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Journal – 010124

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I woke up at 10 am. Rather late for me but I went to bed last night at 2 am. My right leg is sore from yesterday. One reason why I have started to  work our everyday. Simple things like walking on the tread mill with weights. Starting off light and increasing the endurance. I spent most of the day cleaning out my shelves in the bedroom and respacing them out to hold my new cold weather boots. I used them yesterday and they felt nice. Good grip and amazingly comfortable.

I spent some time in the garage putting everything away from December. I had to move things around to get some projects done and didn’t put things back where they should. It looks much better now.

I had a small fire outside and caught up on reading my notes for the year. 

 🌤️ 44°F – 39°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Happy New Year! 🍾

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As the year comes to a close, let’s raise a toast to the memories we’ve made, the lessons we’ve learned, and the people we’ve loved. May the new year bring us new opportunities, new adventures, and new beginnings. Let’s cherish the moments we have with our loved ones and make the most of every day. Here’s to a happy and prosperous new year! 🥂

Journal – 311223

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Me and my daughter went geocaching this morning on Cougar Mountain. I had issues navigating to the trail head due to some road closures. The GPS on my phone is not reliable and will stop functioning. We managed to find 3 caches and headed home. We worked on reorganizing the kitchen and purged out a lot of containers we collected over the year.

I decided to get a new phone this afternoon. I was fed up with the GPS not functioning. So, I purchased a new Google Pixel 8 Pro.  With the trade in it cost 120 dollars. It’s a nice phone. The optical zoom is rather good. I spent a few hours outside next to the fire installing and configuring all my apps.

I stayed up and brought in the new year with the family.

  ⛅50°F – 37°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 301223

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I spent time planning my week and putting all our goals and planning into OneNote. This will save us time and effort on our daily and weekly tasks like meal planning. I made a list of our common meals in a list; this will expand but it helps when you are overwhelmed with decisions and just want to make a quick meal plan for the coming week.

 🌧️ 49°F – 40°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 291223

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Today was cleaning the house and planning day. In the day we cleaned the house, and in the evening we planned out Meals (Breakfast, Lunch Dinner), Daily Todo, Travel (how to save money to travel more) outside next to a fire. We did a lot and were proud of everyone to get this all completed in one day. The kids had great ideas and solutions.

It was unusually warm today. I was wearing a T-shirt next to the fire and felt fine. I picked up my new snow boots this morning. They are The North Face Chilkat v400 boots. They feel light and comfortable. Nice boot for the price. I am planning to use them on my winter hikes and bike rides in the cascades.

 ⛅ 61°F – 45°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 281223

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Last day of work for this year. I get a 4-day weekend and am going to use it to clean the house, plan the family goals, and simplify our daily tasks. We will travel more this year. We used to do weekend travel around Washington and Oregon but stopped during the Pandemic. I am going to start doing it again. Keeping the budget tight will allow us to travel multiple times a month. It will be exciting to get out more and see the town off the beaten track. With the minivan it will be much easier to do this, and the kids are excited.

I am putting a plan into place to lower the travel costs so we can do more travel at a lower cost.

 🌧️ 55°F – 45°F 🙂 | Seattle

Journal – 271223

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Today is the last day to come into the office this year. It was a rough start. That car wouldn’t start, and I had to jump the car this morning. I only spent 6 hours at work and headed home. Since I was the only manager here, I had quite a few questions from all the agents. I worked on formatting the SOP Wiki page, so it is visually pleasing. The Wiki is an outdated version of Doku Wiki and is quite simple.

I left early to get home so I can do a brain dump for all the work items that need to be done next month. There was too many distractions at work.

Spending a lot of time planning my weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. I’m really trying to do everything I can do this coming year. I have health, travel, and education goals this year. I feel that I have more time now and it is time to use it for personal development and do fun things I always wanted to do every day.

 ☁️ 51°F – 40°F 🥱 | Seattle 

Journal – 261223

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Hectic day. I started work at home, then drove to work later in the morning, then drove home early, and completed the day in my home office. I am the only manager on duty and every team had questions about procedures. Something they should already know.
After work I washed clothes and cleaned out the house, putting gift bags away and clearing out the remaining boxes. The dishes are all caught up and the kitchen is back to normal. I’m tired but have a sense of accomplishment.

 🌤️ 49°F – 41°F 🥱 | Seattle

Journal – 251223

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 I slept in till 7 am this morning. Tired from yesterday’s cooking and baking. Santa brought presents for the kids. The kids loved all their presents. Spent a part of the day breaking down boxes and clearing out the Livingroom of gift wrapping. The kids spent most of the day playing with their toys while I made the Christmas Ham and sides.

We Skyped with my family in the evening. It was good to see them. I am planning to fly us early next year to see them.

 🌧️ 42°F – 40°F 🙂 | Seattle 

Journal – 241223

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 Me and my son were up before sunrise. I drove to get donuts for breakfast. The sunrise was absolutely beautiful. Deep blues with reddish painted clouds across the sky. In the afternoon we made pierogies and Bacalao for dinner. There was a lot of work, but it was delicious. We let the kids open some of the presents before bed. After putting all the dishes away, I headed to bed.

 ⛅ 45°F – 28°F 🙂 | Seattle