Sylvia

I've just successfully installed lineage os on my new to me phone! Slowly but surely I'm getting rid of big tech :)

3 weeks ago

Going on a trip on Thursday and I'm updating my packing list to pack as little as possible. It's fun to challenge myself :)

3 weeks ago

Second time yin yoga in a week, followed by reading on a sunny terrace while enjoying a delicious cup of coffee, and then I had to go to the dentist to get a mouth full of wax (for new dentures)

After that I went to the small Saturday market to get two bags of food (mostly fish and such) and after that I even had energy to walk home!

Now sitting on the sofa, eating and feeling my fatigue slowly seeping into my bones. There may be a nap later.

But! I did all that! Feel so bloody proud!

3 weeks ago

Just found out I still have a Flickr account, last pics were posted in 2010.

It was mostly pics I shared in private groups (but the gallery is public) and I’m baffled that my pictures were viewed 26000 times.

Good grief 😂

I’m now thinking of starting to use it again, but I have to ask: is Flickr still good? (To lazy to DuckDuck it)

4 weeks ago

It’s been about six months since I started my fitness journey, first with help of PT and now in the neighbourhood gym, and I’m so happy with the difference it makes. Back then I was very wobbly, constantly tired and worried I would never feel okay again. Today, I woke up just now feeling energetic, and I feel strong. Yes, I still have my low days, but they are low days, not low months. Onward!

4 weeks ago

Went to Yin Yoga for the first time, after only having done it at home.

It was so wonderful. I feel so relaxed. Bet I will sleep like a baby tonight 😀

4 weeks ago

Am so tired, second bad bad night in a row.

Have ergo therapy today so I think a nap is in order this afternoon, and then reading Benjamin Stevenson on the balcony because it’s a warm-ish sunny day today!

1 month ago

Heading home after seeing the Mandalorian and Grogu in the cinema.

It was a delight! More later 🙂

1 month ago

Went to the gym. Now feel like a tired superwoman. Am making giant leaps though, can move up some weights, like the leg press, because 40kg feels easy 💪

1 month ago

Just installed Fedora on my 2014 MacBook, including tethering my phone to install the driver for the wireless card. So happy to have the same Linux version on both my MacBooks. And, even better, the MacBook runs so smoothly now.

1 month ago

I've learned so well how to manage my mood lately.

Instead of allowing myself to be all mopey because I can't go to yoga (as the weather messes with my asthma), I focus on what I can do: work on designing freebies :)

Designing stuff makes me happy, too :) And who knows, maybe the weather clears up, my lungs stop griping and I can go to the gym this afternoon.

It never rains constantly, you know :)

1 month ago

Relaxing after yoga, such a delight. I feel more and more home in my body when I move.

1 month ago

Relaxing in bed, eating breakfast, doing slow breathing practice and forcing myself to relax before heading to yoga.

Still a bit sore from Pilates on Friday but I need the movement 🙂

1 month ago

Emoji chosen for irony. Could barely get out of bed this morning.

Easy comparison:

Body on the day after yoga: ahhh I feel so relaxed

Body day after Pilates: hello. These are your muscles, including those you barely remember you have. We ache. Deal with it.

Think I’ll stick with yoga for now 😀

1 month ago

have been home for an hour. Am sitting with a cat curled up next to my leg and coffee in my belly. Life is good!

I'm now waiting for the sun to curve around the house so I can sit on the balcony in the shadow with a book, basking in the warmth of this gorgeous first of May :)

1 month ago

Just tried Pilates for the first time and good grief, it’s so so hard.

All exercises are focused on core strength and I don’t have any.

Really proud I was able to do almost all exercises but I think I will stick with yoga for now. More my speed heheheh

And then in a month or so I will try Pilates again, because I really do want a strong core!

Ps I think this is a ballet emoji, but I did almost exactly this pose wearing a purple top so it fits 😀

1 month ago

Had a haircut, desperately needed as my hair grows like… like… grass? 🤣

Then I went and had a cappuccino, sitting outside even if it was a bit cold because the sun was out, and then went and got registered at the gym for a full membership, including group lessons.

