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It's November already! Time to see how I did on last months goals and set some goals for the new month.

1) Finish the Space Bees quilt
I did not finish this, but I have started quilting it.

2) Finish Chicken quilt top
This is finished! I was really happy with how it came out. I'd like to use this pattern again for a bigger quilt someday (Pictures Tiwtter Instagram

3) Write two posts talking about what I've been observing in the built and natural environment around me
Observational Bits and Bobs
Pandemic Space
I don't really feel like either of these is my best work.

4) Write something about my experience with language self study as an adult with APD
Adventures in Classical Chinese
This ended up being less focused on APD that I thought it would be.

5) Work through lesson 10 in Classical Chinese for Everyone
Complete! Still having a lot of fun with this.

5) The kid's birthday
As mentioned in my mid month check in I think this went well.

6) Halloween!
We had a good Halloween. The week before Halloween the kid was allowed to bring a costume to school and wear it for the last hour of everyday. They also had treats each day. My mom hosted a very small pumpkin carving party on Friday night and we had a lot of fun carving pumpkins. On Halloween itself the kid decided to wear the dragon/dinosaur costume, and we went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. It's not a big neighborhood for trick-or-treaters but there where lots of exciting decorations anyways.

I was fairly sick for a couple of days mid-month, and the kid was not very sick but had stay home and wait for the results of a covid test, so I got a bit behind on things. However I was able to get caught up with everything except the Space Bees quilt so that was pretty good.

Here are my goals for November:

1) Finish the Space Bees quilt
I need to do about have the quilting and then the binding. Since I was planning to do all the quilting last month this shouldn't be too much.

2) Finish the Unicorn Forest quilt
My mom paid for this to be professionally quilted as present and I got it back last month. It looks amazing! I have to do the binding before its done, but that shouldn't take long.

3) Write two posts talking about what I've been observing in the built and natural environment around me

4)Finish with Classical Chinese for Everyone
There's three lessons left which what I did last month so I think I can do this.

5)Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving break
I'm going to host at least my parents and brother this year! Also the kid has whole week off of school.

6)Write on 25 days.
I know a bunch of people doing NaNo, but I'm not a fast enough writer. I would like to do some more writing this month, however I don't have any specif projects in mind right now. A days written goal will encourage more writing without tying me to a specif word count or project. 25 days means I have to write most days, but get a few days off.

That's it for now. Think it would help my mental health if I could do better at creating structure for myself, but it's difficult.