User blog:Taldin/Here we go again...

There goes _another_ 92 day streak....

Sometimes it's a matter of getting distracted, or having too many things to do, but maybe it's just a sign of the times.

I told myself multiple times today to get my edit in for the Wiki for the day, but nope. Had to go out and run errands instead -- and forgot completely when the housemate wanted to run more errands as I walked in the door. Missed the cutoff by 55 minutes.

Well, at least it wasn't five minutes late this time because I took a nap.

What's the takeaway from all this?

Don't put off things until the last minute. Make editing the Wiki part of my morning routine instead of the 'oh, I have five minutes, take a break and do my edit.'

Or maybe I should just take a break from writing on the Wiki. I'm out of sync and out of touch, and just kinda going through the motions. I do want to help. I want to write stuff, but I'm so creatively burned out these days, overstressed and sleep deprived that I've forgotten to check off dailies at the end of the day more times this month than all of last year.

I have limits. I've just never really hit them before. I've backed off on a few things I do because  I know I don't have the bandwidth, and my writing has suffered the most out of all of it.

I still love Habits. I grin every time I sign on and the Sheep of Thunderous Awesome is there. Or there's something new from Bailey. It's just... without the free time to contribute more, I'm sorta not all here. Less motivated. And I've been editing just to edit.

But I'm afraid that if I stop, I won't come back. On the other hand, I've put in a lot of days and time in here, and I can't just walk away, either. The things that we do here on the Wiki are a team effort. You don't / can't keep up with it all by yourself, even if it looks like a small handful of people are doing most of the work; every little bit counts, no matter how small. Even I started just by fixing punctuation and spaces once upon a time.

So yeah. Not giving up on reaching that 200 mark, and the 365... someday when life is less insane, perhaps.

Taldin (talk) 01:10, May 24, 2015 (UTC)