I got new running shoes (really, they are exercising shoes as I wear them when walking too). I had registered last year’s pair, so it was time to switch out my shoes. By doing so, I got this badge!
New Running Shoes
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Feeling Smart with Worldle
Most days when I’m playing Wordle:
Me: I have no idea.
Inputs mostly somewhat random guesses until I exhaust all six tries.
Me: I can’t wait until it’s the day that Canada or Mexico is featured.
Today: Hooray! I got one on the first try!
My Watch Now Shows Me My Text Messages
I recently upgraded my Garmin activity tracker to a full-on Garmin 245. So now I have a watch that pushes my text messages to my phone. I don’t know how long I will want this feature. Other than that unknown, I’m really enjoying my watch.
Update from the future: Two months in, I’m still getting texts on my watch. I find it especially handy when websites text me a six-digit security code and my phone is in a different room.
Negative for Covid
I was feeling under the weather and so I took one of the tests the government sent us.
It turned out I was just normal under the weather, not Covid under the weather.
For My House with a Fireplace
Sara sent me a ridiculous catalog filled with $5000 geegaws and a lot of things that added fuel to my always burning fire that wealthy people should be paying a lot more in taxes.
That said, I thought this idea was genius. Built-in seats near the fire! I would do it in wrought iron, though. I don’t love the look of brass.
Two Badges
I enjoy the badges in the Garman system. They are fun, and also a thing that I minimally participate in.
This one made me laugh.
(Nearly) a Year of Neighborhood 5Ks
Matt and I made a plan to do a neighborhood 5K on the fourth Saturday of every month in 2021. It didn’t end up like it started. The walk/run 5K gave way to a walking 5K probably around June. And Matt wasn’t always present. In July, my mom was in the hospital and it was right before the wedding, so I missed that one. But the 11 other months? I did that 5K.
In this case, I put on my hiking shoes, because we had some icy snow.
And that got me to my latest badge! I’m not doing this challenge again in 2022, because I’d like to branch out to other exercise, but this was a good motivator for 2021.
Lace for my Wedding Dress
This summer, I was rummaging around for something having to do with the wedding, when I found this stretch of lace. In college, I started tatting it with the idea that I would add it to my wedding dress (or even design and sew my wedding dress). At the time, I had no plans to marry, so you can see how enthusiastic I was to finish it. (Also, you can see that I wasn’t good at joining the segments.)
Having now married in a dress that I didn’t make and that didn’t work with this lace, I wrote a note about the genesis of the lace and put the lace and the note in a free box near me. Hopefully someone will do something fun with it.
Weighted Blanket at the Orange Door
Having long been a fan of a stack of heavy blankets on me (it’s why my heavy quilt goes on my bed when the weather gets cold) I’ve long thought that I would be the perfect match with a weighted blanket. Birthday money came my way and I decided to give the weighted blanket a try.
Alas, the weight wasn’t quite as I was hoping (I was hoping for the feeling I get when they put my apron on at the dentist before the x-ray) and so I found a new home for this weighted blanket.
When You Fashion Your Own Sick Time
My company gives us PTO in a lump. There isn’t separate sick time. This bugs me, because how much vacation do you really have?
When there was a lull, I made my own way to track sick time. I give myself 5 hours of vacation and 1.67 hours of sick time per pay period.
I can also use this sheet to plan out when I have enough PTO for vacations.