Week 17: November
I fell off the wagon completely after my blogging partner (mom) went back home, and this weeknote is three weeks long, lol. 🚗 I started my driving lessons! AAAAAAAAAH! 🎨 Gifted myself a Disney colorin...
Watched: Alien Earth Season 1 📺
Watched Alien: Earth Season 1 📺 Full of plot holes and nonsensical things, moderately entertaining. The best actor was definitely the octopus-eye, such a character! 👽🐙👁️
Gave myself an early xmas present
Already gave myself my own early xmas present: a Disney colour by number book and a box of crayola markers! 🎨🖍
Started driving lessons
No desire to blog this week, but just wanted to write for posterity: started driving lessons last week! Drove all over town and on the highway too! Anxious and insomniac AF over this, but also having...
Week 16: Home alone
😍 My mom flew back to Brazil – his mom had gone back to Sweden a couple weeks ago. We are finally alone at home in Valencia, for the first time in three months, just the two of us and our dogs, and it...
Recipe: DIY Baileys
I've been perfecting this recipe for over a year now, and I think this version is really good. It's so good we need to purposefully NOT make it, otherwise J. and I drink it all at once. Be warned, ABV...
My sourdough starter died!
My sourdough starter died! 🥖 With the travel to Italy and our mothers here trying to take over my kitchen, I ended up not baking for 3 weeks, and now Ryan is gone. Completely moldy, smelly and beyond...
Dan Price on drawing
"Drawing... it is the best thing that I ever do. First of all because it gets me to be so silent. To not be blurting out what I think about this or feel about that. Second, I become an open observer,...
Inspiring video on illustrated journals
Watched yet another inspiring video on illustrated journals by Danny Gregory and signed up for his course! 🎨 Between this and the 2 books I read this past week, my drawings have improved a lot already...
Watched: Murder Mindfully Season 1 📺
Watched: Murder Mindfully Season 1 📺 Loved it! I’m fully convinced about the power of mindfulness and will get back to my daily practice, as I have many great things to accomplish! 😂 Looking forward t...
Week 15: Illustrated journal
📺 Finished season 5 of Only Murders in the Building. 🎨 Watched an inspiring video on illustrated journals by Danny Gregory (from Sketchbook Skool) and decided to give it a try. I've been very inconsis...
Finished reading: Draw Your Day 📚
Finished reading: Draw Your Day by Samantha Dion Baker 📚 I saw a video by Danny Gregory on illustrated journals and now I’m on a quest to learn to draw and sketch so I can have an illustrated journal....
Week 14: Wild pomegranates
✈️ MIL flew back to Sweden. It was great having her here for five weeks, but also somewhat stressful for me, as my daily routine and food habits change a lot when she's around. I was honestly dying to...
Jesse Livermore on time
"There is a time to go long, a time to go short, and a time to go fishing." — Jesse Livermore
Week 13: Astro is getting old
I didn't write my weeknote last week as I was in Italy with my family, but I'm here now, two weeks later and two kilos heavier happier. Rome was amazing! It was our mothers' first time in Italy and ex...
Back from Rome
Back from Rome with my mom and mother-in-law! Their first time in Italy, rightfully enjoyed with a little sightseeing, a good amount of pasta, some aperol, a ton of pizza, and a lot of wine. Didn't wr...
Recipe: Rödvinsås
Aaah, Swedish red wine sauce... Poured over oxfilé, potato gratin, or just eaten by the spoonful... So delicious. Original recipe by Karl, I made tiny changes to use ingredients easily available to me...
Week 12: Autumn Vibes
This week's notes are coming in two days late, on Wednesday instead of Monday. I've just had too much on my plate, too little sleep and didn't feel like writing. We are traveling to Rome in a few days...
Didn't get ANY sleep last night
Didn't get ANY sleep last night. A massive storm hit us, power went off, dogs in panic. I locked myself in my office with them, petting and calming music until early morning. Now the storm is gone, th...
Just finished my 47th Agatha Christie book
Just finished my 47th Agatha Christie book and I'm so tired of her formula, I really need a break from this project. Decided to pivot to 20th century dystopias, starting with "We", followed by "Brave...