I'm always looking for new blogs to follow via RSS and a good way to do that is to search through the various blog directories out there. Most directories are sorted by topic and I've come to realize that I'm a lot more picky than I thought!
I'll be honest, February wasn't nearly as productive as I would have liked it to be. My mind was mostly focused on just "making it through the day/week/month". I had a whole list of things I was supposed to get done in my bullet journal (which I was too burnt out to use for most of the month) and I think I only crossed out two or three.
I started collecting itemLabel plushies last year. I wanted to include some recent photos of them in my next monthly recap post, but I realized that I had so many stashed away in my phone that I should probably share the old ones first. So This post will just be a dump of those, along with my assorted thoughts.
Everything's supposedly a "recession indicator" nowadays. "recession indicator" this, "recession indicator" that, it's usually over pretty frivolous stuff too. I always take the phrase with a grain of salt.
But the other day I got one of those "cash for gold" type ads before a YouTube video. I haven't even one of those since Obama was in office! A true, actual, genuine recession indicator if I've ever seen one. We are so cooked!
I got to go on a surprise trip to the conservatory the other day! We met up with a family friend there. I took a bunch of photos while I was there too, so I thought I might as well share them here!
In my January recap, I linked to a video I enjoyed called "Wizard Cooking vs Witch Cooking". The video talks about different methods of cooking in real life and how to apply them in a fictional/world building context. It uses wizards and witches as a metaphor for strictly following the (cook)book vs just eyeballing ingredients as you go along.
While the video mostly sticks to talking about cooking there were some things that made me wonder how this kind of thinking could be applied to other activities as well.
I've been inspired by a bunch of other bloggers (mostly Leilukin) to start writing these little monthly recap posts. Work and brainfog makes it hard to write long posts or write super often, and to be honest, I don't think I even do enough to warrant a weekly recap, but a monthly one seems pretty manageable. It's a nice compromise between how frequently I'm currently posting and a challenge like 100 Days To Offload. So, you'll be getting at least 12 blog posts a year, plus my usual other blog posts about various topics, hopefully.
Without any further ado, what've I been up to in January?
I considered adding these to my next post, but I think this is really important and I don't want it to get buried underneath a bunch of unrelated stuff.
These are some online resources I've amassed over the last month or so related to protecting your community from ICE. Some are location specific while some aren't. Many of these are available in both English and Spanish, but some are available in other languages as well.
Not exclusive to ICE but still helpful:
A little while ago I read Ava's answering the 40 questions for 2025, where she answers Steph Ango's 40 questions to ask yourself every year. I thought it looked interesting, so this is my attempt at answering those same questions. Maybe this'll become a yearly tradition on my blog? Guess we'll just have to wait and see.