Monthly Progress Report

June 2021. I’ve no idea how to describe June. Or where it went. Though I know I wrote a new short story a collection… After such a massively productive May, it feels a bit like I needed a month to recover. I started to update my end of the financial year records and set up […]

May 2021 turns out to be the month I broke, and then got my shit back together again. Struggling with bronchitis, but making progress. It feels bloody good to get back to living again. So it’s just as well I have stuff to do, and heaps of energy to spend on it! Virtue Apr May […]

April 2021 pretty much followed on from where March left off, and I ended the month still tired and needing some rest. I started with a flu jab and a tetanus jab on the 1st (did you know you should be getting boosters every ten years?) And then on the 11th I got my first […]

Spent most of March 2021 feeling exhausted and napping. I am one of those people tend to sleep when times get tough, so I’m starting to feel the pandemic is finally getting to me. Pretty Girl does contribute to my sense of exhaustion, but at the same time, she forces me to keep going. And […]

February 2021 was mostly devoted to settling the new addition to our family in. There was a lot of dog proofing, though we found out fairly quickly it was mostly inadequate, so we now have boxes stacked above puppy height with all the portable things. Virtue Jan Feb Notes Beauty: bodyI enjoy exercising my lean, […]

January 2021 is off to a good start. And hopefully, I’ll continue to be a little kinder to myself, and remember not to think too far ahead, and to stay focused on each day. Virtue Nov Jan Notes Beauty: bodyI enjoy exercising my lean, healthy 59 kg body several times a week.• Eat < 5g […]

Right. Well. Um. I had a stroke. The months between September – November 2020 have been crammed full of doctors appointments, with naps in the spaces. It wasn’t a big stroke. Just a small one with no ongoing physical effects. For a while there, I couldn’t read, or write, or talk sense. It was horrific. […]

I about reached the end of my rope in August 2020. For the most part nothing much has changed for me since January. I stay home, I write, I develop my Photoshop skills, I get through the day. But even I am having difficulties. I’d probably still choose to stay home, but having the choice […]

July 2020 was a mixed blessing. One the one hand, the planet, and Melbourne in particular is a disaster. The State Government literally declared a State of Disaster. It sounds bad (and it is), but the declaration allows and requires some sets of actions by government and the people. On the other, I published a […]

June 2020 feels like a five-minute disaster movie sandwiched in between a bunch of other disaster movies in a century long disaster movie marathon. And yet nothing’s really happened. Though it’s been a little bit funny how wrong so many of those disaster movies and novels got it. Virtue May Jun Notes Pleasure: AdventurePlan and […]

Sitting here, preparing to review May 2020, it just feels like a sucky month. And this is, of course, the point of a monthly review – there was always more that happened than you can remember. And it’s usually not as bad as you thought. Virtue Apr May Notes Pleasure: AdventurePlan and take an international […]

April 2020 just happened in between all the spaces. And there were a lot of spaces as (unsurprisingly) my appointments and meetings were cancelled or rescheduled one by one. I’m not fretting too much about being locked down. Though I would like a haircut and to sit down to eat in a restaurant. And maybe […]