Category: personal challenges

Week 22/2025: Accentuate the positive

Week of 26 May 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Monday was my last day of cat sitting when Lil Sis and Mr Tall came...

Week 21/2025: The battle with the ongoing health issues

Week of 19 May 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. The ongoing health issues Physio Since I hurt my back, things were slowly improving, but...

Week 19/2025: Exploding back pain

Week of 5 May 2025 I’ve been feeling a bit miserable this week. Ouch! Exploding back pain I hurt my back exercising last Saturday (flash back to this week . . . or this one . . .  or  . . . ) and had various health professionals tell...

Week 16/2025: The week that was

Week of 14 April 2025 The week that was I feel like the things I should be writing about are too big and too overwhelming and changing so fast that I can’t keep up even thinking about them, let alone writing about them. The US descent into fascism. The...

Week 09/2025: The comfort zone

Week of 24 February 2025 This week I did a couple of things that I’m really proud of doing because they were a little (or a lot) outside my comfort zone. Heading out of the comfort zone . . . Pier+Review On Sunday evening I went along to Andy...

Week 08/2025: A quieter week

Week of 17 February 2025 This week was quiet. I was home by myself without Kramstable, who’s busy starting uni life, and Slabs, who was away for family and work commitments. A hairy situation I was super super excited on Tuesday night to see the show A Hairy Situation...

Week 06/2025: Planes and boats . . . and a whale

Planes and boats . . . and a whale Week of 3 February 2025 A hard week. Perhaps the hardest one yet. But also some light. The final week And not even a full week. The week leading into the day I’d been dreading since I found out Kramstable...

Week 05/2024: Cheese and noodles

Week of 27 January 2025 This Sunday was the last day I got to cook mac and cheese aka cheese and noodles (or was it cheesy noodles?) for Kramstable. (If you’ve been reading along, Kramstable is about to leave home to go to university in Melbourne. It’s been a...

Conversations and change

Some more of week 3 and the start of week 4. Conversations and change A wonderful conversation My post about Kramstable getting ready to leave home received a lot of responses, and I thank everyone who took the time to leave me a comment. I appreciate your kindness and...

Week 03/2025: An amazing week

An amazing week Week of 13 January 2025 This week was a little better than last week, but I still found myself bursting into tears at random moments as I continued to think about Kramstable’s impending move. I have much more to say about this, not all bad. But...