Month notes & numbers №9: bankruptcy

Life has been life-ing. With everything going on I fell off the habit of tracking my activities in Chronicling, (as well as doing a lot of activites, see below). And then I totally missed the September month note. The completionist in me is absolutely *triggered* by this. So the only way to move forward is to declare bankruptcy on the numbers front and resolve to get back on track in November.

Notable

The Good

School holidays and a family trip to the Gold Coast. We went to one of those holiday park places where they have pools with slides and a splash park and a bouncing pillow. Will definitely be doing that again.

11th wedding anniversary 💕.

Working on my Home-cooked web apps. Still really enjoying this.

The Bad

Toilet training our youngest. The worst.

Two seperate gastro viruses going through the family. Actually the worst.

I sprained my ankle really badly, while on a run. Absolutely devastating because I had just got to the point where I could regularly run again, after rehabbing a hamstring injury all year. I couldn’t even do my stupid walk for my stupid mental health for two full weeks. I’m hanging in there but the wheels are starting to fall off the bus!

Work

Spent the last 2 months working with our payment processors (Stripe and Braintree) and attempting to fix some past mistakes in our legacy billing code. Working with third-party APIs is my least favourite part of development and I’m ready for it to be finished!

The work soundtrack: Is This Love ? Radio

Watched

• The Perfect Couple: didn’t finish this. It was too similar to White Lotus but without any of the charm.
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Finished season 5. Genuinely funny show with great character development. A real gem.
• English Teacher: Cute comedy. Loved it. I’ve been watching Brian Jordan Alvarez on TikTok for years.
• Only Murders in the Building Season 4: Not as good as Season 3, but this show is still my favourite comfort watch.