Happy early birthday!
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ā¦a coupla days out, and Iām being all like!
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Version!
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taking bets right now as to whether MagsJ will make a 2024 check-in post
I bet s/he will/wonāt.
ĀæBe the antithesis?
I did not forget your birthday! I forget everything! Also I donāt do math very well so I donāt even know where to start counting from because half the time this freaking board says one day and half the time this board says another day. This is definitely not my fault.
And besides that, how we do the annual calendar and all that crap ā how do we even know that ā¦. really this is your annual birthday for reals. Or yesterday. Or the day before that. Or tomorrow. Or whatever day, really.
hangs head in shame and walks away
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The party-season of all party-seasons has descended upon usā¦
ĀæParty-ready? Check!
My distant-cousinās mother has come from overseas to visit himā¦ she has been a god-send because she has been helping with the housework, which means that all I have to do is take unwanted items to the charity shops, dust things, and just make everything look nice and neat and pretty. [-o<
I want to buy her a gift, but donāt know whatā¦ 
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Currently me ā>
ā¦because He loves to hear my voice and misses me. 
ā¦and I do Him tooā¦ and miss Him equally so as well. 
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Breakfastā¦ done!
Now toā¦ ābathā ādo some tidying up, before dinnerā āput Christmas-dinner onā ādo a Christmas-day [full-body exercise] workoutā āandā¦ restā. 
Next upā¦ seeing in the New Year 
Are you New Year ready?
What a decent year [finally [-o< ] Iāve hadā¦ thank you for having me 2023, letās spend these last few days of You, together. 
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Well hello 2024ā¦ bye bye 2023, it was a blast knowing you 
Good things that happened, in 2023
ā¢ Enrolling in a Product Management pre-grad course
ā¢ Healing my inflammation and fibromyalgia
ā¢ Going back to full-carnivore mode
ā¢ Reconnecting with a guy I met almost 2 decades ago, when he called my numberā¦ that I hadnāt given to him - I admire his ingenuity ; )
ā¢ Starting acupuncture
ā¢ Buying body-GuaSha tools, to ease sore muscle from my work-outs.
ā¢ Listening to my Health App more
ā¢ Starting attending my concierge-serviceās social events again
Itās amazing how detached from themselves certain minds are.
They participate in other forums, critiquing ILP, and its insanity, when they are surrounded by the same kind of insanityā¦and are, personally, governed by it.
Cynicism attempts to conceal the motives of an act in a cloud of dismissive mirth, afraid of what it is revealing.
Are you dissing know thyself, your own forum? Are you saying you amaze yourself?
I feel that way a lot, too, however, I would say amaze is not the right word.
Hmmmā¦
I am wondering at this moment what the most important New Yearās resolution needs to be for me.
There can be so very many of them in my case. How do I want to go about sorting it all outā¦
Think about it a lot. ā¦ or just asking myself that question and waiting until something eventually just pops up in my mindā¦revealing itself to meā¦or not placing any importance on it at allā¦
Eventually, what is going to be will be. I think that sometimes the more determined we are life has a tendency to say: Be Still!
Okay. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. We live in little moments. Enjoy them.
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ā¦an update: 
ā¢ Enrolling in a Product Management pre-grad course
ā¦deciding to go into ātherapeuticsā alongside the Product Management skit.
ā¢ Healing my inflammation and fibromyalgia
ā¦properly healing my inflammation and fibromyalgia, by way of fixing the root-cause that I finally gleaned.
ā¢ Going back to full-carnivore mode
ā¦recently adding some salad-stuff to my meat, and thus adding back in a touch of variety and flavours.
ā¢ Reconnecting with a guy I met almost 2 decades ago, when he called my numberā¦ that I hadnāt given to him - I admire his ingenuity ; )
ā¦Iām happy that he had the ingenuity to do so.
ā¢ Starting acupuncture
ā¦finished acupunctureā¦ it definitely got things moving, under that fascia.
ā¢ Buying body-GuaSha tools, to ease sore muscle from my work-outs.
ā¦sore muscles? what sore muscles. 
ā¢ Listening to my Health App more
ā¦still listening to my health app more.
ā¢ Starting attending my concierge-serviceās social events again
ā¦got my social-butterfly wings back, and flitting around town. 
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ā¦having a thoughtful mid-year moment.
Thinking of her and he and he, and her and all the othersā¦ and how far I have come on my journey, but without them.
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As Autumn approaches, what has the previous three-quarters of the year brought meā¦
ā¦a reprieve, from a constant being to near-death
ā¦a step closer, to getting my full vibe/feels back
ā¦a new-found respect, for air, breathing, energy lel
ā¦a new perspective and attitude, on life and all that it brings
ā¦a much-needed, surge in energy and in motivation
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What has kept me going/kept me occupied? politics, learning, travel, soirĆ©es, sojourns, the house, the garden, the catā¦ and more to come, before the year is out.
Canāt believe I finally made this āAmerican beautyā flower again, after a few years of notā¦ darn caterpillars, eating the young buds. 
[Hibiscus Moscheutos cherry jam (swamp hibiscus) flowers, the size of dinner plates]
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