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There goes the first weekend of 2026.

So I did the 108 Sun Salutations on Thursday, Friday I was fine-ish, Saturday I was dead, today I was still so-so. But yesterday I kept up with my ceramics workshop and today I kept up with my 2-hour yoga. My arms are so dead.

I sort of binge-bought a lot of different types of cat sand LOL we have so many boxes and packets of cat sand now! I also scored a nice-ish thermos flask and a pair of shoes. I doubt the shoes will last too long, they were pretty cheap to start with, but I can see from the materials.

I know I said my running friend is a little hard on the travel friend part, but upcoming we are planning to join the run in Gyeongju as I mentioned. I think I've sort of... managed to understand her thoughts and way of travel, so I should be able adjust my expectations. Besides, Gyeongju sounds like a place I wouldn't just suddenly decide to go nilly-willy, so it's a good excuse to see some other won't-easily-go-explore place.

I've got a busy week ahead. Got a few task items to complete so hopefully I can get stuff done.

I should start reading another book, got so many books on my TBR. I'm curious about I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki... let's do it! Will be meeting my friend J tomorrow for lunch, so won't be able to read over lunch tomorrow, but should be fine for the next few days.

missdiane

I edited and posted my first week of vegan Purple Carrot meals -> here <-. I also tried putting in smoother transitions and also photoshopped a thumbnail to be more noticeable.

The quick sum up is that most of the meals were good, had a few flaws and needed some editing on many, though. My favorite was the one pot bolognese which the leftovers were also filling and delicious.

Next week's box that should come oh...maybe even tomorrow? More than likely on Monday, though, has more premade meals than meal kits since it'll be the first week back to work.

vysila

Wow, what a crazy two months it has been! Big changes, lots of activity, some stress and dithering. Here’s what got accomplished toward the end of the year.

11. Start taking RMD in 2025
Took my first Required Minimum Distribution from my retirement accounts in late November. I had to take them by December 31st, so I did. It made a nice bump in my bank account and will certainly help with all the moving expenses, but I won’t be happy come tax time.

16. Increase principal payment on HELOC loan
Well, since the HELOC loan was paid off in full in November, this was no longer necessary

20. After selling house pay off all debt and hopefully have enough left over to buy a house without a mortgage
This was accomplished!! The house sale closed on November 24, 2025. It was a bittersweet event for me, but both the mortgage and HELOC were paid off in full and I have already contracted to buy another, smaller home for cash. I do still have a small amount of credit card debt for moving expenses, but not a huge amount, thank goodness. For a very brief time there, I was completely free from debt of any kind. Hoping to repeat that circumstance before 2026 is over and keep that status going forward.

53. Replace exterior spotlights on house
I failed to do so by the day I moved out but did leave the replacement fixture and light bulbs for the new owner

79. Finish decluttering basement
The basement was finally entirely emptied and swept out in December

88. Organize and backup digital files
Although this will ultimately be an ongoing project forever, I did manage to get all files backed up and organized on an external drive before my old tablet went belly-up. So I’m calling it done. For now.

98. Decide what household goods to keep for the move
This was a decision that was happening up until the day the pod was loaded and basically, the only thing I wanted to take but ended up being left behind was the old desk. I was sad to see it get broken up for disposal but am sure I’ll find something just as good once I’m settled in a new home.

99. Dispose of unnecessary/unwanted items
The last few weeks were quite the frenzy of getting rid of things, like the patio furniture and lots of small household items. After the pod was loaded, another company came and picked up all the furniture pieces designated for charity donation AND took literally everything else that remained in the house (except for a single folding chair for me to sit on) for either recycling or trash.

100. Pack up everything for moving
I did a lot of packing during Thanksgiving week. I ended up with a total of something like 47 or 48 boxes and Rubbermaid containers, and I packed all but two of those myself. So I guess I have no one to blame but me if anything is broken upon unpacking.

106. Hire painting and/or cleaning crew
This goal was deleted. After the summer renovations and a bit of touch up paint in a few spots, no big painting project was needed. The sale happened so fast, before the house was even marketed, that there was no time to hire a cleaning crew. And with the tight schedule with the pod, the discards, and us needing to leave, all I could manage was to leave the house in broom-clean status.

