STICKING TO | regular mediation and yoga classes. They make me feel good. PARTICIPATING IN | a February Mileage Challenge with my Peloton Streakers Group. 280 miles (walked/run/cycled) for the month. I am up to 190+ as of today. NEEDING | new running shoes. My current outdoor pair has to...
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Around the Interwebs The season of tabs. Oh boy, does that sound familiar? Stop motivating yourself with guilt. Cosigned. What’s the carbon footprint of … email? Lessons learned by the time I turned 40. A Twitter thread. 40 useful concepts you should know. Another Twitter thread. How the pandemic is...
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Well, as you already know, I am working through the Outlander series right now, so my book reviews will be a little boring (unless you’re also into the series). Voyager (Outlander #3) by Diana Gabaldon ★★★★★ In the third book, we learn that Jamie Fraser —despite his best efforts— did not...
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Five Things Friday: just five things I’m thinking about or things that made my week, or things that I otherwise feel like sharing. I received the two Covid-test kits that our government sent out (for free) in the mail this week. It seems kinda “too little too late” after two...
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Yeah, yeah, we’re well into January the new year and I will very soon shut up about 2021, but I can’t implement my OWL (“forward”) before I take one last look back and acknowledge the things that didn’t suck in the year that is gone. I am trying to think...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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