2024-11-17
tags: weeknotes
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(This is entry 38 of 100DaysToOffload, and my weeknotes for the week 2024-11-11 to 2024-11-17)
Today was a decent week - fairly quiet like last time, except for Friday.
I went speed dating this week. It is more of a self-discovery thing, I feel like, as opposed to really trying to find anyone. Regardless, it was a slightly older crowd again (but closer to my age, many people about 30), and I didn't get any matches. Perhaps I need to select more people: of the 17 girls, I think I only chose to match with 5 I think (and none of them chose to match with me, clearly). The conversation was pretty generic and I think when I go again, I'll try find some better conversation. Really, three minutes is way too short to have a proper conversation. Still, it was good fun!
I was thinking on Saturday, after the speed dating, about what my priorities would be. When asked what my hobbies are, I can't really give a clear answer. I think that is because I am mixed up in terms of my priorities, and do not really know what I want to achieve first and foremostly. So I've reconsidered and have put four items as the most important: Health, Allotment, Guitar, and Study as the main four. Dividing these, I have health being the gym, food, running as and when I pick it, and the daily skipping. The allotment is its own category, though lumped in is any gardening I do about the house. The guitar also makes up its own category, and my goal is to do it daily from now on. Lastly, study comprises the LM2 (hopefully finished in December!) and the RHS course, but also Italian and Japanese as and when I read Japanese again in the new year.
The other three goals are Writing, Reading, and Drawing. All in a similar theme. That isn't to say that I am giving up on any of these, simply that they are less important to me than the four above. As in, even if I deprioritise writing, I'll still do quite a bit of it - it happens naturally. Maybe I won't draw as much as I like, but so be it. I'll just try do guitar more often, is all.
I bought a Pilot Falcon and two new inks this week. I'll write about them in detail when they arrive!
A lot of money, but it's not a regular thing. And what's the point of money if not for spending, eh? Look, I have to justify it somehow.
I am going to give daily skipping a go from now on. It will also form a part of my 25 for 2025 goals I am setting myself. I got given a skipping rope by my grandma recently (she was cleaning out the house, I think).
(Also, I find it weird how Americans call skipping 'jump rope'.)
As a part of my 25 for 2025 goals, I plan to visit an enoteca after I acquire a taste in wine. So, I've started! I had my first bit of wine (about a third of a glass) Sunday night. It was wretched. Then again, so were olives when I first tried them. I'll probably be able to get used to it over time.