Wow, look at that – all goals under the house and moving categories have been crossed off. That was pretty inevitable since they all dealt with getting the house ready to sell and moving across country.

In addition I managed to transplant myself and Kayden from Tennessee to Washington state. That was a heck of a trip, experiencing sunny warmth, freezing temperatures and whiteout snow, high winds, torrential rainfall and a mechanical failure on the car – all in the space of four long days. Thank goodness for my son, with his mechanical knowhow and outstanding driving skill.

I am not doing any of my regular end-of-year financial tasks this year due to the fact that I am currently in temporary quarters and do not know how my annual budget will need to be adjusted. I’ll do that after I’m more settled.
My weight loss and other health goals have also been put on the back burner during these frenetic last few months. Am looking forward to getting back on track in 2026. I’m kind of scared to step on the scales (once they’re unpacked) again, lol!

So at the end of 20 months, I have managed to closeout 68 goals out of the 116 total leaving a mere 48 to finish up over the next 18 or 19 months. Go me! I’m way ahead of schedule here.

However, once I get settled in my new home I am hoping to focus more on relaxing, spending time with the kids and exploring my new home state. I’m not sure how much effort I will put into completing my Mission 116 in 2026, tbh. Just taking it easy sounds so good to me moving forward. Let’s hope that evil politics allows all of us to live our lives in peace, semi-comfort and semi-security.

Current Mood: accomplished

elusivek

I seem to say the same thing every year (in recent years)... my new year's resolution is to sign off and write the correct year in documents this year. Got to remember to update my date chop too.

New Year, New Me? No thanks. But, I did go for a new challenge. The Yoga studio I go to had this 108 Sun Salutations for the new year, so I naively decided to "Okay I go!" Geezus it was brutal. 108 repetitions of the Sun Salutation (back bend, standing forward fold, one leg back, other leg back, plank, chaturanga, down dog, one leg front, other leg front, hold the ankles, stand up and back bend, standing forward fold, repeat.

I found that it went a little too fast. I didn't have time to do each pose properly. By around the 60th repetition, my arms were numb. At around the 70th repetition, one of the masters walked around and chuckled at me. I knew I wasn't doing the poses properly - there wasn't enough time for me to do the pose right! But it was funny, and while I started to smile, soon I don't know why I started to tear up. I don't know what I was upset about. But I guess it's also some yoga thing to "let your emotions out" so I let that mysterious upset run its course.

Next was the annual family 1-January buffet lunch. The gossip this time was one of the cousins didn't give presents for Christmas (said she was going home to pick up the presents but didn't have time to get home before coming over to ours) and everyone expected her to give out the presents today - but she didn't either. I dunno. I don't mind the not receiving it, but I mind the headache she avoided by not having to think about what to gift to who.

Then I took Frankie to my the only (?) pet-friendly mall in town. Dogs need to put on a diaper, so I put one on Frankie. Funny thing is, at the end, as we were leaving, he found a lamppost to pee on. I didn't want him to pee event though he had a diaper, but, I noticed his pee coming out. At home, I checked the diaper, but it was dry! But I also know the diaper DID cover over his wee wee! How?????

Maybe because he didn't park exactly IN the box, so he didn't get treats, hahaha.

When we got home, because Frankie had been having some skin issues, and we heard the cold was coming this weekend, we gave Frankie a shower, and blow-dried him too.

I went for my first run as well. I'm going to put in a lot of effort into training - my running pal and I are thinking about a race in Gyeongju, South Korea. I think i'm going to train for the half marathon (21km, time limit of 2H30M) but I will only register for the 10km (time limit 1H30M). My fastest half marathon was 2H38M and I don't think I'll be able to train and reach 2H30M in April. But I'll still be training for it.

The cold has not arrived yet!

It's back to work tomorrow (Friday) and then the weekend again. Why didn't I take the day off?

tsuki_no_bara

so this was a year, huh? some good things happened to me personally (i moved out and am now living by myself again, yay, and i got to go to iceland and greenland and canada) but politically it's just been a shitshow and i don't feel like recapping. if good things happened to you too i'm really happy for you! and hope you get more of the same! and if bad things happened i hope 2026 is a better year for you.

i still love where i live. i still like my family. i still think my friends are a bunch of fabulous weirdos and i'm glad to know you, as bad as i am about keeping in touch.

at the gate of the year, the god of doorways is chasing his tail.

if you're the last one out of 2025 lock the door so it can't escape. i'll see you on the other side. don't be late.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Music: the twilight zone

elusivek

Fair Play
Eve Rodsky
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A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long.

