I hope you have all had a good Christmas, despite the difficulties of not seeing friends and family because of Covid.
I had a nice relaxing time with my family and new pup. We opened presents, ate a late lunch, and relaxed altogether.
Since then, I've started decorating my new room. As we finished DD1's room, she has now moved up into the attic, and my room has been emptied. So, I've painted one wall today, and I hope to paint the other three walls tomorrow. I can then start buying furniture for it. The biggest thing to go in there is a sofa bed, which we already have, but it'll be moved upstairs and I've got a new cover to go on it, so it will match the rest of the room.
I do need to do my Self-Assessment for my tutoring work. I've never left it this late before. I said the same last year, when I finally did it in October. I just hope that next year, I don't leave it another 3+ months after the date I complete it this year (since the deadline is 31st January!).
After the New Year, I'll start reading up on the Home Ed stuff again, and fighting both locally and nationally. Having my own work room will help me stay organised.
I still have one book review to write up, and ideally, I'd like to finish 3 of the books that I am currently reading, and write up reviews of those. I'll then go through the whole year to give a complete list of the 70+books I have read this year. Next year, I think I will lower the number of books I plan to read to about 50. Not to say that I don't think I could read that many again, but if I am getting involved in other things, perhaps studying more too, I simply won't have time to read as much as I have done recently. I am not sitting in the dance studios any more (due to covid) and haven't even finished the MosaiCraft portrait I bought for myself to do over Lockdown1. Again, this is because I'm not sat waiting much anymore. On a Tuesday, when I am waiting for an hour and a half, it is dark at the moment, and I have the pup with me, so it wouldn't be wise to do anything as fiddly as MosaiCraft.
I would like to start focussing on getting healthy again in the new year. I am very aware that I need to get on the waiting list to have my mastectomy before I'm 40 (so I have 18months), and to have the reconstruction I really do want, I need to lose weight. I have discovered that surgeons differ by how much weight I'd have to lose, so to know for sure, I will need to actually meet with one. My mental state has enjoyed not weighing myself every day recently, but my clothes are aware that my weight is creeping up, as I expected it would (not least because it always does when I'm not weighing myself). I find myself wondering if I can incidentally lose weight by focussing on a different area of my health? What if I simply record what I am eating and how much exercise I am doing? If I can get past the shame of recording every bite, will just knowing that I will be writing it later, help me focus my thoughts on healthy foods and the impacts that it will have on my health? Maybe, just maybe. And when it gets warmer, I do want to take my pup jogging (she likes it when I run with her now, but it isn't as fun for me when I'm wrapped in a big coat, scarf and boots, lol).
So, that's my quick update and vague plans for next year.
I pray that you can enjoy this festive period, and that your 2021 is better than this year has been xxx
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