First of all, I hope that all my Hivean friends had a good Christmas. I also hope everyone had a good year. And lastly, I am wishing you all an amazingly happy, healthy and prosperous New Year for 2026.
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I figured with all the AI stuff that's blowing up bigger, better, and maybe for the worst too in 2025, the image is very fitting. A little Matrixy...
So what's up with everyone? Please let me know! I'm going to read a few posts by some of my Hive friends here shortly, but it's impossible to read them all, so let me know what's going on!
I was reading a few posts a few days ago, and I can see that much has happened in my absence. As it always does. Therefore, one of my resolutions includes Hive.
I will dedicate another post on a look back at my life in 2025, and some plans and goals for 2026, but this post will be mainly about my resolutions. Which I plan to uphold.
So here we go.
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Same Old, same Old
OK, so my first resolution involves Hive. More Hive posts to be precise.
I know, I know, I've said it many times before, but this time I really want to work on this more.
I will not promise 365 posts a year, but simply more than I have done this past year.
Sometimes my lack of posting is lack of time, but sometimes it's being stuck in my mind...
Hard to explain, but it is what it is.
For instance, I was in the Netherlands for almost 6 weeks while I had planned to stay for 3 weeks.
Circumstances (mainly finances) made that we (
In the first two weeks, we did most of our planned visits with family and friends and a trip to Amsterdam. We had to do these because my youngest daughter was also in the Netherlands (arrived before us) and of course she wanted to see most of the same people. Ironically, these first two weeks were also the busiest weeks at my job...So I only got one full day of work done, and missed all the rest. Usually, this wouldn't be a big deal. However, this time, there was no more work for most of our time we spent in The Netherlands. I work for two different companies, and there was some from the other, but the pay is a little lower, and it was mostly training for new projects, so nothing regular enough. November and December were my slowest months of the year.
That sucked majorly. Barely enough to pay my rent, so let alone to do fun things.
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Stuck
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Now, my sister (where we were staying) was quite generous and she fed us mostly, but it sucks to have to rely on other people. And we couldn't really do anything other than stay at her house or see my friend who lives close by.
My eldest daughter, who lives in the same city, had to work a lot, so we didn't really see her as often as I'd wanted to. There were some good reasons for us to go to the Netherlands, but in the end we went for nothing other than see friends and family. I'll keep those reasons for another time...
Anyway, in those weeks where I wasn't doing much, I could have written some Hive posts...
I know. Could have. And I even had my laptop and peakd open for it a few times.
But then nothing...
I felt stuck. Stuck in the Netherlands (it was COLD!) without any means to do anything nice.
Not knowing when we'd return home, while my eldest son was home alone (and only supposed to be for 2-3 weeks). My daughter was going home 4 weeks before we did, but she would only be home for a 1 1/2 weeks. I had people checking in on him, but still. Not a great feeling. Luckily, he thought otherwise and loved being alone haha. So that's good I guess.
The point I'm trying to make is that when I feel 'stuck' like this, everything will be stuck in my head too, so having Peakd open, doesn't mean something will come out. I hate it, but it's the way I am.
So yeah, more Hive posts is numero UNO!
I just need to focus more, make weekly plans and actually do it, rather than just think about it.
Such a waste of time when I truly didn't do much in those 4 weeks after all the visits...
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It's Cliche, I know! But working on myself is number 2
Before we left for the Netherlands, my youngest (
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Anyway, I'd swim laps (short ones, because the pool is only 5 meters long) but laps nevertheless. If I didn't feel like swimming laps, I'd just float and keep moving my arms as if I was swimming and do the same with my legs. It's a workout...
But while we were in the Netherlands, I still wanted to keep moving, so we did walk a lot, or as much as we could. Even just to the bus stop. I don't know exactly how, but even though I ate all the things I'd missed for years while we were there, somehow, I lost a few pounds. Maybe it was the cold...Not sure. But I did.
This motivated me to move more after we got back. The pool isn't always an option now, because, believe it or not, the temperature has dropped here too...
It went from 33 degrees Celsius when we left to 27 when we got back, and now we have anywhere between 21 and 27 during the day, but 15 to 17 at night. Doesn't seem so cold to most people, but it does make the pool quite chilly. Too chilly for me.
So these last few days, I've been doing 100 squats and 100 (table) push ups...Table push ups because I have to start somewhere...If I'd do them on the floor, I can do 1. So table it is...
The second resolution is therefore to keep this going. Six days a week, and one day of rest. And if the pool is not bitter cold, I'll do one hour in the pool too...
I think these are good resolutions I should be able to keep going with.
To be continued...
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