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 fun.
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 salvation. RIP. 🪦
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, jotting down visual notes about something I see. And third, it puts me in the world of praise. To be looking upon an object and taking the time to sketch it is an innocent, unaggressive, and grounding act. It is where bliss resides. It is pure being..."
— D. Price, The Moonlight Chronicles.
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...