So…this landmark occurred. I’m kind of tickled by it. While I’ve used the occasional streak freeze, I haven’t used them very often. No, I’ve done the work, despite sickness, power outages, and travel. I’ve been studying Spanish for about 500 days. (I started off with Hungarian.) Am I fluent? HA! I don’t produce the language […]
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I was fairly emotional the couple of weeks before Christmas. There was the anniversary of my kitty’s death, which made me feel mournful. There was my birthday, which made me feel a bit older. There was a meeting with members of my family, which wasn’t as stressful as it could have been, mainly because I’ve
I’ve been trying to play fewer games on my phone, do other things in the evening instead of staring at it. My goal is also to have my place a little darker at night. I’m experimenting with less light at night, to see if that will help with my sleep. Plus brighter light in the
Actually, two things. Kind of. In March of 2023 I started a knitting project, basically, a blanket. The pattern is kind of like a quilt. (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/modular-knit-quilt) I finished it recently. However, I didn’t make it exactly like the pattern. The original has all six squares sewn together for one blanket. Instead, I did two blankets,
I have a friend who’s considering getting a pellet grill. As I’ve had mine for over a year now, and I use it at least once a week (if not more) I figured that I had some opinions on the matter that I could let y’all know about. A pellet grill is basically an oven
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I haven’t talked about my writing much lately. (Then again, I haven’t been blogging regularly at all. I’m trying to change that, to start chatting with y’all again. Not going to guarantee a weekly basis, but that’s kind of what I’m shooting for.) I am still writing! Have been for much of the year. My
As y’all may or may not recall, I had a full knee replacement done three years ago. I figured I’d report in about where I’m at with it. What I want to emphasize is that while the knee replacement isn’t all kittens and rainbows, it needed to be done. I was bad and my knee
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Back in March of 2023, I changed my diet (again) to be mostly carnivore. I was pretty strict for the first month—nothing but animal products, straight black coffee or tea when I had it (because I can’t do dairy so it would have to be coconut milk), no chocolate or nuts, etc. The results for
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I’ve been wanting to do an update on what’s happening in my life for a while now. I realized that part of why I was hesitating was because I’m still so much in the middle of things. As you probably already know, people tend to just post positive things about their lives on social media.
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It’s that time of year again, time for the mid-year review. This hasn’t been the best year for me, to put it mildly. In fact, it’s been one of my worst years on record in terms of word count, since I’ve been keeping track in a single spreadsheet. 2017 is the last year that even
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