2022 Goals, 2021 Recaps

[aphrodite_mine]

2022 GOALS

Measurable

Complete 8 puzzles
Complete 5 craft projects (including with children)
Watch 15 movies
Complete 10 TV seasons
Give a dedicated, album-order listen to 10 albums
Read 10 books
Complete 5 pieces of fiction
Complete 12 pieces of nonfiction (for work)
Share 10 impactful podcasts or episodes
Work on 5 sales that result in a signed contract (for work)
Try 12 brand new recipes (significant variants from already-tried recipes count)

Aspirational

Spend less time on social media

Spend less time on phone in general (unless gaming)

Grow leadership skills and agility

Continue guiding children through high school, preschool/kindergarten, and therapy

Final Totals for 2021
- Movies: 19/15 - Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Judas and the Black Messiah, Happily, Palm Springs, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn), Underwater, Fear Street: 1994, 1978, 1666, Gunpowder Milkshake, The Suicide Squad, Vivo, Fingersmith, The Old Ways, Crawl, Malignant, Mandy, Shirley, Shiva Baby, Christine, Feel the Beat, The Lighthouse. Okay - getting a count of 22. Somewhere, I fucked up. But seeing more movies can never be a mistake!
- TV Seasons: 16/10 - Schitt's Creek S1, The Wilds S1, The Sinner S1 + S2, Superstore S5 + S6, Speechless S1 + S2, The Nevers S1 (twice), Kevin Can Fuck Himself S1, Ted Lasso S1 + S2, Nine Perfect Strangers, Squid Game S1, The Great S2.
- Crafts: 8/1
- Writing: 6/3-5 - See below.
- Albums: 6/?
- Books: 3/2 - The Door in the Wall and Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue.

FANWORK IN 2021

Fic written in 2021: 7

Podfic recorded in 2021: 0

Mixes compiled in 2021: 0

That makes:

-- 5 fandoms represented

-- 7 completed works of fiction
-- 5,551 words

-- 4 new-to-me fandoms

-- 5 ficathons/exchanges

-- 5 femslash, 2 gen, 0 het, 0 slash, 0 incest, and 0 poly

Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted? More! I'm really pleased that I was able to pass my goal.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted in January? The only really unpredictable things were canons I hadn't watched yet.

What's your own favorite story of the year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you happiest? Makes me happiest? Oh god, next year I need to purge this meme for wording that doesn't jive with me. Um. I was quite thrilled with What birds have vanished one by one. And popularity doesn't… really ever factor in.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? Writing as much as I did was a risk, and pinch hits are always questionable as far as time constraints go.

Do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the New Year? I do indeed. See above.

Comments

[senmut]

+throws confetti and encouragement+

[aphrodite_mine]

*cheers self tiredly*

:D

[gloss]

I am so very constantly psyched by you reading and writing. 🧡

[aphrodite_mine]

As I am to you, always!

It is a lovely feeling, when I've got a bunch of notification emails building up in my inbox, knowing the next time I plop down for some fanfic, that I'll have some of gloss's treats awaiting.

here from Snowflake

[flamingsword]

Wow, that is quite a to-do list! Good luck with all of it!

What kinds of crafting do you do? I see cosplay in your tags, which covers a lot of territory. Is there any of it that you want to talk about?

Re: here from Snowflake

[aphrodite_mine]

Hello!

I've been ruminating on my list for approx. two months now, and see it as a means of obsessively tracking things I expect to do, rather than the probably-true intention of a goal or resolution. It makes my OCD wonderfully happy to collect all of the things as the year passes.

I haven't done cosplay in quite a few years, aside from helping craft some costumes for my kids. These days, if I'm crafting for myself it is something like diamond painting, or paint by number - I like the order of it - but mostly I'm crafting with my 4-year-old. Last year (WOW, WEIRD) we sewed some small stuffies, and did a few craft kits.

