September 5, 2025
1. Coming up with a good office storage set-up/layout is a weirdly slow process. Slow is better than never and sometimes fixing your longstanding storage issues is a multi-step process especially when you’re dealing with many crafting, office, life, and school supplies for yourself and the kids. We could really use more storage space here. I just wish I could settle on one good overarching system and stick with it but I’m always finding that I have time or energy to get 25-50% of the way through, stop, and come back to it months later wanting something “better”.
All that to say, it occurred to me to try rearranging my mask storage boxes so that I could reduce it to one medium bin and all it’s now left me with is a bag of well used old fabric masks, once paired with filters, to figure out what to do with. JB used them constantly over three years and they simply can’t do the job anymore. There should be no shame in repurposing them in the scrap bag but I feel terrible about taking apart the hard work that went into them. But it would be worse to waste the fabric, in the end, so I’ll get over it.
2. Every so often I dabble into beginner sheet music on a keyboard to try and remember what I learned as a kid. I wish I’d been able to muster the discipline to practice as much as I should have back then, the way I was willing to run for track or workout for martial arts, but I wasn’t so my muscle memory is a shabby shadow of what it could be. Another thing to do in retirement, teach myself how to play again. Try to get good enough to play Howl’s Moving Castle for fun.
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August 29, 2025
1. PSA: We tried olipop sodas this week and every flavor we tried was gross: root beer, grape, cream. I am VERY picky about my root beer, admittedly, but 4 different people agreed with me when I expressed my yuck.
I need to find someone who likes this brand so we can pass it along.
2. Victorious!! I figured out how to hack off the last few inches of hair in the back all by myself!
I hate feeling helpless and I hate needing help, so when my body quits on me and I have to suffer both extreme pain and the indignity of not doing my fair share because I’m a lumpy squishy potato, well. I need some small thing that I can be proud of. This week, it’s lopping off 3-5(?) inches of hair solo. I can’t really tell how much came off. All that matters is that I did it and a good chunk of length is now in the bin. Woo!
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August 22, 2025
- I completely forgot that today is Friday!
Helping folks: This one comes from Aji and Wings.
A local is taking in two niblings and needs funds to get the home ready for them.
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August 15, 2025
1. I’ve been working on shifting one of my multiple full time jobs to a team and the process will take time but it’s bearing fruit! I’m a little less tired and working fewer overtime hours.
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August 8, 2025
I cleaned a fourth of my office and it’s SO SATISFYING.
A fourth sounds so little but that was a four hour task and cleared a good chunk! I’m focusing on that specific win and not on the rest of the office or the other rooms in the house where I did not effect this near miracle. YET. I have a day off coming to me next month, maybe I could get through the rest of the office then?
Also I started making a new pillow for Smol Acrobat because the second he saw mine, he asked IS THAT FOR ME? Clearly they would also enjoy a new Hello Kitty fabric pillow. This one’s oddly proportioned and I have to cannabilize another pillow to stuff it but it’ll work.
What brought you joy this week?
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August 1, 2025
1. I’m so tired but big huge work problems for the month were solved!
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July 25, 2025
1. Whoops. It’s been such a jam-packed week I totally let this slip past me. We’re doing alright!
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