January 18, 2021 8:11 PM
Highlights of my vacation
Well, more like highlights of my time-at-home-with-family
- Playing Merv with my cousins after spending an hour reading the instructions and another half hour explaining the rules to them
- Gambling my money on "Fish Prawn Crab" with family and seeing my grandpa laugh
- Getting sucked into watching Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
- Teaching my cousin how to solve a Rubik's Cube, and seeing her make a story to help her solve the second layer
- Listening to my co-workers talk enthusiastically about 3D printing
- Making a meal for my dad
- Having arguments with my mom and aunt that turn into heart-to-hearts
January 17, 2021 9:26 AM
How to not work so much
This past week at work, I felt like I was running around like crazy. And I mean literally running. I've been working at my aunt's house, so I don't really have a designated working area. Sometimes I have a meeting where I need it to be a little more quiet, and I don't realize it until a minute before the meeting starts and I'm like "Shit!" and I run from room to room just to make sure I'm set up correctly.
So, it was Friday afternoon, probably around 5:30pm, when my friend pings me:
friend: you work too much
me: i know i do
This is not the first time she has told me I work too much. I tell her the same thing all the time. But it hit differently this time. I always have a reason for why work is so busy. But you know what? Work is not going to get any less busy. I told myself I would work less this year. It was even in my end-of-year performance review that I'm always swamped and have too much on my plate. But with the way things are going, I don't see 2021 going any differently than 2020.
I told my mom this. Her reaction? "You like work! Nothing wrong with that! That's just life!" Okay, not helpful mother. But then again, my mother also works a lot. My father works a lot. I am both my mother's and father's daughter. And so is my sister, and we're all a bunch of sleep deprived workaholics. I honestly don't know how to work less. Yeah, I could take vacation, but that only helps when I'm on vacation. I get back to work and I go from 0 to 100 almost immediately. I need to achieve work/life balance again.
So, I needed real, practical advice. I asked friends and other family, and this is what I got:
- Have a hard cutoff time at the end of the day.
- Plan to do things outside of work.
- Keep a checklist of things you need to do.
- Delegate.
- Find a way to take your mind off work. Take more walks.
Okay. A lot of this was easier before the pandemic. But it's still going to be a socially distant 2021, so I gotta make this work with the pandemic.
November 17, 2020 10:03 PM
My DDR quarantine goal
Back when the pandemic first started, I gave myself a quarantine goal of getting an A in every single song in Dance Dance Revolution Konamix. Now I love DDR, and I guess I'm decent at it, but not amazing. But this is a really old version of DDR for the PS1. Getting an A in Konamix means getting a FULL COMBO--nothing but Greats and Perfects. (Marvelous didn't exist in this version)
,=. .*. ,'. ,=. ,+ ,+ . | | . ,+ +. +. +. ,+ -----. + `.| |.' + ,+ +. .===== +. + =====' `+ ` ` +' + .'| |`. + '----- + `+ '+ `+ +' `' | | `' +' +' `=' `-' '-' `=' These arrows were a lot of work to type out.
All of the songs in Konamix have a level from 1-9, 1 being easy and 9 being the hardest. Nowadays, the highest level is 20. The hardest songs in Konamix miiight be a 13 in today's scale. So, getting a full combo on all of them? Totally doable.
EXCEPT, I'm in a second floor apartment and all I have are crappy foam dance pads. Each one seems to have a different arrow that's at least a little broken. Konamix also didn't have a lot of options. Pretty much everyone speeds up the arrows now, but you have to read everything at 1x in Konamix. And on top of all that the backgrounds are suuuuper trippy.
Anyway, this was a really silly quarantine goal, and to be honest, I didn't actually think I was going to finish this because of my pads misfiring ALL. THE. TIME. But! I was determined! And on Sunday I finally achieved my goal. It only took many months and many, many attempts at playing Drop Out.
September 21, 2020 10:05 PM
Bringing back the food blog
I have had the most exhausting few months at work. And it just kept getting worse and worse. I think I was working during all waking hours last week.
But today I did something I haven't done in a while. I worked an 8 hour workday. And then I stopped. Not because I had something to do, but because my 8 hours were up and it was time for me to End of Day.
Anyway, I've been meaning to get back to the food blog. But I'm kind of sick of Wordpress. I looked into alternatives. Ghost seemed promising, but I already got annoyed when I tried to install it, and my tolerance for dealing with annoying things in new pieces of technology are very low, so I gave up on that quickly. I decided that the best thing for me to do was to just build the site myself. When I first started flailing in my kitchen I didn't want to do that at all. I didn't want to be a Sysadmin. But, there is something rewarding about setting up a site yourself. So that's what I'm doing now. I made one blog post, and it's a total mess on the inside, but I'm happy with what I've got so far.
Update: When I first created v2, I made it part of this domain, under the path "/flailing", while the flailing site still had my old blog. I updated the link above to actually point to flailinginmykitchen.com.
July 19, 2020 8:59 PM
I needed an excuse to display an image
Today I mounted my cross stitch on a piece of foam board.
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