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family -- and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was... underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it.

The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With four easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a figurative card game you play with your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore from laundry to homework to dinner.

"Winning" this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space -- as in, the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.

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hm... actually a DNF but I think I had finished the "theoretical" parts of the book, I had to stop when it was just a continuous listing down of specific examples because it was just getting my blood boil and annoyed and I DO NOT NEED my mood to be affected on this fine day.

If I have to read... "pun intended" one more time........

IMHO, you don't just breakdown tasks into sub-tasks. Nice of her to add sub-tasks to her tasks, but his tasks are just the one task... which, objectively AND subjectively can be broken down into several sub-tasks as well, so why do only her tasks get the sub-tasks? Is that to inflate her number of tasks? Is THAT considered fair?

In a way these feel like... "people with money" (first world?) problems. The never-ending chicken-or-egg question... yes, you have the home making mental load, yes, he is the breadwinner, but hey, he does have his mental load at work. He can just not work, and there will be totally no money, and with no money, you have a different set of problems.

I'm not saying I agree that the breadwinner is the total winner here. The breadwinner should also be compassionate about the home maker's mental load, just as the home maker should show compassion to the breadwinner's mental load at work. You think sitting there in the office/workplace is such a stress-free no-need-for-mental-gymnastics job?

Alright, I'm not married, don't have kids, and I do not live in the US, so I can't really comment much on the specific tasks and way of doing things and such. But hey, it comes down to respecting your partner's (be it life partner, work partner, colleague, friend, spouse, whatever) work and time and whether or not they are putting the time and thought to be considerate of the other.

Maybe I'm naive and don't get the real issue because "you don't see the problem until it happens to you" but, I think it's all about being respectful to each other's time and effort.

elusivek

First Lie Wins
Ashley Elston
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Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist.

The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her mysterious boss, Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job.

Evie isn’t privy to Mr. Smith’s real identity, but she knows this job isn't like the others. Ryan has gotten under her skin, and she’s starting to envision a different sort of life for herself. But Evie can’t make any mistakes—especially after what happened last time.

Evie Porter must stay one step ahead of her past while making sure there's still a future in front of her. The stakes couldn't be higher—but then, Evie has always liked a challenge. . .

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Random Libby loan - I'm still pleasantly surprised by the selection of my local library.

This was a super rushed read - trying to complete my challenge goal of 24 books this year. I'm happy with the 20 I did (my usual target), the 4 extra was just an idealistic plan of 2 books per month.

I didn't quite appreciate the back and forth in timelines, but I guess it was needed in order to build up the suspense. I'm a little sceptical that the Boss team didn't have their own IT techie guy though. I mean, if she had been contacting an IT techie guy, it should somehow get caught in the surveillance?

The ending wrapped up nicely, although felt fairy-tale-ish. Will there ever be such a perfect ending?

elusivek

I should sort through my Japan photos and post, but the fire has passed and I don't feel like doing it anymore.

I spent the Christmas break maximizing the use of my Netflix account. Yeah, I paid throughout the year but only now that I'm binge-playing (notice I didn't use the word watching) stuff. Started off with the Rookie, but once it got serious (Season 3?) I've lost interest. I'll probably wait until end of February, after the Chinese New Year break, then I'll pause the Netflix payment. I don't seem to be watching much anything anyway.

With 2 days left I don't think I have enough time to finish 2 more books (to complete my reading challenge for this year) but I'm good. I set for 24 books, thinking of doing 2 books per month, but I'm already at 22 books, currently on my 23rd which I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish in time. But 20 books used to be my annual target anyway. So I'm happy about it.

