- We ordered our holiday cards, yay! I wasn’t sure we’d have a picture we’d want to use for them, but all the snow we got helped. I’m looking forward to sending them out. I love sending (and receiving!) cards.
- I was looking through our holiday card mailing list and whoa – a lot of people have moved since last year!
- Now that I’ve ordered cards, I’m getting tons of sponsored ads for them. Lovely. I ordered a new vacuum on Black Friday and we’ve been getting lots of vacuum ads too. I’VE ALREADY ORDERED IT YOUR ADS ARE TOO LATE.
- I finished Annihilation, and liked it. I wasn’t sure I would because it has so much descriptive text (that can bore me) but the author mostly kept me engaged. And it being so different from the movie helped me enjoy it. Now I’m really confused about the direction they took with the movie though.
- The library pranked me. I got a text Tuesday that the other two books in the Southern Reach Trilogy that Annihilation is part of were ready to pick up, but when I got there, I couldn’t find them. The librarian couldn’t either. Then she looked it up and one book said it was canceled and the other was pending. What the heck. She probably thought I was nutso! BUT I GOT THIS TEXT I SWEAR!!!
- Now I’m reading Severance, an apocalyptic satire. It focuses on Candace, a millennial working in NYC who barely notices when a plague takes everyone out. She’s in NYC by herself for a while, then eventually ends up with a survivor group. Severance has lots of pop culture references, and is full of purposeful detail (it reminds me of Little Fires Everywhere in that regard), and I’m enjoying it!
- I did the latest iPhone update (so many new emojis!!!) and has some seriously dumb “updates.” Like sending someone a photo in text now takes what feels like a zillion more clicks. My coworker was telling me FaceTime is annoying now too – when you want to switch the camera from selfie to forward facing, it takes more steps. Good job, Apple. Not.
- And now, for the completely frivolous – my last manicure lasted me three weeks, and maybe would have lasted longer, but I wanted something new!
Christina got a Cat Eye mani so I got a Cat Eye mani!
- This photo of Apollo makes me laugh because he looks like a giant!
I love Holiday cards too. My husband thinks they are a waste of money, but I love getting them and sending them. It’s a great way to keep in touch with people I don’t see often. Email me your address and I’ll add you to my list!
Yep yep yep! I feel the same way. And seeing them all on my wall makes me smile! I will send you mine if you give me yours! 😉
I’m so bad about sending out cards my family is lucky if they even get one ha ha!!
I’m going to read Severance it sounds good…you haven’t steered me wrong yet!
Thats a nice manicure, very Christmassy.
That’s okay! Not everyone is in to it! Do you like receiving them, or kinda don’t care?
I was thinking of you when I read it and that you’d like it!!!!
Thanks! I was thinking that too. Going FULL ON GLITTER for actual xmas. Hopefully 🙂
Holiday cards are great! I love getting them. I especially like the ones with annual updates from the family that sends them, though I’ve never personally gotten one of those. My parents would get them, though, and I’d always read the letters even if I didn’t know the people, haha.
I LOVE the new emojis on the iPhone, particularly the hot and cold faces! I’ve needed those for YEARS, and I’m very excited to finally have an emoji way of expressing how the weather makes me feel 😛 The cold face is already in my frequently used emojis hahaha. I do agree about the photos in texting thing, though. It’s so annoying, especially since previously it was so convenient!
I think those are fun to read too! We have a few people that send them! I love that you read the ones for people you don’t know!
I like those a lot too! And the new animals! Ren’s response made me realize I was click the camera button, and not the button next to it, which brings up the tray of images. I wonder if there was another button there before? LOl
The hoops you have to jump through for switching cameras in FaceTime are super annoying. However, sending a photo in Messages is only different, not necessarily worse. You can click the Photos icon in the Messages App tray thingy. Usually, this is auto-shown for me as long as I don’t click in the typing area and don’t type anything. If it isn’t shown, you just click the little AppStore icon.
I guess if I’m already in a conversation and want to send a photo, then I probably have to click the AppStore icon, so one extra click. The trade-off is that using the Camera from Messages is slightly improved.
Ahh, thanks for explaining that! Your comment made me realize I was pressing the camera, and not the thing next to it which I thought was just the AppStore. Yay! I am glad I complained about this!
I tend to not use the camera in the message app since it doesn’t autosave to my camera roll, but that is probably a thing I need to fix in a setting somewhere!
FYI, the recently released iOS 12.1.1 moves the FaceTime flip button to the main controls. Much better!
Oh good! Thanks for the info!
Ohhh, yes to sending pictures in texts! Apple didn’t necessarily make this worse, but I’m just so used to hitting the camera to get to my camera roll (that’s how it used to be!) and forget to hit the images button right below it. It’s just something I need to get used to, but watch, the minute I do, they’ll change it again! Oh, Apple. *shakes fist*
In case it isn’t already clear, if you do click the camera button, there’s an icon in the upper left to switch to photos.
That is what I am forgetting too! How long is it going to take us to be retrained?!
But how many people have moved twice since last Christmas? 😛
You and someone else 🙂
I like doing Christmas cards when I have a good picture for one, but I’m pretty “meh” about this year’s selections, so I’ll probably just buy a box and call it good. I don’t send them out to many people anymore; thanks to FB I can reach a lot of friends and save on the postage (yes the cost of stamps irks me)(get off of my lawn)(Grinch).
That is how I felt too (then we got all that snow which made for pretty pics). Who is on your list that you send to – people NOT on FB?
AHHH, that manicure color is AMAZING! I really wish we lived closer together for many reasons, but one is that I’d love to go get regular manicures with you!
Maybe I should read “Annihilation” since you said the book and movie diverge a fair amount. I was super not into the movie (as you know, we discussed), and then on the flight to Japan, someone was watching it in front of me, and it was always in my field of vision! I forgot how weird it was and was like “Man, this still doesn’t make any sense to me!”
How many cards do you send out? I’m trying to get a gauge for what an appropriate number is. (Of course, the answer is “as many as you need to.”)
That would be so fun to do together!!! Is your toe polish all off now? 😉
The book is still HELLA weird but better than the movie. The movie helped me with visualization for the book. And again, the story was so much better and explains why the psychiatrist (I think?) is how she is, and so many other things.
I think we are between 40-45 cards.
I get those notifications from the library for books or CDs that I have put on hold. If I go to the library too soon, they are not there until the next day. Frustrating for the days I am close to the library and go to visit, only to find that the item I put on hold isn’t in the on hold area.
Oh weird! Their system seems way ahead of things!