the physical therapist remarked that I'm more confident, and I really love that she noticed it.

What a change only a couple weeks makes!

Just watched a couple episodes of Ghosts on Netflix. Such a charming little show. I love all the ghosts, they are all such fun characters!

Now onwards with ripping Christmas cd's for my mp3 collection :)

I have bought a switch lite for really cheap and now finally playing animal crossing new horizons. Love it!

Also bought Tales of the Shire. Love being a hobbit but WHY are the fonts so darn tiny??? People with old eyes wanna play too, Weta growl

Second week of the fitness portion of physical therapy.

It was SO much easier than last week, I was astonished. I’m now going to take a long bath with magnesium salt so I can recover my muscles ☺️

Really proud.

Had my first solo session of PT today. Good grief. One of the things I requested was to work on my core. We did that with walking exercises and lunges. I was floored when the session ended, legs trembled so much 😅

And to end the lesson I had to walk on tiptoes through the gym walking past muscular dudes. May have felt ashamed lol

Just finished reading the Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. I loved it so much. She was brilliant in writing the Appeal and this one was just as twisty. The story sagged a bit in the middle for me, but the ending was just so perfect and unexpected. That was the part that made this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’m so proud of myself. Today was my first physical therapy appointment and I’m still alive 😂

Had to do a fitness test on both bike and treadmill and managed both 🙂

On Thursday I’m going to learn exercises for balance and posture. Am so looking forward to those.

Oh my gosh, I am so so happy. I'm writing fiction again!!! It's completely wobbly and it's only a small idea that I'm developing, but boy, it's so much fun!!!

Just watched being Eddie on Netflix. This documentary about Eddie Murphy was such a joy to watch. What a comedian/actor/musician!

I have added some pages to my blog menu at just now, perfectly normal thing to do before going to sleep :)

Having a coffee after a visit to the hairdresser. I feel so much lighter. Funny how that works. And! My chemo curls are almost gone 😟 perfect! Next: the craft store!

Holy moly, such a productive morning! I ordered meds from two different apothecaries, made several appointments, one of them with an oncological physiotherapist, ordered cargo pants because handbags are not allowed at the Radiohead concert and changed over my email address for several accounts.

Now I need a nap and it's not even 11:00 :D

Am currently packing up for a couple of days away to Heidelberg. (my husband had to go to an event for work, so I tag along for a solo trip :) )

I had decided beforehand that I would only bring my e-reader. Then when I was packing, I didn't hesitate to toss my current physical reads into my bag too.

It makes me realise that no matter how lovely technology is, and how often I use it in the day, there's nothing like reading a physical book.

As an aside: same goes for journaling, I have both my filofax and my passport travelers notebook with me. I thought about bringing my big TN too, but decided against it as my bag was so full already :)

Finished up a small crochet project, a hat and scarf for my husband. It was so fun to make!

Ps I really wish that there was a crochet emoji!

Sometimes I feel like replying to posts that share images without alt texts with a very exaggerated description of the picture, maybe even a poetic one.

An example. “We have here a picture of a young man, with a moustache and boring glasses. He smiles. He is wearing a plaid shirt which makes me wonder if he is the kind of man who has a cupboard full of plaid clothes. Behind him is a group of people and a stage of some sorts. Is he at a concert? At a theatre? People want to know these things! And with people I mean me.”

Bought a Bluetooth keyboard the other day and today I took it with me to the cafe I love to write at.

Had two cappuccino’s and wrote 2,5 scenes, with my phone as the screen.

It worked perfectly. I can now add what I wrote to my Novelwriter document from Notes. So happy!

Wait, is IRC back or something? I’ve seen several people post about it today :)

A little known fact is that I met my husband on IRC, almost half a lifetime ago now.

I still miss my old hangouts.

So at 9-ish this morning, I sat down to edit an e-book.

Ever since, I've edited another e-book, because something I wrote for the original one fit better in there. Then I added my font to the second e-book, liked it, and then proceeded to add my font to my website and did some updates on the home page that I had on my list.

Then I wrote a bit on the second ebook and then spent time on Mastodon.

Total time spent on my actual ebook? 3 minutes? Tops?

Oops.

I'm a happy little blogger.

A year's worth of posts were imported to my blog on Pagecord. I so love it there, and I love the freedom I feel when I'm posting via email :) Thanks Olly!

My website is DONE! There are some things I want to add to it but for now it's as good as it can be :)

So happy!

Am almost done with my website project, and I absolutely love it. I've managed to make it a little bit responsive so it's almost doable on a phone, but as it's 20+ year old code, responsiveness is a pipe dream :D

I have added so many fun things, like my own oracle deck and blog posts in fun inspiration sections. I've also kept the top menus I had for several topics, and actually love them! :D

All in all, this is fun!!

