2025: By the numbers

I have only started tracking a few things this year, but if feels like more apps are giving me year end summaries.  So...

Birds:

NYT games (i.e., Wordle):

Books:

• I finished 61 books with 26921 pages (although several were audiobooks).  
• My longest book was 963 pages (Mark of the Fool X).  
• My average star rating was 3.66/5.  
• Several books got five stars, including several from the Mother of Learning, Battlemage Farmer, and Mage Errant Series.  
• Bad Food #4 was both my least shelved book and my lowest rated book.  (Seriously.  Don't read it.)  
• My most shelved book was Fourth Wing.  (Although I couldn't handle the next book as the main character got too whiny.)

To-do tasks:  I started with 114 and ended with 70.  My average was 67.

Games.  I started tracking around July 1, so we could double the number of games for a total of around 382.  We do have a few games that we found old scores for and I put those in too, but it's still pretty close.  My worst games (zero wins and at least three plays) include Root, Century, Ark Nova, Saboteur, The Question for El Dorado, and Kingdomino.  My best games include Azul, Port Royal, Qwirkle, and Sea Salt & Paper.  My total win percentage is 32% and, all things being equal, I should have won 34% of the time.  The H-index below means I played seven games at least seven times.

Fitness. I started tracking in August, but here are some things I can find averages for:

• 5754 steps per day
• 48 active minutes per day.  (AHA recommends 150 minutes per week)
• 7 hrs and 12 minutes of sleep per day (including naps)

Quilts. I only finished one that was "mine".  I finished a few that were quilted for others and I have a few ready to be quilted.  I have been playing more games in the evening instead of quilting.

Thursday: home

We got home safely!  The plane wasn't even delayed.

Monday: boat ride

Today's plan was to take a boat ride to Cabbage Key and have lunch there.  There was a bit of time in the morning though, so Isaac and Ben played the longest game of boop. ever.  It's a pretty fun game - a twist on tic-tac-toe and usually pretty short.  Joshua drew some shells.

Joshua attempted to wake up Larry on the walkie talkie, but it didn't work.

Joshua was co-captain for a fair amount of the ride and it was fun to see him interact with Larry.

We got to Cabbage Key and it was really busy!  It was a 75min wait for inside tables or we could snag a "first come first serve" table outside.  Well, knowing this family I expected that we'd get a table but I took the boys to explore a bit anyway.  We started with the water tower.  It's about three stories up and ...not really as cool as I was hoping.    There isn't a huge space to see out of.  Furthermore, just as we were starting up I got a phone call that we had procured a table.  I wasn't completely sure what the situation was, so we didn't spend long looking.

We fit nine people at a six person table, but we made it work!  Good thing there are still some small people with us.  The sun was hot and the food was good.  It was nice that we had at least a little bit of shade.

On our way back Isaac and I noticed that the moon was out.

I took a bit of a nap, but apparently Joshua convinced Larry to drive a little bit faster (although I'm not sure it took much convincing) and we attracted some dolphins!  There were about three of them and they stayed around for several minutes - a lot longer than normal.

The kids figured out how to write on the fridge, so Isaac made a list.

During hot tub time a wall of ducks was made.  We were curious about how long it would take for them all to fall off and if it should be all at once or slowly over time.

Sunday: travel to Florida

Today we left for Florida!  I didn't sleep well...I never do on nights before airplane travel.  We got to the gate without any problems and about 30 minutes before they were going to start boarding.  Probably earlier than needed but it makes me feel better.  Then we found out...the flight was delayed two hours due to FAA stuff.  Sigh.  That's what we get for traveling with Ben.  Joshua and I went on an alphabet walk and it took us longer than expected to find the whole alphabet.  We got back only to hear the announcement: they're still going to board early so that we can hopefully get de-iced and be ready to go.  We quickly buy some snacks because if we are going to have to sit on a plane for two hours we won't have a lunch plan.  Right after we get the snacks there's another announcement: we can leave when ready.  

The flight felt rather long, but it wasn't too bad.  It was nice that it was a non-stop, so that was at least one thing I didn't have to worry about.  One of the people next to me was willing to switch with Isaac's seat so that the two of us could sit together.

We got there and Joshua was ready to go in the pool!  Right away!  We made him wait so Larry could open birthday presents.

The ducks got put into the pool for the season.

I finally found my onion bagels at the grocery store.  I've been looking for them for so long and thought they just weren't made anymore.  I'll be taking any extras home with me.

Joshua pushed Isaac in the pool.  Isaac wasn't expecting it because he was wet and had his swim suit on.  He had a towel around his shoulders as he was drying off, so it was rather funny.

Larry got a cake for his birthday at dinner and passed it around.  Joshua had been falling asleep, but he lit up at cake.

The walkies came out and people were playing with them in the house after diner.  It was discovered that it would make a lamp get brighter when used!  Then it was discovered that it would turn on the paper shredder too.