If I took all the time I spend trying to format the work I’m doing, on whatever program, the things I could have done!
If I took all the time I spend trying to format the work I’m doing, on whatever program, the things I could have done!
I always like the way the 3 year olds photos turn out. I think this a panorama shot.
“It’s a verb. It’s an active engagement with all kinds of feelings—positive ones and primitive ones and loathsome ones. But it’s a very active verb. And it’s often surprising how it can kind of ebb and flow. It’s like the moon. We think it’s disappeared, and suddenly it shows up again. It’s not a permanent state of enthusiasm.”
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One of my favourite things about Apple Music is that my weekly playlist is one kind of music, this week is all old dance music. I like that.
Lunchtime dumplings
The boy does not like wearing shoes in the car.
Places to put things at home are normally pretty easy.
For working parents our careers tend to be busiest when our children yearn to have us around the most
Woke up to this article and can’t stop thinking about it. I couldn’t spend more time with my children though and feel all the more stressed for it.
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Just finished watching Back to Life about a women who has just got out of prison. It’s quite dark but also really human and somehow manages to be funny too. I really loved it and had a little cry at the final scene. It’s just so British too.
The 1y.o. found the missing Paw Patrol member Zoomer. I couldn’t find him anywhere! Good work Y!
Happy to see Scotland and Japan going ahead in the Rugby World Cup.
When you hear and love the remix first and then hear the original and it’ll never be enough.
Wonder how many of the Apple Arcade games I can play on my Macbook that work fine with just the keyboard.
Want to upgrade to Catalina but the one app I need in China, my VPN, won’t work. So having to hold off. Disappointing!
That Sunday morning and we’ve been up since 6am look.
Quick! The kids are napping, you need to relax. Always find it hard. What should I do with myself. I crave this time but don’t know what to do with it!
Sit down. Close your eyes. Rotate your neck slowly in circles while counting out-loud to 5. Once you hit 5, stop rotating your neck and open your eyes. Take note of the first thing you see. Set a timer for 5 minutes. Do a freewrite about the thing you saw until the timer runs out.
Nappies, we have boxes of them because Lyra sells them, they sit in a pile in the spare room that’s not really a spare room. More storage, office. I have my computer in her and some sometimes come in here to get away from the noise.
The advantage is that since both kids are still wearing them, we never run out. They wear both sizes too, which I suppose is something to be grateful for.
I remember when we took Elise somewhere and I realised that you could tear the sides to take them off. I’d been pulling them down before, which was often precarious and in hindsight, fairly ridiculous. Live and learn.
I’ll be happy when we’re rid of them and they’ll be able to go to toilet on their own. The eldest is out of them, mostly, but going out is still… It still makes me nervous. “Do you need the toilet? Are you sure? Do you want to try?”
It’ll be easier when they’re bigger, that’s not trus is it?
E’s first bike!
Going away with my wife’s friends for a couple of days has been enlightening in terms of the decision for what I want to do with my job contract, and by extension, whether I want to stay in Chongqing longer. I think I’ve made my peace with staying a little longer.
It was good to start trying to write down some of my thoughts down about. Though, it ended up as more prose. That is a work in progress.
油茶(you cha) is basically porridge with spices and some crunchy rice noodles on top. It’s delicious.
I’d love for this view to be British countryside but I’ll take the convenience of the fast trains in China, I think.
You get used to the English when you live in China but this from the hot springs we went to today tickled me. Forbidden tips!
3 taxis, 2 trains, 2 metros, 2 falling outs, lots of spicy food, 3 beers, 1 coffee.
New thing. Getting the 3yo to take photos…
