Another year of me

The calendar tells me that I've been breathing on my own for thirty-six years, and I have retreated with the laptop, my tea, and a couple of mint-chocolate-chip cookies cadged out of the giant cookie sampler bag my mother got from her neighbors' christmas eve party. There continues a great humming and tapping of little toddler feet from downstairs.

Things I'd like to do this year include:

-write something. The present plan is to designate Wednesdays as "No, I will just disappear after dinnertime and NOT TALK TO ANYBODY." This may help.

(I also wanted to do a ceramics class again, and there's one for the spring that's not on Mondays (grauwulf's grad-school class day) only it turns out that it's on Thursdays, and he's now going to be teaching a class that day. So, yeah, maybe for summer. Also, while playing with clay is relaxing, the other classmates aren't always, so there's that.)

-a couple cons, by way of keeping a tiny bit in the writer community. Probably Balticon, Capclave, and maybe World Fantasy again, since Syracuse next November sounds almost doable. That's on my list of things to look into today. (Incidentally, Balticon is mutually exclusive with my 15-year college reunion, which could theoretically be fun, but I'm more interested in seeing what Jo Walton's influence & Wiscon's mistakes do for Balticon's writing panels.)

-Work out something in the way of better organizational tools, possibly via smartphone. (that's another post) The HabitRPG thing is still working for some stuff-- the catbox gets regularly cleaned; I've been remembering to floss my teeth-- but it has started *feeling* less new and useful. And I want to organize better motivation for managing dinners. (I've never been good at consistent dinner plans, but having a toddler who is extra wiggly-fuss around the time I want to start cooking, and who is wildly uninterested in eating most real adult food anyway, makes this harder.)

-And then there's a whole cluster of things with being overstressed and cranky and in need of alternative childcare options and some other things that I need to find ways to make less awful. Also possibly a little time to read books that are intended for people over the age of 8, because I've gotten to a point where I stare at book sales & things I ought to want to read and say, "But, I don't read anymore," which is entirely not true. I just read and re-read picture books semi-constantly, and it is not the same thing.

Anyway, I *think* the bathrooms are cleaner than they were last year.

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Eletelphony

So my old extremely stupid phone started mysteriously turning itself off some months ago, which in the context of a toddler and no home phone seemed like a problem. And while I wasn't really mentally ready for the smartphone age, I also didn't want to commit to another two years of stupid phone. Which has resulted in my acquisition of an iphone 5s, as this was the smallest (mostly) contract-funded option available through Credo Mobile. Without the case I got for it, it even stays in the back pocket of my jeans when I use the toilet. (with it, not so consistently. Boo.)

Grauwulf says that for someone who was so anti-smartphone I spend a lot of time looking at it. I said that was *why* I didn't want one: they're addictive little things, and I am generally supposed to be paying attention to the Megatherium, not my pocket-computer. (I have this thing in my pocket, and it's supposed to be interesting.)

I find that mostly what I do with a mini-computer 2000 times the size of my first laptop is check the weather constantly, and take pictures of my child. Now I have to figure out how to get those pictures back off the phone-- I am hoping that it'll play nice with my computer even though I deleted iphoto years ago for being stupid and annoying, but haven't tried yet.

So far my app acquisitions include a couple games, Merlin Bird ID (which plays bird sounds!), pinterest, a dictionary, a couple craft store coupon apps, a metronome/tuner, and vTree (tree id).

Have you the internets anything you use and love? Or do you know how to delete the stupid stock market app?

Things I think I want include something like the running from zombies game only without zombies and maybe running towards rather than away, a good recipe & shopping list app, or particularly good early learning (alphabet, numbers, suchlike) games for the Megatherium once she turns two. (we're still trying to avoid formal screen time until then, despite the difficulty of explaining to certain relatives that actually this child is ready for picture books but not movies without criticizing the way her cousins are being raised.)

Eletelphony

So my old extremely stupid phone started mysteriously turning itself off some months ago, which in the context of a toddler and no home phone seemed like a problem. And while I wasn't really mentally ready for the smartphone age, I also didn't want to commit to another two years of stupid phone. Which has resulted in my acquisition of an iphone 5s, as this was the smallest (mostly) contract-funded option available through Credo Mobile. Without the case I got for it, it even stays in the back pocket of my jeans when I use the toilet. (with it, not so consistently. Boo.)

Grauwulf says that for someone who was so anti-smartphone I spend a lot of time looking at it. I said that was *why* I didn't want one: they're addictive little things, and I am generally supposed to be paying attention to the Megatherium, not my pocket-computer. (I have this thing in my pocket, and it's supposed to be interesting.)

I find that mostly what I do with a mini-computer 2000 times the size of my first laptop is check the weather constantly, and take pictures of my child. Now I have to figure out how to get those pictures back off the phone-- I am hoping that it'll play nice with my computer even though I deleted iphoto years ago for being stupid and annoying, but haven't tried yet.

So far my app acquisitions include a couple games, Merlin Bird ID (which plays bird sounds!), pinterest, a dictionary, a couple craft store coupon apps, a metronome/tuner, and vTree (tree id).

Have you the internets anything you use and love? Or do you know how to delete the stupid stock market app?

Things I think I want include something like the running from zombies game only without zombies and maybe running towards rather than away, a good recipe & shopping list app, or particularly good early learning (alphabet, numbers, suchlike) games for the Megatherium once she turns two. (we're still trying to avoid formal screen time until then, despite the difficulty of explaining to certain relatives that actually this child is ready for picture books but not movies without criticizing the way her cousins are being raised.)

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