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Note to self: Cancel more things. Just nope right out. Free up your time, save your energy, do less, say No more often, it’s okay, you don’t have to do all the things.

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This poem comes to mind so often.

The World Is Too Much With Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not…

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Finished reading: The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 📚

I don’t even play chess (maybe I should start) but I enjoyed this book. Might watch the Netflix series again now.

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Is it funny if I’m the only one laughing? anniemueller.com/posts/is-…

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You’re the only one anniemueller.com/posts/you…

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This is the cheese-o-meter I’ve been waiting for. Thanks @davidmarsden for your service.

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The good news is when the battery died I was literally a block from home. And my mechanic’s quick and less than a mile away. The bad news is it’s probably the battery and the alternator so there goes that extra Christmas money I’d been saving. Sometimes, Monday just tries too hard.

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Empty anniemueller.com/posts/emp…

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Boys don’t cry

Criticism can be the most fierce when it’s coming from within, and there are always more ways to punish yourself. So I’ll repeat advice that I hope someday I’ll be able to take: Be kind to yourself and offer yourself grace.

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Well this is delightful

The corner of a white envelope with green peace fingers logo and address of Good Enough stamped in the return address and handwritten Annie visible on the address A selection of adorable small decals from Good Enough: a yellow duck, two pikas, a ghost with a yay sign and a ghost with a boo sign The back of an open laptop with multiple stickers, with the pika and the yay ghost now among them. A small gray tabby cat sits beside the laptop gazing thoughtfully into the middle distance
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DNF: The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle 📚

not merely dotted with racism, but steeped in it. No thanks.

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The Art of Not Sharing

In a society that increasingly values visibility over privacy, choosing to keep parts of our lives to ourselves can feel almost countercultural. Journaling is, in fact, punk as fuck.

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In praise of creating crap anniemueller.com/posts/in-…

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Finished reading: Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls 📚

A biography-as-novel about Jeannette’s grandmother, who was the definition of indomitable. Easy to read, interesting details, and an unforgettable character. #bookstodon

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Finished reading: A System for Writing by Bob Doto 📚

Helpful, detailed, clear, and actionable. If you’re at all interested in note-taking (generally) or in being more efficient with your inputs, a helpful read. #bookstodon

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Start the thing anniemueller.com/posts/sta…

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Also wrestling season started today so I hope y’all are ready for Saturdays with a stream of constant random updates and photos and commentary on absolutely anything as I hang out in a random high school gym for 6-8 hours so I can watch my kid wrestling for approximately 7 minutes

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When the teens want to make Christmas ornament crafts, that’s what we’re gonna do. Meanwhile, Gasoline is already stalking the ornaments.

Two teenagers sit at a table spread with Christmas ornaments and craft items. They are absorbed in painting tiny wooden Christmas tree ornaments. Behind them is a multi-colored lit Christmas tree

A living room: The back of a couch, rainbow curtains, part of a table are visible. An acoustic guitar and a teal ukelele hang on the wall. A Christmas tree with multi colored lights and ornaments, beneath it a black cat stalks the lowest dangling ornament.

I anyw

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🥾today’s hiking church

A path with a field on one side enters the woods. The foliage is green, yellow, and brown.

A blue sky is broken by towering but in trees with branches reaching high. One treetop with yellow leaves is bright.

A paved path winds around and out of sight against a hillside studded with trees. The sun gleams through on the left side of the path and fog hovers.

Peering through the woods, an open area with trees widely spaced. Brown leaves make it difficult to see the two deer: one doe laying down and another, young, standing nearby.

The background is divided evenly into blue sky and a brownish yellow hillside of trees. In the foreground, a dramatic tree trunk with twisted branches reaches out, dark against the sunny backdrop.

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Community building and traditions anniemueller.com/posts/com…