Like Ringo and Karen, minus the drum skills and the heat vision…
Category: Finds
Quotes, images, videos, essays, etc. produced by someone else. All other content on this blog is my own original work unless otherwise indicated. Also includes other things I have found online somewhere.
I don’t know why exactly but I feel compelled to document my current skincare routine just so I can see what I was using, maybe because I suspect I’m using products just for the sake of using them but they’re not doing much for me.
My family has decent skin genes, so I am already lucky enough to have a fairly agreeable skin canvas to work with. My T-zone gets oily in the summers and my cheeks get very dry in the winters. My skin concerns are around texture, brightness, and moisture, with the goal of maintaining what’s good about it and preventing future damage.
Here’s a list of products I’m currently using, and what I may add/swap in the near future
Inspired by my friend Ben Hong (no longer logging), who got the idea from Jen Myers, I am continuing the practice of tracking my media consumption this year.
Key: (B) = book |(F) = film | (T) = television series (completed season) | (L) = live performance (theater, music, comedy, etc.) | (A) = album (music) | (G) = video game | (C) = stand-up comedy special | [R] = reread/rewatch
Logged during the month I completed the unit. For example, I log a full season of a TV show after watching the last episode of the season, whether I began the season that day or years earlier, I log a game or album when I complete the entire thing, etc.
On a whim, back in January, I started keeping track of songs that just popped into my head and wouldn’t go quietly. Now, 12 months later, I have 12 playlists of songs that I couldn’t quite get out of my head.
I tried not to post repeats of songs that were stuck in my head for multiple months but in general what you see is what we had, with maybe one or two exceptions for songs that weren’t on Spotify. Another arbitrary rule I set for myself was that the song couldn’t be something I heard somewhere or was specifically triggered by something, with the exception being if I kept hearing it in my head long after that moment. So for example, if I was watching a movie that had a song, it wouldn’t go on the playlist, but if I was still humming it days later, it would.
My plan was to end a monthly blog post with these but I couldn’t even get 12 blog posts out so, in reverse chronological order… here are the songs that were stuck in my head by month:
Inspired by my friend Ben Hong (no longer media-logging), who got the idea from Jen Myers, I am continuing the practice of tracking my media consumption this year.
Key: (B) = book | (F) = film | (T) = television series (completed season) | (L) = live performance (theater, music, comedy, etc.) | (A) = album (music) | (G) = video game | (C) = stand-up comedy special | [R] = reread/rewatch
Logged during the month I completed the unit. For example, I logged a full season of a TV show after watching the last episode of the season, whether I began the season that day or years earlier, I logged a game or album when I completed the entire thing, etc.
J A N U A R Y
Wonder Woman 1984 (F)
Ratatouille: The Musical (F?)
Ratatouille (F)[R]
King of Scars (B)
Promising Young Woman (F)
Luigi’s Mansion 3 (G)
Bridgerton (T)
Homegoing (B)
Bend It Like Beckham (F)[R]
Pride and Prejudice (2005) (F)[R]
F E B R U A R Y
Enter the Dragon (F)
The Mummy (F)[R]
The Mummy Returns (F)[R]
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (F)[R]
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (F)
Desperados (F)
History of Swear Words (T)
You’ve Got Mail (F)[R]
Coming to America (F)
Love Wedding Repeat (F)
Underworld (F)
Underworld: Evolution (F)
M A R C H
Je ne suis pas un homme facile (F)
WandaVision (T)
Moxie (F)
Two Weeks Notice (F)[R]
Raya and the Last Dragon (F)
Coming 2 America (F)
Blood of Elves (B)
Serendipity (F)[R]
A P R I L
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (B)
While You Were Sleeping (F)[R]
Warrior S1 (T)
Warrior S2 (T)
Captain America: The First Avenger (F)[R]
The Big Boss (F)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (T)
Castle Crashers (G)
Shadow and Bone S1 (T)
Life in Color with David Attenborough (T)
M A Y
When Harry Met Sally (F)
Loathe at First Sight (B)
Mortal Kombat (2021) (F)
David Attenborough’s The Great Barrier Reef (T)
Kingdom Hearts 2 (G)
Stardust (F)
Song of Achilles (B)
J U N E
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (F)
Inside (F? C?)
