My favorite use of ChatGPT so far: meal planning. It made me a balanced whole food meal plan with a shopping list. Now it didn’t do any calculations (like get 2 bananas) but this has saved me a ton of time! It even respected my food allergies! 🥗🥪😋
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These two text messages and two phone calls I need to make are all that’s between me and a hot chocolate.
This Windows girl is going to try Linux for my home system. I’m excited to get my Meerkat by System76 in a couple of weeks 😁
📷 March Micro.blog photo challenge day 2: Weather
📷 March Photo Challenge #1: Secure.
“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 and it was nice to be swept away in a fantasy novel for a while.
Happy Valentines Day!
I’ve been using this layout for the last six weeks and it’s a keeper. I’m not splitting aspects of my life across different apps, excel sheets, or notebooks and that’s helping me stay on top of it all. Plus, stickers! Most apps don’t have them and I love them.
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 sooner than you’d expect. I’ve snagged a few classes for my son and I’m glad that’s off my to-do list. Next step… find bargins on all the required textbooks and materials.
One of my resolutions for 2023 was to use journal daily. And so far I’m doing it! I’m using it to practice my doodles, jot down interesting quotes and thoughts, and include some memories. Most are too personal to share but I hope to highlight a few on my blog from time to time.
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. I felt like the narrator was the focus and not Tress.
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. I’ve been using it almost a month now and I’m really digging it.
I signed up for an omg.lol account a couple of months back and I’m finally getting into the groove of using status updates. I don’t think I’ll sync them on micro.blog, I want them to stay ephemeral. But I did embed them at the top of my website.
Off to the orthopedic surgeon this morning. My daughter broke her hand in her gymnastics dance class. Hopefully just a cast and time is required for healing.
I got a Hobonichi Cousin journal for the new year and I’ve been been trying out different layouts to keep track of homeschooling, work, and my personal tasks. This is my favorite so far. Homeschooling log in the center and color coded.
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 breaks 😂
I finally found the time and energy to make it to a Kung Fu practice last night. Lots of good stretching and sword forms in class, plus some new faces 😀.
I made myself take my time and not rush in finishing my orchid in one sitting. It’s finally done, and I love how it looks on my window sill 🌸
One thing I’ve really enjoyed this week was writing down a daily quote in my journal. To start the year out I’m reading “The Practicing Stoic” by Ward Farnsworth and jotting down what strikes me as meaningful as I work my way through it.
It’s been so grey and rainy here this week. Plus going back to work and ramping up homeschooling has left me extra drained. I needed something lovely to look at. My favorite vase and bright flowers are just the ticket.
For Christmas I got my son a telsa coil and a set of noble gasses. Today we finally had the time to set it up and enjoy. It’s so cool looking!
I’m really enjoying this Lego set I got from my sister for Christmas. I can’t wait to finish it and have it on my desk to enjoy 🪷
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 teeth while drinking a cup of water. Try not to eat the peanut butter! Just drink the water. It’s messy, hilarious, and I have no idea why it works.
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. Which is something I want to change for the new year.