Tomorrow is August(!!). The official beginning of SPOOKY SEASON 🎃. Why yes, I am one of “those people” who knows full well that Autumn doesn’t begin until late September, but likes to start the festivities as soon as August rolls around.
Autumn is my favourite time of year. The crisp air on sunny days, the crunchy leaves and the official beginning of hot chocolate season (she says, knowing full well that she drinks hot chocolate all year round) - so excuse me for enthusiastically waving away Summer a bit early.
There’s something oddly comforting about August starting on a Monday, isn’t there? It feels like a bit of a fresh start. My wellbeing has taken a bit of a backseat recently, and that needs to change in August. What does that look like? More lunch time walks or workouts, and making time in the evenings for the hobbies I enjoy so my weekdays aren’t just work, work, work! I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before so time to start holding myself accountable…
Right, let’s dive into this week!
what I’ve been up to this week… 💜
In the spirit of wanting to make more time for hobbies in the evening, I am starting a new project! Project Organised will be another Substack newsletter where I’ll be sharing personal + professional project management tips. Give my new Instagram account for the project a follow for the details when I launch 🚀! I’m enjoying that creative fire you get when you start something new, and already had some great chats with people who are interested in following along!
I actually streamed this week! I decided to try get back into Sims 4 streaming (I’m doing a terrible job of the Cult or Commune challenge at the moment), and I also finally set up my Stream Deck, which will make streaming even easier once I’ve got used to using it!
what I’ve been eating and drinking this week 🍜
Like most weeks for me, food has played a pretty focal point! We went to our favourite Japanese restaurant in town for a midweek treat this week, and had the best meat sushi, gyozas and noodles 😋
Over the weekend we had friends over and on Saturday we chowed down on more hot wings (this is becoming a bit of a theme for Saturdays lately…), then we tried out an escape room board game themed around The Shining (shop here*) - it took a total of ~7hrs to complete…although I dropped out around hour 5 as I was knackered! 😴 It wasn’t supposed to take that long, but the game definitely needs refining! I’d still recommend it though, just maybe play it across a couple of days…
Today we dusted off the BBQ for a meat feast 🍔 I am admittedly one of those strange people who prefers to *extras* at a BBQ so I enjoyed loading up on potato salad and pasta salad!
That’s all this week!
Let’s tackle the first week of August head on, shall we?