After that I went on a bit of a shopping trip, guided by my inner child (which means I now have a fluffy journal and a hello kitty figurine).

All in all a productive morning, now knackered so lunch and a nap are in order.

1 month ago

Packing for a trip and I can’t find my iPad and it drives me nuts!

2 months ago

In a full cinema for Michael!

2 months ago

Yoga was such a gift. I can’t get over how beautiful it felt to do the asana’s.

My body remembered. My heart smiled.

2 months ago

I’m going to my first yoga class in many years tomorrow. Time to fully reconnect with my body 💜

Also, fitness today was so amazing!

2 months ago

I’m off to have an adventure! My husband has to go to somewhere near Rotterdam for work and I’m hitching a ride 😀 he will drop me off in a city nearby. So happy!

2 months ago

I’m so clumsy sometimes. I tripped over my slippers while taking them off and smacked my leg into the bed while falling down on said bed. The bump better be impressive tomorrow 🤣

2 months ago

I’ve just got the message from the health app that my walking steadiness has drastically improved. Go me!

2 months ago

I'm so proud of myself! For the past month or so I felt like I could just as well go to fitness instead of to the PT as everything I did was in a fitness room anyway. The one difference is that I can go to fitness whenever I want.

So I've cancelled PT and went to fitness at a centre where they also have physical therapists, so that IF I struggle, I can make an occasional PT appointment and do fitness alongside :)

2 months ago

My goodness! I usually am all focused on inbox zero, but this long easter weekend it was all about family visits and being completely worn out in between.

It took me half an hour to clear it! Back to the couple minutes a day routine it is.

A tiny part of the mail deluge was that I ordered some new travel mugs on the way home and that act generated at least 10 emails lol

2 months ago

Yay! We’ve booked an apartment for two days in Antwerp to celebrate our anniversary! Close to both the city centre and the zoo. I’m so happy!

2 months ago

Am editing a project I started to write ten years ago. It’s about dang time it gets published!

2 months ago

Just spent fifteen minutes searching for a term for writing something on your blog and then sharing it everywhere.

Thing is, everyone uses a different terminology! It's so funny. I'm settling on Create Once, Share Everywhere and sticking with it!

3 months ago

So much website tinkering, I'm loving it :)

3 months ago

I came home from PT all frustrated today.

Then I thought: what a luxury to be all stressed out over trivial stuff again and I couldn't help laugh myself silly.

3 months ago

my oncologist called with the results of the blood tests: everything looked perfect! So happy!

3 months ago

Had physical therapy first, and then one hour of ergotherapy after.

I was waiting for my husband to be picked up after, and found I had some energy left, and went shopping when he was running late.

Gosh, to have that kind of energy again is just such a gift!

Also, had a lot of coffee, so I am not going to be able to nap. Reading a book in bed is relaxing too, right? Right?

3 months ago

Random update: it’s now 5 weeks since I had a haircut and it’s officially in yhe awkward too long to style phase which really means that it’s just all curling up in my face and neck and I’m in sensory overload half the time

Maybe I need to set getting a cut for every 5 weeks from now on as it grows like weed in summer.

3 months ago

Season two of one piece is on Netflix!

3 months ago

Today is the first of my quarterly checkups at the hospital. Fingers crossed!

3 months ago

We have tickets to see Project Hail Mary on Friday!

3 months ago

My husband has given me a motion detector that plays bird songs when detecting motion. He's put it in the bathroom, and I have to admit, I love it!

Not as much as our cat Dipper, though. Just now I went to the bathroom to take my meds, and I saw him sitting on the edge of the bathtub, completely transfixed, staring at the birdsong player.

When I came closer, he startled when the chirps and warbles started again, and sat all motionless, tense all over, ready to hunt for the dang birds who dared chirping at him.

I just couldn't help giggling like a madwoman as I walked back to the bedroom, accidentally functioning as an alarm clock for my husband. Oops.

3 months ago

I had a really bad night sleep and had to go to PT at 09:30

I dragged my body out of bed, put on clothes and went in despite being so tired my eyes were on stalks.

I went because it’s good for me. I train to better myself. I didn’t push it this time though, just worked with the energy I had.

