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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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