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Feb. 12th, 2019 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI am reconsidering my need to play Hotel California because ow and yikes. Maybe I'll start with something easier, like Under the Bridge or The Sound of Silence.
But the guitar thing is going to stick this time I think. I feel strange when I don't practice, like I've missed something. I'm excited about practicing new skills. I'm understanding more. And this is an entire thought process I threaded today on Twitter that culminated in "No you are not impulse buying one (1) entire bass guitar because you want to play one (1) lick from Under Pressure." I'm getting my calluses! I'm getting irritated at my fingernails growing on my fretting hand a lot quicker than my other hand. They're about a millimeter and a half long at most and they're already annoying me. I do not know how Dolly Parton does it. But I think the guitar habit will stick, and next month I will get my glitters as a reward for practicing, so I can go full Aladdin Sane.
I'm getting my ass in gear on my web presence, and hey! I've managed to remember to tweet out about my mailing list I think two weeks in a row now! Either two weeks in a row or two weeks out of three. I'm getting considerably better about getting Patreon content up on time. I'm ... making progress, I guess. We'll go with that. It doesn't feel like progress because a lot of it is small tweaks and building my routines back up again after the clusterfuck that was January (looking back it doesn't feel like a clusterfuck, there was no major event to recover from, but I think it really was a long series of minor events that made writing work hard). But overall, progress is being made.
I'm reading for pleasure still, too. I read a lot of books in January, I'm still reading in February, so that's a lot of fun. Part of what might be working in February is that I'm remembering to forgive myself for not getting everything done each day a lot more (or making a point of doing so?) and I'm reminding myself to just pick up one thing today. Guitar, physics, TinyCards, whatever. That's helping. Carry around my Kindle and read a bit. If I find myself refreshing the same five social media sites, get out the Kindle or do a couple quizzes. Baby steps. Small steps.
I need to remember to make icons. Primarily from Lucifer, but also of more guitar stock photos. La de dum. Small steps, self, and doing the next thing.
But the guitar thing is going to stick this time I think. I feel strange when I don't practice, like I've missed something. I'm excited about practicing new skills. I'm understanding more. And this is an entire thought process I threaded today on Twitter that culminated in "No you are not impulse buying one (1) entire bass guitar because you want to play one (1) lick from Under Pressure." I'm getting my calluses! I'm getting irritated at my fingernails growing on my fretting hand a lot quicker than my other hand. They're about a millimeter and a half long at most and they're already annoying me. I do not know how Dolly Parton does it. But I think the guitar habit will stick, and next month I will get my glitters as a reward for practicing, so I can go full Aladdin Sane.
I'm getting my ass in gear on my web presence, and hey! I've managed to remember to tweet out about my mailing list I think two weeks in a row now! Either two weeks in a row or two weeks out of three. I'm getting considerably better about getting Patreon content up on time. I'm ... making progress, I guess. We'll go with that. It doesn't feel like progress because a lot of it is small tweaks and building my routines back up again after the clusterfuck that was January (looking back it doesn't feel like a clusterfuck, there was no major event to recover from, but I think it really was a long series of minor events that made writing work hard). But overall, progress is being made.
I'm reading for pleasure still, too. I read a lot of books in January, I'm still reading in February, so that's a lot of fun. Part of what might be working in February is that I'm remembering to forgive myself for not getting everything done each day a lot more (or making a point of doing so?) and I'm reminding myself to just pick up one thing today. Guitar, physics, TinyCards, whatever. That's helping. Carry around my Kindle and read a bit. If I find myself refreshing the same five social media sites, get out the Kindle or do a couple quizzes. Baby steps. Small steps.
I need to remember to make icons. Primarily from Lucifer, but also of more guitar stock photos. La de dum. Small steps, self, and doing the next thing.