I literally hate brandishing the excuse of being ‘busy’ because it highlights poor time management on my part. But yes, I have been quite on the ‘just surviving’ state the past couple of weeks that my blog was put on the backburner until I finally get my head above water. Here’s me taking a couple of little gasps before I dive back into my nonvirtual life. But before I do, let me share with you guys (if anyone’s up to reading, that is) a couple of highlights while I was away.

I got promoted. I don’t even know how it happened because I wasn’t lobbying for a promotion at all, and not a lot of people get promoted mid-year. Personally, I have long stopped associating my job/job title as who I am. Because it’s not. I don’t hate it. It’s important as it gives me financial security, but I don’t go around on my free time telling people what I do for a living unless they ask and I rarely ever go into the specifics of it. It’s not something I’m passionate about, but it’s something I [think] I’m good at and pays for the things that make my heart flutter and nourish my soul. And my bills, too. So I go to work on time, do what needs to be done to the best of my abilities, and when I log out, I leave it all behind until I log back in again.

We’re celebrating our anniversary this month. Another year down, and as tradition, we are heading out to tick off another country on our list. I have completed all the minimal planning that needs to be done since C & I are not sticklers for itineraries. We prefer to make a short list of experiences we want to do and another list of things that we might want to do when we have extra time. Vacations are for destressing, and tight schedules achieve the opposite of that.

We’re already planning next year’s trips. We have an upcoming winter trip at the start of the year and another autumn trip late next year. Stoked is how I would put my feelings lightly. (And the family is going on a separate winter trip, so there’s that too.)

I’m so close to getting the right combination for my skin care. It still is not going to be a 10-step skin care because I’m not trying to fool myself that I’d be able to do all of them before falling asleep. Ha!

That’s about it, I guess. I’ve been thinking about doing a couple Q&A post with chicken boy for our anniversary, but I don’t know what questions to answer since we really don’t get a lot of them online. Haha! Let me know if there’s anything you’re interested to find out or any content idea and I will work on it. 🙂 How have you been? I hope everyone’s doing well!