Re: here from Snowflake

[flamingsword]

Making costumes for other people still counts as cosplay! They're the same skills, even if the models are a bit shorter than average. I have done one diamond painting that my aunt bought me, but mostly my worktable is too full of knitting and yarn projects to spread a diamond painting out on. Also, one of the cats likes to overturn the little tray with the clinky plastic stones in them, which is not helpful, LOL.

Re: here from Snowflake

[aphrodite_mine]

Cats and babies - two things which my house is full of - are not a great match for diamond painting, alas.

For some reason, my brain separates Halloween costumes from cosplay, though I know rationally they really are the same.

[komadori]

Good luck with all of your goals in 2022!

[aphrodite_mine]

Thank you!

[peaked]

I love your goals, especially the aspirational ones. I really want to reduce my social media time, but it's so hard! I hope you find a great common ground with it.

Your measurable goals are so productive, too. Good luck with them all!

[aphrodite_mine]

Thank you so much! The aspirational ones are... demonstrably harder and I have much less idea of how I'll actually do with them, but the aspiration is there!

[lunabee34]

You accomplished so much! And I know you have many accomplishments ahead of you.

*cheerleads*

[aphrodite_mine]

*PUNCHING THE SKY DRAMATICALLY* YAAAAAA

[severina]

Puzzles?! PUZZLES?! Do you mean jigsaw puzzles? Because I just started doing them this year and kind of love them.

I've also got writing, reading, TV show and other craft project goals. I'm going to friend you if that's okay. I'm new to DW but not to blogging and writing. :)

[aphrodite_mine]

I do mean jigsaw puzzles! In 2020 I started doing them in my office because I was one of like... three who worked onsite and I needed something to keep me sane. I can't do them at home because I have babies and cats. This year will be an interesting challenge, because 1) I'm starting the year with a really deceptively hard donut montage, and 2) I got a promotion and an office so I'm not sure how I'll be able to strategically walk past the puzzle table as much.

I've subscribed to you! Welcome :)

[severina]

Okay, so by chance do you mean the Buffalo Games puzzle of all the donuts with the coffee cup? Because if so I was inches away from buying that one right before Christmas, but I ended up going with one of the CATS series that I love instead.

Now, thoughts. Since you have your own office (go you) maybe you could set up your own little table? In the corner? Tucked unobtrusively away behind the coat rack?

For at home, there is a puzzle mat that you can buy that you can roll up half-completed puzzles and loose pieces and it apparently keeps them safe. You could work on the puzzle when babies are asleep, and roll it up when they're awake and doing baby things. Of course, that doesn't help with the cats. I got one for Christmas (a puzzle mat, not a cat) but I haven't used it because I have neither babies nor cats. If anyone is going to chew one of my puzzle pieces, it would have to be me.

[aphrodite_mine]

It is not the Buffalo one, though I did receive that one (2,000 pc!) for Christmas, so it is in queue. It is this one from Cobble Hill.

I love your solutions. Basically the office is TBD since it is still in the "ordering furniture" phase - I think I'll be moved in by February? - and I'm not sure what will fit. We have a flat mat at home that slides under the couch, but it is home to my wife's current puzzle, which she, in theory, can work on at naptime, but that is the time when our 4-year old demands ACTIVITIES and not puzzles.

The roll-up mat has a trick to it that I never really figured out - I like the flat storage much better, though none is perfect, and we've still managed to leak pieces from this one. We have aggressive puzzle piece and sock elves.

[severina]

2000 pieces, yeek. I have been sticking to the 750 piece ones generally, though I'm currently doing a 500. I'm working my way up to a 1K. I've never seen that Cobble Hill one, I don't think, but it looks fun.

Smart thinking to hide things under the sofa. I'm going to hold out hope, then, that you can find a reason why you reallllllly need another table. Over by the coat rack.

[scintilla10]

Yay, go you! Good luck with your goals for 2022. :D