Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • It has been gnawing at me as to why I am irritated with the people staying with me – or rather the husband. He’s lovely – no doubt. Yet, each time he talks to me I feel annoyance. This morning, it dawned on me or at least became a little bit clearer: *I am not good with meaningless conversation. I do not like to talk about the weather, especially when I live or…

  • It was a nice weekend and I even managed to get a bit of work done – never enough – and relax too! 😀 Now, it’s time to get back to it. Need another chapter out in the next couple of days and have to just settle in to it. Will be heading off to a cafe soon for that! 😉 For the past week I’ve had CSers staying with me. They are…

  • **I am going to try on the weekends to update on my summer travels – until the last chapter is submitted. So, here we go!** The beginning of my summer holidays started with some drama from work as I had to miss the last two official days due to my second-to-last coaching course and then I flew early to meet my mom in the UK for our mother-daughter trip. Normally, this wouldn’t be…

  • Phew, am so glad that today is nearly over. I had a very big day of analyzing and reading, which was very much what I needed to end the week on. So, I am feeling pretty goooood. I came home and did about an hour of exercise – treadmill and weights/stretching. Then, I had breakkie and sorted out my printer woes from yesterday. That made a huge difference in me getting stuff done…

  • Well, today has been a bit of an up and down kind of day. The positives are that I read two chapters of a book, checked out five more books from the library, started to read the chapter to be revised, had a good swim this morning, enjoyed a much-needed massage, and will be going out to dinner. The negative is that I really didn’t make much progress when I desperately needed to.…

  • It’s been a bit slow-going in this next part of my PhD work, but today I submitted a second revised chapter. So, that’s progress. Now I’m at a bit of a conundrum…. Revise Chapter 3: Methods or Chapter 5: Analysis & Discussion and/or focus on Chapter 2: Literature Review….. There’s still so much to do, but it’s coming together…. Anyway, everything is going well in life. I just need to focus a bit…

  • I had planned to do some work this weekend, but after having a big night out on Thursday, which caused Friday to be a day of recovery and rest, I ended up not doing much. I suppose I could have done something yesterday, but aside from making sure my software is ready to go when I do want to do some work, I wasn’t that focused. It was worth it, though, to relax.…

  • If we know anything about Tara, we know that she likes her routines. It’s taking a bit of time to adjust back into one, BUT, it seems that we are getting there. 😀 Some changes were needed to be made, though… *Deleted Candy Crush from all mobile devices *Setting boundaries on checking FB and emails At the moment, the routine that is working for me is: *Get up and ready for the day…

  • Ok, so I know I promised posts on my summer travels, but I am trying to juggle focusing on my PhD and enjoying summer still. At the moment, it is going well, but the posts may not come for a while yet. In any case, after three days (one day longer than hoped), I managed to greatly revise my introduction chapter and have just sent it off – thus I can reward myself…

  • Wow, it’s been a while! Oops – been busy enjoying my summer holidays and now settling back in to a routine of sorts. It has taken me a few days to get over jet lag and to reset my apartment after having someone stay while I was gone. 🙂 Anyway, will try to start updating on the summer whirlwind travels as I go each day, but for now, this is just a start.…

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