I am tired (2/100)

100 Day Challenge (2024), Life, (Eve's version)

Welcome to Day 2 of 100 Day Writing Challenge!

I had a very strange evening last night. I found a burst of energy from somewhere, and stayed up working till 3am. It felt like a tremendously clever life hack at the time, but of course I am paying the price for it today. It is 7:30pm, and I am tired. Can’t got to bed though, because I have my weekly movie date with my Swiss friend, and today we are watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, in light of it being Halloween tomorrow.

—
I am working on an essay about love, which I hope to have posted by the end of the week. Love has been a lot on my mind, between my friends’ adventures and my own new relationship. I have always known that I have a very specific, unusual take on romance, love, relationships and partnerships but it is only recently that I have embraced my unique approach. I thought I would put down in writing, but as soon as I tried I realised I am not nearly as clear on my dating philosophy as I thought I was. Writing is really the gift that keeps on giving, though. The more I wrote and refined the essay, the more insight I was able to gather, and the clearer I became about my relationship goals. Writing that essay was like a month of Sundays in therapy. Highly recommend writing about things you are not totally clear about. I will post the essay on this blog soon (I hope).

—
I am having a self-discipline problem, but I am not going to be too harsh on myself because I am only working on 3 hours of sleep today. But tomorrow better be a productive, stellar day because I seem to have taken much more time off work this week than time spent actually working.

—
I went to my local market this past Saturday and spent some time browsing through the used book stall. I didn’t buy anything (too many unread books!) but I was taken down memory lane by many of the books displayed. Some of these were mega bestsellers when I was a kid (such simpler times!). These days I don’t read nearly enough books, but that doesn’t mean I have lost my love for them. I am still torn about whether I want a mega floor-to-ceiling bookshelf in my house. On the one hand, it collects dust and no-one re-reads books. Plus it will cost a fortune to actually fill it. On the other hand…books!

Thanks for reading,

I have a newsletter!
It lands in your inbox on Saturdays, and is filled with fun links, stories, book and movie recommendations, my wild thoughts, a bit of pop psychology, a bit of inspo lifestyle, and a whole lot of “so this is midlife!” kind of stuff :-)

You can read past newsletters here

Thanks, January 2025. You were swell.

February 8, 2025

I am keeping myself accountable to my 2025 vision, and am doing a monthly recap. January feels like a lifetime away, but it’s only been a week! It also feels like a lot happened in Jan. New Years Day was spent recuperating from an amazing New Years Eve party, which

Well, hello 2025!

February 7, 2025

I am very excited for 2025! I wrote about my 2024 recap, and honestly…it was all positive. (I’m sure I had lots of negative things happen in 2024, but none seem to have made a lasting impression). So now, I need to harness that positivity, and skate into 2025. Of

Review of 2024

February 4, 2025

Yes, I know it’s February, and most people review their year in first weeks of January, but that has never really worked for me. I need the year to end properly, then I need to decompress, and then I need to reflect. That takes time, so February seems apt. And

Rollercoasting through life

November 1, 2024

Welcome to Day 3 of 100 Day Writing Challenge. A hill I will die on: life is designed to be a rollercoaster. It’s literally unavoidable that it will be a cycle of ups and downs. Some downs can be traumatic (unexpected death of a loved one) or much less extreme

Lost dogs, scary movies and photography

October 31, 2024

Welcome to Day 3 of the 100 Day Challenge, and happy Halloween! I fell asleep watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last night, but caught up this evening. I didn’t fall asleep because the movie was bad, but because I was exhausted. It has been a strange week, where I have been busy,

I am tired (2/100)

Leave a Reply Cancel reply