Weekly blog (16th Jan 2022)

It’s been a tumultuous 2 weeks for me with the new year. I was meant to have gone away on a proper break off to some remote island that’s still considered Australia, but Omicron had other ideas. Outbreaks in my initial destination, backup destination and lack of accommodation in the 3rd one meant I lived like a hermit and avoided my regular routine to have a faux-holiday.

Against my usual approach, I attended a party for New Years. Since it was hosted by people from work and we were getting routinely tested, I thought it was a safe enough bet to attend. There was a theme which was ” touch of sparkle” which I only remembered just before leaving. Since I mainly dress in monotones, I decided that wrapping a hat in tinfoil would do the trick!

The pearls and the head band were courtesy of the host who thought I could add even more sparkle to the party. How did you end up beginning the new year? Email me to let me know!

Victoria had some wild weather in that time. In between all that, I managed to fit in some bike rides, hikes to the You Yang ranges and even a heli flight this morning! Overall though, I went out of my way for the first week to do NOTHING productive and watch Netflix and eat.

Of course I tracked a lot of the biometric data. Turns out, that kind of “doing nothing” doesn’t really help me relax. The next week where I started being more active, especially the hike seems to have done the most good in terms of being restorative. So looks like long ambling walks are my thing!

Given I couldn’t really get away last minute, I ended up spending a lot of time with my cats. The older one seems to summarise my attitude towards another year of the pandemic…

One of the things I tend to do at the end of every year is go through my diary and look at the list of things I was grateful for (I write down 3 on the days I remember). Last year, the cats were definitely up there as well as learning new things and being creative.

So I’m going to optimise for those things in 2022. Spending cat time, learning coding, maybe piano, maybe how to fly a helicopter and spending more time with photography/videos etc. That’s the plan anyway. Oh and have a nice long break far away from my everyday world would be nice too!

Have you got any specific things you’re going to focus on in 2022?