One of those random, state-of-the-union style entries.

[valis2]

I spent a LOT less time than usual on the internet in the past two weeks. (Sorry to all of my regular chat partners!) In this time, as I've mentioned, I put up a new desk just for eBay stuff and cleaned and organized some areas of the apartment.

I also spent a LOT of time working on new eBay things to list. I really poured a lot of energy into it. It paid off. I wasn't certain what would happen, but the week before Labor Day I thought, I'll list a ton of items. Either a) everyone will be consumed with kids and back-to-school stuff and there will be nothing; or b) everyone will be online as the weather changes.

Apparently it was b, and I'm thrilled. The last few sets of listings have drawn a lot more attention than they normally do. This week was the best week ever. So I've been spending more time than ever printing things out and boxing things and hanging out at the post office.

I'm going to be home a lot this fall, which is good, because this is when the dayjob pretty much shifts into overdrive and heaps all of the work on me.

I'm still riding out the motivated tidal wave. I've even pulled out all of the empty frames I've purchased over the years, and I'm actually doing something.

You see, the normal formula runs something like this:

a) I decide to do some large project.
b) I bring it all together.
c) I think about it.
d) I decide I'm missing some vital component, which will take a trip to the store, or contacting someone, etc.
e) Project gets put back into the storage closet.

So I'm ecstatic that my usual "block" isn't working with the photos.

Plus, I'm going to put the two incredible drawings snapesforte made for me into frames. I'm finally just going to bite the bullet and start working on my "fandom corner", which is where the computer sits. If I'm going to sit here all the damn time, I might as well make it fun to look at as well.

The flist is picking up, I see. For a few weeks it seemed like nothing was going on, but this morning I was at skip 90 after only twelve hours, so it's getting to the busy winter season. I don't know if I can keep up. I think I have to do a defriending, or at least a decomming (I have to say goodbye to pottersues, and, unfortunately, hires_hunks.)

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[valis2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have heard of the Cult of Filters, but I have never personally used them.

I'm OCD, and I like seeing every entry on my fpage. I read everything. The thing is, if I'm no longer reading someone's entries, or some comm's entries, I just defriend them, and problem solved. I like the flist to be exactly what I am reading right now.

And for comms, I hate the thought that I might miss a great bit of fic, so I hesitate to filter them as well. When I'm gone for a while I generally leave them for last, but I bookmark everything I want to read later.

It usually works for about six months, and then I have to cut back a bit on the flist. Usually I defriend people whose entries I'm skipping over, who don't seem to comment on my entries and I don't seem to comment on theirs.