
I paid a gardener for the first time and we cleared the garden and planted things in the ground. I have my own bird feeder now.
I had double glazing fitted including a whole new door, that's a new thing.
I had central heating fitted and a whole new boiler. The flat on the ground is now warm.
I organised a BiCon team and the team ran a great BiCon with more people than usual. It was completely exhausting and I feel very disempowered and drained after it. I will not do it again. In fact it's a toss up whether I will do any bi 'activism' again including the things I am supposed to have to do. There is too much poison there for me to handle right now.
I made a lot more pottery and got somewhat better at it. I even sold some. I knitted a sweater that I made up the pattern for as I went along and people seem to like it.
I finished Nanowrimo for the first time. I wrote an ending to a novel even though the middle isn't complete yet. In the process I met a new writer's group which I will keep meeting.
I went to Less Wrong meet-ups but sadly all the people have moved away. I need to meet less successful rationalists. Or, er, something
I went to the Highlands, and Orkney for the day.
I saw new birds - all of them skuas.
I dealt with benefits and stayed alive and helped look after people and generally didn't suck.
Yeah, I shouldn't do this at all in December - it's all too dark.
But things did happen, and some of them were for the first time and some of them were plans I'd made and carried out. So. A list that will keep the "I did nothing" voice at bay...
I paid off my mortgage. I had a huge clear out. I got a flat on the market and sold a flat and found a flat and bought a flat. And it's flatter than before cos it's on the ground. That was a plan carried out.
I paid a gardener for the first time and we cleared the garden and planted things in the ground. I have my own bird feeder now.
I had double glazing fitted including a whole new door, that's a new thing.
I had central heating fitted and a whole new boiler. The flat on the ground is now warm.
I organised a BiCon team and the team ran a great BiCon with more people than usual. It was completely exhausting and I feel very disempowered and drained after it. I will not do it again. In fact it's a toss up whether I will do any bi 'activism' again including the things I am supposed to have to do. There is too much poison there for me to handle right now.
I made a lot more pottery and got somewhat better at it. I even sold some. I knitted a sweater that I made up the pattern for as I went along and people seem to like it.
I finished Nanowrimo for the first time. I wrote an ending to a novel even though the middle isn't complete yet. In the process I met a new writer's group which I will keep meeting.
I went to Less Wrong meet-ups but sadly all the people have moved away. I need to meet less successful rationalists. Or, er, something
I went to the Highlands, and Orkney for the day.
I saw new birds - all of them skuas.
I dealt with benefits and stayed alive and helped look after people and generally didn't suck.