Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Maybe we can’t technically leave our home right now, but we can mentally leave our home with this completely amazing website that pairs radio stations around the world with video footage from a car. So you feel like you’re driving around London. Or Tel Aviv. Or Stockholm.

Or maybe it’s a drone sometimes.

Regardless, you can also change the radio station if you don’t like the one that autoplays when you log into a city.

I love, love, love, love, love this. It’s a life-changer.

What amazing things have you found?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I recently started reading romance novels because I discovered I like happy endings. I like stress-free slides into happiness in the final pages. I just read a very funny book with a very wistful, somewhat sad-ish ending, and I sort of refused to believe the final page was the final page. There needed to be a second ending that was 100% happiness.

Which isn’t to say that I’m only reading happy books. I was just reading The Push. Not happy. But, yes, I really like happy endings.

But I also love this post asking if happiness (or the happy ending) is worth the risk (to honest reality). Life usually isn’t neat and tidy.

What do you think? Do you like happy endings? (Um… not those happy endings. I mean, the kind in books and movies.)

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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The New York Times had a fantastic article about how to tidy up your life, digitally. It went well beyond the usual, low-hanging fruit advice and provided links, breaking down all the places you need to tidy and how to do it.

The nicest part is that it’s split into seven steps, so you can tackle one per day or one per week, and the whole thing is less overwhelming.

Plus, unlike a lot of articles that focus on cleaning up clutter so your machine runs faster or organizing data into folders, all of these steps are about tidying your online life so you have fewer accounts open or browser extensions used.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Modern Mrs Darcy posted about how she works her way through her TBR list. It involves a shortlist on a post-it note, which wouldn’t work for me with library books—I’m at the whim of the holds list—but is a brilliant way of working my way through my book guilt list. These are certain books I purchased that I haven’t read yet, and I feel guilty that I haven’t read them.

I walked around the house, constructing my list from various book piles. I ended up with 18 paper books and 18 e-books that burn a hole in my stomach. 36 books in total.

I decided I would read one per month. It wouldn’t cut into my new library holds, and it would only take me three years to work my way through these 36 purchases. By that point, I could start tackling another 36. But I would only worry right now about these 36 and choose from this list.

How do you choose what you read or watch next?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I’ve been trying to take one day each weekend—or even a half a day—to not do anything. No obligations to other people. No tasks completed. I drink coffee and I read a book. Maybe I reprimand Beorn because his new favourite thing is to move all the bedding and bring me pieces of the newspaper I use to line the bottom of his cage. Thanks, pal.

There was an article a little over a week ago outlining the seven types of rest. Because not all rest is the same, and if you only get rest in one or two areas, you won’t actually feel rested because the remaining depleted areas still demand attention. It really does make a difference to try to hit five or more areas in one four-hour period. Sleep in, don’t work, unplug, enjoy a book, no people-pleasing, and only socializing with my guinea pig.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.