If you’re okay spending a little cash, Withings is a European brand with which I’m very content. They are French, although they do have offices in the US.

The Scanwatch Lite is pretty affordable but was a bit too ‘lite’ for my taste. I got a great deal on the Scanwatch 2, it’s usually 300 but I paid 200 and got a leather band with it. I also own the Sleep Analyzer since I hate sleeping with a smart watch on. It was 100. And I spent a further 100 on the Smart Scale that also measures body fat and stuff.

What I love about the watch:

• first and foremost, a watch is an accessory to me. It should look good on my wrist. The Scanwatch 2 is exactly my cup of tea.
• it’s a hybrid smartwatch meaning the display is very small and not really meant for monitoring anything, but that’s fine with me. All my stats are in the app on my phone, where I can do better analysis anyway.
• because it’s hybrid, battery life is amazing. It does two weeks no sweat, sometimes 3 could do 4 if I only use it for time.
• charging goes through a clamp with a USB-C porr
• there are two sizes available, and a myriad of bands (pricey though)
• there is an optional subscription service, which I tried, but I haven’t noticed a difference at all not having it
• it is able to automatically notice when you are exercising. It notices when I play tennis without me having to tell it so. It registers when I’m cycling. It won’t track my route of it don’t tell it I’m going cycling.

What kinda crime did she commit

Sounds to me like you don’t have an issue with New Year’s Eve, more with the people around you and your husband.

I just to spend those nights with loads of people, drinking way too much, playing board games, having fun. These days I’ll be lucky if two people show up and I don’t have to wait for it to be over. I’d actually enjoy some pretentious get-together if maybe one of two of those people were mildly interesting.

Thing is, you gotta find a way to keep yourself entertained. Especially if you constantly keep getting dragged into pleasantries, it might be fun to do or say something they don’t expect. I’m not saying punch people in the face or do anything slapstick comedy-like, but generally most people are sick of the same routine so doing anything out of the ordinary might be interesting to some. You’ll find that those people have a different kind of attention for someone not trying too hard to follow etiquette or do mindless chit-chat about he weather or whatever.

Bandcamp? Particularly on Bandcamp Fridays

Oof bad look for the Netherlands. We do like to use names of diseases to swear but there are far better words.

The ones that do use cancer as a swear do this all the time though, the ones that don’t just really don’t.