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Okay, so it's only thirteen days into the new month, am I starting the 'fresh month, fresh start' thing this early?? No, not really. Merely that I've finally finished off a few long-term creative things I'd been doing and given myself a few days' rest before starting up with something else. Nothing out of the norm here, really. Even though I'd had a crazy week at the Day Job, it didn't really put me off schedule at all.

So! After a walk around the neighborhood (and to our garden plot to water) and a much-overdue vacuuming of the house (sorry, cats, I know you're terrified of that Noisy Evil Machine Wot Lurks In the Hall Closet), I am ready to do a bit of PC cleaning, houseplant watering, and working on stuff I'd been putting aside. No time like the present! [It does help that I also have tomorrow off, which gives me an extra day to get more writing work done!]

And speaking of restarting fresh, I've been meaning to take the bus and/or walk to and from work lately but the odd schedules and needing the car for shopping purposes have kept me from doing so. I really must do better there. Not just for the exercise but also because I'm just wasting gas at this point. And I keep meaning to restart the stretches/exercises again but I keep getting distracted and forgetting! Not going to beat myself up over it, just going to try to do better is all. Semi-related, I have a word search in my satchel that has not been touched at all that I really should break into during my breaks. All it takes is that next step, yeah? What's keeping me other than passive distraction?

Anyhoo. All this cleaning and moving around has tuckered me out, so time to sit and relax for a bit, and listen to the Blue Angels VOOOOOOOSH over our apartment. 

Hope everyone has a good week!
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With the few people I've started following over the last day, I'm noticing a bit of a theme...a few have mentioned that this latest transference from LJ has rekindled thoughts of posting more often than they used to. It made me think about it as well.

To be honest, my Weekend Update posts over at LJ were fun but mindless filler. It's like I was posting there out of a sense of duty, even as my readership there dwindled. I did the bare minimum required though, a short What I Did This Weekend (or alternately, What Is Jon Writing This Time?).

A fresh start does sound like a good idea.

I've been thinking about trying to find a different speed to write at. What I mean by that: I've never found trying to stay on top of the latest trending topics all that enjoyable. It half feels like I'm jumping on a bandwagon, whether I'm prepared for it or not. The other half feels like I'm doing it more to stay caught up than I am riding the flow. I get entangled in the maelstrom of whatever indignation or Latest Hip Thing is going on.

Most of you have already heard me talk about this in previous blog posts.

My WordPress blogs have helped me detach myself from that, as has my personal offline journaling. I find my own pace, my own topics. I'm writing about what I'm thinking about, what I'm not reacting to. So perhaps this newly-minted account here might provide me with a similar avenue.

So what would I post about? Well -- good question. All sorts of things, really. This is my personal blog, separate from my writing blog or my music blog. I'd talk about what goes on in my personal life. Possibly where I'll post my photography (when I'm not uploading it to my Instagram feed). Whatever happens to be on my mind, at my own speed.

Let's see where this goes.

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