I decided to order my own birthday cake this year. What with the stupid jokes (getting me an emoji smiley face cake was a big joke) and inviting others on a trip over my birthday weekend, I don't think i have the patience to be trifled with and decided to order my own cake. I ordered the cake for the 11th because it's a Sunday and also because on my birthday the 12th I have class, and will be home late, and can't pick up the cake beforehand to fridge it, etc. Etc. Etc. And if mom makes a dig about getting a cake not on my birthday I'll give her a comeback about inviting someone else on a trip over my birthday weekend.

Have I mentioned I now do my own laundry? It was really, really, and I mean reaaaaaaalllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy vexing me when Dad would come by ANY RANDOM day of the week with clothes on a hanger that's inside out and ask me "is this yours?" And no matter how many times I say, "I wouldn't know, the T-shirt is inside out" and "I do not have the time to be sorting these hanger tshirts at this time of the day!" (he'd give me the clothes right before I leave home fo for work - and we have a clean clothes basket where the clean laundry is dumped in and we sort it out on Sunday, so WHY CAN'T THOSE TSHIRTS WAIT TILL SUNDAY TO BE SORTED OUT!?!?!?!?!?!) I got so fed up and ran out of patience one time and just yelled that i will do my own laundry from now on and honestly, I've been so much more happier and at ease since then. I probably have some form of OCD, I guess, unless it's something else. But laundry sorting had ALWAYS been on Sundays so why has my Dad started to bug me about tshirts every day!?

I also hate it when somebody sits at my seat at the dinner table. It's been my seat for the past 40 years or whatever so do not sit on my seat! Even when it's not a full family dinner - say someone is just one person sitting at the dinner table but on my seat? I get so miffed. It's not an issue when we have more than 4 people though. Don't worry, for the table seat thing I have never yelled but grumbled in my head only. I'm not so spoiled and entitled. But it has got me wondering why I'm so inflexible in these small things - hence wondering if it's OCD related. And if it's me being spoiled and entitled, I'll draw the line at spoiled. I was not spoiled. I'm protective of what's mine though, because it has been proven to me that if I do not fight for and protect myself then no one here (I mean the family) is going to.

At yoga yesterday, the master had us do headstands and he helped me to do mine, but then I had so much pain in my neck. He said it's because I started off correctly, using my shoulders for support, but then I probably relaxed my shoulders so the weight went straight to my neck. Heck. It hurts till today too. Do I need my Chinese doctor for her chiropractor or bone setting skills?

I plan to get a new pair of running shoes next year because I promised myself I wouldn't buy new ones this year, despite going on the trial run and really liking those shoes I trialed in (Puma, I think). Ran 2 half marathons and a 17km in 2025 and feeling pretty good about that - so I think I've earned new shoes in 2026. Time to check if there's any newer models since then.

elusivek

The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
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Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

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This book was one of the suggestions in the (new) book club I’m in. I was a little bamboozled though!

When I first read the synopsis, I commented to the suggester (who was a friend outside of the club as well) that “I’m getting queer vibes from the synopsis” and she said “no! I promise you!” Queer or not, it would have been fine, but after being promised that it wasn’t, and that then it WAS, I was a little miffed. Nothing against Queer-ness, it’s more of the “that’s what I said but you said it wasn’t!!” type of annoyance. (Yes, I have to be proven right lol)

I’m surprised discussions in the book were mostly so… civilized. Is that… British? (Looks up on Google)… and alright, it felt very, very British to me.

I’ll say, I knew from the start something was up with Arthur and had some inkling about what exactly. The book has many many hints in the beginning and referring back and repeating small phrases and comments that just pushes you to reconsider “hm….. something is up.” There’s a lack of actual physical action/conflict and everything is being discussed so civilly, that it just gives off this very British vibe. In a way it’s very heartwarming and feel-good.

This is my first TJ Klune book, so is this his style of writing? I dunno. But I’m about to find out, coz I’m going to explore this author!

missdiane

I made a very niche video of ASMR brewing coffee here and am trying out capcut for editing since for one, the sound wasn't as nice as I wanted. There's more crunky noises rather than burbly noises from the coffee maker's real life noise. I also was splicing together four different videos and was having difficulty figuring out how to do transitions and stuff. But working on it. I can't figure out how to get the chirpy noises out yet.

In other people's video goings on, TikTok is putting lots of people on my For You page trying to dance or lipsync Raye's "Where Is My Husband?" Love that song

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