January: Week Two (Patreon)

Sunday, January 8

Very domestic day! Laundry folding and then cooked a whole-ass chicken casserole to deliver to one of my Helioscope studiomates who is recovering from surgery. See? I can be a decent human being. Occasionally.

Monday, January 9

I hate how efficient the pomodoro technique is. I get a stupid amount of work done for 25 minutes and then I take a five minute break (in which I stretch and move my body, as pictured above), then I blast through another infuriatingly productive 25 minutes. You find yourself just powering through work that you’ve been dreading because it’s going to be too hard and take too long. In utterly unrelated news, I’m finally making headway writing my outline of Space Camp after months of avoiding it.

Tuesday, January 10

It was a harder day. There’s some Ongoing Life Stuff I can’t really talk about here (sorry 2 B vague) but it left me really drained emotionally/mentally, and then I worked out which left me physically drained, and then dinner was super late so I was way low blood sugar when I joined the cocktail hour FaceTime chat that my friends and I had scheduled a week ago and I had so been looking forward to it. It went ok, but, y’know, I just wasn’t able to participate (or form complex sentences) like I wanted to. And then immediately afterwards (with a quick dinner inhaled) Matt and I had a movie night with our other friend- another thing I had really been looking forward to- and we were both just so exhausted and dispirited from the aforementioned Vague Ongoing Life Stuff that our friend even observed that we looked “shell shocked” when he saw us. The beginning and end of the movie were good but I nodded off for the middle 😬 It was a good nap, though. Snuggled between my husband and our friend, their warmth and comfiness lured me into feeling safe and loved enough to just relax into happy sleep.

Wednesday, January 11

Wow, today sucked. But! I finished my outline of Space Camp and sent it off to my agent, which is a HUGE accomplishment for me. She’ll help me get it into presentable shape (it is… kind of a mess), I’ll properly draw up one of the chapters to serve as a sample of what the art will look like for the entire book, and then she’ll send them off to potential publishers and then… and thennnnnn…. THE MONEY ROLLS IN AND ALL MY PROBLEMS ARE OVER AND THE DAYS NEVER SUCK AGAIN.

Thursday, January 12

I forgot to take a self-portrait today but I did take a picture of Tig sleeping on my coat. Matt and I took my new bus friend climbing today. I love making friends. I love connecting with people.

Friday, January 13

More morning floor writing and breakfast eating. The Girls (Lucy Bellwood and Danielle Corsetto) and I recorded a thing for Oh Joy Sex Toy’s tenth anniversary event-thing Matt and I are planning. Stay tuned for April.

Saturday, January 14

I like this picture.

I had just done that thing where you create an airtight seal with your chin and mouth in your mug and you suck all the oxygen out so the cup, like, sticks to your face when you take your hands away. Then, as I was pulling the mug to break the air seal, it let out what some uncultured swine might refer to as a “fart noise”. My activities had gone unnoticed up until this point, when Matt accused me of committing the unmentionable. Long story short, divorce is imminent. Will keep you updated 😤