And now, an unscheduled announcement

I have decided that for each goal I accomplish I get to buy myself a present. Maybe the punishment for FAILURE should be that for each hour of overtime I take a dollar out of my present-buying budget? But that could get difficult to calculate if things are still unfinished. I probably shouldn't get to buy any presents until everything is caught up.  And I'm not sure how big to make the budget in the first place.
Anyway, I checked my credit card history for the past three months to see what I have already bought myself, and it turns out that both my memory and my self-control are better than I thought. I didn't need to look to know that all I got was Bizenghast volumes 5 and 6, Fruits Basket volumes 22 and 23, and Her Majesty's Dog volume 11. I'm not sure if that counts as one present or five, though, because I bought them all together.
So now let's do some math. If I give myself $50 toward presents for each success. . . since I've had five SUCCESSes that's $250. The only project that went into overtime that has been completed is week 3, which racked up 142 hours. If I figure I'm 11 hours into today, last week's is at 131, week 9 has 803, week 8 has 971, week 6 has 1307, and week 5 has 1475 hours.  And counting. Which puts me at -$4,579. Clearly I need to rethink something here. Either the dollar amounts I'm inputting or the amount of effort I'm putting in.
Okay, if each hour equals 5¢, I'd only be subtracting $241.45, and if I take $5 off for each TOTAL FAILURE, that puts me at $10.55, of which I've already spent $47.81. Hmm. At 4¢ an hour I'm only 97¢ over budget.  At 3¢ an hour, I have $47.32 left.  I'll have to recheck my math in a month or two and see if this system is going to work.

Week 3. . . finally.

I finished last week's Thing only 142 HOURS into overtime! Yay! That punishment is gonna be a doozy (whatever that is). Anyway, here is a photo:

It didn't come out as cool as I'd hoped, but I am SO DONE messing with it.  So yeah, it'll probably go up for sale on etsy eventually, but right now I have to scramble in order to get this week's Thing done in time and get ready for my mom's birthday tomorrow.

Week 3, woe is me

Factors working against me: 1. My own apathy.  I kept putting it off.  2. I was unexpectedly dragged along to a play Saturday night.  3.  When it came to a choice between working on my Steampunk Thing or sleeping, I chose to sleep.
Factors working for me: My parents finally decided to turn on the heat, so at least I didn't freeze this week.
Results: FAILURE.  As of Saturday midnight, this week's Thing of the Week was unfinished.

I think I ought to institute a punishment for every hour past the deadline (something that doesn't take too much time away from the next week's Thing).  Any suggestions?