Between my posts here and my posts at Fit is a Feminist issue, I have written 133 blog posts since December 1.

My daily posts at the group blog are over for now but I want to channel that writing energy into something else.

I think I’ll just write what I would have put into the other blog into a document for the next few days and see what I want to do with it after that.

I slept at an odd angle the other night and now I have a knot in my left shoulder.

I’ve been doing various exercises and taking meds to work out the knot but in the meantime at class tonight I did my TKD patterns one-handed.

I was pretty pleased with the results but some of the movements were tricky to remember without the visual cue of my left hand in a specific place.

And because each movement took just that much more effort, my class wore me out.

This past week has been an exercise in recalibrating my plans.

Aside from the fact that I was sick last week, a lot of other things went a little bit awry so I had to make new plans on the fly,

I’m pretty good at making new plans on the fly, but I don’t love having to do it.

And I was really hoping that this week would be a little more orderly about my weekend was a bit shifty and so was my day today so I’m going to have to be very careful with my time tomorrow to help things stay a little bit more organized.

It’s not really a big deal to have to change my plans but it’s less stressful if I can map my plans onto my time a bit more effectively.

So I’m crossing my fingers for tomorrow.

I try not to do work-work on weekends but because my work is similar to my hobbies and because I am never sure where my volunteer work fits into the work/personal/hobby divisions, I sometimes find myself leaning into my hobbies on my weekdays and doing work/work on my weekends.

After three sick days this week and knowing that I have a bunch of appointments on Monday, I had planned to spend today doing some work-work stuff just to get then all moving.

But today I woke up with an evil headache.

Not a migraine but a tension headache.

And now my work-work day is tomorrow.

But even with the way I balance things out during the week, I still feel like doing work-work on a weekend is a sign that I am working ‘too much.’

My brain is such a pest.

I’m almost at the end of Planuary and I feel pretty damn good about the pacing and scheduling of this month – even though I have been sick a fair bit.

I don’t feel overwhelmed.

I don’t feel done-in.

I don’t feel like I have been dragged along and dumped out at the end of the month.

These are all new feelings for me.

And I’m sure the majority of this is down to the fact that I am better medicated than ever but I also think that some of my choices from last month – the choice to finish soft for example- has made a big difference, too.

And now I am making a short list of creative projects for February:

1) Write 4 blog posts for my coaching blog

2) Draw and send 10 valentines

3) Create 1 informational zine

4) Send out 1 piece of flash fiction

5) Revise 25 pages of my novel

Now I need to schedule time to work on each of these things.