I'm having so much fun with my website recreation project. I'm not keeping everything exactly the same. The colour was godawful (purple with bright pink! I mean I love purple, but that was an overload) and I'm changing the fonts, because times new roman is my mortal enemy.

But the rest is as it was, and good grief, the page loads so fast. No wonder, as it's mostly pure html with a little bit of css and js sauce :D

my morning so far:

• look at code
• get an idea for something to add
• look for notepad
• scramble around looking for notepad
• finding it anywhere but the last spot I remember putting it
• trying to remember the idea

(and yes, you would think that I could just create a notefile in my text editor and then toss the idea in there, but then I spend half an hour scrolling through my open tabs for the idea page, also forgetting the idea in the meantime :D )

It's warm, I'm bored, and I feel like having a site building party. Here's the plan!

Thanks to archive.org, I have a backup of a website I built in 2005.

I'm going to use all the wonky html and all the crazy javascript to build the framework for a website, and host it somewhere, probably neocities, because being there feels like coming home to a self who spent hours and hours searching for cool stuff.

Now I'm feeling better, I'm able to work on my oracle cards again.

In fact, I'm so near done with the website part, that I'm looking for tips on where to host them! I could go the netlify route, but prefer self hosting on my own vps server. It's so much fun to explore that!

But first! Cards!

I've started to blog on because I like the freedom of mailing my blog posts and not having to worry about configuration and such. I love the simplicity!

And now I've figured out you can enable replying via email, so I enabled it immediately!

I’m back in the novelwriter app now I’m working on my novel again and I love it!

Such an improvement over the last time I used it, years ago.

I have bought dresses today, at steep discount in a sale. You would think it would be easy to find them, but I can't do synthetics (and don't want them either), and most dresses are made of polyester.

But I found some beauties, can't wait to open my package next week!

I did it! All the old blog posts I still had are up on my blog. It's making me so happy :D

There is a bit of an issue with the tags, blog posts show up several times in the list, but they are on the blog once. I probably made a mistake but that's okay :D

I've imported the first batch of blog posts in my blog. Checked a couple blog posts, so far so good. It's funny as I import them per tag (for reasons) and now some tags have a load of posts! Next tag to sync: poetry, which will be fun, as nothing is formatted for MD yet and I have a LOT of poems!

Oh my gosh, I did it. I added my blog to a github repo and pushed it to my weblog.

flail

Now I only have to prep 1000 old blog posts, and I can add them to my weblog!

I am having so much fun alternating writing, checking if I have blog posts in my Bear to export later, procrastinating, I mean, uploading stuff to pixelfed and futzing around getting new music on my old iPod.

I did write a blog post about the video I posted on Pixelfed, so I deserve a cookie, or two.

Been working on editing a video for Pixelfed. I need to finish sorting my blog posts, but this was so much more fun!

(And I might turn the video into a blog post later so it’s not procrastinating!)

Spending a very rainy day on the couch in the living room watching recordings from Glastonbury festival we hadn’t seen last week.

I’ve recently moved my blog to weblog and realised something last week: it doesn’t have built in analytics like Bearblog does. So I signed up for a service and added it.

I removed that service two days later. Why?

Because it made me think I shouldn’t have written a post because it didn’t perform well.

That’s just so toxic. I write my blog because I want to write my blog and share what I want to share.

And I’m not going to let analytics ruin that freedom for me.

I have read a whole page on the < picture > tag in html and even though I did read some parts twice, I still don’t get the difference between picture and img as a tag.

Maybe a sign I need to stop trying to comprehend things while melting away

I have just cleaned and decluttered my desk. It’s so neat and tidy now! I have no clue what to do either all the space!

I've finished listening to the Hobbit audiobook earlier this week, and am now listening to Artemis by Andy Weir. I like it so far, the narration by Rosario Dawson is excellent.

Really excited to start a new series on my blog tomorrow. Have so many ideas for it! Not sharing what it is, but the emoji is a hint.

I walk the world in wonder.
Oscar Wilde

It's that ridiculous weather pattern again where it's starting to get warmer, then you have one really nice day, and after that the temperature goes WAY up (to max 32 celcius this afternoon), and also the humidity.

So that means I'm sitting my asthmatic ass down in front of the cooling fan in the bedroom. At least I have a website to tinker with :D

I’m tinkering with Ghost again, because I found archives of old blog posts that I wanted to combine.

