Tag: daily life

blog vs newsletter: fight!

January 16, 2024

The difference between the blog (this) and the newsletter (over here, and you should sign up for it if you haven’t bc…bc I said so… o.o): The blog is just that. It’s whatever’s on my mind today (or possibly last week, depending on whether I’ve scheduled a post ahead of time or not). Daily life, nothing necessarily news-oriented. It has movie and book reviews which, despite the name ‘picoreview’ for movies, can go on at some length, and it has me flailing about stuff, and, you know, good stuff like…

Continue Reading→

a fairly decent week

January 13, 2024

It has been a fairly good week over here, work-wise. I’m working on my next paranormal romance, with about 10k on it this week, bringing it up to around 16K/25% done, which pleases me. I have a goal to finish it by mid-February, although (of course) earlier would be better. Beyond that, I mean, like, I’m only level 4 on City of Heroes, but I’m on level 4 in City of Heroes! I’m so happy! :) I have big plans for Saturday which involve alternating between reading a book, napping,…

Continue Reading→

The Blog and the Future

January 9, 2024

Right, so, I’m trying to reduce my dependency on billionaire-owned social media, which mean I’m trying to increase my blog footprint again. I used to be good at blogging, but somewhere along the way, with all the short-post social media (and its instantaneous feedback, let’s be real, that’s super nice), I got well out of the habit of blogging and also, more relevantly, got to where I started feeling like multiple blog posts in a day (which I used to do all the time!) were…obnoxious. Bothersome. Too Much for readers.…

Continue Reading→

prawn-fried noodles in a takeaway carton, with chopsticks sticking into them

NOODLES!!!!

August 20, 2023

oh my GOD the noodle place is back at the Temple Bar Market!!!! Honestly I can’t tell you how happy I am about this. It’s a little food booth at the Temple Bar Saturday market in Meeting House Square, and I always used to order prawn fried noodles even when they weren’t technically on the menu. (Prawn skewers were, and othermeat-fried noodles were, just not prawn fried noodles. BUT GUESS WHAT’S ON THE MENU NOW!!!!!) The guy always remembered my order, because it was different. He used to give me…

Continue Reading→

journey vs destination

July 18, 2023

I’ve had a perfectly lovely conversation with my dad about the journey vs the destination. This was based around a couple of things: Dad wanting to visit European capitals and also do a fundraiser around walking across them, and my long-held desire to bike across America. I’ve been working on myself on that topic, because even in concept, it’s hard to not think about the DESTINATION as the GOAL: getting each leg of the journey done, biking however many miles a day is necessary to accomplish that, etc. I am…

Continue Reading→