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Shovelling Snow = Injuring Back

Intro It’s March but still winter in Québec, Canada. We just had 15 – 20 cm of snow dump … sigh When that happens, we have to shovel the darn thing to clear the path to the front or side door… State of our side door Our side door was blocked by the snow like this… Buried in the snow are our garbage and recycle bins. The door won’t open either. Shovelling it away It was Saturday morning. I knew I had to shovel the snow away. It was burying our side door and them bins. And the hubby was leaving garbage bags that are full of trash in the

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My Routine

Intro Well, for over 10 years, I have been going to the gym regularly. Stupid Covid changed that for me. And yes, that’s my sorry excuse, alright? Hurting my knee while shovelling snow was another one. The constant pain pulled down my mood and motivation. December 2022 The new year was about to start and was scrolling through photos on instagram mindlessly. Mostly guys with great physiques. Of course, I’m not gonna have that sortta physique. But I remember thinking to meself, “gotta get back to me routine”. Mirror I usually avoid looking meself in a mirror. Seriously hate how me face, me body, about everything about me. I guess

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My blogs

Intro I first began blogging way back in early 2004 or 2005. It was one of the way to communicate with my friends back home in Japan. It was easy to post photos with a little note and blabber about it more over the phone. I’d like to assume my family read them too but surely they didn’t give a … So yeah I’ve been blogging in Japanese for a long time. Japanese I have used many platforms for blogging. Mini-blog platform called Mixi was very popular and this was before Facebook. Gawd, I’m showing me age aren’t I. I can’t remember how many of them I used but Ameba

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Hello World

Intro Here I go again. After blogging in Japanese for a long time, I finally decided to blog in English, too. Why now? Well, I forgot to switch off the auto-renewal of this domain “Auntie-k.com”, duh. Yeap I’m such a twat, aren’t I 🤦🏻‍♂️ Blogging I was using this domain for a Japanese blog platform called Hatena blog. I moved that blog to WordPress and cancelled blog hosting service with Hatena. But I forgot to un-tick the auto-renewal box of the domain because it was a different service provider and needed to go to that service provider’s website to do it. Lazy arse me. That’s right. To avoid the same

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