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l33tminion) wrote2016-09-13 08:31 pm
l33tminion) wrote2016-09-13 08:31 pm
Milestones Big and Small
Work continues to be busy but tiring. I'm only now getting to clearing some of my backlog both there and at home. Hence the delay in posting.
Two weekends ago (Labor Day weekend) was my sister's wedding! It was a wedding retreat, a whole weekend with immediate family old and new at a vacation home in the mountains in Newry, Maine. The wedding was beautiful, and the whole weekend was very relaxing. Congratulations again to Melissa and Elliott!
The highlight of the weekend for me, actual wedding aside, was taking the kid on her first hike. I bought an awesome backpack carrier, Eris enjoyed surveying her domain, and it was quite a workout! You can really tell the optimists from the pessimists among the people you pass on a steep hike, the former tell you encouragingly that the summit is right around the corner, the latter tell you accurately that it's still quite a ways. (One inversely-directed hiker compared Erica in her backpack to "the Queen of Sheba", to which I responded "and I, her loyal servant".) I definitely need to get in some more use of that backpack. It's fun!
(That and stargazing from the roof deck of the house. It's been a long time since I've had such a good view of the stars.)
I've been trying to get in more of activities I consider worth having done in retrospect and less of stuff that seems like a waste of time. It's not always what I expect.
Things that were good uses of my free time:
Eristic improvements: Dancing (including moving to the beat of music), standing assisted, bouncing up and down from a standing position (every day is leg day!), pulling herself up to sitting, kneeling, or half-standing poses on her own. Getting bored mid-hygiene and trying to get away (come back, baby!). Trying to get into the container of wipes to chew on them (evidently delicious?). Eating more varieties of food (though her reaction to some really new things is very dramatic: super-exaggerated disgust-face followed by demanding more followed by surprised laughter at every bite). Trying to remove books from lower bookshelves (the bungee cords are deterrent enough for now). She still is way into making that growling sound, too!
Two weekends ago (Labor Day weekend) was my sister's wedding! It was a wedding retreat, a whole weekend with immediate family old and new at a vacation home in the mountains in Newry, Maine. The wedding was beautiful, and the whole weekend was very relaxing. Congratulations again to Melissa and Elliott!
The highlight of the weekend for me, actual wedding aside, was taking the kid on her first hike. I bought an awesome backpack carrier, Eris enjoyed surveying her domain, and it was quite a workout! You can really tell the optimists from the pessimists among the people you pass on a steep hike, the former tell you encouragingly that the summit is right around the corner, the latter tell you accurately that it's still quite a ways. (One inversely-directed hiker compared Erica in her backpack to "the Queen of Sheba", to which I responded "and I, her loyal servant".) I definitely need to get in some more use of that backpack. It's fun!
(That and stargazing from the roof deck of the house. It's been a long time since I've had such a good view of the stars.)
I've been trying to get in more of activities I consider worth having done in retrospect and less of stuff that seems like a waste of time. It's not always what I expect.
Things that were good uses of my free time:
- Going to Michelle's birthday party
- An extended Sunday brunch that ended up taking all of the morning and a bit of the afternoon
- Getting back to reading S.
- Starting to read Fix (the conclusion of a trilogy)
- Reading books in general, including on the Kindle app on my phone
- Long strolls with the kid
- Catching up on Fear the Walking Dead (even though that's not nearly as good as the show it's a spinoff of)
- Watching Dennou Coil (most briefly described as "Google Glass the anime")
- LJ discussion threads, even though it takes me entirely to long to edit entirely too wordy comments
- Cooking, even when it's something simple
- A super-aimless Saturday morning, where it took me far too long to get up and do anything
- Playing a bit of Borderlands (I thought I would enjoy it, but it was just too repetitive and grindy)
- Excessive Facebook browsing
Eristic improvements: Dancing (including moving to the beat of music), standing assisted, bouncing up and down from a standing position (every day is leg day!), pulling herself up to sitting, kneeling, or half-standing poses on her own. Getting bored mid-hygiene and trying to get away (come back, baby!). Trying to get into the container of wipes to chew on them (evidently delicious?). Eating more varieties of food (though her reaction to some really new things is very dramatic: super-exaggerated disgust-face followed by demanding more followed by surprised laughter at every bite). Trying to remove books from lower bookshelves (the bungee cords are deterrent enough for now). She still is way into making that growling sound, too!
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*Fansquee*
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Fix was great. Best book of the series, I thought. In some ways (even moreso than the earlier books) it pulls a better Breaking Bad than Breaking Bad (even if the free-magic-in-drug-form plot element seems to be entirely forgotten by book three). Mainly because Paul's seemingly-good intentions seem a lot more genuine than Walter White's. (Though some of that might just be a matter of books versus television, the former generally gives a more direct look at the thoughts and feelings of a perspective character.)
Also, it has one of the best dramatic payoffs from a running joke that I've ever seen in a book.
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I found many running gags, though (I've finished it). Curious to which one you referred.
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