Nice Routine

Amazingly, I slept for a solid 9.5 hours last night!

I must have needed it.

So I rose, changed into my swimmers and took Harley out to the pool. Absolutely perfect swimming weather and the water had just the slightest chill to it.

In between throwing the ball for Harley, I swam about 20 laps. Mostly freestyle, but some backstroke and breaststroke too. I floated for quite some time, soaking up as much vitamin d as I could.

After about an hour, we left the pool area and I gave Harley his morning treats - a chook foot, two chicken flavoured cookies and a scattering of liver treats. 

I rebounded for about 5-10 minutes.

I reheated a big cup of chicken broth with 2 chicken wings for brunch and planted myself in front of the TV for the Ashes Test Match.

When their lunch break was called, I decided to clean my ensuite.

I have a natural gel that gets piped onto the grout lines of the shower tiles. That took a while. I decluttered some old hand creams, empty mascara and eyeliner containers, lip balms, a tissue box, reed diffuser, cleaned my brushes and all my scrunchies of loose hair, polished the mirror, cleaned the basin and surrounds, wiped down the window sill and walls and then returned to the cricket.

Tomorrow, I’ll rinse off the grout cleaner and clean the shower recess, floor and toilet.

I did a roast lamb and vegetables for dinner - potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot, onion, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, snow peas and broccoli all lightly laced with my delicious home made gravy.

No trivia tonight because there was tennis to watch (Kyrgios and Kokkinakis) and two T20 matches. The Renegades surprisingly defeated the top of the ladder Stars and now I’m watching Perth Scorchers play Adelaide Strikers.

I feel like I filled my day productively with plenty of beneficial healthy habits.

Now it’s time to sleep again.

Nite all.  

Read Edit Read

Celebrating the birthdays of three people today. Two friends and my goddaughter.

Even though I was awake at 7am, I didn’t rise until 9am and took Harley straight outside to play. I sat on the side of the pool, soaking up the vitamin D and after 30 minutes, I headed inside to do some rebounding.

I then made myself a cup of soursop tea and returned to bed where I am attempting to do the final edit on a friends book.

This is my second time reading it and the new edits have improved it, which I didn’t think was possible.

Focusing for so long is quite exhausting so I had to have a short nap, then watched the 2nd episode of the new Jet Lag series before returning to editing.

At 4pm, I took Harley out for his afternoon play and then made myself an early dinner of fried rice with honeyed prawns - fend for yourself night!

I returned to bed at 6pm and have done some more editing with the T20 cricket on in the background. Despite David Warner scoring a massive 130 runs to contribute to the Thunders very respectable final score of 205, Hurricanes thrashed them with two overs to spare.

It’s now 10pm so I will attempt to sleep - I’m hoping to create a new habit of falling asleep before 11pm and waking up before 7am and even getting out of bed to start my day earlier.

I feel that getting out of bed between 9am and 10am wastes too many fresh hours and if I want some structure to my day, then it needs to start earlier.

Good luck to me!

I ordered my 2026 Intrinsic calendar and some more Essiac tincture, which is having a very positive effect on my gut health.

Enough.

Nite all.

What Day is it?

A day in the Bay which was a little disappointing because some establishments have taken extra time off and decided not to reopen until next week.

Bloody inconsiderate! They should have known that I would need them to be open today!

Actually, it makes me admire them for being so self aware and taking necessary time off to be with family and to rejuvenate before getting into the new year. Good for them. I can make do.

Thank goodness my butcher was open!

I won $73 on all the scratchies that I received for Christmas. That money paid for lotto this week and a new calendar.

I purchased 6 calendars before Christmas and gave them ALL as gifts, forgetting to keep one for myself! 

We put one on the back of the toilet door, one inside the pantry door and I have one in my bedroom so we got two today and I’m going to order an Adele Basheer Intrinsic calendar for my room.

I used to sell Intrinsic products in my shop and I met Adele at the gift fair in Sydney - I love her.

The cricket has been amazing and tonight’s game between Melbourne Stars and Brisbane Heat was super exciting! Brisbane Heat performed a cricketing miracle in the final four overs to win tonight.

The tennis has already started so I’m going to have to make tough decisions this month.

Time for sleep now.

Nite all.

Happy New Year 2026

Here we are, 45 minutes from 2026, and I’m sitting up in bed editing a friend’s book with Big Bang Theory on TV in the background.

I can’t hear any noise outside, so I guess there are no NYE parties happening in the immediate area.

As I shared on Facebook yesterday …

It’s that time of year when I share my favourite memories and the things for which I am grateful from the year that’s gone. 

2025, compared to previous years, has been very uneventful, unremarkable and pretty stagnant so I have nothing to brag about except the fact that I’m still upright on this earth.

In 2025 I …

1 Quietly reached the age of 65.

2 Made my bed every day bar one.

3 Completed two thirds of my memoir.

4 Continued meditation classes with Annemarie and  practised daily meditation at home.

5 Enjoyed three days with No 1 Son (after 6 yrs).

6 Maintained a gratitude journal and a food/health diary.

7 Celebrated both my AFL and NRL teams GF wins.

8 Began creating some affirmation cards to be printed.

9 Bought two new Apple devices - laptop & iPad.

10 Smiled and laughed at regular morning teas and  lunches with my art girls.

I hope to inject more energy and create meaningful connections in 2026. Motivation and enthusiasm is bubbling within so words like ‘remarkable’ and ‘extraordinary’ will be included in next years summary 😊🤩😎

I suppose I could add that I completed my 14th year of maintaining this blog AND increased my knowledge in music, history, geography, science, literature, movies and entertainment by playing trivia five evenings each week.

That’s me for 2025 and while nothing devastating occurred, it was not my favourite year, so I’m keen to see what I can create in 2026.

Time to sleep now.

Nite all.

In between

 One of my Christmas presents from Barry was an iPad with a ‘pencil pro’ …

This means that I can hand write in cursive (or not) and the device converts it to print! I can also do art, but I think it will take a lot of practise to learn all of the movements and controls

I have only just set up my ipad and connected the pencil so it’s all very fresh and new for me. Even the iPad behaves differently to my old one so it’s a bit of a learning curve for me.

I did some art today!

I started designing my affirmation cards - something that was on my ‘to do’ list for 2025. I think I’ll simply transfer it to 2026 haha.

It’s almost midnight so I’m signing off. Sleep time for me.

Nite all.