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Happy Year of the Tiger Everyone!

Since its the start of a new month it's time for goals. Here's how January's goals went:

1) Top secret sewing project
Done!

2) Cut of all the pieces for Sea Star Quilt
Done!

3)Write two posts talking about what I've been observing in the built and natural environment around me
Not done. I haven't been very happy with my writing for this project for the last couple of months, so I'm putting it on hiatus while I think about how I want to continue to write about these topics.

4) Write on 20 days
Done! Due to wrist pain I'm not able to do longer writing sessions, not even my 15 minute writing sprints, so all my writing feels unfocused and fragmented. But I wrote all my year in review posts, and bunch of stuff for ladybusiness even if I didn't write any fic.

5) Write 2021 Year in Review Posts
Writing
Reading,
Learning
Watching Things

6) My Mom’s birthday
This went pretty well! My mom liked her presents and everyone liked the desert I made.

7) Take cats to the Vet
As mentioned I wasn't able to get an appointment for both cats in January, but I have one for latter today.

8)Work through to lesson 5 in A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Paul Router
Done! I'm still very much enjoying teaching myself Classical Chinese

Well January was a busy month. I failed to meet one goal and wasn't able to meet another due to logistical complications, but I still feel pretty good about what I did do.

Here are my February goals:

1) Write on 20 days (stretch goal write fic on 10 days)
I thought about bumping this up to 25 days, but February is a short month and my wrist still hurts

2) Sew two shirts for the kid
Its going to be warm enough for short sleeves soon!

3) Do lesson 1-5 review and lessons 6 and 7 in A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Paul Router

4) Valentines day
Are we going to do something for this? I'm not sure, but I have been helping the kid make valentines for school which feels like a big project. Maybe I will also make something yummy and chocolate to eat that day.

This a lot fewer goals than last month. I don't know, I'm just not coming up with a goal shaped things I want to get do in the next little bit. I have been feeling overwhelmed by the world, which is silly because I have very few obligations. But I want to rest and not push things. Maybe I will try to have someone look at my wrist since its been hurting for a while now.

Do you have any plans for this month? I hope its a good one for everyone!

I'm interviewed in the most recent episode of Cabbages and Kings. We talked about immersion and worldbuilding, and I got to geek out a bit about ecology. The episode is 30 minutes long. Go have a listen if you'd like.

Cabbages and Kings is a fairly new podcast that I've been enjoying. (I've also been chatting with the host, Jonah Sutton-Morse on twitter.) All the episodes are 30 min or less which nice change from most SFF podcasts which are long and rambling. Currently there are lots interviews which feature people talking about their history with SFF and aspects of the genre they are passionate about. There are also some episodes that are in depth looks at books, I'm quite found to the two part episode on Ancillary Justice which talks a lot about theory of mind.