Welcome 2025!
Jan. 1st, 2025 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartMay you be a more peaceful one than your predecessor was!
For starters, the first day of the new year started peacefully indeed. We got up late, watched the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, I did a bit of crafting, and then we both took an extended nap.
In the afternoon Mum attended to Mass via telly - unfortunately, it was broadcast from Rome (I think) and was accordingly long and pompous, not to mention that a lady with a horribly shrill voice was translating the whole thing. For an hour and 45 minutes. I don't know how Mum could bear it - I got a headache two rooms farther!
Which means that no intellectual activity was possible in those nearly two hours. Therefore I've started with the decluttering programme. Following![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elwenlj's wise advice, I began with one small corner: the lower shelf of my bedside table. Hard to believe, but I've sorted out enough paper to fill a large shopping bag; old Star Trek and other sci-fi magazines mostly, that I had once bought in Vienna or got gifted by online friends from the States or the UK. They were pretty, and I had once enjoyed them very much, but I had to admit that I hadn't even took them in hand for... well, for a decade and a half. So I was rigorous and only kept a few selected ones with the episode guides and thematic articles I might be able to use for my writing. I've also thrown out some old fanfic stories I'll likely never read again - one of them was a Sherlock story, printed out in 2012, and not even a particularly good one!
In any case, it was a cathartic experience, not to mention the practical thing to do. Now my background research notes are ordered by fandom and laced in file maps (physical ones), so that I might be able to find them more easily next time I want to pick up one of my never-ending WIPs. *g*
For starters, the first day of the new year started peacefully indeed. We got up late, watched the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, I did a bit of crafting, and then we both took an extended nap.
In the afternoon Mum attended to Mass via telly - unfortunately, it was broadcast from Rome (I think) and was accordingly long and pompous, not to mention that a lady with a horribly shrill voice was translating the whole thing. For an hour and 45 minutes. I don't know how Mum could bear it - I got a headache two rooms farther!
Which means that no intellectual activity was possible in those nearly two hours. Therefore I've started with the decluttering programme. Following
elwenlj's wise advice, I began with one small corner: the lower shelf of my bedside table. Hard to believe, but I've sorted out enough paper to fill a large shopping bag; old Star Trek and other sci-fi magazines mostly, that I had once bought in Vienna or got gifted by online friends from the States or the UK. They were pretty, and I had once enjoyed them very much, but I had to admit that I hadn't even took them in hand for... well, for a decade and a half. So I was rigorous and only kept a few selected ones with the episode guides and thematic articles I might be able to use for my writing. I've also thrown out some old fanfic stories I'll likely never read again - one of them was a Sherlock story, printed out in 2012, and not even a particularly good one!In any case, it was a cathartic experience, not to mention the practical thing to do. Now my background research notes are ordered by fandom and laced in file maps (physical ones), so that I might be able to find them more easily next time I want to pick up one of my never-ending WIPs. *g*
