03 january 2026
~pocketbook is a go!~ 2026-01-03
i got the little pocketbook i wanted! it's small and flexible and quite thin, so it
slips easily into my back pocket. now i can jot down things wherever i am and not forget.
for example, today i've noted that i enjoyed a nice hotdog and fries at a local restaurant.
it had a lovely bit of charring on it, like a barbequeued dog, with mustard and cheese
and fried onion bits! i also had a habanero ketchup for dippin' the fries which was really
nice. rich and sweet and spicy!
i also want to get a smaller pen for my pocketbook though. i've been looking around, and
i think i want a sturdy aluminium mini-pen; something that will be small enough to tuck into
my pocket, but strong enough that it won't crack and leak ink if i fall or sit down weird on it.
some searching online has shown me there are a great many very expensive pens that satisfy this!
but i think i will try and get something a little cheaper from a stationary shop nearby instead.
have a good one, folks!
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02 january 2026
~the scrunge~ 2026-02-01
i've gotten a cold!! i had the flu at the beginning of december, so i'm
already a bit fed up of my mucous membranes doing things, but hey.
the flu was absolutely horrible this year, so this is very very mild by comparison!
other than that, i'm still enjoying the freshness of the new year. like putting on
fresh bedsheets, or a new flavour of mouthwash! it's familiar but full of the promise of the new.
i'll be back at work on the 5th, so i'm making the most of the last few days of my time off and chillin.
it's going to be a busy january (and likely february too) for me work-wise, but i think i'll be ready for the challenge.
as i work both freelance and in a worker co-operative, there's a decent chunk of my time dedicated to managing my workload too.
i think i need to make sure i pace it out better this year than i did last year; it was a bit feast-or-famine, with me working
quite hard in some months and having little to do in others.
i did initially think that cadence would help me work on my own projects more (and it certainly did to some extent), but i think
i was working hard enough that i wanted to spend the downtime totally relaxing instead.
so, if i can, depending on clients and leads and whatnot, i'm hoping to work a little less per week but for more weeks at a time
when i do land contracts! i think that's sensible.
we'll see, though!
in the meantime, i'm gonna have a little snack and watch some videos.
all the best, y'all!
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01 january 2026
~happy new one!~ 2026-01-01
it's a whole new year!! and you know what else? it was snowing this afternoon where i am!
the first snow of the year, on the first day of the year...
somehow, that feels important in a good way!
this year, i'm going to try and be a little more physically fit than last year. i got really
into tennis last summer, because there are some free-to-book tennis courts a very short
distance from my house - and it felt great to get a little fitter!
as soon as the colder weather moved in though, i ended up slugmode and i'm a little tired of
struggling back up the hill from the shops with my groceries again.
to stay fit in the cold, i'm using a stationary exercise bike! nothing fancy, no trackers or apps or whatnot,
just me, my legs, and a big heavy flywheel. time to get the melon blood pumpin'!
other than that, i have a good feeling about the upcoming year. i think there will be a lot of interesting
changes for the better in the world. i don't have a particularly strong reason for feeling this way, but i do!
there's just something in the snowy, snowy air!
have yourselves a lovely new year, everyone!
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30 december 2025
~hello, town!~
2025-12-30
i've just finished setting up my feels blog here in tilde.town, so it's time for my first post!
already i've been feeling very welcome here, with some lovely little guestbook messages between myself and a couple of others (hello, ~fruit and ~tromboneboi9!).
i'm pretty terrible at routinely blogging, but the feels system is nice and compact and easy to use, so i hope i can just hop on and record my impressions for the day.
ideally, i'd like to avoid my usual cycle, which goes something like:
- i must blog/journal/diarize each and every day with a rigid structure
- i'm doing it! i'm making it happen! (3 days in)
- oh no i missed a day or didn't fill in one of my many little structural fields. i have Failed to make a diary.
- update it once every eight months or let it wither entirely
i'm gonna break the cycle by just sporadically doing things when i feel like i have something i was thinking about. it doesn't have to be profound either!
to this end, in the new year i'm going to carry a little pocketbook and pen to record my thoughts and impressions if anything strikes me. it'll be fun!
i find the immediacy of pen and paper still far less frictionful than whipping out my phone and i don't like the idea of yapping out loud to record voice notes or things like that either.
so, with the tiny pocketbook, i should be able to at least have plenty fuel for little posts.
thought of the day:
apples are the fruit that benefit the most in my life from refridgeration, i think. leave an apple out in a fruitbowl for a week and it gets wrinkly and dry, but a whole month in a fridge and it's still juicy and crisp like the day it was picked.
that's apples for you.
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