A small update... 🤏🏻

just to say that... a bigger update is coming soon I'd say I'm in my final days at work, but there is a small chance they did a big no-no when it comes to Labor Law and I want to make sure before I share more.

Oops! 😬

So... I thought to myself, I think I've missed writing 2-3 weeks in a row, but I guess it's been more like 5. Here is a picture of Leon to make up for it. Updates Work I started taking advantage of some free Psychologist sessions that

A chill in the air 🍂

Nothing much exciting over the last few weeks, but as I sit here with the window open, it's starting to feel a little chilly. The mornings are around 14 ℃ (57 ℉ ) and we've had a lot of wind and rain. I wouldn't count Summer out

Harvest Week 🍒

Not a bad week here in Sweden. Weather was kinda perfect everyday, our cherry tree was ready to harvest, and we made some new 4 legged friends in the neighborhood. While we were picking, a brand new face came running up to us. I think she was cautious for all

Mindfulness and Crashing 🧠

Had a bit of an up and down week this week. I've been trying to specifically remind myself this week to slow down, be present, and relax. I think it is fairly well known that mindfulness will work best when you practice all the time. It's

Books

IKIGAI 📘

Work gives us a learning budget each year to spend how we like on things that will somehow further or career learning. Due to the fact that I think they are a bunch of doo-doo heads, I bought things that seemed interesting and counter to anything that has to do

Sweden

All good things... 💫

I've thankfully not had a lot to write about over the last few weeks which is pretty refreshing. I removed every work related app from my phone and computer, so unless someone calls me on the the actual telephone I am not reachable. 😄 I signed up for Svenska

Vacation Time 🏝️

Longest vacation of my life starts now. I think I might have mentioned, but I've never taken the full Swedish summer, but this is the first time I've felt like I could really use it. Plans for the time off? No way. 100% unplanned, and not

Getting Away 🏖️

Since moving to Sweden, this time of year for the locals has always been vacation time. Sweden basically shuts down in July once midsommar rolls around. It's very common for people to take 4, 5, or even 6 weeks away from work. I've never done the

One more Barcelona Visit 🇪🇸

I went to Barcelona last week to take part in some meetings there. Since I'm actively looking for a way out of work that works out for me, I can't imagine I have many more, if any more work trips there. So... here are some Barcelona

End of Line 🚪

At least I can look back when this is all over, and say at least I tried. I tried to make this work. I tried to find interesting things to reengage with, I tried taking time away, and I even tried anti-anxiety medication to make going to work each day

An Austrian Wedding 🇦🇹

A friend of ours lives in Austria, and invited us to his wedding last week! I was super super excited to get to travel again finally. Even if it was just a weekender. We flew into Vienna on a Friday, but we didn't get to stay there much.

Leon the Sugar Baby 💉

Leon was diagnosed with diabetes in 2021 in August I think. We immediately changed up his diet and feeding schedule. Started checking his blood sugar in 12 hour intervals, and injecting insulin as needed. This was a lot of effort but obviously our boy is worth all of it. After

Hiding in GameJams 🕹️

I recognize that it’s likely that I’m hiding from what I don’t like about work, by doing a constant stream of Gamejams, and trying to learn enough about it that I could complete the dream of just quitting my job, and breaking away to work on my

MiniJam Results 🗳️

I gave myself a goal of top 20 for this one, but didn’t quite make it. My overall score landed me in 28th place, but I’m still pretty happy with this. I think I tried to make too many things and by the end the game was getting

Restricted! 🚫

Coming up to this game jam, I knew the overall theme would be fishing so I spent all week testing out various water effects, to try and get a nice looking underwater feel for the game so that when this weekend arrived, I’d have a good idea of how

Game Jam Time! 🐟

Starting tomorrow at 5:00am… a new game jam of 72 hours with the theme of Fishing. 🎣 There will be an unannounced limitation to play by, but I think a fishing mini game is about as classic as they come, so I’m looking forward to crunching out a game

Reengagement Strategy 🥔

If you’ve read my last posts, you know at this point I’ve pretty much fully lost interest in my job. Having the Sunday night dread creep in every week and living for the weekend isn’t much of a way to live. So when an opportunity came up

Game Jamming 🕹️

Weird to say.. but I’ve almost been in the gaming industry for 10 years now. In all that time, I’ve never been on a “game team.” What I mean by that, is I’ve never been part of the group actually working on a game. I’ve always

News

A Reduction in Workforce 📉

Just as I had found something I was really excited to work on at work, we had a massive layoff that was positioned in the most corporate way I’d heard so far since this is my 4th time dealing with layoffs. “We announcing a necessary reduction in our workforce.

Finding Joy at Work 📈

Five years ago… I really enjoyed my job. I found it engaging, and difficult, and I loved the problem solving we did on most days. Now? Erm… less. Did the job change? Did I change? I think both, but that’s probably the obvious cop out answer. The Job The

Anxiety Update 😫

Heavy topic for this one… where to start.. A month or so ago while I was working, I think I had my first panic attack of my life. I had to lay on the couch and just be overwhelmed for a bit. Took the rest of the day off work

News

Happy New Year! 🥳

Hello 2024 Happy new year to everyone! I’m not really big on resolutions but I do like a good mental reset and day one of a year feels like a reset is built in. Do you have any resolutions or goals for 2024?

Baking

Update to say... no update? 🥱

I really wanted to challenge myself to do a good job of keeping people up to date.. but really we are just kinda snowed in and on vacation. Nothing to really share or complain about 🙂 I guess I could share how I’m checking on my baking progress with my

Pantry Inspiration 🫙

I’ve finally reached the point in the vacation where I feel like after having enough days in a row to do the mindless things that want to do like play video games and catchup on some TV series I like, I wanted to do some things that are good