Personal Log
Me: *opens oven door and sets temperature for preheat*
Fly: thank you, I’ll make myself right at home in there
That’s two wonderful but exhausting days with my kids and family. That’s what christmas is all about, all I care about: being with my loved ones.
I spend a lot of time alone so next couple of days will be coming back to myself again. Recombobulating.
Happy Christmas to anyone reading this. Or best wishes for the 25th, if you prefer.
I have the Christmas blues already so I’m gonna slow down, chill the f out, and look after myself.
A chestnut just exploded in my oven. It was very very loud. What a mess!
The first casualty of Christmas 🫡🪦🎄
I’m entering a pre-Christmas coma
2024 has been exhausting. I want to sleep until 2026.
Wake me up when the apocalypse is over 🥱 💤
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Me and my eldest revived one of our Christmas traditions last night: Opening our Winterfest presents together in Fortnite.
Fortnite’s been a really important way for me to connect with my kids over the years. Although it’s just a video game, it is a part of our connectedness. 🎮
I love Micro.blog. A lot. I think it’s awesome. And I admit that I am a chaotic person. But I find Micro.blog overly chaotic at times. And I feel like I have to double check everything just a bit too much. The posting paranoia is real.
I haven’t seen Die Hard in so long. And I’ve seen the censored TV version more often than the original. I was telling my son about the iconic line censored and dubbed to “Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe”. Somehow we didn’t notice McClane say it but we did notice Gruber quote it towards the end 🤣🍿
Micro.blog feature request:
I would love to be able to mute/hide a post directly on the timeline. Very occasionally there’s something I really don’t want to see more than once. And the mute function is not going to cover it.
(This is a scheduled post to avoid making anyone paranoid)
omg omg omg I have Christmas Snoopy on my TV and my watch. It’s so frickin cute! I love Snoopy and Woodstock so much. Aaaaaaaa 💜💜💜🥰
Today was a nice quiet day. I stayed in and got a few things done. I watched a film and played a bit of Fortnite. I got an epic win tonight. It was so cool. Nice
I remember watching reruns of TOS in the 80s. I think it was on about 6pm on BBC2. I was captivated by it and that was it. Trekkie for life 🖖 ✱
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I will soon be disabling the newsletter feature for aeryn.me. (By the end of the year).
I believe I have almost zero ‘real’ subscribers. And when I look at the list of emails, I have to say something doesn’t look right. 🤷♀️
Anyway, having this feature hasn’t been a particularly enjoyable experience for me. And certainly not worth the investment. So it’s going to have to go.
Apologies to you one or two real subscribers. I have no alternative email-based solutions to offer.
I do offer a wholehearted recommendation that you look into RSS feeds as an alternative method of being notified, if you want to continue following along.
This page will be updated sometime soon with this information and suggestions for RSS noobs.
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Aeryn
I’m such a doofus sometimes. Today I became a real life casualty of playing Fortnite with my kid. (It’s juice). 🎮
It’s snowing on my blog! ❄️🌨️❄️