Just an update
Mar. 3rd, 2022 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyld_dandelyonI did FAWM last month, which was intense and chaotic and a LOT of fun. It left me feeling, well, a lot of people at the end said they felt burnt-out and that's not at all true for me. In the creative sense, I felt energized, but in a purely physical sense I was tired. March 1st I expected to be tired, since I'd deliberately interrupted my sleep to write one last song and I'd been pushing to reach a ridiculous song count the weekend before. But I was still tired yesterday, enough that I took a long nap!
But I did get things done yesterday too. I awoke to the lovely sound of a cat barfing, so before breakfast I mopped the kitchen. Then after breakfast I got out the pre-garden gardening stuff and very carefully teased apart the potful of very crowded volunteer tomato plants and repotted them separately. There were a few really badly crowded ones that had already died, and a few more that didn't retain enough roots to try to plant again, but very few, really, given how long I'd ignored that pot. A couple of them were still 6" tall even after I buried 2-3 inches of stem to encourage the plant to develop a more robust root system.
The tiniest ones went into one of the little plant nursery-thingies (basically a flat tray to hold the little pots with a warmer underneath and a plastic dome-ish thing--ish because it's rectangular to fit the tray--and a grow light on top. The bigger ones went back into the window to use natural light.
And then the nap.
Next, I filled a bunch of the small pots with potting soil, topped them off with starter mix, and planted non-volunteer tomatoes. A bunch of Northern Lights, some Cherokee Purple, several varieties of Brandywine, Black Krim, Purple Russian, and some Anna's Zebra that the place where I bought the Northern Lights seeds sent as a thank you. For the peppers, I planted Cayenne and...Huh, I don't remember. But I labeled everything but the volunteer tomatoes, so that's all right. I may have to separate some of those, since most of the seeds were from last year or older, so I planted more in each pot to try to guarantee I'd have at least one sprout in each.
And then I had to clean up everything, and I mopped the kitchen again.
I did duolinguo (I'm on a 312 day streak, as the program counts it, which included some "freeze" days, mostly when I was sick).
I thought about writing this post afterward, but didn't have the energy. So then I went to the FAWM site with the plan of listening to some songs and commenting on them, and I was too tired for that too. I ended up listening to some of my own stuff, to consider what I'd done well and what needed improvement (a lot of what I'd done was skirmishes, where you write a song and record a scratch demo in an hour, or as close to that as you can manage, so there's a lot of room for improvement especially in the recordings), and also to try to get the tunes solidified in my memory. I don't need a lot of energy to let my brain work on memorizing a melody, thank goodness.
More about FAWM later. I think I'm still processing it at a nonverbal, or at least a not-coherent-enough-to-easily-write-about level. Since I was focusing on learning new skills, both trying to improve my songwriting and to learn recording stuff, I guess that's not surprising.
But I did get things done yesterday too. I awoke to the lovely sound of a cat barfing, so before breakfast I mopped the kitchen. Then after breakfast I got out the pre-garden gardening stuff and very carefully teased apart the potful of very crowded volunteer tomato plants and repotted them separately. There were a few really badly crowded ones that had already died, and a few more that didn't retain enough roots to try to plant again, but very few, really, given how long I'd ignored that pot. A couple of them were still 6" tall even after I buried 2-3 inches of stem to encourage the plant to develop a more robust root system.
The tiniest ones went into one of the little plant nursery-thingies (basically a flat tray to hold the little pots with a warmer underneath and a plastic dome-ish thing--ish because it's rectangular to fit the tray--and a grow light on top. The bigger ones went back into the window to use natural light.
And then the nap.
Next, I filled a bunch of the small pots with potting soil, topped them off with starter mix, and planted non-volunteer tomatoes. A bunch of Northern Lights, some Cherokee Purple, several varieties of Brandywine, Black Krim, Purple Russian, and some Anna's Zebra that the place where I bought the Northern Lights seeds sent as a thank you. For the peppers, I planted Cayenne and...Huh, I don't remember. But I labeled everything but the volunteer tomatoes, so that's all right. I may have to separate some of those, since most of the seeds were from last year or older, so I planted more in each pot to try to guarantee I'd have at least one sprout in each.
And then I had to clean up everything, and I mopped the kitchen again.
I did duolinguo (I'm on a 312 day streak, as the program counts it, which included some "freeze" days, mostly when I was sick).
I thought about writing this post afterward, but didn't have the energy. So then I went to the FAWM site with the plan of listening to some songs and commenting on them, and I was too tired for that too. I ended up listening to some of my own stuff, to consider what I'd done well and what needed improvement (a lot of what I'd done was skirmishes, where you write a song and record a scratch demo in an hour, or as close to that as you can manage, so there's a lot of room for improvement especially in the recordings), and also to try to get the tunes solidified in my memory. I don't need a lot of energy to let my brain work on memorizing a melody, thank goodness.
More about FAWM later. I think I'm still processing it at a nonverbal, or at least a not-coherent-enough-to-easily-write-about level. Since I was focusing on learning new skills, both trying to improve my songwriting and to learn recording stuff, I guess that's not surprising.
