I haven’t done a lot of thinking about the year ahead but one thing I know for sure is that I want prioritize creativity.

Now, in some ways, I always prioritize creativity – I add a few creative activities into each day and I try to make ordinary activities more fun whenever possible but my idea for 2024 is different.

I want to focus on creative projects.

Not for productivity, not for ‘having something to show at the end’ but I want to feel like I have fully explored some ideas

I want to see what I can do with some focused time on my various projects.

I want to see what it looks like to spend a lot of time on a few things instead of a little time on a lot of things.

I’ll have to give this some more thought and to consider what that will look like, what that means, but I am intrigued by the idea.

This morning I decided that I was going to get all my annoying tasks out-of-the-way in the first part of the day..

The idea was that if I got those things done, I wouldn’t be wondering when I had to get them done today I wouldn’t be dreading them for as long I don’t even be dreading them for a short period of time.

And damn it the plan worked.

Why, damn it?

Because I hate the idea that I have to front load my annoying ass, and I have to face them first I kind of wanted them to be just as hard to do them as they are at other times in the day, which is foolish because the key thing is that these annoying tasks need to get done and I can spend more of my day feeling better.

But this is also something irksome about the fact that these tricks work.

So I may have to start having regular days of annoyance, because this one turned out to be not all that annoying even though the task themselves were.

It turns out that it was in the ‘somewhere safe’ box that I thought it was in but I couldn’t find it in here because it was inside out.

I feel a bit foolish for not realizing that the white folded thing was my inside-out dress but, hey, at least I found it before Xmas!

Victory is mine.

My sister makes cute beaded Christmas spiders – tree decorations- as gifts.

They came to mind yesterday as I walked out into the unusually warm weather (10 degrees Celsius) and happened upon this guy hanging by a web-thread from my mailbox.

He was spinning in the wind so I moved him to the porch railing.

Poor thing must be quite confused, this is supposed to be a rest time for spiders.

So this is a spider at Christmas time but it’s not a Christmas spider.

I have two fun Christmas-themed dresses.

I wore one to a party last night and planned to wear the other to a party this evening.

Alas, it appears that my second dress has been put ‘somewhere safe.’

You know what that means, right?

Yep!

It could be anywhere at this point.