I wasn’t sure if I could… but Praise God who sustained me to reach this (school holiday) season!!!
Have a wonderful week, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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34/52 Snowed under
This post (or lack thereof, to tell the truth) is being brought to you by my marking load, which is currently threatening to overwhelm me 🙁
Reporting is due tomorrow.
Sigh. Who’d be an English teacher, huh? Lol
See you next week, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
Happy New (seasonal) Year, dear Reader!
I hope today and the rest of the year, right through to the last day of Winter, 2025, are wonderful for you!
– KRidwyn
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32/52 wait, what?
A conversation with my Miss19 the other day, about ‘why is the word “gnome” spelled with a silent “g” instead of a silent “k”?’ led to a quick Google search on ‘words that start with gn’.
I’d never have guessed these would be the search results!
Have an amusing week yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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31/52 Me, after this week…
It’s been a doozy of a week. So this resonated with me a lot:
As did this:
Self-care is important, people!
Please, be kind to yourself today and this week, okay?
– KRidwyn
I watched the musical Gigi yesterday afternoon with my eldest daughter, something we hadn’t done in years.
After the expected discussion regarding morality and her appreciation that society is no longer like that, she asked if Leslie Caron was still alive. I doubted she would be, but picked up my phone to check… and was SO surprised not only to realise that yes, she was in fact, alive and well at 93 years old, but also, still working (well, she played ‘Pauline’ in “Written on the Water” in 2020)!
How incredible is that! SO impressive.
So inspirational.
And on that note, I need to go and better myself, or something 😛
Have an inspirational week yourself, dear Reader!
- KRidwyn
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29/52 Things I’m grateful for :)
New starts. The fact that I awoke this morning with a wealth of opportunities to enjoy and spend my time on.
The warmth of the sun on my back in spite of the chill in my toes (within of just socks but also ugg boots – have I mentioned before how much I don’t enjoy the cold?) and the fact that our house was warmed by a fire last night.
I’m listening to my daughters (aged 19 and 16) voluntarily spending time together, talking and playing with Kiya now we’re home after church.
My house is not clean. The list of ‘stuff I should be doing’ is huge. But I am happy. Even with the hedge clippings that my eldest daughter shook off her clothing, yesterday, in the sunroom, which still litter the floor near my feet.
These clippings mean the mock orange hedge beneath my bedroom windows is now looking amazing, and through my daughter’s – and not my – efforts. They’re glossy green, meaning the plants are healthy and have enough water in spite of the lack of rainfall here in this part of Queensland. Again, through no effort of mine. That’s a God thing.
My part to play in all this? Enjoyment. That’s it. (And pick up the leaves in the sunroom.)
What an amazing blessing that is!
Have an amazing week yourself, dear Reader!
– KRidwyn
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28/52 On the return to Term 3
Phew! What a week it’s been!
Yesterday morning, I drove Kiya, with Mum and her dog Trav, down to Brisbane for an appointment. It occurred to me that last Saturday morning (7 days earlier) I had also collected Mum… but instead, to go car shopping. We’d visited a quite rusty Suzuki Jimny, locally, before heading down to Brisbane to look at a 2020 version – which sold en route. We then pulled into Suzuki at Nundah, and ended up buying a brand new Ignis, before stopping at CostCo on the way back up the Coast.
This week was
- the return to school (that’s right, I have a 0.9FTE teaching job as well)
- the collection of Mum’s car on Wednesday
- Miss 16’s trip to QldTransport to have her photo taken for her Learners
- the (hopefully successful) migration of this website from one host to another
- Miss 19 job-hunting and speaking with prospective employers, and finally
- yet another big trip yesterday.
Today, I’m playing violin at church, then spending the afternoon with my parents and godfathers who are visiting from NZ.
Phew! again…
Hope it’s been a productive week for you, too, dear Reader!
- KRidwyn
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27/52 On habit creation
So June ended, and with it, the challenge to publish a daily blogpost for #blogJune.
And it took a number of days before I stopped thinking ‘oh! I haven’t posted yet… and this’d make a good post!’ so… I guess that means I’d created myself a daily blogging habit?!
But it’s definitely July now, the first Sunday of, so it’s time to resume my Sunday blogging schedule. And today marks 27 of the 52 posts I had set myself back in January 🙂
So keeping with the topic of ‘habits help you to get things done’ I just wanted to post this photo right here:
That’s right. For a mere $25K you could own your own barrel organ. How cool is THAT?!! (Ooh! I’ve never seen one of these intact before, as Nemo’s teacher would have said)
Seriously though: it’s incredible to think of the dedication that the creation of this instrument must have taken. Not only the mechanics of making the instrument actually work, but also the incredible craftsmanship in the painstaking attention to detail in the instrument’s decorations! A true work of art.
And such incredible-ness can ONLY happen through habit-creation. The dedication of doing small amounts consistently, day by day by day by day by day.
Without this, the instrument wouldn’t exist.
And this day by day process is not just for weeks, nor months, but YEARS.
Inspirational dedication, that. An aspirational habit.
And with that thought, I’m off to go be productive for the rest of my day.
Have a great week, dear Reader, and I’ll see you next Sunday!
– KRidwyn
#BlogJune for 2024… done!!!
I think 28 June blogposts, almost in a row, is close to my record, so I’m happy with that 🙂
I also found time, before church this morning, to burn off the pile of stuff that’s been accumulating over months and months now, so that was also a very fulfilling accomplishment.
And I think my fire may even have been larger than my friend Steven’s from the other day, so there’s that too 😛
Here’s wishing you a successful end of month too, dear Reader!
KRidwyn