Greetings from Australia’s Central Coast! Although my ankle is still recovering, I am able to sit in a car now for decent length of time and I am looking forward to spending some time in the coastal air before joining my parents for a few weeks. This is going to be very important to me […]
Whenever a new year starts, it always feels like everyone is keen to reinvent themselves. As soon as January 1 (or perhaps 2, or perhaps whenever you go back to work or school) rolls around, we tell ourselves that this is our year. We look at productivity blogs and YouTube videos for advice and we […]
It has been a big week for me! When I was at work on Monday, I slipped while riding my bike and broke my ankle in 3 places. This has reduced me to being unable to walk unassisted for 6 weeks, and not being able to run for 3 months. I’m a very active person who likes to do some sort of physical activity every day, so this has been a hard adjustment to make!
In 2023, I wrote down everything that I read, watched, or played to completion. I’ve tracked books on Goodreads since 2017, and it’s nice to see my progress over time. Tracking books helped me to read more, because I was aware of how much I was reading and it gave me a little thrill to add them to my Goodreads account. Last year, though, I got a Hobonichi diary, which is a fancy Japanese brand of diary. The diary helped with my productivity and mental health immensely (more on that another time), but it also has a two page spread at the back entitled “My 100”. Upon seeing this, I thought it would be the perfect place to write down everything I finished in 2023, books and all (I ended up spilling into other pages, for a total of 108 things finished in 2023). In this post, I’ll go through my favourite media that I finished. Not all of these are from this year, so instead it’s more just my personal list from things I finished this year.