I can’t believe I am doing another annual spending report. I feel like I just did this, but this is just because 2021 just flew by in the blink of an eye. As always, I pulled these data out of YNAB* — You Need A Budget, the software I’ve been using for 6+ years (the pie-chart…
STARTING | the new year on the right foot by collecting my first running miles for 2022 and celebrating with coffee and a sweet yeast pretzel (a Rhineland tradition) on New Year’s Day. And speaking of coffee, I’ve been ENJOYING | a cup (or two) of post-holiday gingerbread coffee that I picked up at Trader…
This week, I am linking up with Kookyrunner and Zenaida for Tuesday Topics again and since we don’t have a topic this week, but are free to choose what to blog about, I thought I’d share my first PeloFondo experience with you. What’s a PeloFondo? PeloFondo is a free Gran Fondo-style endurance challenge for Peloton…
photo credit: @happpyal via unsplash Another year, another opportunity for goals, aspirations, resolutions. Whatever you want to call it. I keep calling mine, the list of “things I want to do”. Stay Healthy. I understand that this is not entirely in my control, but what I can do to prevent illness or injury, I will…
Around the Interwebs Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get Covid. And they shouldn’t be ashamed. “[There is] this assumption, that if you get sick, you must have done something wrong to bring it onto yourself. That’s not true, […] but unfortunately, it’s inherent in the way we’ve been thinking about and talking…
Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander #2) by Diana Gabaldon ★★★★★ Ok, I will say that I am biased and that you can’t come here for an honest, objective review (but when is a personal review of a book ever objective? Either you love a book or you don’t – and I LOVE this book, this series!)…
photo credit: Razvan Mirel via Unsplash I don’t really have a process on how to come up with my guiding word for the new year; it is usually less ‘active thinking’ but rather an opening of the mind to see what word floats in naturally at the end of each passing year. Last year, my…
When I thought about the things I purchased in 2021 that bring me joy, I instantly came up with like 5 things (and then a couple more to make it ten.) I am not a frivolous shopper by any means. When I buy something, I (usually) have put a substantial amount of thought into what…
photo credit: @maplepharaoh via Unsplash I guess I am doing this now, taking a look back at the things that I wanted to do in the last year, which I put on the blog for posterity. I guess it is fun to go back and revisit the things I thought about at the beginning of the year and…
I saw this end-of-year survey on Stephany‘s blog, and then my friend Lisa posted her own version, and I enjoyed it so much and found this recap so intriguing that I am jumping on the bandwagon. 1) What did you do in 2021 that you’ve never done before? Ran my fastest half marathon, completed a 365…
