Currently reading: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster 📚
Finished Reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This series is just cosy and nice, just… people getting along and trying to understand themselves and each other. It’s not exciting but it just makes you feel quietly good.
Currently reading: Cheer Up Love by Susan Calman 📚
📺 Trainwreck: Woodstock ‘99 (2022)
I watched this after listening to the episode about Woodstock ‘99 on The Big Flop podcast. I’m a bit surprised I hadn’t heard about this before as this was kind of my era (then again I was only a teenager and the internet wasn’t as ubiquitous at the time). Dear me, what a shitshow! Very interestin, very infuriating that the people running it seemed completely oblivious to everything going wrong, and even in the interviews they still don’t see to grasp what horrible mistakes they made. I suppose at least they made lots of money though, eh.
I really like the new Apple Watch Pride Strap. The fluorescent colours are very pretty.
(I promise it isn’t as tight as it looks in this photo, it’s nice and comfy 😊)
Dropping a stress ball in slow motion
One of my fidget toys - a big squishy ball with tinsel-ish stuff inside. My sister and I were wondering what it would look like in slow motion. I like it!
Finished Reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚
Like when I read the first edition years ago, I’ve come away with some ideas about the kind of person I want to be and how I might realistically start moving in that direction. I like the new ‘tools’ in this edition too
I’m looking forward to seeing actual videos of the new Apple Watch pride strap. It looks nice in Apples photos and I’m pretty tempted
📷 Blue sky and green trees today
My little niece had her first sleepover at my house yesterday. I probably got about 2 hours sleep total last night but we had fun and I returned her to her parents in one piece at lunch time today so overall it was a huge success.
We talked about her sleeping over again something and I said yes but I need about a month to recover from this one.
Highlights included temporary tattoos, a massive bumblebee in the house and asking Siri what a llama sounds like (they sound like me when my alarm goes off in the morning)
DNF: You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney 📚
Meh. I’ve been on Reddit too
Currently reading: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore 📚
My little bike
I should have bought a bike ages ago! I bought this little folding bike from Halfords a few months ago, thinking that it will be a way to get myself outside a bit more. I’m still taking my time here because it’s kind of hilly where I live, and there are some really bike-unfriendly roads. But the little trips out that I’ve made so far have been awesome. I’ve also had a lot of fun buying bits and bobs for the bike and I thought I would share.
After having a really rough time at work over the last several weeks, my boss suggested I move my compressed day off from a Monday, as I was coming in to work every Tuesday morning on the back foot, with everyone else having a day’s worth of demands to chuck at me. I asked if I could have Wednesdays off instead. Today was the first time I got to see the benefit of this and oh yes, it’s been lovely to have a little mid-week rest!
Currently reading: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers 📚
Redoing my todo list for non-work stuff
Trying out a new way of keeping a todo list for non-work stuff, inspired by Plaintext Productivity. I’m not using todo.txt as I can’t see a way to have that information available on a widget that I can have on the home screen of my phone. So I’m sticking with using iOS’s Reminders app. One of the inspirations I’m taking is around what actually gets added to the list. On that site, your todo list should be for anything you are actually realistically going to get done in the next week.
Finished Reading: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett 📚
The Witches are definitely my fave Discworld characters. I want to be Granny Weatherwax when I grow up lol
Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚
I’ve read the first edition but not this one. I’m cautious of self-help books but this one actually had some real substance and practical stuff that has helped me before. March was a super crummy month for me and I need that help again