April feels like it was a month of slowly chipping away at the bigger 52-in-52 items (my annual 52 goals in 52 weeks list). I didn’t complete much, but I certainly made some good progress. Completed Buy new sunnies I…
My last 52 in 52 wrap-up was in February, so we’re due another one. Seventeen things ticked off, 35 to go. I can’t believe I’ve knocked over that many already.
Here’s where things are at.
You’d have to be living with your head under a rock (which sounds blissful right now) to not know that fuel prices are absolutely disgusting. Where $50 used to be a full tank, now you’re lucky if it fills up a quarter.
Which gave me the perfect time to be kind to a stranger.
I’d been thinking about this one for ages. Discussed the logistics with friends, planned it five times over mentally… and then the moment just happened, spontaneously, on a bike ride with my husband and son on the Sunshine Coast.…
My 52 List this year has a few carryovers from last year – ideas I loved, but never quite got around to.
One of those was the challenge to “Go somewhere purple.”
When I first wrote it, I had something very specific in mind – a lavender farm. There’s one that’s a 3-hour drive away from us, Kaooroomba Vineyard and Lavender Farm. I’ve been eying it off for a while, given we love visiting vineyards and trying new wines, and it just sounds downright beautiful. I figured find a camping spot nearby, take the caravan out for a weekend, and make a trip out of it.
Then, an opportunity came up to do something completely different, that also satisfied the “purple” criteria – grape crushing!…
I don’t know how it’s already almost the end of February. It feels like I blinked sometime in early January and now summer is packing up its things (in Australia, anyway). I’m very ready for cooler mornings and not feeling personally attacked by the humidity.
This month has been a bit of a slog. The monthly fitness challenge for iFit is 150 minutes a week of a workout, aka 5 x 30min sessions. I’ve got 2 left to go for the month, and yet to do my workout today, so by tomorrow I’ll have one remaining! That means I should finish the challenge with a day up my sleeve.
It’s been hard. Not dramatic hard, just that steady, “I really don’t feel like this today” kind of hard.…
I think I jinxed myself.
I got a little too smug about my 52-in-52 progress this year, and within 24 hours the universe said, “Oh really?”
I decided to tackle two more goals.
First up: solve a Rubik’s cube.
I’ve watched the tutorials. Rewatched the tutorials. Written three pages of step-by-step instructions in my notepad, like I’m studying for an exam. I have come so close.
But not close enough.
It had to be put away before I launched it at the wall.
Next: build some LEGO.
I’ve got a cute little sunflower mini set sitting here. A bargain Kmart knock-off.
Two pieces in and I realise something’s missing.
It’s fine, I tell myself.…
