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Aug. 10, 2026

Valerie Rayne
Aug 10, 20262 min read1 read

🗓 CURRENTS


⏰️ Current time: 1:13AM

🧠 Current mood: Tired

🩻 Current health: Headache-y

🌈 Current weather: Rainy

📺 Currently watching: Brooklyn 99

📖 Currently reading: I, Medusa

🕹 Currently playing: Planet Crafter

🎧 Currently listening to: Kids humming

🎓 Currenly learning about: Re-learning some basic CSS

🙏 Currently grateful for: The Boyfriend and all he does for us

🎯 Current goal(s): Wake up before 2PM tomorrow


Last night, my oldest texted me asking if the two youngest would want to go to a planetarium event in the afternoon today. I said yes but she never messaged me back to confirm anything, so I didn't set any alarms or even hear her early morning phone call. Needless to say, I got woken up to the dog barking like crazy when she showed up and we had to wake the kids up and they were not impressed.

Enjoying my wake up coffee with the two youngest gone, no cellphone games playing sound, was truly blissful.

I had had plans to get a ton of dishes done today and laundry folded and to make some of the other kids do a bunch of cleaning but ultimately, I got distracted by absolutely everything else and got a whole lot of none of that done today!

I played Planet Crafter again today. Darn The Boyfriend for finding a game that I hate and love in equal measure! I know I'll get bored of it eventually and then never touch it again, so…

My second oldest ordered pizza for dinner tonight. I always love when the working kids order dinner and I don't have to think about what to cook. Kinda hate when it's pizza because more than one tiny slice upsets my stomach a lot. But minor details, I can munch on other things.

I did some online work, although nothing that I was planning to do. There's still time before I go to sleep, so it might still happen. Other than that, it's been a wildly lazy day and not too much happened. Tomorrow, The Boyfriend has to go out of town for part of the day and I imagine he'll nap when he gets home, so hopefully I'll wake up semi-early and then get some of my cleaning done.

Also, I coded up a new custom block tonight, so here it is:

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