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  • I’m watching Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets on Prime. As a homeschooling mother, I recommend it. I have to be extremely careful selecting materials, because these IBLP/fundamentalist teachings are pervasive in the homeschooling community and materials. There is real harm being perpetrated with these ideologies and it is tragic. It’s a hard show to watch. For my homeschooling friends, please look closely at the materials you use and the companies that put them out.  Read More  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 TheRealChadwick and I took the kids to a local carnival this weekend. The weather was lovely, the …
  • 📸 The project supervisor is checking in 🐱
  • I’ve been puzzling over Logseq’s “Scheduled and Deadline” section on …
  • I might have procrastinated making some phone calls by redesigning my website 🤣. I needed something …
  • Interesting article: Rejecting the Mommy Wars. It hits close to home. I’ve definitely felt the …
  • 📸 Newest members of the flock 🐣
  • 📸 I’m rather excited to run a Dungeon Crawl Classics game in a couple weeks. I’ve been …  #RPG 
  • 📸 📰  About a month ago I decided that I wanted to try Logseq. I had downloaded Obsidian earlier in the year and never really used it and mostly forgot about it. Until I was inspired to clean up my digital subscriptions back in April. One thing I did was cancel my budgeting solution, YNAB, and start building out my own little budget tracker. Another part of that was letting go of Notion.  Read More
  • 📸 Spring time under our maple tree 🍁
  • 📸 It’s not too often I have time to stretch my artistic side. A watercolor of my …
  • Even though it was raining, my small Tai Chi group still showed up and practiced for an hour with me …  #Tai Chi 
  • Whew. For the last month I’ve been prepping for next year’s homeschooling. I can’t …  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 Someone made himself comfortable in my spot 🐱
  • 📸 More daffodils, these bloom later than the others but are worth the wait 💐
  • I made the mistake of running a college cost estimator for our two kids 🤯 that’s… a big …
  • 📸 Morning sunrise out my window ☀️
  • 📸 Kids had a blast trying to find golden eggs in the tall grass. 🐣🐇
  • As part of being more cognizant of the online subscriptions I have, I’m doing a digital life …  #Code 
  • Currently reading: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 📚
  • 📸 More signs of spring in the yard 🌷
  • 📸 I went to see Hade’s town with my sister last night. It was fantastic!
  • I started homeschooling my kids with the pandemic and now my daughter wants to go back to public …  #Homeschooling 
  • Arg. I love trying new software and apps and sometimes I’m convinced that I’ll keep …
  • 📸 It’s that time of year! I think we might try and get some Salmon Faverolles this time around. …
  • 📸 Much needed signs of spring in the yard.
  • My favorite use of ChatGPT so far: meal planning. It made me a balanced whole food meal plan with a …
  • These two text messages and two phone calls I need to make are all that’s between me and a hot …
  • 📸 I absolutely love my new journal cover. Animal Crossing is my jam and I thought I’d missed my …
  • This Windows girl is going to try Linux for my home system. I’m excited to get my Meerkat by …
  • 📸 📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 2: Weather  #Microblog photo challenge 
  • 📸 📷 March Photo Challenge #1: Secure.  #Microblog photo challenge 
  • 📸 “Hey, how’d you get up there?” 🐱
  • 📸 One of these days when I take a day off I won’t be painting… But that’s not today …
  • Finished reading: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 📚. I really liked it. It was perfect for my mood …
  • 📸 Happy Valentines Day!
  • 📸 I’ve been using this layout for the last six weeks and it’s a keeper. I’m not …  #Homeschooling  #Productivity 
  • 📸 I’m looking forward to family game night tonight 😁  #RPG 
  • 📸 The weather was too nice not to sneak out for a lunch time walk.
