Month notes & numbers №10

I haven’t been too online the last two months because things have been really busy offline. It’s good busy - no issues or dramas but the School year ending and lead up to Christmas involves a lot of preparation, organising and socialising.

Notable

Christmas. Christmas has been a bit tricky for me since my mum passed from a brain tumour, just after Christmas 2011. I was just sad for many years, until I had my own kids and then I was kind of bummed about the fact I was the one doing the work to make Christmas special, and I will never have the person who did it for me back again. Anyway, it is probably because my kids are old enough to truly appreciate what is happening, but I really, really enjoyed Christmas prep and celebrations this year! I wasn’t sad at all - for the first time in a long, long time.

Summer holidays. Lots of catch ups with friends and extended family. It has been awesome.

I started reformer pilates. I took this up because I couldn’t run anymore on the ankle injury. I’m loving it so far, and will keep it up even when I get back to running I think.

I got back in to daily piano practice. Had a break there for a while. I’m doing the Atomic Habits thing again where I just try to do 10-15min of the things I want to consistently do each day, one of them being piano. It’s working - the small time commitment feels less overwhelming.

Work

We’re at the stage with our New Editor where we’re just trying to knock out those nasty little bugs that are left over in the final 5% of the project. So I’ve just been attempting (and failing most of the time) to squash them.

The work soundtrack: Messy Radio

Watched

• Shrinking Season 2: I wish they were a little less melodramatic and a little more funny in this season. The last episode had me bawling 😭.
• The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3: Only a few episodes in to this season. It’s been slow to get going because they had to write out Reneé Rapp. Love her as an actress but the character was my least favourite of the 4 so looking forward to seeing what they do without her.

The numbers (for December)

Fitness

• rebounder: 5 workouts
• strength: 4 workouts
• walk: 14 walks
• pilates: 12 times

Creative

• coding for fun: 4 times
• journal: 21 times
• piano: 18 times
• read (book): 12 times
• write: 0 times
• lettering: 0 times