And now I’m in love again. I left Ghost because with the cancer I didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with website management, but now I’m feeling better, possibilities are endless :)

I went for a walk just now and took the long way round, even climbed up and down a walking/cycling bridge. I think I rock 😃

Am reorganising all the drawers in the living room with dividers and then filling those. It’s so nice to be organised! Found a lot of stuff too, from a trove of rechargeable batteries to old 1000 and 500 mah power banks to receipts from 2016 and to about ten extra kitchen knives.

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

Heading out the door again in a bit for some coffee and a very needed trim. Chemo hair is so wild! Literally. My hair is like: the only way is up, baby!

So, a trim it is, and after that, if I have energy, I might head to the bookstore to check out notebooks. I'm on the last Moleskine I bought at a steep discount, time to find another one that's at least half the price.

Just did a little stroll through the neighbourhood and feel strong enough to head out to the shopping centre tomorrow to hang in the cafe there and maybe after buy a herring 😃

Let normal life commence!

Been a busy bee this morning. First cleared out and organised three drawers and two shelves of the wardrobe next to the bed, then I sat down and finished my weeknotes for the blog.

Also packed up a return I completely forgot about. Last return day is today (oops!)

Wrote a blog post today! Forced myself to do it, because I was sick and tired of not writing. Hope that this will continue!

here's the post:

Woke to gorgeous sunny weather and fantastic news from 🇨🇦

Pondering posting a blog today with zoo pictures but the sun just beckons me to go and relax in the deck chairs outside 😃

I've been playing with my blog's theme for the past hour or so. I SHOULD do that kind of thing in my test blog, but where's the fun in that? I'm so happy with my archive page ( ). Did notice that I have a tendency to forget caps in my titles. Oops.

proof I'm doing better: we just now went to the thrift store! And I could walk all around it, and bought a super cute box for on my desk which I will share on mastodon later.

I recorded myself reading a poem (and posted it on my blog, here: ), and now I have so many ideas for other recordings. I may read the letter I'm posting on my blog later today.

6:20 (am for the 12 hour clock peeps) and I’m wide awake again. For once I don’t mind as it means I’ve slept six hours in a row until my bladder woke me up. Doesn’t feel like enough but I don’t often get that much sleep in one go. Feels like I’m healing 😃

Oh my gosh. I thought doctor who started next week but it’s today and it’s already on d+ and only is on the BBC in two hours

I wrote a lot today, most of it for my blog. It never fails to make me smile when that happens.

I wrote three blog posts, and a couple half finished ones and I scribbled down some ideas.

All in all, really happy with the progress. I’m back!

Just found a zip file containing some Jekyll experiments. Oh, this will be fun to play with again 😃

Woke up at six or so, and in stead of grumbling about the early hour, I spent most of the time since working on my novel.

I’m so back!

Someone forgot to turn off the electric heater and now this someone is unable to sleep because the room is too warm 😂

The Residence on Netflix is a delight. Cordelia Cupp may be one of my favourite detectives now 😃

I am so proud of myself, I wrote my first real blog post today! I did post something I wrote earlier last week or so, but this is the first one I wrote all in one go since surgery.

Feel like I'm slowly winning myself back.

We are driving home from hospital and signs of spring are everywhere. Feel so blessed!

In my quest for a new browser I'm trying out Zenbrowser and REALLY like it so far. I also downloaded Librewolf to test. Maybe will install that over the weekend.

May the best browser win hehehe

PS on my phone, the winner so far is the Duckduckgo browser.

For the first time since my diagnosis I’m alone in a cafe drinking coffee and eating pie.

It feels so liberating!

Updated my main omg.lol page and reinvented my now page (as it got deleted at one point).

Now going to figure out a way to easily add recent blog posts to my now page.

I always buy Sandisk SD cards for my camera's. Last year, however, I bought Kingston ones, because they were on special offer.

The first one is broken after only a few months.

Going to get me some Sandisk again!

Just found my old iPod touch and it has all these songs that I forgot I ripped (lost part of my MP3 collection in a harddrive crash and never bothered to spend energy on ripping cd's again as I had most of it).

It makes me so happy to listen to these songs again.

I'm so easily distracted right now. I sat down to read and categorise old blog posts, and instead have been futzing around with my theme all morning. It's 10:48, time to get to work, Syl!

Had such a great writing day today. I wrote a blog post, and created a zine. I need to edit that one, but am happy with it so far!

Nearly finished updating my site. Biggest change is that I switched to dark mode and added some fun new things, like a hello page :)

Just cleared out my status log and am all ready to start anew! Am currently having a good old clean out of my MacBook. It was just appalling how many versions of some writing projects I had! Am clearing out all the obsolete ones and making space on my drive and in my mind 😃