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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July 18, 2025
1. Not the first time I’ve forgotten to add a good thing here since I struggled to make it to the end of the week. But we made it! And the blog is still being a brat in the backend but I don’t quite understand the problem and it doesn’t seem to prevent my posting, so I’m going to let that be August me’s problem if I can.
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July 11, 2025
A new Murderbot story by Martha Wells, free to read at ReactorMag: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy
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July 6, 2025
Apparently the site went down on Thursday, and I didn’t realize it til now (Sunday). Annoying! It took several rounds of reading esoteric (to my brain) documentation and a very unhelpful person at the hosting server a few rounds of clarifying what on earth they were talking about for me to fix the thing.
1. I sat mending a pair of SmolAc’s pants until my butt went numb. It was satisfying! As I stuck myself for the seventh time with the curved needle, I was thinking about how I never mended JB’s pants at this age. Or, possibly, any age. I’m pretty sure it never happened because they grew so fast they’d outgrow the pants before I got to a free hour on a weekend to mend them. Guess there are benefits to having a slow growing kid.
Challenges this week: There is something properly unsettling about an Independence Day in America where we have a president wanting to have the power of communist China’s President, or dubbing himself a king.
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June 27, 2025
1. I took The Inheritance quiz and came up healer. That was a small surprise even if I didn’t go into it with any thought whatsoever.
But “ouchies never stop” is very accurate for my own life.
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