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So this month’s question is: How are things in your part of the world?

Very little writing in the last 6 months, despite my efforts. Less than awesome, but survivable. Things have been like that for a long time, actually. I thought I’d moved past it last fall, but then everything went to crap, probably from my own mental issues, but there are many roads to Crapland.

We don’t talk about them, though, because airing one’s dirty laundry is crass and a little gross, actually. (Yeah, that stripe there just won’t wash out, but the undies are still good. #TacoTuesday2019#Neverforget)

In the depths of the blahs, I haven’t been able to motivate myself with a even trying to work out a plan. Then cam the horrors of self-distancing and lockdowns and forced closures (#IntrovertsUnite!), and with it, the folks I follow around in the digiverse all began talking about their UFO’s (Unfinished Objects. Kinda like a WIP, but you shoved it in a corner and forgot about it for a while.), and how the forced confinement was making them to finally confront the mistakes of the past and find closure in some fashion.(#ProjectUFO)

I kinda have a few of those *coughcough20-30coughcough* and many could’ve been done in a day or two of focused labor. I’m a Stay-At-Home-Mom. How much more time are you gonna get without being independently wealthy?

I could’ve started on those months ago, but it just… didn’t happen. Maybe I was too close to the trees to notice the forest at large.  Maybe I’m just not the sharpest knife in the chandelier. Whatever.

So now I’m going through my UFO’s (most of which have been boxed up, some even with notes on what I was going to do next) and trying to bang out the little ones first, then maybe go on to the big ones. I’m hoping that doing this will relieve some of the clutter in my brain. Even though I wasn’t focusing on all the projects, they still probably rattle around in the back of my subconscious. Maybe cleaning the mental space a bit will free up more room for stuff I care about more.

We’ll see.

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