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The author reflects on her experience of New Year’s Eve, noting she typically does not toast and find watching the countdown boring. She stopped making resolutions due to past failures. For 2026, she plans to start gardening early. 2025 had enjoyable highlights, including trips and a memorable birthday drive.
The author reflects on her blogging journey. After years of writing and publishing over 5000 posts, her work was finally recognized. While happy about this milestone, she emphasizes that it doesn’t change her approach to sharing personal thoughts, stories, and experiences on her blog.
The author discusses her efforts to elevate her mood amidst a negative household, where praise is rare and criticism is prevalent. She uses positive self-talk and mental affirmations to counteract the negativity, while expressing frustration at the lack of encouragement from her family. The blog serves as an additional outlet for managing emotions.
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Happy Sunday! Can you believe it? With about two weeks left in 2025, we are technically hurtling toward 2026. As an annual tradition, the Lens-Artists team is giving us one last chance to get some honorable mentions into the challenge. Here’s mine, I hope you enjoy.
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Happy Saturday to all! Once again, thank you, Natalie, for hosting #WeekendCoffeeShare each weekend.
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Happy Sunday! Ann-Christine is the host for this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge and in lieu of the holidays, it appears we will be reflecting upon some fun memories of the holidays.
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Happy Saturday to all! Once again, thank you, Natalie, for hosting #WeekendCoffeeShare each weekend.
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