Saturday!

[hils]

I love Saturdays. It's the one day of the week when I can properly relax. I usually do something online with Emma mid-afternoon for a couple of hours but other than that the rest of the time is my own. I don't feel like I have to rush anything because I have to be somewhere.

Don't get me wrong I enjoy all the social activities I have going on, but I do find it all a bit exhausting. Sometimes I just need quiet time.

This week has actually felt a bit like the lockdown times. My car was supposed to go in for its MOT on Monday, which is the day the MOT expired. At the last minute I got a call saying they had to move my appointment to Friday 'due to unforseen circumstances' which I interpreted as staff shortages due to covid. So, because my MOT expired I couldn't drive my car so I spent Mon-Fri at home.

It's weird I actually missed my usual Tue and Thu trips to the office to do the postage stuff. I think it's just nice to get out of the house.

Anyway, my car is back now and it passed its MOT so it's all good. Back to normal next week.

I've got Monday off work because I have loads of leave to use and I have no holidays planned apart from a week to visit my parents in the summer. I figured I may as well do what I did last year and just treat myself to one long weekend every month.

I'm going to try not to pressure myself into spending the day being 'productive'. I might fire up one of the PS5 games I got for Christmas and haven't even opened yet.

Now, onto snowflake_challenge

Challenge #8

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I think the thing I'm most proud of is sticking with my Mandarin lessons. It's been over a year of practicing every day and I can see the progress I've made. I'm struggling with my current module on Duolingo so I need to remind myself that it's okay if I don't pick everything up immediately. Some things will take longer than others to grasp and that's okay.

(I'm also really proud of the amount of fic I posted last year)

Comments

[presumenothing]

Oh one long weekend every month sounds like a good idea actually, I should look into doing something like that too!

And congrats on persisting with the Mandarin lessons, I know it was hard enough for me learning it as a kid so I have like… infinity times a million respect for anyone managing to do it while adulting. 幸苦了！

[hils]

谢谢!

[spikedluv]

Congrats on sticking with the Mandarin lessons! And for being productive fic-wise.

[hils]

Thank you!

[clevermanka]

Go you, sticking with the language learning! (and allowing yourself to relax!)

[hils]

Thank you!

[muccamukk]

Congrats on sticking with your language lessons. I bet when you look back on this post a year from now, you'll be surprised at how much you were picking up that only clicked later.

[hils]

Hopefully, yes! Thank you!

[kingstoken]

Learning a new language is difficult skill and something to be proud of

[hils]

Thank you!

[svgurl]

Learning a language is certainly not easy and that is awesome that you stuck with it.

I need to remind myself that it's okay if I don't pick everything up immediately.
That is a healthy mindset and one I need to work on myself. Congrats on the progress and all the fic posted!

[tielan]

Ooh, Mandarin lessons! Well done!

[tinny]

I love Saturdays. It's the one day of the week when I can properly relax.

Yeah, same. Sunday has all my fannish commitments, challenges, flist readings, etc. But Saturday is gloriously free. \o/

snowflake

Oh yes, both definitely things you can be proud of!

I'm really liking challenges 7 and 8, I think I'll do those, too.