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I haven’t been great with achieving my goals the past few years, but that never stops me. So here are my resolutions for 2026, including one joke resolution - guess which one: Use up my rema...

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What did you do in 2025 that you’d never done before? Worked a full year with minimal holiday, minimal eating, minimal shopping and 9 months without alcohol. Did you keep your New Years’ resolu...

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August was an odd month. I worked a lot as it was a busy time at work. My work contract was scheduled to end in July but they asked me to stay on through at least late August and said they were...

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We entered 2025 just the two of us after our friends hit a deer on the way to watch fireworks from our balcony. Everyone was okay thankfully but a bit of a weird start to the year. I had stopp...

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Original plan was to sell the Canberra place and ideally find something in Sydney. I thought this would take at least a few months to sell so I booked a month each in Bronte and Bondi to see ho...

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Yes, it’s mid February 2025 now. Oh well. After all that obnoxious rhapsodizing about moving to Sydney and being back by the ocean again, I have done less open water swimming here than when we...

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There is a lake here, on the drive between here and Sydney. Before we moved to Australia I was very excited because on the maps, it looked like a large inland lake at altitude, possibly swimmab...

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Funny how everyone found the Dominatrix class so titillating but no questions about the yoni massage? But yes, I took a class and wasn’t just messing with you. But anyway…I’ve always been fascin...

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What did you do in 2023 that you had never done before? Lived a full calendar year in Australia Didn’t eat, speak, read or use electronic devices for 5 days on an artist’s retreat Became a certif...

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I felt like I hadn’t updated since 2021 but looking at entries I am not as behind as I thought, yay! Even though my last entries are about Summer of 2021, I wrote/posted those about a year after...

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Arriving home in NYC I was thrilled to be free but was still furious about the entire situation. Seeing the extreme lengths the producers were willing to go through, from forging hotel confirmati...

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The next morning we were woken up by some loud people being dropped off at the hotel entrance. It was our group, shouting and laughing at 10am. After some time we started to hear them through t...

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August 2021, we were on a ship in the middle of a Fjord in Norway. I had been pulled aside from the group and was standing outdoors on the front top deck, barefoot in a bathrobe, bathing suit, k...

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After the weirdness at the airport, we all arrived at the hotel (yes with the non-household sharing roommate pairs rooming together per the original assignments.) In the sprinter van we were bri...

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This entry is about events that happened in August of 2021, about a month after I went to Russia, got COVID, got stuck. (Obviously summer 2021 was a bit of a different time in terms of COVID res...

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I’d say I’m a day late and a dollar short with this recap but it’s…February already so guess it’s a month late and $30 short? 2022 was the year I hoped to pull myself out of pandemic slump. It d...

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It’s a sunny day but I am facing away from the water, sitting cross legged with the laptop in my lap, typing. I don’t have my feet on the floor because our robot vacuum, Jackie, is working. I a...

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I think the last time I wrote was on a Wednesday too. There is something about going into the office which is usually Tuesday for me, that makes me appreciate a leisurely morning, including a di...

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I woke up early this morning and looked out on the lake at sunrise. Rosy pink skies, glassy flat grey water at dawn, and two hot air balloons gearing up to fly, one red, one blue. Fell back asle...

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We arrived in Australia in late March, still a little shellshocked but overall life has been really good. We were incredibly fortunate in our process as we received special global talent visas t...

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current book Right now I am half through The Salt God’s Daughter. On paper this book should be right up my alley (magical realism, ocean themes) but I haven’t gotten into it. It’s kind of like ...

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. . . . TW: brief, non-detailed mentions of death, cancer, rape, suicide . . . . I’m going to ignore that I tried to get back into the swing of things here again but then it’s been 4 months. And...

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After testing positive for COVID, I was a bit shellshocked. A lot of the others were in disbelief too, but it made a weird kind of sense to me. I don’t think we even knew at the time that you c...

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After the stillness of that first encounter with Baikal and its waters, I was launched back into a flurry of frantic activity with other humans. Meeting up with my teammates and the larger team...

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So in late March 2021 I received the second dose and started to feel a little less worried. Life continued on, perhaps with a bit less stress than usual from COVID, but then work started to get ...

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