2025 Weekly Challenge, Week 13: Busy Week

Last week started out pretty productive, but ended in several busy days, so I didn't end up getting as much done on my goals throughout the week as I'd wanted.  But I did do things, as you'll see shortly.

Writing

Last week I worked on my novel exactly one day, Tuesday.  I did also get a post up on my author Instagram.

It's not an effort toward my goals, but I did do a lot of writing last week.  On Thursday, I started my politics newsletter on Substack, What to Know Today.  Thursday's and Friday's posts were lengthy and took a lot of writing and research, and I've posted every day since.  I do need to keep working on my novel, of course, but it's not like I wasn't doing anything last week.

Decluttering and Organization

This category is more or less on hold until after the doll show, but I did get some work done in the garden over the weekend, which I'm counting because decluttering my patio and cleaning up my garden is definitely one of my projects for this year.  Right now it's a mess, but I'd like my patio and garden to eventually be a place where I can get doll pictures.

Dolls

I got so busy that I didn't work on any dolls last week either.  This week I really need to buckle down as the doll show, which seemed so far away for the longest time, is now rapidly approaching.

Taxes

My goal is to work on this a little every day until it's all done.  I did work a little each day for several days on organizing income and expense emails, but at the end of the week I got really busy and didn't get any more done on it.  I need to get back to work on that this week, along with working on getting dolls ready for the show.

Lessons Learned

Last week got off to a really good start; it was when I babysat a lot Thursday and Friday that I lost the thread.  The weekend ended up really busy too, with a whole lot of errands to run on Saturday that we'd been putting off all week, and a long time spent at the barn on Sunday.

I'm hoping this week will be more productive, but I'm also considering focusing only on those two things this week: prepping for the doll show, and taxes.  It may mean not writing much over the next couple weeks, and being okay with that.  Except for the new newsletter, of course — that I intend to keep up.