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Dec 31, 2021 10:27PM
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Hey Everyone I haven’t read a book since October but I knew to come here today to start this year’s challenge.
I became a Grandma in October ( little girl named Amara) and have been on Grandma duty. My DIL is from Malaysia and because of Covid her mom couldn’t come out so I’ve been doing double Grandma duty. My DIL is in medical school and my son is working so I stayed with them for a couple months to help everyone get sorted. It was exhausting and wonderful but did I mention exhausting. Lol
Anyway, I’m home and ready to read. Happy New Year.
Happy new year, Marnie!! Grats on your little grandling, and Amara is a gorgeous name. I have had a lot of friends have kids this year with their parents overseas who can't get into the country. I know a lot of them would have loved such an invested and excited MIL as yourself. So I am sure your DIL and son have really appreciated you around!
Congrats, Marnie! Your DIL, son and Amara are lucky to have you.Happy reading!
Congratulations, Marnie!Happy new year everyone, may all your problems be DNFs.
Congrats on your new grandbaby, Marnie!
Argh! Is this site ever glitchy this morning! I keep getting "unexpected error - page not available".
Tis 3am and all is well, on the possum front. I mean, on all fronts, but I know what we all invested in.
Yeah, the site is not working well for me either. It's slow and I keep getting error messages too. Maybe I should just start reading a book instead of talking about it.
Yeah, the site is not working well for me either. It's slow and I keep getting error messages too. Maybe I should just start reading a book instead of talking about it.
Yeah, the site is not working well for me either. It's slow and I keep getting error messages too. Maybe I should just start reading a book instead of talking about it.
ROFL - evidence can be found in that your comment posted 3 times.
LOLSince I have memory (and a GR account) January 1st is a nightmare here. The site is overloaded and showing error all the time. The app hasn't work since very early in the morning.
My theory is that everyone is at home and setting GR annual challenge goals, etc. I don't really know the reason, but I happens every single New Year day.
Congrats, Marnie! How wonderful!! Amara is a beautiful name.
Goodreads was glitchy for me all morning, super frustrating. It seems to be better now.
Oh wow! Congratulations...Marnie. That is very exciting! Bet, after you get rested, you'll be missing that baby.
Thanks everyone. I didn’t think I’d enjoy it as much as I do. They live across the country from me ( I’m in Florida and they are in Washington State) so we will have to make the most of our visits if travel gets easier. I’ve been watching the flight cancellations with horror and it’s way too far to drive for a quick visit.
Oh, that's hard, Marnie. It's about a 13 hour drive for us to see our grand, so we don't do it often. We lived really close by until he was 6 and it's not fun being so far away.
Congratulations, Marnie. Amara is such a beautiful name.
Happy new year everyone. I hope you all had a good festive period. Things were a little up and down for me but I expected that. Saw spiderman at the cinema with my cousins. Made some new friends. And played board games. Those were my highlights. I started eating meat just before Christmas and ate a lot of it over the two days. I was left with such a bad stomach. I know it will ease off but I'm not that fussed so going to go back to being a pescatarian for now. It's not looking like I'll be heading back to work as planned this week. we have a shortage of lateral flow tests here so my clients and myself won't be able to use them ahead of sessions plus all the uncertainty over restrictions has meant people didn't book in for the new year. I think January might be a tricky month.Congrats Marnie!
Sarah, are you able to hold some of your sessions remote? I think you did this at some point in the pandemic, or I'm just confused.We went see Spiderman last week too. We really enjoyed it. (I'm not the superheroes type of person, but with 6 boys... it is unavoidable). Now we are watching the previous ones, to refresh our memories about the multiverse.
New Year's resolutions, anyone? I made only one, and it will probably take me the whole year to accomplish it. The only thing I proposed myself to do during 2022 is adding some enjoyment to my life. Just that. I sadly realized that currently there are not many things that bring pleasure to my life. The pandemic only did this even more extreme. I am so bad in this department that I can't even mention 5 things that I would enjoy doing. But I will get there.
Ahh, I wish I could go to the movies! They've closed the cinemas here again due to high covid numbers. Well, actually they allow 10 persons into one movie show, but you need to book the whole show for your party. I just checked and it costs 230 €, so not happening, LOL!No resolutions for the new year, I'm afraid. Just hoping that the pilgrimage that I was supposed to do two years ago will happen.
New year's resolutions2- financial goals
1- health goal
and last... and the only one I actually feel like sharing.
I will not do nice things for my kids while they are being mean to me.
Congratulations Marnie.I'm not making any resolutions. Pretty much never do.
I really hope you find some things that bring you joy Sandra.I didn't make any official resolutions, but I started these virtual challenges which got me moving more, so I want to keep that up. I'm also doing some challenges with my health watch, like now in January try to do 300.000 steps. And I also set myself the goal to go out for a walk or run for at least 15 minutes every day (just walking to the shop doesn't count, it has to be a deliberate walk). It's easy on weekends and in holidays and I easily do long walks then, but on workdays when it's cold or grey or rainy or busy it's sometimes easier to stay in and work some more. 15 minutes isn't much but I know once I'm out it will often turn into a longer walk.
