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August 26, 2026 1:42 PM

more of the same, but I wanted to write a blog post today

I definitely have way more things that I want to do each day than I have time for. Between What Teochew Say, The Space, practicing Teochew, working on my own Teochew site, exercising, eating, cooking, cleaning, doing other household chores and running errands, helping my family, social things, reading, playing video games, crochet, journaling, my food blog, this blog, ...

well, I can't do them all every day. But I am back from all my summer vacations, so I can at least do some of them each day. It feels like I'm getting a little crazy with all my TODO checklists, but I think it's working for now. I'm still figuring out the whole "balance" thing.

I celebrated a birthday last week! My mom made me an ice cream cake with Trader Joe's Coffee Bean Blast (the best coffee ice cream ever), and I had double birthday dinner with one of my best friends (it's our tradition), and he gave me some homemade bagels, and Dan gifted me a standing desk, glow-in-the-dark stars, and some ice cream (something practical, something playful, something sweet?), and I got some nice birthday wishes from other friends and family.

And right now, I'm sitting in a coffee shop, drinking an iced caramel apple butter latte (I requested this flavor months ago! They listened to me!! ...Maybe. I doubt the owner remembers that I talked to her, but I'd like to think my request subconsciously made an impact while they were deciding on new syrups to order. Or maybe they're just embracing fall flavors. Whatever. I'll take it.)