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5 things for Saturday (again, oops) vol. 14

Apparently I’m not great with rules or deadlines, because here I am posting this on a Saturday afternoon. It’s not really much of a “5 things for Friday” when it’s on a Saturday, is it? Oops.

Walking in a listy wonderland

This week has all been about lists. Lists of things to do at work before the end of the week, lists of things to do around the house, lists of things I need to think about for our upcoming holidays. Things to research. 52 lists.

SO. MANY. LISTS.

I saw someone post a prompt for ChatGPT where they asked it, based on everything it knows about them, to give them a brutal reality check. It was hilarious and eye-opening, so I decided to try it on myself.…

Another 12 months of my world

Blog header featuring paper doodles of a laptop and other memories

On 5 January 2013, I wrote the first post on my new blog. It was my second site, the first a small site piggybacking off my sister’s, while I figured out if I enjoyed writing. I did, and eventually, I pulled up my big girl pants and built my own site.

It was called “Kelly’s World”, and for a long time, that’s what it felt like.

It’s amusing to look back at that post and how proud I was. I boasted that I had even personalised the site, which these days, feels like the bare minimum.

Kelly’s World blog header from 2013 — My blog header from 2013

It was a huge decision to start a new blog again and move to Kel me about it.

A large part of that was that mentally, I wasn’t in a good way.…

52-in-52 update: 4 down, 21 to go

Well, we’re officially well into the second half of the year. In fact, there are only 20 weeks left in the year, and of my 52-in-52 list (52 things to do in 52 weeks), I’m still sitting at 26 items left to go.

I refuse to tick them off until I’ve blogged them, so it’s time to get that number down!

Completed

Create a realistic, achievable blog schedule

When I wrote this one, I intended to come up with a specific frequency and deadline that I had to follow.

What I didn’t expect was that this would turn into a deep-dive on where I was finding friction in the blogging process. What was causing me to drag my heels with blogging was the process of reviewing and editing my posts, creating the image headers, etc.…

Five Things for Friday (vol. 6)

This week has been a screwy week. Yesterday, I woke up thinking it was Wednesday, then told myself I was lying and that it was actually Friday, and then realised it was Thursday. Quite the rollercoaster, and very disappointing to not be at the end of the week yet.

But here we are, it’s Friday, and here are five things for the week.

Cranky Picasso Paintings

One thing I love, like really, really love, is my son’s artwork. I have a frame on my wall that showcases the latest picture, and the inside is filled with many more. The more abstract it is, the better. It brings me so much joy. One of my most favourite ones is a portrait he painted of me for Mother’s Day, where the image resembles a duck more than me.…

Five Things for Friday (vol 5)

I’m currently writing this on my couch, on my iPad, typing away on my cool foldable keyboard. With a glass of wine within reach too, of course.

(Update: When I tried posting this it wouldn’t upload the images, so I’m now posting this from my laptop on Saturday morning. Kinda spoils my section later about enjoying posting from the iPad – not if it doesn’t work!)

Clothes decluttering

Inspired by my efforts to develop a capsule wardrobe, but mostly inspired by Nicole’s fashionable blog post, I decluttered my t-shirt drawer this morning.

Since my weight loss, I’ve been slowly getting better at donating the clothes I don’t fit anymore. But my tees have been a different story. I love an oversized shirt, or comfy worn out singlets that I wear under hoodies.…