I set the bike to a lower resistance to still get my RPM, didn’t push myself in the weight exercises and then did the treadmill for 6 instead of 10 minutes.

And then I was exhausted but that was a different fatigue. A satisfied one. I didn’t do a thing since, just watched the olympics and recharged my battery with good food.

And I feel so much better as a result. Tired but better. That’s a good thing to strive for I guess?

4 months ago

A knight of the seven kingdoms is such a delight of a show!

4 months ago

Physical therapy just does wonders for my self confidence. I’m even changing how I walk and stand, it’s amazing.

The thing that’s also great is the increase in weight i can push and pull. Today I added 5 kg to the leg press without any problems.

Grateful doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel!

4 months ago

Hello 03:59. So not nice to see you.

Being awake in the middle of the night makes me do silly things like checking what the moon phase is. It’s (almost) full moon. Must be why I feel like howling.

Going to curl up with a book instead and hope it’s so boring I will fall asleep once more.

4 months ago

I am so proud!

Up until now I had one private lesson and one group lesson a week for PT.

The private lesson was for me to increase my balance. Today my PT and I agreed that the balance portion is no longer needed so I can move to two group lessons a week, both focused on strength and cardio training.

Current status: Bloody exhausted but beaming 🙂

4 months ago

PT was so tough today but I did it. I was first disappointed that it was such a struggle but then I realised thanks to my husband that I did really tough exercises, so struggling through them wasn’t a bad thing, necessarily

5 months ago

the physical therapist remarked that I'm more confident, and I really love that she noticed it.

What a change only a couple weeks makes!

6 months ago

Just watched a couple episodes of Ghosts on Netflix. Such a charming little show. I love all the ghosts, they are all such fun characters!

Now onwards with ripping Christmas cd's for my mp3 collection :)

6 months ago

I have bought a switch lite for really cheap and now finally playing animal crossing new horizons. Love it!

Also bought Tales of the Shire. Love being a hobbit but WHY are the fonts so darn tiny??? People with old eyes wanna play too, Weta growl

6 months ago

Second week of the fitness portion of physical therapy.

It was SO much easier than last week, I was astonished. I’m now going to take a long bath with magnesium salt so I can recover my muscles ☺️

Really proud.

6 months ago

Had my first solo session of PT today. Good grief. One of the things I requested was to work on my core. We did that with walking exercises and lunges. I was floored when the session ended, legs trembled so much 😅

And to end the lesson I had to walk on tiptoes through the gym walking past muscular dudes. May have felt ashamed lol

7 months ago

Just finished reading the Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. I loved it so much. She was brilliant in writing the Appeal and this one was just as twisty. The story sagged a bit in the middle for me, but the ending was just so perfect and unexpected. That was the part that made this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7 months ago

I’m so proud of myself. Today was my first physical therapy appointment and I’m still alive 😂

Had to do a fitness test on both bike and treadmill and managed both 🙂

On Thursday I’m going to learn exercises for balance and posture. Am so looking forward to those.

7 months ago

Oh my gosh, I am so so happy. I'm writing fiction again!!! It's completely wobbly and it's only a small idea that I'm developing, but boy, it's so much fun!!!

7 months ago

Just watched being Eddie on Netflix. This documentary about Eddie Murphy was such a joy to watch. What a comedian/actor/musician!

7 months ago

I have added some pages to my blog menu at just now, perfectly normal thing to do before going to sleep :)

7 months ago

Having a coffee after a visit to the hairdresser. I feel so much lighter. Funny how that works. And! My chemo curls are almost gone 😟 perfect! Next: the craft store!

7 months ago

Holy moly, such a productive morning! I ordered meds from two different apothecaries, made several appointments, one of them with an oncological physiotherapist, ordered cargo pants because handbags are not allowed at the Radiohead concert and changed over my email address for several accounts.

Now I need a nap and it's not even 11:00 :D

7 months ago

Am currently packing up for a couple of days away to Heidelberg. (my husband had to go to an event for work, so I tag along for a solo trip :) )

I had decided beforehand that I would only bring my e-reader. Then when I was packing, I didn't hesitate to toss my current physical reads into my bag too.