I printed a calendar like this and I can colour in a bit of it every day I reach my goal.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/4457156...
Everyone can use more enjoyment, it feels like 2021 has been a particularly rough year. Other than the standard health and financial goals I usually have, I decided I needed to branch out into something more interesting this year. So I also have 2 other resolutions, to take photos everyday and post 1 on Instagram. Kind of a minimal 365 day photography project. And to make a new recipe every week, to expand my horizons.
Love that calendar Peggy, looks like it will be fun to fill out.
Camilla wrote: "I just checked and it costs 230 €, so not happening, LOL!"Wow! No. Not happening. Lol. I hope the restrictions don't last long, Camilla.
Peggy wrote: "I printed a calendar like this and I can colour in a bit of it every day I reach my goal."That calendar is very neat! I might steal it. I've been trying to encourage one of my boys to practice violin more often. We printed a calendar for him, but this one is way cooler.
Christina wrote: "I will not do nice things for my kids while they are being mean to me."I hear you. I had to do this a few months ago with one of my kids. I understand he is frustrated in many ways, but he has to understand being mean to me is not the way to solve anything. It has helped. He is getting it.
Dawn wrote: "I also have 2 other resolutions, to take photos everyday and post 1 on Instagram. Kind of a minimal 365 day photography project. And to make a new recipe every week, to expand my horizons."That is a great idea. Taking pictures can be so therapeutic, and there is also beauty in it.
Christina wrote: "New year's resolutions... I will not do nice things for my kids while they are being mean to me."This is a good resolution!
Peggy wrote: "I printed a calendar like this and I can colour in a bit of it every day I reach my goal..."I like these and considered doing this as well, but need to find one I can print for free and without logging in. I have a Pinterest, but I never use it and don't remember my login info.
Dawn wrote: "So I also have 2 other resolutions, to take photos everyday and post 1 on Instagram. Kind of a minimal 365 day photography project. And to make a new recipe every week, to expand my horizons."I like these resolutions.
I didn't really make any resolutions this year. I'm still working on some changes I made last year. It's going well, but I don't feel the need to make any other big changes yet. I don't tend to make my resolutions on New Years any more anyway. I just decide to make a change whenever I notice the need at any point during the year. I definitely have some things I'd like to tackle, but not at the moment.
Just finish our family Christmas breakfast/Dinner and gift swap. We are always late celebrating since most work through the holiday, but it is always so much fun.
I stopped making resolutions a few years ago. I don't keep them anyway, so what's the point? My goal though is to make it through this year with no major mishaps so I can celebrate next year. This year was busy-- selling our New York house and buying a new one in Texas. Next week we'll finally be getting some furniture that we ordered. Very exciting. Kids. They can really get to you. I've always figured they turned mean and nasty, saying things they know they shouldn't because it's safe. We're parents, not their friends. Our door is always open, they'll always be fed and have a place to sleep, clothes on their backs. As angry as we may get with them, they know we love them unconditionally. Of course, that doesn't mean they should take advantage of that and turn mean. I used to have to stare mine done and warn them to back up and not to stand so close to the edge of the cliff. Actually sometimes I still have to remind my younger one (37), but less often.
Everyone deserves an extra spark of joy this year, after last year ;)I haven't made any resolutions, as I don't fullfill them. I think 'no resolutions this year, just do it.'
Kristie, the pinterest was just a quick google, but I have one saved on my computer. I can send it to you if you like :)
My only resolution is to be kind where possible. I get a bit snarky and snappy when I'm stressed and that's something I don't like about myself. This year will be all about keeping my head above water and not killing anyone 😵
I love all the resolutions so far, or the non-resolutions. I agree, we need to be kinder to ourselves, make sure others are kinder to us, and make ourselves happier.I want to work less, be stressed less, and therefore nicer to those around me, and able to spend time with those I care about rather than those I am paid to care about.
I also still need to loose a lot more weight, so taking time to do more than sit in front of a computer doing the above is the aim. Move more, do more physical work, eat better (and waste less!!), drink less.
As I write it all down sounds all interlinked a bit...
Kristie wrote: "Peggy wrote: "I printed a calendar like this and I can colour in a bit of it every day I reach my goal..."I like these and considered doing this as well, but need to find one I can print for free..."
Kristie, I found it here:
https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.c...
It is the one named "Calendar Full Year with Mosaic Months"
Rusalka wrote: "we need to be kinder to ourselves, make sure others are kinder to us, and make ourselves happier."That is a great summary.
Sandra wrote: "Rusalka wrote: "we need to be kinder to ourselves, make sure others are kinder to us, and make ourselves happier."That is a great summary."
We should all live by it really.
Aside to this conversation, all my notifications are broken it seems. Haven't seen any for two hours and there are a heap of unread threads.
Notifications are not working for me either.
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