@sara, now.
Enjoying
- Sleep, when I can get it!
- My kids getting better at playing together
- Christmas time (still!) and twinkly lights
Doing
- Parenting. Working. Parenting. Sleeping. Repeat.
Reading
I'm not reading much, I somehow never get around to sitting down and picking a book. But when I do, I love it:
- I just finished The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde. I knew I loved his writing. I need to keep reading.
- Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz * not very far into this yet but I love that writing about internet history is a thing now! See next:
- Still celebrating Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch - I related heavily to most of it, it reminded me of so many good times spent online
- Finally finished Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman those Nordic gods were like the Greek and Roman ones * pretty depraved! A fun read.
- Also The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua which I just LOVED so even though I'm not reading it now (um, I got it the Christmas before last!), it deserves a mention.
- One day I'll get more time and mental capacity to read more books!
Want-to-read:
- Jasper Fforde books I picked up recently: Early Riser, Shades of Grey
- Mr Mercedes by Stephen King (in German)
I am/was one of King's Constant Readers. I bought Mr Mercedes in German as there's still something familiar about the prose of a familiar author, that makes it easier to read even if not in your first language - I also did this with Doctor Sleep. What's weird is that when I think back to the story of Doctor Sleep, the brain paraphrases it into English, not German! I don't think I've yet made it past the 2nd chapter of Mr Mercedes...
Watching
Whatever the boys want to watch on Netflix Kids:
- Gabby's Dollhouse
- Peppa Pig
- Fireman Sam
- Sunny Bunnies
- Octonauts * I really like the Octonauts! Particularly the long Barrier Reef special
And for the "grownups":
- Just watched Stardust (2007) and really really enjoyed it. Perfect escapism
- Hubs and I never watched Seinfeld when it was being aired the first time, so every now and then we're watching an episode now :)
Want-to-watch:
If I ever find the time...
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- RRR
- Banshees of Inisherin
- TETRIS
- Last Night in Soho
- Barbie
Making
- An attempt at a class-free CSS "framework". This is very new and broken ^_^
- Sort of stalled on making a basic version of my website. I'm scratching the minimalism(ish) itch. And the refactoring itch. And the rainbow itch!
- Writing up very very slowly (and in public!) how I built sarajoy.dev
- A CSS Joy (lol) Webring! cs.sjoy.lol
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Last updated 2024-01-03.