It makes me realise that no matter how lovely technology is, and how often I use it in the day, there's nothing like reading a physical book.

As an aside: same goes for journaling, I have both my filofax and my passport travelers notebook with me. I thought about bringing my big TN too, but decided against it as my bag was so full already :)

7 months ago

Finished up a small crochet project, a hat and scarf for my husband. It was so fun to make!

Ps I really wish that there was a crochet emoji!

8 months ago

Sometimes I feel like replying to posts that share images without alt texts with a very exaggerated description of the picture, maybe even a poetic one.

An example. “We have here a picture of a young man, with a moustache and boring glasses. He smiles. He is wearing a plaid shirt which makes me wonder if he is the kind of man who has a cupboard full of plaid clothes. Behind him is a group of people and a stage of some sorts. Is he at a concert? At a theatre? People want to know these things! And with people I mean me.”

8 months ago

Bought a Bluetooth keyboard the other day and today I took it with me to the cafe I love to write at.

Had two cappuccino’s and wrote 2,5 scenes, with my phone as the screen.

It worked perfectly. I can now add what I wrote to my Novelwriter document from Notes. So happy!

9 months ago

Wait, is IRC back or something? I’ve seen several people post about it today :)

A little known fact is that I met my husband on IRC, almost half a lifetime ago now.

I still miss my old hangouts.

9 months ago

So at 9-ish this morning, I sat down to edit an e-book.

Ever since, I've edited another e-book, because something I wrote for the original one fit better in there. Then I added my font to the second e-book, liked it, and then proceeded to add my font to my website and did some updates on the home page that I had on my list.

Then I wrote a bit on the second ebook and then spent time on Mastodon.

Total time spent on my actual ebook? 3 minutes? Tops?

Oops.

9 months ago

I'm a happy little blogger.

A year's worth of posts were imported to my blog on Pagecord. I so love it there, and I love the freedom I feel when I'm posting via email :) Thanks Olly!

9 months ago

My website is DONE! There are some things I want to add to it but for now it's as good as it can be :)

So happy!

9 months ago

Am almost done with my website project, and I absolutely love it. I've managed to make it a little bit responsive so it's almost doable on a phone, but as it's 20+ year old code, responsiveness is a pipe dream :D

I have added so many fun things, like my own oracle deck and blog posts in fun inspiration sections. I've also kept the top menus I had for several topics, and actually love them! :D

All in all, this is fun!!

9 months ago

I'm having so much fun with my website recreation project. I'm not keeping everything exactly the same. The colour was godawful (purple with bright pink! I mean I love purple, but that was an overload) and I'm changing the fonts, because times new roman is my mortal enemy.

But the rest is as it was, and good grief, the page loads so fast. No wonder, as it's mostly pure html with a little bit of css and js sauce :D

10 months ago

my morning so far:

• look at code
• get an idea for something to add
• look for notepad
• scramble around looking for notepad
• finding it anywhere but the last spot I remember putting it
• trying to remember the idea

(and yes, you would think that I could just create a notefile in my text editor and then toss the idea in there, but then I spend half an hour scrolling through my open tabs for the idea page, also forgetting the idea in the meantime :D )

10 months ago

It's warm, I'm bored, and I feel like having a site building party. Here's the plan!

Thanks to archive.org, I have a backup of a website I built in 2005.

I'm going to use all the wonky html and all the crazy javascript to build the framework for a website, and host it somewhere, probably neocities, because being there feels like coming home to a self who spent hours and hours searching for cool stuff.

10 months ago

Now I'm feeling better, I'm able to work on my oracle cards again.

In fact, I'm so near done with the website part, that I'm looking for tips on where to host them! I could go the netlify route, but prefer self hosting on my own vps server. It's so much fun to explore that!

But first! Cards!

10 months ago

I've started to blog on because I like the freedom of mailing my blog posts and not having to worry about configuration and such. I love the simplicity!

And now I've figured out you can enable replying via email, so I enabled it immediately!

10 months ago

I’m back in the novelwriter app now I’m working on my novel again and I love it!

Such an improvement over the last time I used it, years ago.

