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Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

It’s scary to confront the truth that almost everything worth doing… depends on cooperating with others, and therefore on exposing yourself to the emotional uncertainties of relationship. …The more individual sovereignty you achieve over your time, the lonelier you get.

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Love letters 6-8 anniemueller.com/posts/lov…

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Some work-related books I’m bookmarking to check out this year:

Happy to get other recommendations if you have them.

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Success!

(It took 3 hours)

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A good day to tackle this. How long will it take me to put it together? 2 hours, 5 hours, all night, until next month? Who knows!!

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Anticipation, experience, satisfaction anniemueller.com/posts/ant…

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📋 Good advice for somebody anniemueller.com/posts/goo…

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One bucket at a time anniemueller.com/posts/one…

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“You weren’t planning to read this book, were you? No? You were planning to pet me? Good, that’s what I thought.”

A black cat with green eyes is sitting on top of an open book. The book is on a woman’s outstretched legs. The woman is wearing black leggings and sitting on a brown couch.
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Retrospective, reading anniemueller.com/posts/ret…

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📱Default apps (2024) anniemueller.com/posts/def…

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Joyful, joyful anniemueller.com/posts/joy…

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from our home to yours ❤️

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Asking too much of the fediverse anniemueller.com/posts/ask…

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Our essential holiday viewing
Movies we’ll actually watch

  • Fantastic Mr Fox
  • A Town Called Panic
  • Die Hard
  • Howl’s Moving Castle
  • Nightmare Before Christmas
    Movies we’ll turn on and mostly ignore
  • Elf
  • Home Alone
  • The rest of the Die Hard movies
  • Frozen
    Shows we’ll have playing in the background frequently
  • Adventure Time
  • Gilmore Girls
  • How It’s Made
  • Drunk History
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…to live in absolute freedom is neither possible nor desirable. Without rules based on past experience it is easy to make costly mistakes; without a sense of ultimate purpose it is difficult to sustain courage when the unavoidable tragedies of life strike.

Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚

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An easy fantasy read with medieval-ish spycraft and political intrigue. Plot was strained and it dragged a bit; cut by 100 pages and it would be a better book. I liked the characters but probably won’t read the rest in this series.

Finished reading: Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling 📚

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Retrospective, financial anniemueller.com/posts/ret…

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“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power.”

Currently reading: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch 📚

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I will trade you this muddy shitball for that shiny marble anniemueller.com/posts/i-w…