A Brand New Year - 2023, Here We Go!

 I completely skipped blogging about anything for 2022. It was a little difficult for me in terms of anxiety and not feeling great that comes along with that. I'm doing better right now, so I decided to give blogging daily (hopefully) another try. It's been so long since I've even done that, and I do like to write. So, I'll see what happens!

On this first day of 2023, it was fairly uneventful. I had my breakfast and then did my yoga. Time to start a whole new year of exercise! I did 274 out of the 365 days of exercising last year, which was down from the year before. I attribute that to the already mentioned anxiety and not feeling well, so I am hoping to do better this year! I'm very thankful I actually really like to exercise, but at the same time, I have been giving myself grace periods if I cannot do it. I tend to push myself a lot, and that is hard to do sometimes with having PH. So, I've got one day down. Yay!

I played with my brand new laptop for a bit, a gift for Christmas from my wonderful boyfriend that was totally not expected, but very much appreciated. I've got it set up for the most part, but I just can't figure out how to get my printer set up to it wirelessly. Guess I will have to try googling that, but for now, if I have to print something, I should be able to just use the cable from the printer. My new laptop is not that heavy to lug around like my other one was, so I have no excuses just to move it to the other room to print!

I had a nice nap with Grace after some lunch. Dinner was next on the agenda after waking up. Such exciting times! After dinner, I took a very nice bath with some of the bath products Mandy got me for Christmas. It was so very nice to soak in relaxing bubbles, and using a delicious smelling orange body scrub! I also read two chapters of a book I'm trying to finish. I seem to get most of my reading done when I am soaking in the tub!

My boyfriend came over after I was done so we could watch The Glass Onion on Netflix. If you watched Knives Out, I think you'd also love this movie! It was very good! Now I am very slowly starting to fade, so it's time to get myself to bed so I can wake up to see what excitement or relaxing things will happen for the 2nd day of this year! 

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