11 months ago

I have bought dresses today, at steep discount in a sale. You would think it would be easy to find them, but I can't do synthetics (and don't want them either), and most dresses are made of polyester.

But I found some beauties, can't wait to open my package next week!

11 months ago

I did it! All the old blog posts I still had are up on my blog. It's making me so happy :D

There is a bit of an issue with the tags, blog posts show up several times in the list, but they are on the blog once. I probably made a mistake but that's okay :D

11 months ago

I've imported the first batch of blog posts in my blog. Checked a couple blog posts, so far so good. It's funny as I import them per tag (for reasons) and now some tags have a load of posts! Next tag to sync: poetry, which will be fun, as nothing is formatted for MD yet and I have a LOT of poems!

11 months ago

Oh my gosh, I did it. I added my blog to a github repo and pushed it to my weblog.

flail

Now I only have to prep 1000 old blog posts, and I can add them to my weblog!

11 months ago

I am having so much fun alternating writing, checking if I have blog posts in my Bear to export later, procrastinating, I mean, uploading stuff to pixelfed and futzing around getting new music on my old iPod.

I did write a blog post about the video I posted on Pixelfed, so I deserve a cookie, or two.

11 months ago

Been working on editing a video for Pixelfed. I need to finish sorting my blog posts, but this was so much more fun!

(And I might turn the video into a blog post later so it’s not procrastinating!)

11 months ago

Spending a very rainy day on the couch in the living room watching recordings from Glastonbury festival we hadn’t seen last week.

11 months ago

I’ve recently moved my blog to weblog and realised something last week: it doesn’t have built in analytics like Bearblog does. So I signed up for a service and added it.

I removed that service two days later. Why?

Because it made me think I shouldn’t have written a post because it didn’t perform well.

That’s just so toxic. I write my blog because I want to write my blog and share what I want to share.

And I’m not going to let analytics ruin that freedom for me.

11 months ago

I have read a whole page on the < picture > tag in html and even though I did read some parts twice, I still don’t get the difference between picture and img as a tag.

Maybe a sign I need to stop trying to comprehend things while melting away

11 months ago

I have just cleaned and decluttered my desk. It’s so neat and tidy now! I have no clue what to do either all the space!

11 months ago

I've finished listening to the Hobbit audiobook earlier this week, and am now listening to Artemis by Andy Weir. I like it so far, the narration by Rosario Dawson is excellent.

1 year ago

Really excited to start a new series on my blog tomorrow. Have so many ideas for it! Not sharing what it is, but the emoji is a hint.

1 year ago

I walk the world in wonder.
Oscar Wilde

1 year ago

It's that ridiculous weather pattern again where it's starting to get warmer, then you have one really nice day, and after that the temperature goes WAY up (to max 32 celcius this afternoon), and also the humidity.

So that means I'm sitting my asthmatic ass down in front of the cooling fan in the bedroom. At least I have a website to tinker with :D

1 year ago

I’m tinkering with Ghost again, because I found archives of old blog posts that I wanted to combine.

And now I’m in love again. I left Ghost because with the cancer I didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with website management, but now I’m feeling better, possibilities are endless :)

1 year ago

I went for a walk just now and took the long way round, even climbed up and down a walking/cycling bridge. I think I rock 😃

1 year ago

Am reorganising all the drawers in the living room with dividers and then filling those. It’s so nice to be organised! Found a lot of stuff too, from a trove of rechargeable batteries to old 1000 and 500 mah power banks to receipts from 2016 and to about ten extra kitchen knives.

1 year ago

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

1 year ago

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

1 year ago

My husband and I can have whole conversations in gifs. It’s one of my favourite things 💜

1 year ago

Heading out the door again in a bit for some coffee and a very needed trim. Chemo hair is so wild! Literally. My hair is like: the only way is up, baby!

So, a trim it is, and after that, if I have energy, I might head to the bookstore to check out notebooks. I'm on the last Moleskine I bought at a steep discount, time to find another one that's at least half the price.

1 year ago

Just did a little stroll through the neighbourhood and feel strong enough to head out to the shopping centre tomorrow to hang in the cafe there and maybe after buy a herring 😃

Let normal life commence!

