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Sort out the freakin queue: Check.
Clean up inbox so I can find order references: Check.
Respond to messages JFC where did these come from: Check
Make a better system for organizing orders: Dear god check
Marathon through orders: In progress! It is 4 AM here and I've been working in batches so I can upload several at a time. Next to be posted should be HeavenlyCondemned, HauntedFate, ZombieAddict, RandoChris, Toomanyrobots and a couple of off-FA orders.
My queue is currently 34 orders long. 34. That's bullshit and I'm gonna get that number down. WIPs and sneak peeks are going up on my Instagram as I get through them, link should be at the bottom of the journal. Commissions are currently CLOSED until I can get this queue down to where it needs to be.
As a question: When I post the WIPs to instagram, show of hands, who would want me to post the same pics in my scraps? I think I'm gonna do that. That way they should pop up in your feeds, and I won't look like I dropped off of the face of the planet.
Already planning my New Year's Resolution for 2017: Practice cognitive skills for fighting the ADHD and keeping my time perception in check. Time perception has got to be a thing you can like... train on or something. If any of you have BAD problems with time perception and know any tips for keeping on track, do share!
Lastly, I don't recall if I've mentioned this before, but my mom gave me the brilliant idea to look for ADHD/task management apps for my phone. My psychiatrist is always telling me "Just set an alarm," which is really... not helpful, because the second I acknowledge "Oh, it's time to do XYZ," and turn the alarm off, it just evaporates out of my mind. It's bad. But while digging, I found this app for Android/iOS AND web browser I believe, called Habitica. It's like a cute little interactive to-do list app that formats your chores/task list into a simple RPG. You get exp and gold for doing the shit you're supposed to, and you take health damage if you miss a task. You level up, find items and pets (I already have a big purple dragon <3) and can use the gold to buy like, armor upgrades and stuff. Or you can make your own rewards to buy, like, "play a video game all day" for however much gold you feel is justified... Which, kind of gives your chores and obligations a kind of monetary value that you can use to help balance "how much work do I feel this luxury is worth." And a cherry on top is that the tasks are in bold, colored boxes. You can set it to like, "this task needs to be done every friday" or whatever, and on the days it isn't active it's grey, but on the day it needs to be addressed it will be a bright color. I just found out the better you get at doing a task when it's supposed to get done, the more blue the box gets. But if you're really bad at doing it and checking it off, the box starts to turn dark red.
I am insanely visual, and my mind's first reaction to seeing lots of text is usually to check out and go party elsewhere. One of the reasons to-do lists generally don't help me much. But I can see a block of color and immediately just "get it."
Obviously some cute little app isn't going to just FIX my brain, but it has helped me so much lately that I have to share it with you. I still lose health a lot of days and some of my tasks are pretty red from me struggling to do them, but some of my daily Adulting chores are bright green or blue and that's a lot of improvement. Things like, "feed the fish" or "change the fishes' water" aren't things I can just forget because of the ADHD and not have dire consequences. And if I'm not hyperfocusing on pets that can't yell at me, I absolutely can and have neglected them out of sheer spacing out. Even written to do lists and recurring alarms have not helped, and nothing makes me feel shittier than suddenly "waking up" and seeing my animals or their habitats in poor health.
My fish have not gone hungry since I got this app.
I don't know why my ADHD got worse. I didn't think it did that. Or maybe it didn't. Something I once read was that very clever students with ADHD can often appear to function at a decent level until some point in adulthood, usually college. At some point or another, their life demands more of them than they are able to manage, and the symptoms of their ADHD finally have consequences. Like they finally get overwhelmed. That's kind of what it feels like. But I'm really glad that I've gotten better at something this month, even if I'm still so far down the shitter. It means I can do this. Just gotta keep trying because I don't like who I am right now, and even if it's not nearly as fast as I want it to be, I'm not going to stay in a place I'm not happy in.
Clean up inbox so I can find order references: Check.
