📚 First library haul of 2026!
📚 Decided to take through the end of the year as “vacation” (I’m self-employed) so I got a bunch of fun books from the library!
baked sourdough banana bread – subbed Greek yogurt – took about 80 minutes to bake in my oven despite starting with 5 minutes at 425F – quite moist, would eat again
“Your insurance saved you $1629.95” on a 30 day prescription this country is a joke
📚 Last library haul of the year? 🤔
Art books:
Other:
📚 Library haul! 3 fiction, 3 nonfiction today.
📚 Grabbed the rest of my library holds:
📚 I was downtown earlier so I picked up the books that had already come in at the library instead of waiting for everything.
📚 Small library swap today:
Anyone seen any reporting on REI’s new board appointees? Sounds like they changed the bylaws after members rejected their candidates in spring and appointed their own candidates for 3 year terms… Trying to decide how pissed I should be 😂 Sus that they announced in a Friday 3pm Pacific email 👀
My frugal greeting card hack: for anyone I think might possibly reuse it (and won’t be offended), I write their note on a post-it or nice piece of cardstock instead of directly on the card 💌 Received this card from my mom, sending to my childhood best friend 😄 Cards are $$$ yo!
📚 Library haul!
Embodiment pile:
Art & making pile:
📚 Library haul!
Nonfiction:
Fiction / fun:
Good mail day! 💌📕 Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher and Astronaut II by Scott Listfield, one of my fav painters.
Had a bunch of overripe bananas so I baked sourdough banana nut muffins. Baked 25 minutes. Suspect you could make 2-3 more muffins if you didn’t want big tops. Tested two toppings: chopped nuts and a whole walnut with turbinado sugar – I like the sugar crunch but might be too sweet.
📚 Semi-inadvertent library haul! (forgot to repause a few things)
📚 Library haul!
📚 Library haul! Planning a blog post on why embodiment is vital to creative works.
Finally published a long blog post I’ve been working on for weeks! I dug into the values embedded in generative AI and the aesthetics of what I’m calling the “Business Borg” 😄 I also picked out accompanying indie tunes (gauging “obscurity” by fewer than 200k views on YouTube, mostly much less) 🎶
📚 Oops got more library books 😅
Baked cinnamon sugar sourdough scones. Tasted good, not sure why they spread so much 🤷♀️ Added 1T buttermilk, baked 18 minutes.
📚 Fiction + comic roundup: discovered my library has an adult graphic novel section, I thought they were all under 741.5 😱 Asked the librarian where they were and she was like 😶 ??? we just moved them, and I don’t remember where! 😅
📚 Library roundup on culture and making in an age of AI:
Baked lemon blueberry loaf cake – used butter and cow milk. Cut the sugar in the cake to ¾ cup, seems fine. Rubbed the zest into the sugar first. I think half a batch of glaze would suffice (see puddle). Dried the blueberries before coating in flour and they didn’t all sink! 🙌 Baked 75 minutes.
📚 Library haul!