Black Lady Sketch Show S2 (T)
In the Heights (F)
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal part 1 (F)
Exhalation (B)
Ted Lasso S1 (T)
J U L Y
Ted Lasso S1 (T)[R]
The Time of Contempt (B)
Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth (F)
Black Widow (F)
Loki (T)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (F)
Never Have I Ever S1 (T)[R]
Rule of Wolves (B)
Never Have I Ever S2 (T)
Project Hail Mary (B)
Crying in H-Mart (B)
Red, White, and Royal Blue (B)
A U G U S T
Demon Slayer S1 (T)
The Year Earth Changed (F)
Transcendent Kingdom (B)
In the Moon for Love (F)
Solutions and Other Problems (B)
The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (F)
The Ingenuity of the Househusband (T)
God of War (G)
Invincible S1 (T)
S E P T E M B E R
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (F)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (F)
The Way of the Househusband S1 (T)
Over the Moon (F)[R]
Brittany Runs a Marathon (F)
O C T O B E R
Star Wars: Visions (T)
The Lightning Thief (B)
The Sea of Monsters (B)
The Titan’s Curse (B)
What If? S1 (T)
Ted Lasso S2 (T)
Star Wars: Visions (T)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (F)
Hocus Pocus (F)[R]
It Takes Two (G)
Casper (F)[R]
N O V E M B E R
Luca (F)
Coco (F)[R]
The Resistance (A)[R]
Eternals (F)
Closing Down the Pattern Department (A)[R]
Kingsman: The Secret Service (F)[R]
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (F)[R]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Original Soundtrack (A)[R]
Paddington (F)
Arcane S1 (T)
Love Hard (F)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (F)[R]
John Wick (F)
D E C E M B E R
John Wick: Chapter 2 (F)
The Art of Showing Up (B)
Wicked (L) (!!)
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (B)
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (L)
The Witcher S2 (T)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (F)
Hawkeye (T)
Die Hard (F)
Elf (F)[R]
Molly’s Game (F)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (F)[R]
Insecure S5 (T)
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (G)
That’s everything I read, watched, listened to, and played — in their entirety — this year!
Of note is that this year is the first that I actually played these video games to completion on my own. In past years, I marked a game as “complete” via backseat gaming, as in little to no actual controller-in-hands time for me. But this year, my partner encouraged me to try to play them all the way through on my own, with minimal help on some of the difficult boss fights for God of War (it was supposed to be “just give me the story” mode…) and then refusing to help me beat any of Miles Morales so that I could fully own beating AND 100%-ing that game. I have a long way to go as a gamer but I feel less like the Fake Gamer Girl™ label that I have embraced for the past several years. Not sure I’ll be able to start streaming like my partner thinks I can, but at least I can hold my own on these easier difficulties of games. (Plus, God of War taught me so much about being a father… I’ll never forget it.)
You can follow along with my 2022 media logging at sipofstarrshine.com/media-log, which is kept up to date throughout the year!
I made a resolution to try at least one new recipe or restaurant every week of 2020. This was easier some weeks (e.g. travel weeks) than others (e.g. deep in burnout, months into quarantine weeks) so there were a handful of weeks where I either only ordered from restaurants I’ve eaten from before or only cooked familiar old recipes.
This was a good exercise for me, as keeping this goal in mind did push me to try to order from new restaurants, at the very least, and to find new recipes to cook. But it did feel like a lot of pressure to try new things when I really wanted the comfort of familiarity during this difficult year. (For example, I would have liked to support restaurants more regularly, even though I don’t regret supporting different restaurants week to week.)
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