Respond to messages JFC where did these come from: Check
Make a better system for organizing orders: Dear god check
Marathon through orders: In progress! It is 4 AM here and I've been working in batches so I can upload several at a time. Next to be posted should be HeavenlyCondemned, HauntedFate, ZombieAddict, RandoChris, Toomanyrobots and a couple of off-FA orders.
My queue is currently 34 orders long. 34. That's bullshit and I'm gonna get that number down. WIPs and sneak peeks are going up on my Instagram as I get through them, link should be at the bottom of the journal. Commissions are currently CLOSED until I can get this queue down to where it needs to be.
As a question: When I post the WIPs to instagram, show of hands, who would want me to post the same pics in my scraps? I think I'm gonna do that. That way they should pop up in your feeds, and I won't look like I dropped off of the face of the planet.
Already planning my New Year's Resolution for 2017: Practice cognitive skills for fighting the ADHD and keeping my time perception in check. Time perception has got to be a thing you can like... train on or something. If any of you have BAD problems with time perception and know any tips for keeping on track, do share!
Lastly, I don't recall if I've mentioned this before, but my mom gave me the brilliant idea to look for ADHD/task management apps for my phone. My psychiatrist is always telling me "Just set an alarm," which is really... not helpful, because the second I acknowledge "Oh, it's time to do XYZ," and turn the alarm off, it just evaporates out of my mind. It's bad. But while digging, I found this app for Android/iOS AND web browser I believe, called Habitica. It's like a cute little interactive to-do list app that formats your chores/task list into a simple RPG. You get exp and gold for doing the shit you're supposed to, and you take health damage if you miss a task. You level up, find items and pets (I already have a big purple dragon <3) and can use the gold to buy like, armor upgrades and stuff. Or you can make your own rewards to buy, like, "play a video game all day" for however much gold you feel is justified... Which, kind of gives your chores and obligations a kind of monetary value that you can use to help balance "how much work do I feel this luxury is worth." And a cherry on top is that the tasks are in bold, colored boxes. You can set it to like, "this task needs to be done every friday" or whatever, and on the days it isn't active it's grey, but on the day it needs to be addressed it will be a bright color. I just found out the better you get at doing a task when it's supposed to get done, the more blue the box gets. But if you're really bad at doing it and checking it off, the box starts to turn dark red.
I am insanely visual, and my mind's first reaction to seeing lots of text is usually to check out and go party elsewhere. One of the reasons to-do lists generally don't help me much. But I can see a block of color and immediately just "get it."
Obviously some cute little app isn't going to just FIX my brain, but it has helped me so much lately that I have to share it with you. I still lose health a lot of days and some of my tasks are pretty red from me struggling to do them, but some of my daily Adulting chores are bright green or blue and that's a lot of improvement. Things like, "feed the fish" or "change the fishes' water" aren't things I can just forget because of the ADHD and not have dire consequences. And if I'm not hyperfocusing on pets that can't yell at me, I absolutely can and have neglected them out of sheer spacing out. Even written to do lists and recurring alarms have not helped, and nothing makes me feel shittier than suddenly "waking up" and seeing my animals or their habitats in poor health.
My fish have not gone hungry since I got this app.
I don't know why my ADHD got worse. I didn't think it did that. Or maybe it didn't. Something I once read was that very clever students with ADHD can often appear to function at a decent level until some point in adulthood, usually college. At some point or another, their life demands more of them than they are able to manage, and the symptoms of their ADHD finally have consequences. Like they finally get overwhelmed. That's kind of what it feels like. But I'm really glad that I've gotten better at something this month, even if I'm still so far down the shitter. It means I can do this. Just gotta keep trying because I don't like who I am right now, and even if it's not nearly as fast as I want it to be, I'm not going to stay in a place I'm not happy in.
But I'm very, very happy for you, and that you're achieving some personal progress for yourself! I get so much how it feels when you don't feel like you're bettering yourself, and like you're having trouble being where you want to personally be.
I haven't heard much of any tips or tricks for helping out ADHD, but if I hear or see anything I will definitely shoot stuff your way!
And my ears are always open if you ever need someone to talk to!
I'm glad the RPG thing is working out for you. People have told me to try that but I don't think it'd work out for me