I used to spend an inordinate amount of time on my pets (dogs, cats, fish AND desert tortoises) and exploring my admittedly minimal domestic abilities. Who knew staying in one place for a while and planting green things could be so gratifying?! (I did not.) I’m a recovering early adopter to nearly every type of technology so pre-child I happily spent hours exploring any new app/platform/program and then talking my friends’ collective ears off about how they should be using it, too.
I maintain a deep and abiding love for dabbling and trying new methods. I’ll try just about anything once (or three times) and tweaking tiny aspects of my life brings me great joy. I’ve experimented with nearly every digital to-do-list platform out there – and I can tell what works and what doesn’t. (Constantly experimenting with new to-do-list-tools doesn’t. Not. at. all. Levenger Circa and my Rocketbooks all the way my friends, game changers.) In the same vein, I also love automating things. That’s probably why I’ll go without eating if it means I can have my beloved Neatos.
These days I spend a LOT of my time on the tiny person who shares my home, and have much less for all of the exciting things I mentioned above, but my interests haven't changed. I've just reprioritized human development to be much higher on the list on the homefront than it used to be for the short season of my life where I have a small dependent in my regular orbit.