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I tried a new-to-me fruit on January 25, 2025. Why has it taken me so long to write about it? Well, as I mentioned in my post about hanging a pegboard in my art room, at the time I didn’t think the result of my attempt was good enough. The fruit wasn’t exotic enough, it…
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Apparently, I had some grandiose ideas about what completing a lot of my Forty Before Forty goals would look like. With January already halfway behind me, my chronic illnesses keeping my health in flux, and our financial situation growing more dire by the day, I had to take a step back and reevaluate how rigid…
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I started a diamond painting project with my daughter back in 2022, as something to do together during our weekly mother-daughter chats. All of the diamond paintings I had worked on outside of this one were gifts, so this was the first I was doing for myself. I guess therein lies the lack of motivation…
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Admittedly, sometimes when I read the Bible my brain checks out. It’s off making plans for the day, stressing over a thousand things that need to be done right-this-minute, and noting I really need to put on some lotion. It can be hard to focus alone in a quiet room, so it’s all the more…
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I am a huge fan of BTS, which means I am ARMY (aka: Adorable Representative M.C. for Youth). Last year, V (Kim Taehyung), one of the members of BTS, released a collab of “White Christmas” with Bing Crosby. The late singer’s voice blended well with the deep crooning of V’s added vocals. As part of…
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There are a lot of foods that I have had to say goodbye to, or severely limit, over the course of my chronic illness journey. Between GERD and my IC, tomato sauce is something that will consistently make me feel dreadful. I’ve tried popping a Prelief beforehand, but it doesn’t offer enough protection against the…
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Each year, I set an overall reading goal for myself on my Good Reads account. I read a lot of books with my kids during our school lessons, so the bulk of my reading in recent years has tended to be non-fiction or middle grade novels. Part of this goal was to light a fire…
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I think I included this goal with the hopes that Raymond and I would get to go somewhere fun, and new-to-us to eat on a date. Sometimes I am a little too optimistic, though, which is mind boggling given I have had to fight against a glass-half-empty-and-it’s-leaking outlook all of my life. We haven’t been…
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I will always have a deep rooted place in my heart for Canada. While I have been living in the United States for longer than I ever spent living on Canadian soil, it is where I was born and where I spent much of my childhood. The better part of fifteen years of my life…
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This post has been a long time coming, since I checked it off with my family on July 29th. My right hand still does not cooperate with long term use, so I have had to choose my activities wisely. As such, writing up posts about all of the checked-off-goals for my Forty Before Forty has…