Weekly rewind - W03 ⏪
⏪ Week in rewind
😩 We're having a rough time at home, causing a lot of stress and metal fatigue. Bart (and his autism) has more and more issues to fit in at school, where they don't seem to be able to cope with his behaviour, resulting in tantrums at school, but also a lot at home. Every day we have a crisis. We're doing everything we can to help him, already getting some therapy, however, good support is hard to get to as everything is overbooked. I already found some support in talking to other parents with children with autism, but still, it's a lot to take in at the moment. And as an unfortunate side-effect, I felt less interested in anything, to be online, read up on good blogs, or even work on mine.
🏃 On the positive side, and what keeps me going, is that I've been very consistent in running. I prioritized going for a run as early in the day as possible, which helped with motivation and staying consistent. This way I was able to get in 5 quality runs, feeling progress in my overall fitness.
💸 I started looking into my subscriptions for the upcoming year, listing all and searching for those I could stop. I can recommend doing this, as it's a great exercise to reassess things you've been paying for and if they are worth. By doing this exercise, I already stopped Brain.fm as a focus music app, since you can get similar experiences with cheaper or even free apps, like Flowtunes which I'm using now. I also reassessed my photography and backup needs, where I'll restart my local NAS usage to cut my iCloud and Lightroom costs. For meditation I've trying out a few apps that could act as a replacement for Headspace, which I'm paying for. So far, those I tried didn't bring the appeal or serve my needs I'm looking for.
🗒️ I removed the guestbook link from the navigation as the service no longer seems to work. I saw from Meadow that Azure disabled the account and would look into reinstating the service, however, they seem to take their time... If anyone has updates to share, or know alternatives, feel free to do so.
📊 While I'm not obsessed with my website performance (especially now) I often look at my analytics, glancing at referring traffic. Just to see how people get here. And it's nice see traffic from other blogs, giving me credit for something that touched them or inspired them to do as well. Thanks.
⚽ The soccer season is back in full motion. It got delayed by the snow of the previous weeks, but now I'm back at the soccer pitch at least 3 days a week. Nelson had his first game of the new season, and as a spectator we got treated with a lot of goals and very nice sunshine.
📺 Watched
📺 We finished watching Run Away. It's been a long time since we've been this addicted, moving from one episode to the next. The story really pulled us in, however, we found the ending a bit too much. (3.5/5)
🎞️ I started watching Jurassic World Rebirth.
📚 Reading
- 🎧 Beneath a scarlet sky by Mark Sullivan.
📱 Apps in focus
- View my full App library.
🏋️ Fitness log
- 🏃 Running: 43km
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