When I tell people that I want to buy property in Ukraine and move there as soon as the war is over, they look at me with a strange expression, as if they are unsure of the polite way to tell me that I have completely lost my marbles. Then I show them the photographs!…
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Baby steps – a (long overdue!) progress update to my relocation to Ukraine
It’s been a hot minute since I last posted, but my life has become extremely busy lately, for no particularly good reason. Please forgive me. I shall do better in the future. If this were a shopping mall, we would find ourselves in front of a map of all kinds of rectangular(ish) shapes and a…
Little by little, it all comes together – homesteading on the journey to losing weight
My mom phoned me yesterday, extremely excited! “You must see this!” she exclaimed. “Rieks (her youngest sister) and Rod (Rieks’s husband) have lost so much weight with this Banting diet! And it’s all the things you like, too!” Truth be told, I’ve never really been interested in Banting. To me, it seemed like an unhealthy…
If Duolingo has turned you into a monster, you’re doing it wrong!
I usually don’t read the stuff Google dishes up to me. It’s mostly sensationalist clickbait, and celebrity gossip has never been my thing. However, on Tuesday, I found this post, and although it angered me at first, I ended up feeling extremely sorry for the author, Mark Serrels from Sidney, Australia. And because I feel…
Learning a new language, with a strange alphabet, in a fun way!
When the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out at the end of February 2022, I realized with a shock that my childhood obsession with all things Russian was totally misplaced. After all, the people, the music, and even the exotic place names were actually Ukrainian, not Russian! And on top of that, the…
Refocusing myself…
They say that the road to hell is paid with good intentions, and I fell into that trap solidly. Some of my goals have dates and actions, but most don’t and that means I have to refocus my efforts toward the end goal. I find that I tend to be extremely unfocused, flitting from one…