Language geek

I did a few of these charts last year or more ago, just to see how often I return to the activities / switch the activities over the day and was just as surprised then how much I switch all through the day in almost spirals.  They say this 'spaced repetition' is all the rage, but I've been doing it for years.

Typical language geeking while off from post office today, did my Japanese Kanji reviews and a bit of DuoLingo in Japanese and Spanish first thing in the morning. I also took some time to browse and read hiragana and kanji and look up things on signs and advertisements and images that I could not read at first. I took some French tests, Japanese and Spanish review sessions and then played Stardew Valley for an hour in French... and a bit more here and there waiting for things over the day.  I was playing it in Japanese here and there, as well, a few weeks ago.

 

We took Esme out for her birthday dinner after school and also picked up the truck from the mechanic.  It still doesn't feel 100%, but we'll still have to see.  Then I finished the laundry and crashed when we got home, because it is cold and it felt like it had been a long day already.

 

As usual, when the animals wake me up in the night I spend a little time on some language waiting for them to cycle in and out of the house and getting ready to fall back asleep.  I don't do this on my phone, but at the computer desk.

 

Friday : a non-work day : it is now 1:45 am on Saturday (at update)

 

 

Saturday and Sunday will both be 'work' days... we'll see how that goes

Tuesday piano lessons

8.45a    - worksheets; verbs, contractions,  math, geometry (cartesian points)
9.45a    - piano lessons (Joseph Hoffman youtubes, Mama and Daddy both teaching, practice)
-----------She took to the keyboard we have pretty well, and practiced the song over and over
10.30a    - break

11.45a    - "blue planet"
12.45p    - break

2.30p    - reading; dinosaurs book, Frannie K Stein
3.30p    - done

10 pm - retelling of a version of the Twelve Dancing Princesses folktale








Daddy said she was quite grumpy today, and needed an extra nap, of which she took one after the nature show.  Tomorrow will be a library and/or park day after some regular schoolwork at home.. depends on the weather.  She wants us to do some inventing/building as well.  She was fascinated with a magnetic cabinet latch as her invention tonight - was taking it apart and putting it back together during the story.

I've downloaded a lot of free ebooks and am reading through them myself (lots of fairy tales and the like) to find ones that are a good message to tell her.  I am a little inspired to draw some of them, like the princesses one.  I have a toy project to sew in these next few days off, too.

Fiat Bunny

The Rabbit Prototype (aka Cthulu) is finished!
I'm mostly happy with him. Also happy to announce his resemblance to the demony Elder God (<--Lynn: this links for you) has diminished.


As with all prototypes, there are little places you know can be tweaked in the next one.

His legs especially, while they sit nicely, look a bit funny when held like this.

Lynn asked how much time per day I spend on things like crafting, weaving, drawing etc... That depends on the day. We are usually up near dawn here, and working on all number of things. If I had to estimate - I'd say I probably craft for about four hours a day - but that is spread out through the entire day and in-between other things (like waiting for my machine to reboot into Windows or browsing through submitted news articles for my editing job). There is always time to tie a knot in a new needle of thread - or stitch up an arm or leg while reading.

Weaving is a different matter, though. That I usually 'take time out' for, mostly because the frame is across the room from the comptuer ;o) I haven't been working too much on my dream bag - but I have started the back side of it now.

For the drawing - pattern drawing and little sketches can happen throughout the day as well. I might take a half-hour or hour out later on to listen to some music and make one of my random-line drawings, that start in random scratches on the paper, and end up as many figures with symbols between them.

Also: Sorry to hear Blogger has been so awful lately with the comment verification! *growl* I'll see what I can do about that!


Mouse blisses out while getting petted in a sunbeam.