  • One thing I’ve learned about homeschooling classes and summer camps. Enrollment happens way …  #Homeschooling 
  • My son is getting ready to run his first d&d campaign with some friends so I’m spending …  #RPG 
  • 📸 One of my resolutions for 2023 was to use journal daily. And so far I’m doing it! I’m …
  • Stopped reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson 📚. It pains me to say… but this is my least favorite book by Brandon. The first third of the book was fine, my opinion fell by the second third, and I couldn’t bring myself to finish the last few chapters. The strong narrator, yes I know who it is, pulled me out of the story rather than immersing me in it.  Read More
  • 📸 At work I’m tackling a huge software project and my normal approach isn’t cutting it. So over the holiday’s I read Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters. It really resonated with me in a way other books on the subject haven’t. I’m still stuck using Asana, since that’s what my compay uses, but I was able to recreate a portion of the shaping workflow in it.  Read More  #Code  #Productivity 
  • 📸 📰  This contain spoilers for the Dungeon Crawl Classics level 0 funnel adventure The Portal Under the Stars by Goodman Games To go to the start of this adventure visit my post - Dungeon Crawler Classics - Solo Play Session One Being a peasant is hard but maybe your luck is about to turn around. The stars have aligned in a strange pattern and that old tale you heard so long ago maybe wasn’t as foolish as you thought.  Read More  #RPG 
  • I signed up for an omg.lol account a couple of months back and I’m finally getting into the …
  • 📰  I haven’t played a good table-top, dice slinging, rpg game in about six years. So the urge to play has been building for a while. But my schedule is absolutely packed to the brim and my old game friends also have schedules that are equally packed. There isn’t a way to fit in a gaming session with any regularity. Then Wizards of the Coast pissed off a huge portion of the D&D community with some rumored changes to their OGL and I decided to look around and see what else was out there.  Read More  #RPG 
  • Off to the orthopedic surgeon this morning. My daughter broke her hand in her gymnastics dance …
  • 📸 I got a Hobonichi Cousin journal for the new year and I’ve been been trying out different …  #Homeschooling  #Productivity 
  • 📸 My son had his first swim meet of the season! He’s improved so much this year 🏊
  • 📸 Someone is helping my son with math today 🐱. One overlooked benefit of homeschooling, lots of cat …  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 I finally found the time and energy to make it to a Kung Fu practice last night. Lots of good …  #Tai Chi 
  • 📸 I made myself take my time and not rush in finishing my orchid in one sitting. It’s finally …
  • 📸 One thing I’ve really enjoyed this week was writing down a daily quote in my journal. To start …
  • 📸 It’s been so grey and rainy here this week. Plus going back to work and ramping up …  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 For Christmas I got my son a telsa coil and a set of noble gasses. Today we finally had the time to …
  • 📸 I’m really enjoying this Lego set I got from my sister for Christmas. I can’t wait to …
  • 📸 Spending New Year’s Eve playing monopoly with the kids 🥰
  • Figures I take a day off of work only to spend it on a migraine 😒
  • My secret for hiccups: Hold a butter knife covered in a thin layer of peanut butter between your …
  • When I get stressed I want to add more things to my plate. I kept track this year because my stress interests seem to be rather cyclical and I wanted to spot some trends. I wanted to crochet a giant octopus, write a choose your own path story, make an rpg budget app, plant a native wildflower field in my yard, and build a 2d fantasy exploration game. All very crafty/buildly things and looking back on this year I didn’t get much time to do that.  Read More
  • I just finished reading The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey 📚. It’s not my usual cup of …
  • 📸 Snowflakes are up! They’re one of my favorite decorations ❄️
  • 📸 I found a new ornament! 🐱
  • 📸 Maui snuck into our room and found his Christmas present. Now he’s defending it fiercely and …
  • Fire rises Water falls Wood expands Metal contracts Earth Mankind ☯️  #Tai Chi 
  • But… but I 💖 dark chocolate. 😢 Food Safety: Lead and Cadmium in Dark Chocolate and As You Sow …
  • 📸 Since there are two rambunctious cats in the house, I decided to hang the fragile ornaments up high …
  • This weekend I bought mp3’s for an album in the first time since forever. I’ve been …
  • One of the benefits of homeschooling: I get to decide when there is a snowday! It might be just an …  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 First snowfall ❄️
  • So far I’m really enjoying this book. I’m about 1/3 of the way through and I can wait to …
  • 📸 I am so over painting and household projects. These just need one last coat. Then my husband and I …
  • Yes! Happy Dance Time! 🥳 We sold our condo! After 10 years of constant stress, becoming very …
  • One of my biggest homeschooling wins this year was finding Falcons for my kids to join two days a …  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 Mantle over the pellet stove is decorated 🎄
  • 📸 I wonder how long it will be until one of the cats knocks over the Christmas tree? I did think ahead …
  • 📸 It’s time to play find the cats 🐈🐈‍⬛
  • I finally took the time to write down the version of eight silk brocades I use as part of my tai chi …  #Tai Chi 
  • 📸 This year’s advent calendar.
