Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • These goals are getting a bit easier in topics now – at least for me. Phew! 😅 2016 presented a number of challenges regarding friendships and tested my introverted nature regarding relationships.  One of the best ways to weed out your friends is to have an expensive wedding 👰🏽😜. All kidding aside, many of our “friends” were proven not to be so by not bothering to show up even when they RSVPd or…

  • Okay, so this is a BIG one for me/us as 2016 was a massive financial struggle once I gave up work and the benefit of paid housing. Little did I know what a huge challenge it was going to be to work out housing on our limited income. Now, I am not saying that we/I were not total idiots to move into a crazily priced apartment, but it is a lovely place to…

  • My next focus for my NYRs is Work. Work is something that the majority of people do for most of their lives and sadly for a lot of people is also an activity that most do not like – yet they continue out of necessity or lack of options (known or unknown). Luckily for me, 2016 brought about the opportunity for me to quit my full-time work. I admit that while I did…

  • As promised, here I am with my NYRs for 2017. I am starting with Health because it tends to be the easiest resolution for us to make, break and focus upon. In general, we are fairly healthy. I keep active, exercise pretty regularly and we eat a decent Paleo-ish diet. Still, it is easy to yo-yo back and forth during down times, holidays or when I think I am doing great and then…

  • One of our NYRs is to lose our holiday weight by getting ourselves back to the gym. Later, I will write about my health/fitness NYR, but for this post I will focus on sharing my workouts this week. My aim is to do a regular weekly update on what I managed to do during the week to track progress for myself as well as share with whomever might care. 😉 For a while…

  • Starting on Sunday, I am going to write about the six major areas of life that affect our well-being, wholeness and happiness. These six areas are: Health Work Finances Relationships Family Personal For the next week, I will focus on sharing my goals/resolutions in these areas in the next year or even shorter-term depending on the goal itself. While most of my life I have avoided using the word resolutions because I feel it…

  • Remember the days when we were told to go outside and get some fresh air or the parents controlled how much time we could spend watching TV? As an adult, I no longer have someone to tell me to go outside or to do “something useful”.  When I was a university student, I hardly even knew about TV. The Internet was just developing so that streaming was not a possibility and downloading was…

  • The winter holidays are over, so life is on its way back to ‘normal’ again. I had not realized that it had been nearly three weeks that M was off, so this morning when he had to leave early I was a little bit surprised. It also meant that we missed our morning gym time as I had gotten used to having a slow morning. However, I must say that it is nice…

  • Just before the end of last year (yes just a few days ago), I made a list of my recent interest in podcasts. While I do have some other topics to write on, I am saving them up for my focus next week…yep, I am getting a handle on planning my posts, even for here where no one knows really who is reading…. 😉 So, today I am going to write about Serial. At…

  • _The Loney_ by Andrew Michael Hurley Looking for a “holiday” read, I saw that this book was available on Kindle. I had been waiting for it to come out since seeing it on a friend’s list of coming books, but then forgot about it amidst other reading priorities.  As my first book of 2017, I realized that I am craving some more philosophical and thought-provoking stimulation. This one did not really do it…

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