out in daylight, my potential

I spent basically all day today syncing stuff off my old dying desktop, setting up my shiny brand new computer (a winter gift from actuallyclintbarton, which I really don't deserve but is amazing and deeply appreciated), and setting up my bullet journal for the next month and the new year. That last one took... way longer than expected, but I feel a lot more like I got my shit together now.

New computer is named Eliza, and will hopefully be as reliable and long-lived as her namesake. She is perfect and I love her.

I signed up for getyourwordsout again for the next year, this time for the next level up. My word count this year came out to 137,056 (give or take anything I write in the next... hour or so) - short of the modest pledge level I just signed up for, but nearly double the pledge level I was doing this year. A lot of those words are things that only sort of count for various reasons, but fuck it, they went in the spreadsheet anyway. Hopefully next year I can step up my game and I will have more actual stories to speak of, but this year I figured out that maybe I actually haven't forgotten how to write after all, so that's good too, I guess.

...hopefully they post the new word tracker spreadsheet very soon, because I am going to lose my mind pretty quickly if I don't have a place to tally up my words come midnight.

Fireworks are already going off and have been for hours. Olivia Natalia is having a slow, mostly quiet neurotic meltdown over them. I am trying very hard not to join her because the passage of time is scary and stressful and I feel like I am not prepared for it. 2015 tried to kill me. So did 2014, for that matter. 2016 has to be better, somehow.

So my reading page is already much more active and interesting thanks to thebonesofferalletters! Thank you, and welcome to all my new friends. I will put up a proper profile or an intro post or something soon, I swear.

That said, I may not be around much for the next week or so, because I have to send my stupid netbook in for service, and using the desktop is still tricky what with the lack of a stable surface to put it on. It's dying fast enough already, I don't intend to help it along by tipping it onto the floor. (Hopefully that particular problem will be fixed soon? But I don't know for sure.) I will still exist on my phone, but I don't like typing on it so will probably be quiet.

I have an appointment tomorrow to get started applying for Medicaid, which I am so excited about. I might actually be able to get my meds again soon, and be able to get back to functional. Or functional for me, anyway. I'll take that.

Writing continues and is going well! It's been mostly worldbuilding lately, as I had to backtrack and work some things out before I feel comfortable continuing with the story, but this counts too and I am enjoying it.

I've been overshooting my (admittedly small) word target every day I've written so far, and am quickly catching up to where I should be for GYWO. I need to figure out how to continue that pattern while my laptop is away. I'll have to find something I can write longhand without getting frustrated and sad.

Does anyone want to give me drabble prompts? Or 5 times/things prompts? Random AUs? For any of my OCs (you don't have to know any of them, I'll pull a name out of a hat if you don't specify) or... Marvel (both MCU and 616), Fringe, Newsflesh and Toby Daye. No promises on how much I will actually do, but it will definitely help to have something to screw around with while waiting for my laptop to return to me.