Havi at The Fluent Self has a wonderful habit (among many) of checking in with herself every Friday, to reflect on how the week went. I like it. I don’t have a better name for it, so for now I am stealing quietly borrowing hers.

The Hard Stuff

So, Monday Happened. Hoo boy, all the things I was holding in from last week came out on Monday. I was full of anger and shame, which is not a good combination ever, let alone when you are trying to ship a game with a group of also-tired people. Near the end of the day I had a nice one-on-one with my boss, then I had dinner (read: wine) with the fabulous Angela, and the bounce happened. I had expunged my stress, and could finally let it go. Thank God, that sucked balls.

Sleep patterns are holding. I Facebook’d a little while back that I’d come to the realization that it’s pretty unbecoming for a 32-year-old to hit snooze six times every morning instead of, say, trusting her nighttime self to know when she needs to get up in the morning. You know how well that worked? I got out of bed after only one snooze! For just two days in a row. I can chock it up to being overworked and underslept, but then I think about things like what it will be like when I’m a mom someday. You can’t hit snooze on babies. People deal with this every single day; why can’t I? It’s ridiculous; I know I’m not getting good rest when I drift off into lucid dreams in nine-minute increments for an hour every day. I just get late, and have to miss breakfast.

The Good Stuff

Beta, Bitches. In spite of my monsters’ best efforts, we are nearly done with the secret thing we’ve been working on. At least, one point oh. Still secret, though. Muahahaha!

Remember this?

Oh my gawd you guys, do you know what I finished?? I won’t tell you until next week. But it’s awesome. Anticipate!

Well, I still don’t have pictures. But I made something like this. That there sweater, I bought the yarn for over a year ago. It was supposed to be The Boy’s birthday present in 2009. I’m going with the story that the yarn was the 2009 gift, and the effort that went in to it was for 2010. Es verdad, ¿verdad?

Do you know how freaking good it feels, to take something you’ve worked on (on and off) for a year, and just finish it? Of course you do. You are all reasonable people.

There are bursts of energy. Por ejemplo, Wednesday I came home from work at 11:00. Then I cleaned for an hour. Sink emptied of dirty dishes, smelly trash removed from the house, piles of paper sorted (and stacked neatly to wait for the weekend), floordrobe gone. I already know I can’t go to bed directly after getting home from work, no matter how late it is, so I just took the time to improve my environment a little. Worked wonders!

Objectives Quests!

Blegh. Objectives sounds so cold and business-like, but I really do want to add a section for looking forward to next week. I need a list.

I was totally fine with the fact that Thanksgiving break is coming up – looking forward to it, even – when I started hearing chatter about Black Friday. Blech, the holidays really are here. I love them, in concept. I just hate the commercial industries around this time of year.

New objective: ignore all of it. I don’t need to spend a lot. As soon as this hectic work period is over, I plan to get into the semi-hectic-but-no-serious-deadlines period of making gifts for people. Small things, meaningful things, bits of happiness for only the people closest to me.

Also: PIE!