Happy belated New Year! I’ve enjoyed having my year off from blogging but I’m ready to open it up again for 2022. I didn’t accomplish anything I set out to do; instead I focused on restoring my health and trying to make the most of life while struggling through another year of pandemic.
I don’t intend to write much this year. Instead, I want to experiment with making videos of some of my travels, focusing on travels since the pandemic began and maybe some of my past travels. If I’m able to travel any this year, I’ll try to make some for those travels as well.
There’s one big caveat. I’ve never made a video before; I’ll have to learn as I go along. Since I don’t actually have much video footage, they’ll be mostly slideshow videos (with photos only) set to music.Β I’ll try to take more videos while traveling in the future.Β The only writing I’ll do is a list of my “Top 10” for a destination, and maybe a paragraph of highlights. That will be the extent of it.
Mostly, I just want to have fun and challenge myself to learn something new. π
Here are some pages from my 2022 bullet journal where I plot out my year as I’d like it to be.Β Who knows if any of it will happen, especially with the pandemic still tearing its way through the world.Β We can always hope.
Happy New Year! I wish all of you good health and much happiness in 2022.
~ wander.essence ~ 
Love your journal Cathy, great sketches. Did you do any journaling during 2021? I’ve put the occasional video in my posts. They are easy to do. I look forward to following you through the coming year.
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Thank you! I didn’t do as much journaling as I would have liked, Pauline. I honestly didn’t get much done at all in 2021, I don’t know why. I was too busy focusing on my health or just wasting time. I’ll be interested to see how you do your videos. π
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Oh my Cathy reading your previous post about 2021 I think you did so much. Just reading all those books would take me forever.. You’re a ball of energy. Hope your health has fully recovered.
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Thanks, Pauline. I’m slowly recovering my health, I think. It is a long road healing from chronic pain and health problems. π
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You always have 10 times more goals than me! Love your library and the robin. Always happy to follow your latest venture, Cathy. The book sounds interesting? Happy 2022!
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Thank you, Jo. I may have lots of goals but I often don’t get many of them done! I don’t know if the book will ever see the light of day; it’s going to take some time to compile it. I hope to cover the period from 2007 to 2011, when my marriage was first in upheaval through the end of my time in Korea.I keep thinking I should go back to 2001 because that’s really when it all started. I’ve already been working on compiling stuff from my blogs and journals. I already have too many pages, but this will be a very rough draft. Lots of editing to do in another yaer. Happy 2022 to you too!
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Health and Happiness for you, Cathy!
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Thank you, Sue! Same to you!
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Thanks! ππ
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Hello Cathy,
it’s good to hear/read from you again and to find out you’re doing ok.
Here, we don’t have any great plans for 2022 either. We’ll just take it as it comes since in these times one cannot really plan ahead. If Covid allows us, we’d like to go on at least one of the two longer journeys we had to cancel 2 years ago, one to Ireland and one to Germany. If that won’t be possible, we hope to be able to go on a longer tour like the one we did in June, to California. And there will always be short trips to the coast and to nearby parks. But whatever it will be: we don’t have such a wonderfully written and illustrated bucket list like yours. That’s fantastic. π
As to your plans for videos: I’ve dabbled in videos a few times, and what I decided I need in the future is a gimbal to hold my video camera steady. A gimba would, accidentally, help my still pictures with a long telezoom, too.
For 2022 I wish you all the best, especially good health,
Pit
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Thanks for coming by, Pit. We do have to try to get out and about because I fear this pandemic will become part of our lives now, just like the common cold and the flu. We all have to take precautions and be respectful of our fellow citizens, but also, we can’t stop our lives because of those who choose not to get the vaccine. I hope you can go on your long journeys this year, but who knows if it will be possible. We were able to go to Croatia for 2 weeks in October, before Omicron; we had to show proof of vaccine and show a negative test on our way back to the U.S. At least, like you said, we can try to travel in country or take local trips.
Glad to know about the gimbal to hold your camera steady. Do you use a camera (Go-Pro or similar?) or your phone for videos? Do you have a brand of gimbal that you like? I don’t even know what one is. I’ll have to do some research, obviously! For the time being most of my “videos” will be slideshows of still photos because I don’t have much video footage. But I hope to branch out in the future. π I too wish you the best in 2022!
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I love your illustrated plans. All the best for fulfilling your wishes in 2022.
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Thanks so much, Anabel. I have fun doing my bullet journal each year! π
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