You know what? I was about to repeat my answer from the last time I did this, then I realized that there’s actually another piece of technology that I am more grateful for than my computer, phone, tablet, and iPod.
It’s my cpap. I’ve had it about a year and a half now and it has helped me so much in that time. I still bitch about it from time to time, but it’s important to me and it helps me sleep.
This is part of the 30 Days of Gratitude meme.
Today I am grateful for the smell of the waters of Puget Sound. There’s a specific scent they can get as we turn toward the winter months that makes me feel calmer and centered in my own skin. It’s a smell I wish I could bottle for future sniffing.
This is part of the 30 Days of Gratitude meme.
I tried this back in 2016 and didn’t get very far. Let’s try it again, shall we?
Prompts originally from TextMyJournal.com
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My Spotify Top 100 Songs in 2017 List
My “The Ones That Got Away” in 2017 List
Stats from my Spotify Top Songs in 2017
I spent 17577 minutes listening to 846 different songs by 298 different artists in 21 genres and only skipped 3 songs all year.
2018 goal: Be self aware
Top artist: In This Moment
“My” song: Oh Lord by In This Moment
Top genre: Nu Metal
Top Artists:
Top Songs:
Top Genres:
Below the cut is a listing from a swap I did over on Swap-Bot about my top 100 tracks of 2017 per Spotify. Continue reading
Oh, and the double inclusion of the Chumbawumba song is because it’s two different versions, and Last.fm counts them separately. *shrugs*
Well, April ended up with a very eclectically grouped set of songs, and that’s putting it mildly. I had a trip in the first half of April, which accounted for the 4 full runs of the Hamilton soundtrack [2 times through on both the train trip there & back]. The HUGE amount of plays for the Chumbawumba track came from 2 different situations: first was my 5k on said trip [it was my motivation to complete the 5k] and a big cleaning spree in my kitchen last week. That song is very much a HUGE motivator for me to keep going. The unusually high amount of nature sounds is because of my trip, as well. I’d forgotten the little speaker for my ancient iPod, so had to use my Spotify to find other similar tunes to listen to so I could sleep at night. LOL
So I’ve started a new online course over at FutureLearn called Start Writing Fiction. I know, I know. Given how long I’ve been writing fiction, this sort of course should be beneath me, right? But I don’t mind taking it. It lets me try a few new things and get my work in front of new eyes around the world.
So the first week’s lesson includes a writing exercise wherein one writes two different paragraphs, one with three truths and a lie, the other with three lies and a truth. Below are my two paragraphs.
The first person to correctly guess my lies in either paragraph will get a piece of writing from me.
3 facts, 1 fiction
Spring in Puget Sound can be erratic at best. It isn’t even a matter of becoming attuned to it with time; in fact, that usually makes it worse. Even with tornadoes, the weather was never this erratic back home in Wisconsin. But nothing can beat the time she saw snow in San Antonio on the first day of May.
3 fictions, 1 fact
The year was 1975. I hadn’t turned four yet, but would as spring set in. My sister was just two and smallish for her age, able to fit comfortably in the windowsill near the television. Luckily the one day she wasn’t sitting in the windowsill was the day that the dump truck was blown across the street and into the front of our house, breaking said window.
The top 10 places I wish to visit in my lifetime? Okay, let’s see what we have here. And please note that this list will be pretty much the first 10 that come to mind, as there are lots of places I’d love to visit. And yes, if there’s a way to collect a bottle of water from any of them for my juju collection, I will make sure it happens.
This is part of the 30 Days of Lists meme.
Yep, we’re going to give this whole posting regularly thing a try again. Hopefully this time, it’s better than the last time we tried and I’ll just recycle that last attempt in November again.
So this time, it’s a bunch of lists. Nice and simple to ease back into blogging daily again. And who knows? I might get some ideas for actual blog posts…
There will be a few days that I prepare ahead of time this month, because I’ll be out of town and won’t necessarily have access to a computer to post it in a timely manner.