tackling 2019 one fad at a time.
Anyone else out there feel terribly motivated by the concept of getting all tidy and organised each January? The new year is just begging for us to start afresh, isn’t it? Well the clearing of space and decluttering of my house was definitely a top item on my list of things to tackle for 2019, so I thought I’d bring out the big guns in the first week and tick off my first fad for 2019: Marie Kondo-ing my clothes.
Continue reading “Fad #1 of 2019: ‘Sparking Joy’ all over the place”
Yesterday, Mr Good(ish) and I decided to start the year off right: with a standard issue New Years Day Yomp. What better way to start off 2019 than by trying out a new figure of eight walk, about 30 minutes drive from home in the heart of the Surrey Hills. Highlights included meeting three very friendly pigs and a runaway Saluki dog called Dodger. Low points included attempting to get up hills after December’s excesses and a few New Years Eve beverages. Overall, a win for Team Good(ish) that chips away at my goal to get off my rear end a bit more this year on Day One.
Continue reading “New Year, New Yomp.”
I started 2019 with a promise to be a bit kinder to myself. Sounds good, clear and worthy, right? Wrong. Because for me, being kinder to myself involves a weird and sizeable gamut of Things That I Should Probably Stop Doing and Things That I Should Probably Start Doing that range from the typical (eat a bit less, move a bit more / start writing again to fix that chronic writers block situation you’ve got going on) to the atypical (6 cans of Diet Coke in one day is straight up mental, please stop it / try to leave the house without being covered in cat hair occasionally).
Faced with this horrendous mess of necessary lifestyle changes, my innate need to plan forced me to realise there were a few clear parts to the story of my 2019 ‘self improvement journey’ (apparently this is a thing). So what better way to start my blog than to introduce you all to the themes I’ll be blogging on this year.
Read on to find out more about how David Suchet is scuppering my evening plans, why I can’t look at a cheese and onion crisp in the same way anymore, and why the structural integrity of my property is at risk.
Continue reading “And so it goes.”
Good(ish) Intentions 