Here we are at the penultimate post of the year, and I really didn’t have a plan for this week. I am now on vacation until the new year, and while I would normally be off today anyway, it still feels glorious. I’m not going to go into great detail about what I’m going to …
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Week 23: Best Books of 2019
As I mentioned last week, I read a lot. So far this year I’ve finished 44 books, plus I’m midway through 2 more right now. I have always loved reading but it fell out of my routine while I was in school, so a few years ago I made a conscious effort to bring it …
Week 22: Depth Year
A few weeks ago I came across an article on Raptitude that I found very interesting. You can read it here, but the basic idea is presented in the first few sentences: “After you’re established in your career, and you have some neat stuff in your house, you take a whole year in which you …
Week 13: October Check-Up
October starts tomorrow, so I thought it would be a good time to check in on the Fall Focal Points situation. I wrote that post just about 2 months ago, in eager anticipation of gaining my weekend hours back, and as of yesterday, our basement project is 100% complete. Big sigh of relief. To say …
Week 5: Fall Focal Points
This week’s “me” day has been taken over by a stat holiday, forcing me to share it with everyone else and re-categorize the day as ‘weekend’. I guess if this is the only bad aspect of having Mondays off then things are still looking pretty good, but it does change the landscape of my week …
Week 2: More time for reading.
“Life is just a series of obstacles preventing you from reading your book” A friend of mine shared this quote last week, and while it’s meant to be humourous, I thought it summed up the quest I’ve been on for the last couple of years almost perfectly. The first term that I used to try …
Week 1: My First Blog Post, Again.
I’ve started numerous blogs over the years. They usually lasted between 0 and 3 posts before they were abandoned. In an effort to continuously practice writing, I’ve decided to forget the concept of having a single topic for my blog and just use it as a place to write something every week. I have a …
Dancing In Irreverence 