it's ... may!

hell yeah

a short one, today. even though it's been a full three weeks since my last. i just don't have that much to say i guess. those same three weeks have been a bit of a blur, and i've been delinquent on journaling and so the days have blurred together. there's certainly been highlights, but hell if i can remember them that well. the kids are starting to take some steps on their own, even if they can't stand and balance well yet. wife finished her class and is starting an internship this week. i've had plenty of free time but mostly spent it the same two or three ways, so, whatever.

but work has been stressful and unruly lately and it's been weighing on me. thankfully the worst of it is past and i can move on. speaking of moving on, i've got a weird half-interview thing this week too. it's hard to stay motivated to work on some stuff when you know you might have to drop all of it in a week or a month or whatever.

some other notes:

• i did it! i finally finished that silly little crossbody bag i was working on. it needs a stiffener/insert and i need to make a strap for it, but it is really a bag!
• we had a good weekend lately on the outer banks. it was fun to get out of town for a few days, and get few new stamps in our national park and lighthouse passports, and take the babies to their first beach day ⛱️
• bless the ranged touch folks for getting me to start reading in earnest again. i was having a hard time figuring out what to do after i finished the sanderson cosmere books, and so using them as a parasocial book club of sorts is a pleasant way to keep myself engaged with literature. right now i'm double-dipping with their new episodes and the back catalog; their current project is a year of tolkien, which i will happily take second-hand instead of reading along.

that is it for now. signing off o7

-grady c