My Week #126 - Finishing is started
What a week it was. We finally started the finishing of our investment flat, finally to be called Golden Glass Apartment.
🗓 Jul 21, 2024⏳ 1 minutes
What a week it was. We finally started the finishing of our investment flat, finally to be called Golden Glass Apartment.
The apartment's finishing is speeding up...
Finally we are again on holiday.
I love and hate the complexity and variety of the holiday time this year. I am pretty sure I have never spent that much time driving a car and moving from place to place although we do not have any road trips - we are simply traveling back and forth. The funny fact is that one bike trip made my ass hurt more than days of traveling in the car 🙃
So, a week ago I mentioned that I need to focus more on physical activities...
I am a lonely wolf. This is out of discussion, this is how I feel, this is how I am. When doing anything, literally anything in a team, there are two options - you are a leader or you have a leader. I don't feel great in both cases.
I am a little bit concerned...
Yet another tiring week. Yet another super tiring week. Yet another super tiring and frustrating week.
We have a floor! Can it be a dancefloor? Sure it can! Can it be the sleepfloor? Sure it can as well!
Let me mention just a couple of facts from this week...
What I know for sure is that I have arrhythmia. I suspect that this is caused by the constant higher level of stress applied to my life for the last several months. If my assumption is right, the best way to fix my arrhythmia, other than taking pills is to reduce the amount of stress, right? So, what can I do to reduce the amount of stress?
Yet another year older, yet another year closer to the other side. To be fair, the way you live somehow impacts the expected life duration, but definitely, this year was not the one to extend it. Constant work with house renovations, stress at work and with family issues, arrhythmia, and high levels of cholesterol - life ain't easy, right?
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I had a very intense time in work related with the project crunch. Amount of work and time related to deliver it was amazing. Of course, this impacted my level of stress and my progress with the appartment finishing - the levels of stresss rised while the amount of work was reduced.
I start to notice the subtle change - with the more intense physical daily training and some small successes in live and work my level of confidence rises. I become braver, I stop being under-confident and taking care of what I say and what is said to me.
I had a great week when it comes to physical training and the progress in the flat finishing. It's Sunday afternoon, I should chillout and finally relax, but a part of me is frustrated as today I was unlucky with the next small item in the appartment.
Finally, I had a week where I felt much less stressed. I finished my previous project and, while waiting for the new one, I could focus on self-dev - getting familiar with some AI tools supporting daily development. To my surprise, after 3 days I already noticed that I feel much less stressed about my work. There was no deadline, there was no comparison to other devs, and there was no finishing stuff after hours. It's surprising how quickly I started feeling better. I am unsure if this will impact my Holter-ECG tests I ran this week but I hope it will!
It is pretty difficult for me to summarize this week. It wasn't the most exciting and breaking week of my life. It was not relaxing, it was not covered with stress and other emotions. Just a week to forget. Yes, I made some progress in terms of the apartment finishing. I did physical activities on a nearly daily basis. We had a nice time with family and friends. However, if I had to summarize this week with one word I would use ordinary.
I visited my cardiologist this week to discuss my current state of the arrhythmia after the increased amount of pills. I was hoping to see a good result giving me hope and the green light for running. I saw no progress at all which made me pretty sad. I'd like to return to my running regime and I have a green light for that due to the fact that my arrhythmia lowers when being active, but still, my internal reasonable voice declines my plans related to the marathon to happen next autumn.
I am starting a new, kinda risky journey next week...
My apartment finishing is on the last straight...
I recently changed my job and became just the next `id` in the corpo world.
It's Christmas time so I had to use the opportunity to look back a year ago. Usually what I am used to is reading or listening to people proud of what they have achieved in the past year - the idea for that is to feel proud but also to prove and motivate others that lots can be done within a year.
Let's try to predict what the future brings...
Let's try to plan this year...
I can finally announce that I completed my first project since the start of this blog! It took me nearly 3 years to complete the first one, but I am still proud of it. I attempted to start many before, but there always was a reason that made me abort the project. This is the first one I pushed to the successful completion. Should I make a retrospective on that project? This is actually a good idea!
It really can sound like a coincidence, but few days after completing the apartment project I ... got sick. You know, it's not that I get sick every now and then. The last time I was sick was still in 2023. Interesting story, right?
For years I worked and tried to work efficiently...
Doing things optimally was my way of living for years.
Winter holidays are coming!
I love the sun and the warmth, especially in the middle of the winter, especially in the middle of the coldest period of the winter! For the majority of my adult life, I lived with the complex of the lack of the ability to go skiing. I never had the opportunity to try that and with each next year, I was more and more ashamed of it...
The effect of my holidays was better than I initially expected - I really relaxed. I caught a lot of sun, ate lots of a great food, visited many great places and let my brain chillout.
The concept of my focus on chess is constantly growing in my mind...
Tomorrow I have a nasal septum surgery.
This week I had a nasal septum surgery. It went pretty well, I don't remember anything from the whole event due to the narcosis. However, I remember the next 3 days when taking a deep breath, drinking water, or eating anything was a complex process I needed to pay attention to not to get choked.
I completed studying a book about efficient learning techniques...
Last week I wrote about the frustration caused by the many expectations and the lack of money to execute them. The events from this week made me forget about this frustration due to the surprising set of events making my current base contract not as solid as I would expect it to be.
My lack of confidence about the future in my current work place is on hold for now - we seem to have a clear three months until the next round of budgeting - this is kinda absurdal, ain't it?