Consistency > intensity
My issue is and has always been consistency. Life always gets in the way eventually. Plus I just don’t like working out on the balcony. I like to exercise but part of that is getting away from everything for a bit.
Consistency > intensity
My issue is and has always been consistency. Life always gets in the way eventually. Plus I just don’t like working out on the balcony. I like to exercise but part of that is getting away from everything for a bit.
8am on a Sunday morning. Coffee on the sofa with the kids and having a cry at the end of Raya and the last dragon.
Finally got around to having a Chinese lesson.
I live in the country so feel like I should be doing more. It is just it’s not a priority as family, work, exercise and sleeping get in the way. It frustrates me.
Also, if only I moved to a country with an easier language!
Bit late to the party but Breath of the Wild is pretty good isn’t it?
“The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren’t also dangerous, just because reading them didn’t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain.”
• Soul Music
This popped up on Reddit.
Funny since I was reading this earlier too > Reading and Writing: A Reciprocal Relationship
Notifications Off! The Distraction-Free Benefits of Five-Hour Work Days
“When you are a social person like I am, have two kids as I do, and you also want to make time for sports, the load quickly becomes unsustainable. It is inhumane.”
Pro: I’m naturally waking up early and feeling good.
Con: So are my kids.
Hot pot.
Signal somehow sent a confirmation message to my Chinese phone number. It wasn’t working before. Amazing!
(No more using my old phone!)
Lijiang, China.
All the mushrooms 🍄
If you’re missing any garlic, I think I found it.
Taobao is a Chinese platform for selling. 99% of the things I buy online are from it. It has everything you need and plenty you don’t.
It’s also, kind of, like a social media substitute. I was reading this article and it’s possible to just scroll and scroll.
Coffee and book and dance lessons.
I am loving this book, I’m already feeling sad that the more I read the less I have left.
Also, I watched the trailer for the adaptation. Tom Holland! Daisy Ripley! Mads Mikkelsen! But I don’t think I’ll bring myself to watch it though.
‘Unnecessarily cruel’: how Australia’s closed border is forcing migrants to leave permanently
I do not know how I feel about this article.
I, we, are in a very similar situation. We were lucky my parents came to visit at Christmas 2019. Otherwise, we’d be heading for 2 years without seeing them. It’s now almost 2 years since we’ve left China, with no apparent end in sight. We’ve just sort of accepted that we can’t leave and won’t be leaving anytime soon.
Of course, it’s not that we can’t leave. It’s that if we did we wouldn’t get back in and then I would lose our main source of income.
Though, not seeing my family for a while is sort of normal for us.
The additional issue, for me personally, is that we live in my wife’s hometown. Most of the time, I’m ok with our situation and sometimes it’s really hard.
Photo by Yumo, 3.
Coffee and book and roller skating lessons.
Schools out for the summer!
The carry got tough but glad I stuck with it.
Though doing it in this heat was fun.
Album t-shirts are a thing but are book cover t-shirts?
I’d rather sip water all day and Lyra has this big water bottle to do that but I find it much easier to just occasionally down a big glass of water.
We finally decided to buy a Switch so I can play BOTW. Lyra wanted Just Dance and so those are the two games she bought…
