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Notes on 2024: Week #1

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It's 10 days into the new year  and I've been toying with the idea of doing a weekly update/journal post. That's 52 weeks/posts and that number looks doable for the year. This post is late by that plan but wth! I started this year with a cold that flattened me for 36 hours and almost had me cancel my travel plans. I felt so wiped out, no fever but such fatigue and heaviness of the left side of the head. Travel tickets got upgraded and I was on the mend just in time to board the train to Goa on 4th. Travel I've put on my dusty winged shoes this year and my travels have begun with the blessing of Yemanjá, Goddess of the Ocean. GOA - Three days of sun, sand, and fun with family. Long morning beach walks, sand castles, sunrises & sunsets, lounging by the beach, crochet, after-dinner family beach walks, tempo-traveller sightseeing, shopping!, family tales with pizza,... So much packed into three days.  Exercise I gave myself an off-year last year, I let go completely and...

The First 31st Blog Post

​ “Before this year ends I would like to started this blog.” This has been a thought for sometime now and I have been trying to write that first blogpost for a couple of months now. The post I figured should be the so called pillar article and so should be about how it happened, a background of sorts, for I want this blog to be a place to document all that is to come.   But that pillar article is writing itself into a couple of floors…  2023 has been a momentous year. I started this year still mourning Cuckoo, in the first quarter Senti got diagnosed with Cushing’s and a fast growing tumour, just about when I stabilised Senti and came to terms with his conditions, I went in for a bilateral hernia surgery mid-year. Follow-up on that led to getting diagnosed with two one-in-million conditions - JAK2 and Budd Chiari Syndrome. Life changed forever and yet it feels the same.  It’s been a while since I wrote a blogpost, long enough that I didn’t notice when my blog disappeared....