Week Notes ā Feb 18 to March 06 2025
So this will cover 3 weeks of notes!
- šµ I have been feeling (more) introverted this winter. Iāve been enjoying quiet activities, such as reading, walking, yoga, meditation, some private journaling. That means I havenāt shared too much online as well. Itās probably the winter vibes when I usually get more introspective, and I search for extreme coziness.
- š¼ Spring is getting closer and closer (not quite there yet, because I live in winter land, and winter might last up to April/May) but I hear some birds chirping here and there, while temperatures start getting above zero during the day (here and there).
- š Even though I listed āJournalingā above, Iām not journaling as much as I wanted. I had this goal to do longer private journaling sessions once a week for a more in-depth brain dump. But I didnāt. It just didnāt work out for me. On the weekends Iāve been staying away from my computer as much as possible. I just wanted a break. And journaling by hand never appealed to me. I prefer typing.
- š¼ At work Iām still working on a temporary cubicle (while office renovations are ongoing), and I feel like the noisy environment is very distracting to me. Some days I handle it well, and I can put on my headphones with some music and be focused. Some days it feels cluttered and messy. The cubicles walls are super short, so I can see my neighbors monitor screens and vice versa. I find that very distracting. There are still 1-2 more months of renovations, and Iām doing the best I can to manage this work situation.
- š„ļø My left cubicle neighbor always has a small window with YouTube videos playing while she works. And itās fine, I mean, she uses it as background noise I guess, but I always wonder how she can get anything done. Sometimes I feel that little screen bothers me. There is no rational reason for it to bother me: she uses headphones, so itās quiet, itās small (she keeps it in a small window between her 2 monitors) but when I look left to glance at the window on the far end of the room, I see that screen in the vicinity of my field of vision and I get overwhelmed/distracted by proxy. Itās weird, it shouldnāt affect me at all, but I canāt help it some days.
- āøļø Me and my partner went ice skating on an outdoor trail! Itās a place called River Oak Skating Trails. I was excited to try it out, but I wasn't ready for the ups and downs and twists and turns. The trail is not flat (like the Rideau Canal) and Iāve never ice skated uphill or downhill. Itās not super sloped but sloped enough to make me completely lose control before a bend to the left, where I tried to snowplow-style slow down and fell spectacularly. I bumped my head on the ice, and I think I passed out for a couple of seconds, because I remember waking up sideways with my partner talking to me and I wondered where I was. Anyway, I got a tender spot at the back of my head for a couple of days, and a bruised right hand palm, but nothing else. It hurt my pride most of all.
- āøļø There is only one more ice-skating class left in this season for me. I made a lot of progress! I can do forward crossovers both ways and I got better at using the blades for tight turns and stops (as long as they are not in a sloped terrain ā see above).
- š§© We finished the āTiamat Queen of Dragonsā puzzle! š„³
- š I was feeling a bit tired on the weekends, so I didnāt do much expect for reading (and the usual regular house chores, etc). I didnāt even want to watch anything because screens were causing me headaches most of the time. No video games either. Iām reading Ali Hazelwoodās āDeep Endā romance because I just need a comfort read right now.
- š§āāļø I got a peg board for my yoga space to organize some of the accessories I use daily.
- š« I let my Inbox become messy, I skipped several weekly reviews, and that only made me feel more tired and scattered. But this week I managed to process my digital inboxes, update my work notes, revise my projects and next actions and get some clarity.
- ā One of the things I realized about my projects and next actions lists in Nirvana is that I have a bunch of stale items in there. I plan to do a much more in-depth review of my system in the coming days. Delete old stuff, move things to someday-maybe, delete items I no longer want to act on, clean up my someday-maybe lists.
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By Noisy Deadlines Minimalist in progress, nerdy, introvert, skeptic. I don't leave without my e-reader.