May was kinda crazy and super busy. I spent the first few days — and last few days — of the month being sick. 😭 (Thankfully, the second time wasn't as bad as the first.) In between, I tried my best to catch up with school and had a lot of fun with various social activities and projects.
books 📖
365 Days With Self-Discipline — okay, I barely touched this one in May, but still...
Make Time — did finally finish this one! and wrote down different tactics I'd like to try and keep track of
Designing Your Life — started reading and discussing this with a group, which has been super fun so far!
Convergence (Soulbound #1) by Kearstin Dunn — dystopian fiction around a pretty cool concept. I also forgot how annoying teenagers can be lol
Flame Theory (Bloodlines #1) by C.F.E. Black — also loved this one about dragon racing!
A Language of Dragons (#1) by S.F. Williamson — apparently I was on a dragon binge in May lol 🐉
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons #2) by S.F. Williamson
games played 🎮
Loftia — had fun playing Beta and can't wait for Early Access!
Starsand Island — starting to feel a bit repetitive at this point so I barely touched it but it's kinda a comfort game at this point lol
food pics 📸
made more coconut agar jello
made some more pizza for myself while I was sick
Wolted some food from Goldy's while I was sick
another homemade pizza 😉🍕
my favorite Aroma salad (halloumi 🤤)
I love ברד (barad)
frozen chicken dumpling thingys from Balagan
I love scrambled eggs and mushroom
pasta from the school cafe
my life changed the day I realized Tea Bar had opened a location on Ben Yehuda
BBQ with the staff...I ate so much meat omg
I forgot where I Wolted this from but it was insanely delicious
sometime around Shavuot - best cake bread of my life omg
I love Pastito pizza omg
cheese platter from the Gatsby
tasting for the Shavuot cheesecake competition 😈
this is the only reason why we go to Tikkun Leil Shavuots (jk haha)
vanilla ice cream with this coconut rose drink 😍
was helping out with conference registration and got this yummer
this month I created my now signature miso egg drop ramen soup with tofu (and can add mushrooms and other stuff)
people, places, and things
paint bar event!
hullo good sir
the tiniest cutest kitten 🥹
went to a pretty fun concert
project updates 🛠️
Miscellaneous
- Personal Hub — temporary fix for adjusting timezone for event drag-drop on calendar, added homepage time greeting, added inspiring quote, added gradient background, fixed agenda items not loading, played with AI UI makeover
- Self-Made Degrees — looked into using v0.dev for this project (was not completely satisfied)
achievements & accomplishments ✨
checklist ✅
✅ wrote my 2026 April recap
✅ finished reading Make Time
☑️ started reading Designing Your Life
learning 🎓
✅ finished Turn Ideas Into Unique Content: Tools For Creative Writing (cert)
✅ finished AI Fundamentals for UX (cert)
✅ finished Enhancing UX Workflow with AI (cert)
✅ finished Food Science and Nutrition: From the Farm to You (cert)
✅ finished Decoding the Chinese Language: Characters and Calligraphy (cert)
☑️ working on Chinese for HSK 4
other 🌟
⭐ tried to stay positive while being sick 😭
⭐ started a book club to discuss Designing Your Life
⭐ helped with a fun film project
⭐ did a lot of homework for school
other stuff I did 🛠️
- went to HUB Paint Bar event
- went to InspirACTION Thinkers event
- went to City of David with the congregation
- played D&D with friends
- helped with conference registration at ELSC
things I'm thankful for 🙌
- Had fun with friends on multiple occasions. 🫂
- Had a great time celebrating Shavuot in various ways. 🍰
- Was really quite happy this whole month, even tho I was sick for a lot of it. 🤗
~Catherine 💚