π€ Weeknotes
This Sunday's weeknotes bought to you by a migraine. I'd like to have done a plans post for September or a Blaugust reflections post for the first day of the month, but updating this is all I have in me for now.
What I did this week
π§ββοΈ Climbing again on Monday and Thursday πͺ I feel pretty good about it, managed to lead some routes with no breaks. Working my way back up to 6a lead.
π Not a lot of chilling this week - except today when my headache has kept me in binge watching New Tricks on bbc iplayer. It's pretty nice to have a lazy day actually. I started a new diary this week - I got a nice new book with a William Morris design.
ποΈ This week I watched I saw the tv glow, Kneecap, Didi and Unstoppable. I haven't written reviews for any of these π«
π§ I think I managed to communicate more to try and address my anxiety around not expressing myself earlier in the week, but I failed to do so on other occasions. I think I've managed to be kinder with myself about it though. Honestly I should do a whole post on this.
π©βπ» I've been working on my bookclub website to try and implement a wrapped page for our anniversary :)
Things I read
π We had our book club meeting on Mrs Dalloway. I've been listening to Doppelganger by Naomi Klein as an experiment in listening to audio books - I'm not sure I get on with it. I've also got 2 other books on the go - The Hopkins Conundrum and Losing Eden.
On japanese stationary and overconsumption by kelsey - I'm concerned about overconsumption and I appreciated Kelsey's thoughts on it - I also just thought her blog design is super cute!
move slow and mend things - I enjoyed this through post about the platforms we use which pulls together lots of thoughts on how to make a better web.
oh, the towering feeling by tiramisu - all of tiramisu's writing is great, but this rumination on trying to hold onto happiness really resonated with me - it's something I struggle with too. Time feels like it's slipping away constantly.
I think about that Ocean Vuong quote about too much happiness being lost in our desperation to keep it, and I can feel myself trying keep that desperation at bay, batting its paws away, trying to feel all the things Iβm feeling without fast-forwarding into the future and worrying about losing them.
I've also been very inspired by personal websites this week - lina's home and doqmeat's website are both fantastic, filled with little experiments and creative page designs.
Concepts I learned
Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention.
Fun things I did / saw / wins
I communicated something that upset me to somebody and it went well!
Climbed several 5+s without backing down.
In a world-first, an all-female crew of 47 women sailed 3167 nautical miles on a traditional ship across the Atlantic. The Berlin-based photographer Verena BrΓΌning captured the challenges and camaraderie of the voyage.