“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven"
7 years, it is how long we have been living in our own house. I guess with everything changing I lost focus on my blog. I also got a new job, was promoted again to supervisor. I don't know, I think I like making things more complicated for me than they have to be. And sometimes I need to take a pause and remember to breath.
Matt and I have been working during the coronavirus lockdown, but with the countries closed I still have not seen my family for over two years now. To be fair it used to be how often I went when I lived in Canada because of the fare, but I did not have cute nieces back then that grow so fast! And yes, they are meeting this weekend for our mother's birthday. Wish I was there!
Mostly I have let things go on passively, but the last two months I have made some big changed in my life. My health had gone really bad in January, it was more than time I took care of it! My hours have been reduced to help me cope and get better and after a few months where the medicine I was given literally kept me laying on couch or bed if I was not working, I ditched it and took things in hand.
First I was tired of being overweight. It could have been worse but it was still annoying me, and my work lifestyle of starting or finishing work in the middle of the night was not helping. Thankfully the lockdowns have stopped me from eating at McDonalds all the time! Two months ago I started Intermittent Fasting. At 39 days, I lost 6+kg (I could not find my scale the first few days, I had to buy a new one, but I think it's closer to 9kg), I think more clearly again, no more brain fog for me unless I am seriously tired. And I have more energy than I used to have. Of course my work is still exhausting me, but that's just the way it is.
Then I realised that, just like the people who had been stuck home during the lockdown, I now had time to learn. I am amazed by the opportunities to learn you can find online, some very affordable. There seems to have been a boom in Android apps to keep busy and stay healthy while confined, to improve one self. And I am now taking advantage of it by learning to create apps with Kotlin by following the official Google's developers training. Although I have a feeling I will have to learn Java at some point since Android Studio still partly uses it. Other a decade ago, my brother had taught me the basics of PHP, a scripting language I had started using without noticing, typing codes in forums rather than pressing buttons because I thought it was faster.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
What if they did not?
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