Getting blood work done, it’s been 20 minutes since my appointment time and I still haven’t been seen, fasting and haven’t eaten in almost 15 hours… Not happy.
My whole family and I are moving to Tom Bombadil’s house. He and Goldberry are such gracious hosts and we will be relaxed there. (Please note: we cannot actually do this.) 📚
Y’all don’t even know how transformed this fireplace is from just a couple months ago. W painted it white & my brother-in-law MM and I hung the mantel. First picture is after & second is before.
The head teacher at my kid’s school for next year sent an email saying that the only school supplies he will need are a backpack and a lunchbox and I haven’t felt so disappointed in a long time. Guess I just have to buy school supplies for myself…
🔖🎮 Read Playing ‘Tunic’ Reminds Me How to Approach Sickness and Recovery by Martin Cahill (Catapult).
I have done all the things in Stardew Valley 1.4 and it took me ~245 hrs. That’s ~245 hrs when I was playing Stardew Valley and not doomscrolling.
You can log a lot more hours in a game when it’s playable in little bits.
My Reading Year, 2022 📚
Everybody is doing their year-end stuff, so I thought I’d do mine.
I read 46 books this year including comics/graphic novels and poetry. About 12 of those were graphic novels or poetry and another 2 or 3 were short story or novella collections. This puts me right about where my usual average for longer works is, around 30 books. I don’t set quantitative reading goals anymore besides reading one more book than I’ve read so far in a given year.
My reading this year was heavily influenced by the microgenres/aesthetics of cozy fantasy, adventurecore, and woodland goth.
I sought out cozy fantasy and adventurecore in particular because I wanted my reading to comfort me.
I joined the Atlas Obscura book club on Literati, because Austin Kleon stopped running his book club. I only finished two of the 5 books I got, but I look forward to finishing the ones I didn’t. I love the curation but the monthly format doesn’t really work for me and I wasn’t making the kinds of connections to other readers that I’d hoped to.
I started to list my favorite books I’ve read this year but the list got too long. I loved the Hildafolk series and The Bloody Chamber.
I began the year with the intention to get caught up on Leigh Bardugo’s backlist, and I only have one book to go, The Rule of Wolves. I started that this week, so I hope to finish before the year is out and be caught up just in time for the release of the new Alex Stern book.
I think that’s all I have to share about my reading this year. How did your reading year go?
True facts about my time on the early web:
In many chats (like, html + server side scripting with auto-refresh), my handle was Elora Danan and my profile picture was a Labyrinth-era photo of Jennifer Connelly.
I am a very specific sort of nerd.
Wonderful things 🥳:
- My kid fell asleep before 9:30 for the first time this week. 😴
- I ❤️ Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, & Andy Serkis singing as both of them. 📚
- Tomorrow I get to watch Neverafter. 🧙♀️
- My friend Little Willow rescued a kitty & sent me many pictures. 🐱
Some notes on my Spotify Wrapped:
- Joe Hisaishi is the composer for My Neighbor Totoro, which is what I wake M up with on the rare morning he’s not awake by 7:30.
- All 5 of my top songs are from the Totoro soundtrack because I play it other times too.
- The reason my minutes are so high is that I use Spotify for M’s white noise.
- Where this says “New Wave,” you should read “Goth.”.
No Enya this year, but The Lonely Island stands strong.
