category: living
2026: again, another year of blog on the desktop, again, another time
it is new years eve as i start this, around 9:30pm. i'm sitting on the couch alone in quasi-silence - my upstairs neighbors are blasting music and there's the typical commotion outside during holidays. one of us in this apartment is getting over covid and it's not me. we'd like to keep it that way, hence me being alone on a couch...
read more »weekly retro #47: the one i almost forgot because what day is it even
this is the hardest time of the year to keep track of the days. even when i wasn't making my own schedule, these last several days of december are special and chaotic and slow all at once for so many people. but as the clock struck 8:25pm i shot up from my horizontal position on the couch, watching youtube on my phone, and exclaimed 'holy shit, it's sunday, i need to write my retro!' happy sunday, let's rock...
read more »weekly retro #46: the ramp up to the ramp down
welcome to my retro, and in case you didn't know, there is a livelaugh.blog rss feed, and also a mailing list to have my blogs sent straight to your inbox. wait, don't close the tab! you haven't even finished your jocko molk!
read more »weekly retro #45: stress is free and yet expensive
this week i worked on being intentional with my routine and fitting in movement and rest in healthy doses, while also managing consequences of the last few months of chaos.
read more »weekly retro #44: poked, prodded, but not fully deflated
sometimes it's not until sunday when i can connect my exhaustion to the fact that it was a chaotic week. it happened again tonight.
read more »weekly retro #42: sick of the cold and my phone
i closed my retro last week with "i have a bit of a cold right now that i hope goes the fuck away after a good night's rest. i just need to work on the good night's rest part." well, she did not get a good night's rest and the cold did not go the fuck away. in fact, it knocked me off my ass to the point that i missed all my aerial and ceramics classes and couldn't visit my dad.
read more »weekly retro #41: slow vs. slop
someone posted somewhere that no one blogs, then someone tagged me. the thing is, i don't blog...i write blogs. welcome to my weekly retro.
read more »weekly retro #40: the week i saw canbubu
this week was so weird. i got a lot done and experienced and felt a lot, but i also did not melt a single ounce of wax. it's almost like life is more than work, ok, i guess!
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