A finished Advent-ure!
Apr. 3rd, 2022 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressOKAY!
I have just opened my 31st box from the Dice Advent-ure! I've finished the whole box!!!
I am actually pretty proud of myself for this --the first day I opened a die was Jan 25, meaning it's been nearly 70 days to open the 31 days of the calendar. BUT. BUTTTTTTT.
My ADHD brain is not good at _sustaining_ progress. I'm great at doing dumb little braingames that work for a few days. I am not great at making them last more than a few days. So the fact that I managed to do over two months of returning to this is actually Really Good!
And now I get to earn dice twice as fast! I can open ~up to two boxes~ each day! Here's how:
Box 1: Accomplish >15 tasks from my list of dailies (currently 21 items: sleep 6+ hours, read comics and DW, brush teeth in morning, meds, brush teeth in evening, write my words, be outside, play PokemonGo, shower, do something with my hair, cleaning task for the house, cleaning task for my room, do at least 1 pull up, do at least five push-ups, inbox 0 for the day, floss, play Morsegame, take a POWER HOUR, pull tarot, [secret], [also secret].
Box 2: Accomplish One ToDo Item From Each Category. This is always going to be three categories, right now they are "Long-Term" "Short-Term" and "Work" but I'm not convinced that's where they're going to stay. I'm not allowed to double-dip --which is to say, I can clean my desk for a room cleaning daily *or* for a short-term todo item, but not for both in the same day. I am allowed to do more things than just three, but having a three-thing variety seems good. For tomorrow, I have pre-chosen the items, but I don't know if that will stay the case.
"Wait but I thought the advent calendar only has 31 days?"
It does. Yesterday before she left, Tuesday went through the four packages of dice I've had delivered in the last few months and divvied up some of those sets. I have genuinely no idea which ones she's chosen for me to get and when and I am EXCITED for this.
(I am, in a smaller way, excited to have people in my life who get excited for me and want to help me with my weird little brainhacks. Cheerleaders are good, actually.)
This is still just the next step of an incremental progress, but it feels monumental. I like that. I like that sometimes small things can build into satisfying big things.
~Sor
MOOP!
I have just opened my 31st box from the Dice Advent-ure! I've finished the whole box!!!
I am actually pretty proud of myself for this --the first day I opened a die was Jan 25, meaning it's been nearly 70 days to open the 31 days of the calendar. BUT. BUTTTTTTT.
My ADHD brain is not good at _sustaining_ progress. I'm great at doing dumb little braingames that work for a few days. I am not great at making them last more than a few days. So the fact that I managed to do over two months of returning to this is actually Really Good!
And now I get to earn dice twice as fast! I can open ~up to two boxes~ each day! Here's how:
Box 1: Accomplish >15 tasks from my list of dailies (currently 21 items: sleep 6+ hours, read comics and DW, brush teeth in morning, meds, brush teeth in evening, write my words, be outside, play PokemonGo, shower, do something with my hair, cleaning task for the house, cleaning task for my room, do at least 1 pull up, do at least five push-ups, inbox 0 for the day, floss, play Morsegame, take a POWER HOUR, pull tarot, [secret], [also secret].
Box 2: Accomplish One ToDo Item From Each Category. This is always going to be three categories, right now they are "Long-Term" "Short-Term" and "Work" but I'm not convinced that's where they're going to stay. I'm not allowed to double-dip --which is to say, I can clean my desk for a room cleaning daily *or* for a short-term todo item, but not for both in the same day. I am allowed to do more things than just three, but having a three-thing variety seems good. For tomorrow, I have pre-chosen the items, but I don't know if that will stay the case.
"Wait but I thought the advent calendar only has 31 days?"
It does. Yesterday before she left, Tuesday went through the four packages of dice I've had delivered in the last few months and divvied up some of those sets. I have genuinely no idea which ones she's chosen for me to get and when and I am EXCITED for this.
(I am, in a smaller way, excited to have people in my life who get excited for me and want to help me with my weird little brainhacks. Cheerleaders are good, actually.)
This is still just the next step of an incremental progress, but it feels monumental. I like that. I like that sometimes small things can build into satisfying big things.
~Sor
MOOP!