there's nothing quite like a day well spent!!!!!
last week i saw a youtube short of someone keeping track of the amount of hours they spent on a project that year by putting paper clips in a jar. i think it was someone writing a musical? incidentally i disabled youtube shorts not long after, so that will be one of the last good things to come of that feature for me. the idea really caught in my head, although i didn't really wanna use paperclips. so i ended up scrounging out a bottle and making a few paper stars to count by, and i fear it's already working embarrassingly well on my gamer brain. number go up....
i'm devastatingly bad at anything that involves fine control of my hands, so origami has always gone Quite Poorly for me, and i've never tried to make paper stars before. the first five i made were predictably horrible (although they are way simpler to make than i thought they'd be, and i think someone else wouldn't have a hard time making their first one turn out alright!)
and there's something pretty great about that, right? the fact that i'll be getting better at doing this with each and every one after truly starting at zero. the only real reason i did stars instead of paper clips is that it felt cooler, but having that lil symbolic reason is always fun.
i thought there was a story about making a thousand paper stars to make a wish come true, but after some googling i'm pretty certain that i just mixed that up with paper cranes. still, i've kind of got it in my head that i want to get a thousand this year, which basically means three hours of work a day. i've set a three hour goal before--i rarely stick with it long, and mostly hover around an hour/an hour and a half--and if paper star bottle is really the means that i end up doing it by, i will be a Little mad. because it truly is just the gameification that's appealing... the mario odyssey player in my brain............
but i'm getting ahead of myself, anyway! i've only got 4 stars in there right now, and might get 2 more tomorrow. i haven't decided yet if i'll go to work in the morning: i was actually feeling pretty good all day, but then i sat down for family dinner and played some board games and now we're back to square one, so it seems like exertion is just a bad idea on its face.