I have rediscovered a love for reading, THANK GOODNESS. I have been trying to get back into reading since...well, since mobile games were invented, really. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration but I have definitely read less over the years and for a while, if it weren't for audiobooks, I wouldn't have been reading at all.
But the day after Thanksgiving I kinda just said eff this and haven't fallen into a phone game since. I'll play a single game of that fruit drop watermelon merge thing every now and then when I have a spare moment or two but not enough spare moments to string together into a reading sesh. But yeah, mostly I've been reading.
I have a physical book at home, an audiobook for my car, and an ebook for other times. It's been working out well. These are the books I've completed just since Thanksgiving:
(with the exception of King Sorrow but I just copy/pasted my list from the Excel spreadsheet I've been using for tracking, which kinda brings me to my point BUT NOT YET)
So in addition to reading, I have also continued on my mixology journey. I try to mix a cocktail most nights we're home, playing with flavors and techniques, but I realized the other night that it might be helpful to apply some kind of focus to my madness. So I decided to start theming my weeks around various elements (bottles, juices, syrups, bitters, whatev) and make a least three cocktails a week using the featured ingredient.
And of course, me being me, I want to track both my cocktail experiments and my reading journey. I have been wracking my brain trying to find a way to do that using journaling, maybe going back to Happy Planner, maybe using a bullet journal, but I couldn't come up with anything that felt satisfying to me.
SO! I'm going to give this yet another shot. I hope to be writing at least three times a week although ideally daily. Starting in 2026 although I reserve the right to write before that also as well too.
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