1 year ago

Been a busy bee this morning. First cleared out and organised three drawers and two shelves of the wardrobe next to the bed, then I sat down and finished my weeknotes for the blog.

Also packed up a return I completely forgot about. Last return day is today (oops!)

1 year ago

Wrote a blog post today! Forced myself to do it, because I was sick and tired of not writing. Hope that this will continue!

here's the post:

1 year ago

Woke to gorgeous sunny weather and fantastic news from 🇨🇦

Pondering posting a blog today with zoo pictures but the sun just beckons me to go and relax in the deck chairs outside 😃

1 year ago

I've been playing with my blog's theme for the past hour or so. I SHOULD do that kind of thing in my test blog, but where's the fun in that? I'm so happy with my archive page ( ). Did notice that I have a tendency to forget caps in my titles. Oops.

1 year ago

proof I'm doing better: we just now went to the thrift store! And I could walk all around it, and bought a super cute box for on my desk which I will share on mastodon later.

1 year ago

I recorded myself reading a poem (and posted it on my blog, here: ), and now I have so many ideas for other recordings. I may read the letter I'm posting on my blog later today.

1 year ago

6:20 (am for the 12 hour clock peeps) and I’m wide awake again. For once I don’t mind as it means I’ve slept six hours in a row until my bladder woke me up. Doesn’t feel like enough but I don’t often get that much sleep in one go. Feels like I’m healing 😃

1 year ago

Oh my gosh. I thought doctor who started next week but it’s today and it’s already on d+ and only is on the BBC in two hours

1 year ago

I wrote a lot today, most of it for my blog. It never fails to make me smile when that happens.

I wrote three blog posts, and a couple half finished ones and I scribbled down some ideas.

All in all, really happy with the progress. I’m back!

1 year ago

Just found a zip file containing some Jekyll experiments. Oh, this will be fun to play with again 😃

1 year ago

Woke up at six or so, and in stead of grumbling about the early hour, I spent most of the time since working on my novel.

I’m so back!

1 year ago

Someone forgot to turn off the electric heater and now this someone is unable to sleep because the room is too warm 😂

1 year ago

The Residence on Netflix is a delight. Cordelia Cupp may be one of my favourite detectives now 😃

1 year ago

I am so proud of myself, I wrote my first real blog post today! I did post something I wrote earlier last week or so, but this is the first one I wrote all in one go since surgery.

Feel like I'm slowly winning myself back.

1 year ago

We are driving home from hospital and signs of spring are everywhere. Feel so blessed!

1 year ago

In my quest for a new browser I'm trying out Zenbrowser and REALLY like it so far. I also downloaded Librewolf to test. Maybe will install that over the weekend.

May the best browser win hehehe

PS on my phone, the winner so far is the Duckduckgo browser.

1 year ago

For the first time since my diagnosis I’m alone in a cafe drinking coffee and eating pie.

It feels so liberating!

1 year ago

Updated my main omg.lol page and reinvented my now page (as it got deleted at one point).

Now going to figure out a way to easily add recent blog posts to my now page.

1 year ago

I always buy Sandisk SD cards for my camera's. Last year, however, I bought Kingston ones, because they were on special offer.

The first one is broken after only a few months.

Going to get me some Sandisk again!

1 year ago

Just found my old iPod touch and it has all these songs that I forgot I ripped (lost part of my MP3 collection in a harddrive crash and never bothered to spend energy on ripping cd's again as I had most of it).

It makes me so happy to listen to these songs again.

1 year ago

I'm so easily distracted right now. I sat down to read and categorise old blog posts, and instead have been futzing around with my theme all morning. It's 10:48, time to get to work, Syl!

1 year ago

Had such a great writing day today. I wrote a blog post, and created a zine. I need to edit that one, but am happy with it so far!

1 year ago

Nearly finished updating my site. Biggest change is that I switched to dark mode and added some fun new things, like a hello page :)

1 year ago

Just cleared out my status log and am all ready to start anew! Am currently having a good old clean out of my MacBook. It was just appalling how many versions of some writing projects I had! Am clearing out all the obsolete ones and making space on my drive and in my mind 😃

1 year ago