uh-oh.

so i definitely feel like this bit where is spend the last half of every year posting gobs of wiffle-wafflery about "will-i-or-won't-i-beat-my-record" is getting kinda old. and i had that post about should i or shouldn't i do a new year's resolution ...

and just now i thought, you know, if i post every day of 2025, that will be it, right? i'll get right over the will-i/won't-i stuff because there won't be any room to beat that number.

of course, immediately i realized that was dumb, because duh, i could always post more than one post a day, so 365 is not in any way an airtight lid.

but it would still be a feat, right? and it would overshoot my previous records so much, the idea of breaking the record every year would seem pretty moot, right?

man, i wish i hadn't thought of that.

xoxo,
claire

should i try to come up with a new year's resolution?

i think i know an easy one, which would be making sure i remind the whole worthy yamily to get off our patooties about gaming. man, we slacked crazy-time the last part of this year, rpg-wise.

does a super-easy resolution really count, though?

i'm going to say, "you betcha!"

like, what's the point of making one, you know? to be ambitious just for its own sake? to leave you style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;">i think any new year's resolution worth its weight in pixels ought to be designed to make you feel better about how you're doing. and i really mean the feeling part. it's way more about feeling than about the doing.

you shouldn't reach the end of the year and think, "yeah! i feel good about myself because i knocked it out of the park on my new year's resolution!"

you should think, "i feel good about myself because i did what i needed to do to make myself feel that way."

and honestly, doesn't an easy resolution that you mostly keep do a better job of that than a hard resolution that you're always stressing about whether you're keeping it?

anyway, we'll see if i come up with anything on top of my "more roleplaying!" one.

merry christmas!

xoxo,
claire

well, folks, we're getting really close!

this is post number 44 for the year! just two more posts and this will be the sixth year in a row i've broken my previous record for number of posts in a year.

should i be extra ambitious and see if i can post every day for the rest of the year and get to ... wow, that would be 52 posts for the year!

on the one hand, that sounds pretty awesome. or maybe just even getting to 50 posts, which is more of a milestone-y number than 52. (although i guess 52 is an average of one a week ... but, hmm, that actually sounds kind of lame, because one post a week, jeez, who thinks that's impressive? making it to 50 posts for some reason sounds more impressive to me than just scratching out a whole one post every seven days.)

on the other hand, the more posts i write this year, the harder it will be for me to break my record again next year ...

yeesh. the dilemma!

xoxo,
claire

we made ... a terrible mistake ...

everybody here at worthy acres has been riding a crazy manga wave the last month or so because msg keeps finding and buying these series. (i'm gonna say he's kinda sorta addicted, in fact. in a cute way.) mostly it has been a super-great time -- we've read a couple dozen manga volumes and only 2 of them have been lame.

but then msg found "the summer you were there."

and now we're all sobbing.

only 5 of the 6 books are out in english, but we read one a few days ago and then read the other 4 that are available today, and it's just ... well, it's so good the whole household is now emotionally crippled.

do not read this series without tissues.

and definitely don't read it before the sixth book is out and you can binge the whole thing if you end up liking it -- we're going to have to wait almost two months before it's published and we know how the story plays out.

agony.

whew.