week #3

18 Jan, 2026

/ on Monday morning I wanted to start the week with a longer qi gong practice (after last week with only 1 lesson). but my leg was hurting a bit from bowling the day before. I guess the turn in my right leg triggered pain from an old fracture in my tibia plateau. so I just did a shorter lesson.

/ I added two books to my bookshelf: shibui - the japanese art of finding beauty in everything and the unplugged hours: cultivating a life of presence in a digitally connected world.

/ the result of my qi gong rant on Monday was a kick in the butt. and I did that with a 5 day qi gong challenge. I managed to do 4/5 days!

/ Monday afternoon I had to solve the puzzle of 'where does this boy go?'. a boy from the daughters class wanted to come on a playdate, but I couldn't find his parents anywhere at the gate. he told me 2 times he didn't have after school care (at the school), so I tried to find a phone number of his parents to call them (I'm not taking a kid from school home before I talked to a parent and know it's ok). it all took long before I got someone on the phone and found out that he did have after school care after all! so I brought him back to 4 very worried teachers (and that wasn't easy, because he really didn't want to go). it was all fine in the end, but he scared some people, me included. I'm glad everything turned out okay.

/ on Tuesday I was very tired (mentally) and felt like I had to change something. so I made a winter bingo list to work on.

/ we watched the rest of season 1 of slow horses (I'm so into it!) and I started with season 2 of younger.

/ I got a lovely message from a fellow ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ blogger (I love that!). it's so nice to talk to likeminded people and sharing things ♡ I love being part of this community!

/ on Wednesday I took the time to transfer all the blogs I follow with inoreader into my vivaldi RSS reader. so much better!

/ the weather went from -10 last week to +10 degrees this week.

/ the workweek went by very fast! the month of January is usually a bit slower for us. but this year we still have enough work.

/ in the attic I've found one of my old handprinted calendars that I made some years ago. I got one for the daughter, so she can put all her friends birthdays in there.

/ one of my favorites of all time, Apparat, released a new track. it's so good! I love that he is using a bass and piano ♡ can't wait for the album release 'the hum of maybe' in February!

/ on Sunday morning I had some time to myself and used it to listen to all the tracks I added to my ongoing playlist this week. some new songs, some old ones that I lost. music can pick me up like not a lot of other things can, like this one from max cooper. I even wrote a post about it.

/ in the afternoon we had the spontaneous idea to pick up our dog niece and go for a walk in the sun. it was lovely! after our walk we had a hot cocoa and she even stayed at our place for a bit, to play with the daughter. a lovely Sunday!

music I added to my ongoing playlist this week

#2026 #weekly