Yellowatch
My partner and I took a week off from The Year From Hell and chilled out on a beach in Negril, Jamaica.
I needed this more than I thought and appreciated so much about it. Hope your week was full of pleasant surprises and appreciations.
I have an entry from July 2003 in my private journal that is titled “ADHD” and is just one line: Could this be what I have? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/2355245 I got distracted y’know and completely forgot about it until I went looking for info on how my partner got their diagnosis last year, which is what prompted […]
Shoutout to the sweet elderly couple who mistook me for a bear on my lunch run (the lady shrieked) for the title of this post. I never thought this would be how I become a danger to my community, but here we are. ✍️ Journaling The two-weeks-old experiment of journaling daily in Day One has […]
Montreal C and I spent the week between Christmas and New Year in Montreal with a day trip to Quebec City. It’s become a bit of a tradition for us over the years. It’s quiet, calm, and charming. We got on the big Ferris wheel (La Grande Roue de Montreal)! In Quebec we rode the […]
It was a very mixed year. The lack of focus and priorities allowed for trying more new things, helping me learn more about what I find fulfilling, but the constant experimentation also somehow left me feeling unaccomplished in a few areas that matter most. Focus and priorities will be a theme for 2023, but I’m […]
😴🎹 Rest / Music I’ve been off work since the 15th. It’s the first time that my holiday vacation a) starts a week earlier than for most people, and b) is booked way in advance (back in January!). I remember really having to convince myself to do it, but I’m glad I did. I liked […]
Point-form #DVWeeklyNotes for the past two weeks. Treading burnout, distracting myself with TV and video games.
Short-form notes are all I can manage right now:
I, and seemingly half the internet, have set up a Mastodon account this past week as Twitter’s future is looking increasingly grim. I’ve been vaguely aware of the Fediverse, but never bothered to learn much about it until this mass Twitter exodus presented the opportunity. My account has been active on the bird site since […]