2023
Heeey! Itsa new yeaar!
A little late to the game, but I'll take this chance to reflect (briefly) on the year and set some goals for the new year. Maybe you should too ? :D I kind of feel that the 1st of Jan should always be a holiday (and it is...) to give us some time to recalibrate and reflect.
//TLDR; Summary Alert!!
2022 ... has been an interesting year. Not an especially rough year, but an interesting one for me. This year saw the pandemic reaching a tail end (finally!) in many places, but it's kind of been a mandatory rest year for me. I had COVID on my birthday, and then spent most of December recovering from a persistent not-covid flu. For the first time in my life, I had conjuctivitis which ... wasn't itchy but blurred my vision and caused a white sticky discharge leak from the corners of my eyes. ;___; I thought my eyes were leaking, like the white part of my eyeballs were leakingggg...
Effectively, this meant that I probably spent what would have been the more exciting parts of the year sitting at home and resting. But really, it's not all bad.
Continuing in the vein of my last journal entry, I'd to start the year with some Gratitude!
I'm really glad to be safe and relatively healthy. To have a job and a nice boss and colleagues that put up with all my nonsense, and sometimes join along. A boss that shields us from the debris that falls from above .. I have friends who accept me for who I am and indulge me in my rather restricted food choices, and travel along with me in many many misguided adventures.
I'm glad for the opportunity to try and learn new things at work. To be in a place where they encourage me to pursue my interests and grant me opportunities to work in those areas (even though being thrown into projects can be daunting).
With the pandemic coming to an end (?), this year saw the return of travel! And travel we did... to the land of Sausage and beer! I'm also really grateful the opportunity to travel to travel with friends and family and explore new places together :)
In the year ahead, I have a couple of Goals:
GRATITUDE
This year, I'm going to learn to live with more gratitude and stop being so entitled. To count my blessings and opportunities as they come instead of making comparions with others about things that I have and don't have.
JESUS
To always, always grow and learn to live a more God-centred life. This also means, understanding AND giving control to God. This is an area that I've always struggled wrestled with. I have my goals, and things that I want.
But I know, and I acknowledge that all things belong to God. All things come in his time and his provisions are always enough soo my verses for this season are:
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
-Matthew 6: 26 - 31
So think it this ties with gratitude. There's no need to strive and compare. God hears us, and he will provide.
FINANCES
I've been saying this for a while. But I think it's time to get my monies in order. Debs going to learn how to manage a budget and to invest. I don't have much money, but I should learn how to be more prudent with my spending.
... yeah not much elaboration on this one until I do some research. But in general, I just feel like I shouldn't be squandering my resources frivolously.
Hi 2023, and 8% GST. My pocket does feel a bit smaller now ;__;
A little late to the game, but I'll take this chance to reflect (briefly) on the year and set some goals for the new year. Maybe you should too ? :D I kind of feel that the 1st of Jan should always be a holiday (and it is...) to give us some time to recalibrate and reflect.
//TLDR; Summary Alert!!
2022 ... has been an interesting year. Not an especially rough year, but an interesting one for me. This year saw the pandemic reaching a tail end (finally!) in many places, but it's kind of been a mandatory rest year for me. I had COVID on my birthday, and then spent most of December recovering from a persistent not-covid flu. For the first time in my life, I had conjuctivitis which ... wasn't itchy but blurred my vision and caused a white sticky discharge leak from the corners of my eyes. ;___; I thought my eyes were leaking, like the white part of my eyeballs were leakingggg...
Effectively, this meant that I probably spent what would have been the more exciting parts of the year sitting at home and resting. But really, it's not all bad.
Continuing in the vein of my last journal entry, I'd to start the year with some Gratitude!
I'm really glad to be safe and relatively healthy. To have a job and a nice boss and colleagues that put up with all my nonsense, and sometimes join along. A boss that shields us from the debris that falls from above .. I have friends who accept me for who I am and indulge me in my rather restricted food choices, and travel along with me in many many misguided adventures.
I'm glad for the opportunity to try and learn new things at work. To be in a place where they encourage me to pursue my interests and grant me opportunities to work in those areas (even though being thrown into projects can be daunting).
With the pandemic coming to an end (?), this year saw the return of travel! And travel we did... to the land of Sausage and beer! I'm also really grateful the opportunity to travel to travel with friends and family and explore new places together :)
In the year ahead, I have a couple of Goals:
GRATITUDE
This year, I'm going to learn to live with more gratitude and stop being so entitled. To count my blessings and opportunities as they come instead of making comparions with others about things that I have and don't have.
JESUS
To always, always grow and learn to live a more God-centred life. This also means, understanding AND giving control to God. This is an area that I've always struggled wrestled with. I have my goals, and things that I want.
But I know, and I acknowledge that all things belong to God. All things come in his time and his provisions are always enough soo my verses for this season are:
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
-Matthew 6: 26 - 31
So think it this ties with gratitude. There's no need to strive and compare. God hears us, and he will provide.
FINANCES
I've been saying this for a while. But I think it's time to get my monies in order. Debs going to learn how to manage a budget and to invest. I don't have much money, but I should learn how to be more prudent with my spending.
... yeah not much elaboration on this one until I do some research. But in general, I just feel like I shouldn't be squandering my resources frivolously.
Hi 2023, and 8% GST. My pocket does feel a bit smaller now ;__;