Bowl
My wife and I like to take blankets and shape them into bowls so our little furry babies can ball up in them, like Aiko today. 🥰
Bearly a diary
Home Welcome to my blog. My name is Cris. 😊 I mostly journal on here, but on occasion, I may also write essays and replies. Hence why my blog is cal...
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VIII XVI MMXXVI
Yesterday, my wife entered her second vacation this year. Early in the morning she left to go take a bus to visit her parents in Liepāja , three hours away from home. Her grandmother, aged 93, had coincidentally been taken to the hospital the previous day. Yesterday night, she fell asleep. The funeral will take place sometime this week. My wife and her parents aren’t overly sad. They all were able…
9:35 PM
No diary entry today. I spent all afternoon helping my friends to move to their new apartment. Arrived at home like an hour ago. Still had a lot to prepare for tomorrow. Didn’t even get to exercise. Am happy that I was able to help them though. ❤️
5:38 AM
Got my first hater writing on my guestbook. Must mean that I’m getting traction. 😊 Not going to publish it of course.
On why becoming unemployed has made me so happy
I just had some shower thoughts, as I am want to. They began with me pondering my recent success with my new exercise routine . What enabled me to finally create a habit that I’ve been failing to establish for decades? Well, my new indoor bike certainly helped. It turns out that finding the right kind of exercise that fits your needs and preferences, is the first and most important step towards…
VIII XI MMXXVI
I have two friends, a couple, who are going to move to a new home in another part of the city on Sunday. The husband’s time is completely taken up with work to provide for the family, and the wife’s time is completely taken up by their three children. As soon as they broke the news to me, and knowing them for maybe more than five years now, I couldn’t shake this feeling that they’d struggle to get…
9:25 PM
There’s a certain irony (that I’m sure a lot of you who have been active on this platform have noticed), that the posts that mean a lot to us and are the ones we want to see gather a lot of attention , generally don’t. However, the posts that we write more casually , sometimes blow up for no discernible reason.
VIII IX MMXXVI
Been a while since I had anything to share. Today was another Super Sunday. Did a ton of chores. I actually just got finished with everything and it’s 8:45 PM as I type this sentence. My wife and I got to watch some YouTube videos for breakfast and lunch, which is something that we like to do on Sundays. Today they happened to also be worth sharing. One video was about how many Americans are…
Lap
My wife and I cannot sit for one second on the couch before Mimi comes literally running and “parks” on our laps. ❤️ She also likes to then bump her head against whatever device or book we’re holding. All attention must be on her. 🐈
7:23 PM
No diary entry today, because I spent most of the day just writing. It was fun.
Inspirational quotes
The following is a list of short, motivational ideas that I have collected over the years. It’s in no particular order. Some of these came to me through my own experiences. Many I adapted from the ideas I heard or read from others. Feel free to share them further and change them as you like. Last updated: Aug 7, 2026, 7:18 PM. You can make the world a better place by becoming the best person you…
On why I am not a fan of the word “enshittification”
TLDR: This is not an impassionate rant. I’m simply not fond of vulgarity and I think that we could have come up with any other neologism to describe the phenomenon that acquired this unfortunate name. You may get more out of this essay if you skim the Wikipedia article on the term. As of today, the definition reads: “Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users. Over time,…