First post of the year and we're only three days in! The lights are down, the boxes stowed away under the stairs, the faux pine needles are vacuumed and the house looks empty.
We want to remodel our kitchen. That's such an overwhelming project. So many things you need to figure out before you can figure out who to contact to help you figure out how much it'll cost and when it can get done. It's not easy.
It's hard going back to work again after the last two weeks basically off. Today was more or less a wasted day. Time to get back into the habit of going to work.
Did I tell you that timeouts don't work on Elliott? They don't. We stuck with them for a while before we had to fall back on something else...mostly redirection to keep him out of trouble. Not that he's ever in that much trouble to begin with, but he's verrrrry inquisitive, so he keeps ping-ponging from one thing to the next. Knife on the counter from cutting strawberries? He's reaching for it. Hot coffee? His fingers are on the handle. Unguarded electronics? He's swiping.
No resolutions this year. Just a sense that I need to stop eating trash. I'm on the treadmill almost nightly, so working out isn't the issue, but it's a bit counterproductive to eat a bag of chips between workouts. That's my struggle.
Lily goes back to school tomorrow. She had one extra day. She won't be happy. Looking for a dentist for her. Apparently Children's Hospital no longer accepts kids over 12. This policy change was apparently made last year. Lily hasn't seen a dentist since the pandemic. She's due. I feel like I overused apparently in that paragraph.
Looking for a dentist for me too. Mine retired three years ago. So...yeah, probably about due for a cleaning.
Last year I did a Goodreads book reading challenge. First time I've done one of those in years. Most of what I read now is Audiobooks. I can't do a hardcopy book...or at least I can't do them as my primary means of reading. For the longest time I've put quotes around "reading" when I refer to an audiobook. It seemed like cheating. It's not. I "read" ...no...I READ 62 books last year. I overshot my goal of 24 (two a month...I thought that was doable) by almost triple. I just didn't really have a handle on how many books I was reading because I wasn't really tracking it.
I have recommendations. I'll do a post about them. Too much to go into just off the cuff, but definitely read some really good stuff. Some very interesting, well-written, imaginative stuff...sometimes all in one book!
Tik tok has sort of revitalized my reading. I follow a bunch of book readers there and watch their reviews and I've picked up TONS of good books as a result. I realized that one of the reasons I wasn't really reading as much is because Libby (the library app I use to download books) wasn't really showing me new books that I wanted to read. I needed to get names and search for them, and there they were! So great way to get reading inspo.
This year's goal is set at 52. A book a week. Doable - since I did more last year - but not sandbagging it.
