Well hello 2024! You just made my profile wrong! I am now a lil’ bit more than half a century and typing this pumped up with diabetes meds and an aching thumb due to trigger finger, hardly the picture of health.

Let’s revive this writing thing, why don’t we. I was once told that there was a book inside me waiting to be written, and while the source turned out to be one of the biggest liars I have met in my entire life, I think this writing thing…there’s something to it.

I’m reviving this account after having read an article on life hacks. So from today, I will be writing about the “story-worthy” moments of my everyday. Hopefully it will help me stave off the dementia and memory loss that’s slowly creeping up on me and make me more grateful for my continued wanted and unwanted blessings and, decidedly undeserved mercies.

From the same article on life hacks, I figured that the elements of my story-worthy moment should be – What happened today that I’m grateful for? What event or situation helped me move towards my goals? Should I make any changes and course correct?

After 2019, the years seemed much lighter. Whatever could beat the pain of January 2019, after all. The challenges, health issues and general mess of 2023 were nothing. This brings me to my 2024 goal, which is to simplify. I need to work on wanting less and being satisfied more. Hopefully, it will help me focus on acquiring only what I need and being happier at what I have.

So on this lazy Sunday afternoon, let’s talk about time. Today I had the luxury of sleeping in, adding another 2 hours to my every night of sleep deprivation. It would’ve been good but since my sleep deficit is huge, my eyelids are just aching to close and sleep some more.

Since I “finished” my work on Friday night, this weekend was blissfully easy on my mind. There’s no thought persisting in my head about a task I need to turn on my laptop for and get started on. You notice I put quotes on finished, because do we really finish work? Are we really done? It’s an endless cycle of things to do, calls to make and documents to submit. But that satisfied feeling I had when I put my laptop to sleep at 6:30 PM last Friday meant I had a good weekend ahead.

Weekend started with me finally getting around to organizing my closet, I got 4 boxes for my seasonals, cleared up space for linens and cleared and folded my indoor clothes. A is also managing her time, she was in no condition to do her weekly cleaning so we just worked on dismantling the Christmas decorations. Two pairs of hands instead of one saves time. I also had time to do 2 loads of laundry, with A’s help.

So today’s story-worthy is not a moment but an entire weekend of accomplished chores and tasks courtesy of time. I’m grateful for having time, using it and knowing how easier it would be when you have it.