Hibiskus tea before sleep

Very hard day, so tier. 

Been doing "ajvar" with my parents.

We call it "zimnica", comes from "zima" (winter) which means food met to be eaten in winter.

Tomorrow we continue again so we can finish it.

The plan is to start early, maybe 7 AM.

Not much left, but we got to finish it and make it good.

I checked my dad’s plastic bag full of tea and I this flower based team came in my hands. Checked online and found out it can calm you and help you with the sleep. Produces melatonin, which is related to sleeping. 

The weather was good today, but still sunny. It was 30º.

Played a little video games. Assassins Creed Odyssey. Don'y know why it feels harder the the one I played before ( Origins). 

haha

Have a nice tea 🫖  and good night.  

 

Quitting Social Media, is now the right time?

 I'll be quick with the answer and then I'll explain.

YES

We're all addicted to social media these days. Some are a little, so are a lot. I remember last two-three years I 've been mostly on TikTok. What an addiction. Been spending my time (sometimes also money) to watch live streams and doing these battles or duels , don't remember how they were calling them. The most pathetic- the pettiest  thing I ever done. Worst then simping. But why? Why I've been doing that ? Short answer: I'm stupid. Many times people will tell you "you should know yourself" That's very true. Being real to yourself , critical  to yourself is very crucial in life. Those who learn that early are the lucky.

    You know you have addictive personality? Then avoid things that make you addictive. You're lazy? Avoid comfort that makes your laziness grow. You're hard to focus? Avoid things that steal your attention. I'm saying it again "I'M NOT SMART PERSON".

Ok, so what now? I have an idea. Lets ask Chat GPT.

this is from the chat bot so lets read it an think about it. Maybe it's helpful. We'll see.

Quitting social media can be a significant decision, and it often involves some planning and determination. Here are some steps to help you in the process:

1. Reflect on Your Reasons: Understand why you want to quit social media. Whether it's to reclaim time, reduce stress, or improve mental health, clarity on your reasons will strengthen your commitment.

2. Set Clear Goals: Decide whether you want to quit entirely or reduce your usage. Setting specific goals helps you stay focused.

3. Inform Your Connections: Let your friends, family, and important contacts know that you'll be leaving social media. Provide alternative ways to stay in touch if necessary.

4. **Delete

This was it

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change

The 2000s

Found this photo in my archives.

So amazing and so many memories.

The desktop PC is from the year 2000 that my parents bought me and the laptop is HP Pavilion that I bought my self in 2006 in New York City. I sold it for little money, Shouldn’t have done that, I should have keep it as memory from those days, but also... it's just keeping garbage. 

Never mind :-) 

 

Spotify + Apple Music + MP3

 Have been using many streaming services during the years. They are all bad. Don't take me wrong, they got some good,things for sure, but they're mostly bad. 

I love making my own playlist download MP3, mostly from shady websites and putting it in to my cloud and then open it with my VLC or some other player.

It feels like craftsmanship , like old art of doing things. You can feel the quality in it. You'll see the time spent in it. More time you spent- more value it has.

Paying for some of these streaming services will cost you around $100 and year. 

Are you that big of a fan of music? Are you exploring new music?

For me, it's always the same songs over and over again. Some evergreens, some classics, some pop favorites from 80s and the 90s.

Maybe I'm not a big music fan after all.

New habits

 Isn't easy to change.

From tomorrow is time to make few changes. 

My first day of vacation which I will spend it boring- playing Assassin's Creed video games.

What the changes will be?

Reduce eating: eating small in the mornings, not eating anything after 7 PM. Sharp, this is it.

I will workout every day.

Reduction of the time spent on social media. Almost not using my official accounts so even when I do use social media will be only a quality content.

It's never too late.That's what people say. I will start learning programming. First steps are hard. I don't think I will become a good developer or developer at all but I wan't to learn something new and keep my brain active.

My biggest wish is to lower my temper and be nicer with my parents.

Have to be careful with them, they won’t be here forever :( .

I wish my self a luck.

I'm lost.

apple Watch

Found this photo of my firat Apple Watch. The OG Apple watch

After getting a new one, gave this to my dad. Sadly doesn’t work anymore. Just stoped. Now I keep it as a souvenirs. Really miss it.

I have to say I really love my new Apple watch SE2. 😊 

Cahat GPT book suggestions

 just asked chst gpt about top 100 classic books and hwre was the answe and the fulllist

1. “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

2. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

3. “1984” by George Orwell

4. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville

6. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy

7. “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

8. “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë

9. “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë

10. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

11. “The Odyssey” by Homer

12. “The Iliad” by Homer

13. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

14. “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens

15. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

16. “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

17. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain

18. “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas

19. “Les Misérables” by Victor Hugo

20. “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

21. “Ulysses” by James Joyce

22. “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller

23. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez

24. “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov

25. “Madame Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert

26. “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens

27. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

28. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker

29. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

30. “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes

31. “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri

32. “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien

33. “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

34. “The Stranger” by Albert Camus

35. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

36. “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess

37. “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

38. “Beloved” by Toni Morrison

39. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison

40. “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier

41. “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway

42. “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck

43. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck

44. “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell

45. “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

46. “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

47. “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

48. “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

49. “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac

50. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner

51. “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen

52. “North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell

53. “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” by Victor Hugo

54. “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas

55. “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath

56. “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London

57. “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair

58. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe

59. “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse

60. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “The Trial” by Franz Kafka

62. “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

63. “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett

64. “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens

65. “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott

66. “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens

67. “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway

68. “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

69. “Through the Looking-Glass” by Lewis Carroll

70. “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe

71. “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells

72. “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells

73. “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson

74. “Persuasion” by Jane Austen

75. “Emma” by Jane Austen

76. “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen

77. “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien

78. “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift

79. “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie

80. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley

81. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger

82. “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

83. “Native Son” by Richard Wright

84. “As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner

85. “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton

86. “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins

87. “Vanity Fair” by William Makepeace Thackeray

88. “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu

89. “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne

90. “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne

91. “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne

92. “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde

93. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy

94. “Far from the Madding Crowd” by Thomas Hardy

95. “The Red Badge of Courage” by Stephen Crane

96. “The Last of the Mohicans” by James Fenimore Cooper

97. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer

98. “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan

99. “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame

100. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum

My old Macbook Air

Sold it one year ago, but still miss this laptop. So many memories, got my new Macbook Pro M1 so nothing to with the old one. It was a real beast, served for years. ❤️