Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is TENACIOUS. Though my disease decided to kick in yesterday, probably because I had to make an extra effort to carry one of my kids home on Thursday, I found a way to keep working on my goals pretty much as planned. Yesterday’s weather was perfect so I was determined not to let the pain win. I gave myself time to rest and then worked at my own pace,…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is RENO. I started sanding the floor in the future playroom and it has made me eager to make progress on the house in general so I’ve also been planning further improvements. If the result meets ùy expectation, I’m thinking of renovating the girls’ bedroom floor over the summer before adding a mezzanine bed. By the end of April Japanese Course: aiming at 100% Genki: L4 10% Japanese Course:…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is OPTIMISM. I’m not entirely sure why but I just have a good feeling about the future. As a result, my motivation has been high, though not always in the same area, allowing me to make progress on various goals. I’m posting this quite early because I intend to deal with cleaning up the room I want to sand, so a lot of progress should be made on that…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is HEALTH. I don’t really want to dwell on it though, so let’s just say I rested and took care of myself, and I’m better now. One good indicator is that I kept working on my goals steadily. Mostly the kind that does not require too much exertion, though I did make progress on decluttering too. By the end of January Business: aiming at 100% (PASS) EDOF: updates 100%…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is FORWARD. Since there’s no going backwards anyway, I keep moving forward, at my own pace. I’ve felt generally happy and optimistic lately, so I just enjoy it as much as I can. And since days are getting longer (and milder), I find it easier to declutter efficiently, which in turns leads to progress in the organization of home, resulting in overall improvement of our lifestyle. In short, it’s…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is CRAFT. Since the girls spent most of their vacation at home, we either crafted or planned further crafts. And as most of my students were on a break too, it felt like a short vacation for me too, which was nice. As far as my health is concerned, stopping one medicine and wearing a thumb brace proved enough to start the healing process. A couple more weeks and…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is IMPROVEMENT. As my health got better, so did my mood and the rest just followed. I still think my treatment is messing up my body, since I’ve had a couple of tendinites, but given how bad I felt after missing a few meds, that’s a minor setback. It does mean I could not move around normally so I have to be realistic about sanding the wooden floor: it…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is EBB AND FLOW. Weekdays were fine and full of energy, but then on Friday evening, symptoms I thought were a thing of the past came rushing back, just as the girls came back from their dad’s too. So I’ve been feeling rather despondent these past few days. I hope it’s only because I forgot some meds a couple of times but I’m unsure, and since I had been…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is PEACE. At some point this week, I had a sort of epiphany when I realized I felt overall quite well as far as my family situation is concerned. Of course, I still wish my kids could be with me all the time instead of every other week but it’s become OK, probably because there’s not much I want. And that’s because I’m actually happy with how things are…

Hi everyone!  Note: To keep posts short, I’ve made a Trello board with my goals for the year and beyond. Feel free to check it out if you want to know more about the bigger plan. My word for the week is ROLLERCOASTER. The ups and downs weren’t too bad, especially as doctors concluded that whatever I have is not life threatening right now (but still needs investigating). Not knowing isn’t fun but the reassurance was nice. Emotionally, I’ve ben through a lot lately and I’ve reached a sort of numbness this weekend. Not sure what it indicates, so we’ll see. Goals are going OK, especially the crafts which the…