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Happy New Year!
Roughly on my list of things to do this time of year are: plan holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas), plan family visits, plan child's January birthday, endless list of administrivia (oh, our pediatrician has gone out of network! thanks!), assemble photo album for prior year, maybe post something to dreamwidth.
The photo album has metastasized--I used to make one album a year pre child. Child's first year was five albums, this year is going to be four. I've outlined everything, but only finished one of them. Between the filing, curating, and layout, it's probably several hundred hours. So if I have any free time to spend on my computer (which is the exact same location I work, since I work from home), that is what I am doing. It used to be a thing I did between Christmas and New Year's, and is now a thing I functionally have to do all the time. I am the red queen, running as fast as I can to stay in place. Oh--and I'm keeping a daily diary, too, for the theoretical future state where my son might care about his early years.
So not so much with posting here. I still read most everything. It's cool to see a new fandom emerge! Though I mostly watch Taskmaster and Real Housewives at this point--that is the level of brain off I am at the end of the day. I still think of things to post! Maybe when the kiddo is older. He's cute, but he's a lot of work! (And almost two--good lord, when did that happen.)
Roughly on my list of things to do this time of year are: plan holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas), plan family visits, plan child's January birthday, endless list of administrivia (oh, our pediatrician has gone out of network! thanks!), assemble photo album for prior year, maybe post something to dreamwidth.
The photo album has metastasized--I used to make one album a year pre child. Child's first year was five albums, this year is going to be four. I've outlined everything, but only finished one of them. Between the filing, curating, and layout, it's probably several hundred hours. So if I have any free time to spend on my computer (which is the exact same location I work, since I work from home), that is what I am doing. It used to be a thing I did between Christmas and New Year's, and is now a thing I functionally have to do all the time. I am the red queen, running as fast as I can to stay in place. Oh--and I'm keeping a daily diary, too, for the theoretical future state where my son might care about his early years.
So not so much with posting here. I still read most everything. It's cool to see a new fandom emerge! Though I mostly watch Taskmaster and Real Housewives at this point--that is the level of brain off I am at the end of the day. I still think of things to post! Maybe when the kiddo is older. He's cute, but he's a lot of work! (And almost two--good lord, when did that happen.)