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Working on my website again and it is very fun! I'm redoing the formatting of my book reviews because it was really stressful putting them up the way I was trying to do it. It looking like a magazine is cute and all, but it makes me dread even the thought of putting up a review. So I'm making it much more simple. (Also cleaning up a lot of the excessive folder stuff I had going on because I don't like how the urls look lol. And cutting down CSS files and trying to optimize the videos and images more.)

I was taking stock of all the reviews I've posted here on DW. In 2020 and 2022 I posted at least 14 reviews during the year. And the rest of the years have about 4-7. And I have posted exactly 0 this year. Even though I've read like 20 books so far. Not even any small snippets on Goodreads either. However, I do have some notes in my journal for a couple books so eventually those could be published reviews. I guess I've mostly been reading non-fiction this year and I don't particularly like reviewing non-fiction. I also think I've been talking more about books, out loud with people, in person. Which gets the urge of talking about books out with the downside of not having written anything down. (Also I swore I posted my Game of Thrones review here, but I didn't see it. ETA: I found it. It wasn't tagged correctly lol)

I was having a tough time writing much of anything this year, but the other day I wrote down a dream I had and it kind of opened the flood gates. It's like "wow, I can't believe that dream diary first thing when you wake up in the morning 'morning pages' stuff might actually work" even though I did try morning pages earlier this year and it was a bust. Fortuity.

Anyway, I'm learning how CSS Grids work and ohhhh em gee. They are so much easier than flex-boxes for some stuff. Still hate tweaking responsive design for mobile, but grids made it so much easier :^O
I watched this video on Youtube like three times, slowly fading the abject confusion, until I was able to write the CSS for my new book reviews page all by myself :~) (It's not live yet though :3c And it's very simple, but hooray!)