Month notes & numbers №12

Notable

February is always the month of getting settled back in to the school routine, and so it flies past and yet feels like nothing much happened?

My experiment of avoiding too much sugar has largely been a success. I’ve been feeling much more stable mood and mental health wise. I feel like the final disruptive dopamine-chasing behaviour to be conquered is consuming too much shit on my phone. I’ve dabbled with strings of no input days but always end up back on a binge. This is like, the final boss in my unhealthy coping mechanisms.

My kid loves school. He’s in his third year now and I often reflect on how lucky we are this is the case. I was an absolute frother for primary school: give me all the gold stars, I’ll show you what a good student I can be. Our oldest is exactly the same and it makes sending him off so easy. Shoutout to parents who have to deal with morning battles or the stressful all-out school refusal.

Work

Fixing final bugs and issues for the CodePen Editor private beta. We’re so close!!

The work soundtrack: Feb 2024

Watched

• Severance Season 1 & 2: Fully obsessed at this point.
• Sex Lives of College Girls Season 3: it was fine
• The Newsreader Final Season: Maybe not as good as Seasons 1 and 2, but still a great Australian show with absolute top-tier acting.

The numbers

Fitness

• rebounder: 5 time
• strength: 6 workouts
• walk: 12 walks
• pilates: 7 times
• yoga: 5 times
• run: 6 runs
• dance: 4 times

Creative

• coding for fun: 6 times
• journal: 22 times
• piano: 10 times
• read (book): 10 times
• write: 1 times
• colouring: 4 times