Final November thoughts

Good mornin'

I just woke up about half an hour ago, but I'm still in bed. Yesterday, I went to a few Christmas markets in Cologne, Germany, and had lots of fun. However, I feel like I am getting too old to walk around or stand around for 8 hours. Once I got home, I immediately crashed on the couch for like two hours. I'm 31, so maybe I just hadn't slept enough? I should be able to walk around for 8 hours.

Anyway, I am excited about going to the U.S. to spend time with my partner's family. I have never met such a stress-free family in my life before. It is sort of becoming my new happy place where I can pretty much turn into a cat and sleep and eat all day without a worry in the world. Man, I miss American food, ngl. If I stayed home during Christmas, I would definitely stress out about all sorts of things, from chores to what to cook for dinner.

Otherwise, I have been good. I've removed my fall decorations and replaced them with some winter decorations. I have decided to try and decorate for winter rather than for Christmas because I will not even be here for Christmas and I want to enjoy my decorations until February or even March. Maybe I will post some pictures later!

I keep realizing that, apart from YouTube, I have nothing else on my phone or computer that I "accidentally" spend a lot of time on. Now that I am free from the shackles of social media, I am trying to find some "mindful" activities to spend my time on every day. So far I've got my French book and my French magazine, a TBR list that has been waiting for me for a year, a German book that teaches you interesting things about German that even native speakers don't know or say wrong, and I even got a brilliant subscription, so that I can learn about stuff that interests me. I think that should be good enough for now. Plenty of things to do! 

My French lesson got postponed today from 10 am to 5 pm, so I think I am going to finally get up, make myself some tea and breakfast, and then read my French book. 

See you in December! 

November thoughts

Hi void,

I have been.... I don't know what I have been doing. Last time I was here, I talked about cheating on you with my phone, but even that I stopped. My life is just not that interesting and now that it's getting colder and I am home a lot more than usual, there really isn't much to talk about.

I kind of want a space online where I talk about things that I enjoy and things that I find interesting. The idea of this blog was to talk about whatever nonsense went through my head, but I can do that in my obsidian notes on my phone and just keep things somewhat organized and interesting in here. 

However, what should I write about? My interests right now are baking, learning French and... dunno... cleaning my home lol. I am not the type of person to have an opinion on everything, so I have nothing to say. I don't care that much about stuff. I've also been thinking a lot about documenting my life and maybe that is something I could do with my blog. I could document the nice and fun things in my life whenever they occur. If nothing happens for a month, then I can just give a sign of life and see what the following month has in store for us. 

I dunno. Right now I am drinking some hot chocolate I made that is way too rich and I need to dilute with some water. I think I am going to take a nap after this. See you next time.