Holiday Hijinks – Words from fallingstuff

Happy New Year .. a little late

No it is not the first of the year .. it is more around 3 weeks into the new year. I have not been in a coma all this time, although I have been sick with some kind of crud. No, I have spent the last 2ish months trying to put good reasoning behind why I did not achieve my personal goals in 2023 and 2024, watching what I have been doing and more importantly how do I do better for 2025… Let me explain.

I have a bad habit of over analyzing everything to the point of stagnation (yep, old school analysis paralysis) but I have taken it a step further and tried to put everything into small VERY specific categories, but then I forget the categories. I also have a habit of putting things onto a VERY specific schedule – “I will only do X on Y day”, meaning I have cut out the flexibility if something interrupts that schedule usually this is work affecting personal projects. Wrap it all up with my planning has not accommodated for the above meaning I forget what I am working on because I missed the release time and then forgot what I was working on.

This year I am changing up how I approach these things – all my projects are being pulled under a new, more generic title – Fallingworks, my site has always been about things I was doing … and since the things that I do tend to be all over the place, the new title is fitting. Plus, as a side note, the name change leans into more collaboration. I spent the last 2ish months putting together a list of all the ideas that I want to work on, including things that I was already working on… Big list of everything, just pick something that piques my interest then only mark it off when it is done, whatever and whenever that is. The last things I have are to make a weekly ‘status’ post for accountability and to keep things somewhat on track.

I have a lot on the plan for 2025 both personally and professionally, it is going to be an exciting year.

So .. about 2024

Well, something obviously happened last year .. but the specific details are a bit of a blur. I know what did happen was definitely NOT according to the plan from last year. Looking back, last year became a mess of shifting priorities (in both my personal and professional life) and tasks lost to not being written down. In short, I would be working on something, get distracted, and the ideas got lost. Finally, somewhere around June / July, when I took some time off work, content posting got more or less put on hold.

Now, being a new year, the work begins again starting with a few things last year that never got to post – those are being drafted now – and then I have a list of things I want to work on, so the year is looking strong so far. The goal again is 52 Musics, 52 Memerys, and 26 content posts. As an added challenge – an extra 20 Musics, 25 Memerys, and 13 content posts to catch up from last year. (Clarification – a content post is something requiring at least some research or work on my part – reactions to news topics or slinging pictures up do not count.)

So here’s to the New Year … may she be a damn sight better than the old.

Good Riddance 2022

Dear 2023, you are up … do not screw it up.

Here’s to the New Year .. may she be a damn sight better than the old one.

Looking back 2022 was a blur, I cannot say for sure what happened, aside from the fact that goals did not get accomplished as planned, things got backed up, shoved to the side … but for the life of me I have no idea why (hence those random psychological term posts – self research trying to figure out). Where as normally I would have complained and tried to make up some kind of excuse, 2023 is not going to be like that. This year I am going to be better (note that concrete statement there … “Going to be”).

A few months ago I finally reached the breaking point (so to speak). You know those little ticks that everyone has, those annoying little quirks or habits that we dismiss in ourselves … like a constant “well I will go to sleep a little later tonight, I will be fine” only to wake up the next day late and feeling horrible. Cannot relate to that, how about the junk drawer – you know that drawer of stuff that gets put somewhere because you cannot remember what it was for. Do not have one of those either? Well I have a few of those ticks and, yeah its time to give those things up – started to make the changes at the end of 2022, working on getting into a routine to help with the lack of sleep and all that. Also started on that whole “junk drawer” thing clearing out old components and bits that I bought forever ago and forgot why I bought them… and if any of them even still work.

It will be a fun year, and for now all I will share is that I am planning to make the blog goal again this year of 52 Musics, 52 Memerys, and 26 content posts, at the bare minimum… Now time to get writing. Stay tuned and happy 2023…