  • Why is it that when I super stressed out and my to-do list is overflowing my brain just wants to add …
  • 📸 I’ve cleaned up my notion set up to be more in line with the Johnny Decimal System and …  #Productivity 
  • It’s so hard to get the motivation to drive anywhere when it’s dark by 4pm. Toss in some …
  • 📸 Finished the Slytherin collage in my daughter’s room. I love how it’s coming along!
  • 📸 I might have messed up the stuffing… but the chickens didn’t mind 😊
  • RSVPing maybe to IndieWebCamp Popup: How to Make the IndieWeb More Approachable
  • 📸 I never see my name out in the wild but today I spotted it at Starbucks!
  • Brushed off the old Notion app and digging into the Johnny Decimal system. Also on the list tonight …  #Productivity 
  • I finally have a Wednesday evening free. I’m looking forward to attending my second Homebrew …
  • I just finished my first ballet class! 🩰 I got to meet some pretty neat people and I can’t …
  • And the first dish for Thanksgiving is prepped and in the fridge 🍳
  • 📰  Some weeks really do pass by in a blur. I think it’s because I tend to “go-go-go” and then collapse down to rest at the end of the day. This week was once again no exception. There is finally some movement on our condo sale and my original plan on Monday, to attend an important town meeting, was waylaid by the need to quickly check all the fire alarms in the unit, repair bleach damage on the wood floors the tenants left and get every room broom clean for a mortgage lenders quick inspection the next day.  Read More  #Homeschooling 
  • 📸 Today’s highlight was a chilly walk in the woods with some homeschooling friends!
  • The first pass at my new blog design is done! There are still some rough spots (I’m 👀 at you …  #Code 
  • 📸 Caturday 🐱. Someone can’t wait for Thanksgiving…
  • 📸 More fall colors in the yard 🍁
  • For personal projects I try to write clean and minimal code 👩‍💻. Then I go to my 9-5 and it’s …  #Code 
  • Nothing like a Tai Chi class to help let go of a stressful week. ☯️  #Tai Chi 
  • 📸 My sister crocheted me a grumpy matcha tea latte and it’s fantastic! It’s been making me …
  • 📸 Awww, the cats figured out how to share their favorite chair. 🐱
  • 📸 Today had such lovely colors.
  • For mbnov I need to come up with something using the word license. With my migraine 🤕 I don’t see …
  • “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns …
  • 📸 I need to figure out why there are pipettes all over the house… Oh wait… 😂
  • 📸 Pumpkin decoration time 🎃
  • 📸 Trunk or teat with kids yesterday. It was fun!
  • 📸 Caturday - Attempted camouflage by Maui 🐱
  • “In Tai Chi, just like in life, if you have a way in then you need a way out.” - 💬Sifu …  #Tai Chi 
  • It’s been way too long since I’ve managed to gather up the energy to attend a Kung Fu …  #Tai Chi 
  • Tai Chi was just the thing after a long and stressful day ☯️ Old Yang, Broadsword, and 108 Yang …  #Tai Chi 
  • 📸 My favorite Halloween decoration. Combines my favorite holiday with my favorite sea creature!
  • This morning, aimed at my daughter. "Please stop decapitating the cat toy and get back your …

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