The best laid plans
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romanticalSo it's a whole new year and this is when most of us promise to write more in our journals, right? I think I did better last year than the year before, but that's not a high bar.
I spent most of the holiday time in a meh sort of funk, and I go back to work tomorrow, so that was kind of a waste of the break, but it is what it is. Having a real routine will probably help my brain, but it sucks that it has to involve work. Why can't I be independently wealthy?
Spent today moving the Booster Club storage unit to a bigger storage unit and organizing everything and I can honestly say, I would love to just organize for life. Not my life, mind you, but someone else's. I'm really good at someone else's.
I'm trying to come up with 26 goals for 2026, and I'm not quite there.
1 - Finish all current physical books (I currently have 52 of those)
2 - Read 100 kindle books (This was made before I realized that I have 52 physical books, so that probably won't be happening)
3 - Send 52 cards
4 - Road trip somewhere
5 - Try six new restaurants
6 - Try six new recipes
7 - $500 in savings a month/total of $6000
8 - Exercise at least once a week
9 - Use 2 journals
10 - Finish the boys' "school days" scrapbooks
11 - Update "adventures" scrapbook
12 - Do four jigsaw puzzles
13 - Burn three candles
14 - Use three fancy soaps
Still need 12 more, so feel free to offer ideas if you've got them. They're not really "goals" like resolution type goals, but more fun things I'd like to accomplish.
For now though, I have made my to-do list for the next couple of days so I'm going to go to bed so I can get up and be a human and deal with middle schoolers. Yay?
I spent most of the holiday time in a meh sort of funk, and I go back to work tomorrow, so that was kind of a waste of the break, but it is what it is. Having a real routine will probably help my brain, but it sucks that it has to involve work. Why can't I be independently wealthy?
Spent today moving the Booster Club storage unit to a bigger storage unit and organizing everything and I can honestly say, I would love to just organize for life. Not my life, mind you, but someone else's. I'm really good at someone else's.
I'm trying to come up with 26 goals for 2026, and I'm not quite there.
1 - Finish all current physical books (I currently have 52 of those)
2 - Read 100 kindle books (This was made before I realized that I have 52 physical books, so that probably won't be happening)
3 - Send 52 cards
4 - Road trip somewhere
5 - Try six new restaurants
6 - Try six new recipes
7 - $500 in savings a month/total of $6000
8 - Exercise at least once a week
9 - Use 2 journals
10 - Finish the boys' "school days" scrapbooks
11 - Update "adventures" scrapbook
12 - Do four jigsaw puzzles
13 - Burn three candles
14 - Use three fancy soaps
Still need 12 more, so feel free to offer ideas if you've got them. They're not really "goals" like resolution type goals, but more fun things I'd like to accomplish.
For now though, I have made my to-do list for the next couple of days so I'm going to go to bed so I can get up and be a human and deal with middle schoolers. Yay?
driving away from conflict
Jan. 2nd, 2026 09:06 amrivers_bendI've been watching a lot of reactions to Heated Rivalry lately (between rewatching the episodes themselves), and there's one scene in episode 6 that has some people losing their minds in stress and dismay and other people completely taking it in stride, and I've been fixating on why I fall into the latter group, so decided I should write about it. I'm not interested in writing fic about it, so thought I'd dust off my essay writing skills (such as they are).
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Hello friends
Dec. 27th, 2025 07:23 amromanticalI don't know where the year went. I don't know where I went. Many things. I don't know. Saw TAI in concert. They're coming to the PNW next year, so will see them again (twice). Hockey, whirlwind trips, Christmas, whatever. Everything. I don't even know.
How are you?
I have next week off as well (school holidays are the best). It is not chill, despite the hoped for chillness. So many things. I have not come up with my 26 things for 2026, so that doesn't bode well. Read 75 books this year (well, 73 1/2, but there's still time!). Haven't figured out what exactly to fill my time with now that school (school-school) is done, which means lots of sitting around brainlessly.
Favorite bb!hockey continues to wear a Yankees cap (a new one! wtf!), so he is no longer my favorite (lies). I'm looking for a new favorite though, because he's terrible (lies). We have a great team this year. They are the most dramatic of boys though. Come from behind wins, shoot-outs, overtime, everything. My blood pressure is not good during hockey.
Woke up at 4 AM with a very sore neck that is not responding to advil or tylenol, so that sucks. Kind of want to go back to bed, but fear it will only get worse.
Anyway, I am boring.
How are you?
I have next week off as well (school holidays are the best). It is not chill, despite the hoped for chillness. So many things. I have not come up with my 26 things for 2026, so that doesn't bode well. Read 75 books this year (well, 73 1/2, but there's still time!). Haven't figured out what exactly to fill my time with now that school (school-school) is done, which means lots of sitting around brainlessly.
Favorite bb!hockey continues to wear a Yankees cap (a new one! wtf!), so he is no longer my favorite (lies). I'm looking for a new favorite though, because he's terrible (lies). We have a great team this year. They are the most dramatic of boys though. Come from behind wins, shoot-outs, overtime, everything. My blood pressure is not good during hockey.
Woke up at 4 AM with a very sore neck that is not responding to advil or tylenol, so that sucks. Kind of want to go back to bed, but fear it will only get worse.
Anyway, I am boring.