Last year, this week was the first ranunculus of the season for me. I had this shot of me with flowers from the farmer’s market while my husband was away with his brothers.
Today, I was incredibly excited to get to walk to the market again and buy these amazing, beautiful flowers that bring me more joy than any other purchasable item ever has.
They are $6 a bunch and they fill me with unlimited joy.
Yes to simple joys. Yes to color. Yes to spring flowers. Yes yes yes.
The Best Part of this Week: The best part of this week was getting some work done and getting to climb again.
I celebrate: doing a lot of cleaning up this weekend.
I am grateful for: my sore muscles from all the climbing.
This week, I exercised: i’ve continued to do a lot of exercise.
This week, I said yes to: powering through perf.
I said no to: giving myself a hard time about the food.
I honored my values (love, learn, peace, service, gratitude): i’ve been trying to take care of myself and see what i can do to give myself more grace and love.
Top Goals Review:
Work: did not write up the 3 for L and 3 for D, did sort out advocates, talked to R, and talked to A, figured out next steps for analyst+pgm.
Personal: i did some drawing and journaling but not as much as i would have wished, and i did bike to 30 mins.
Family: took walks with J. did one thing with N and did one thing with D.
My mood this week was: i ended up starting last week with a lot of energy and ended it fully depleted. so i didn’t write last week. but this week was better. so taking it one step at a time.
I am proud of: taking care of myself.
I release: that i didn’t get all my exercise done this week.
Here’s what I learned this week: i really do need to journal more, i still feel pretty discombobulated.
This is the lovely story of Noni Blake whose life is not what she wished it was when she decides to go on a “Pleasure Quest.” There’s so much honesty and so much wonderfulness in this book. I could relate to certain parts so so much and other parts not at all so, for me, this book was a bit all over the place. But I still deeply loved the message at the core of the book.
Ishiguro is one of my favorite writers. I haven’t read a book by him that I didn’t love and he has the unique and unparalleled ability to jump between genres and continue to be extraordinary. This story is similar to Never Let Me Go, in that it involves AI, so it’s scifi but it’s also a mystery, a love story, and has elements of mythology. And of course friendship. As with all of his stories, it’s exquisitely told and has so much depth and complexity and yet so simple and beautiful at the same time. I read this whole novel in one sitting. I grew to love every single character and I would have easily read for hours and hours more. I cannot recommend Ishiguro enough.
This is a good, twisty mystery. It’s more character driven than many other mystery novels and yet there’s also a lot of plot and it moves fast, which is a rare combination. I liked the unexpected twists, I liked the characters and I liked how flawed and wonderful each character was in her or his own way. Solid read.
This is one of the best books I’ve read in 2021 so far. It is absolutely amazing with its characters and their beautiful, touching, real lives. This is not a plot-driven story. It’s about two people (and the people around them) and how they navigate their relationship and breakup and everything in between. I loved every single minute I spent with this book and cried big tears as I read it.
I really enjoyed my time with this novel a lot more than I thought I was going to. This takes place in San Francisco, and a lot of the places felt familiar. The characters were well developed and the story seemed to be true to how teenagers would speak and behave. It also made me grateful not to have daughters 🙂
I liked this book, or I should say two books. The first part is a commentary of the lives we live online and I am not that much into black humor or sarcasm but I still enjoyed parts of it. The second part, which really should have been a second book was about the terrible loss of a family and the way it affected everyone.
3.5 stars but rounded up only because it was so different. I liked that this book was unpredictable in how not-twisty it was. I enjoyed reading it and kept waiting for the twist and when it came it wasn’t that twisty and I was pleasantly surprised. Enjoyed the mix of scifi and mystery of this one, too.
I woke up this morning and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. As I opened my drawer for the toothpaste, I decided enough was enough and I should clean the drawer.
Seven hours later, I had cleaned all of the bathroom drawers and all of my bedroom ones. I did not eat anything or do anything else. Little boy kindly brought me two teas during that time. I listened to “Klara and the Sun” and just worked.
It was absolutely not the plan for today but I am so glad I did it. It had been over ten years since I cleaned everything this thoroughly. I feel like my drawers can breathe again.
Amazing the amount of stuff you can accumulate in that time. I will say it also made me think about all the ideas, stories, thoughts and beliefs I’ve accumulated during this time too. I bet they could use some revisiting and sorting and shedding too.
Feeling grateful today for a healthy mix of everything. I started the day slowly, meditating and finishing my book in bed and then connected with my friend Kelly for a long while which was wonderful. And then I started doing lots and lots and lots of work and then read all my email. And then I exercised. And finally my husband and I went out to have some dinner.
A lot in one day.
But I feel full and happy. And readier for the weekend than I usually feel even though I didn’t finish all the work I’d wanted to.
Yes to getting things done and yes to connecting with people I love!
