Hello 2020!

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First and foremost, I'd like to wish everyone still reading this the best of luck in the new year. May it bring you joy and happiness in all that you do.

I made new year's resolutions last year of which I probably didn't keep up with. I did read a lot more, and I started exercising more, by which I mean I took up rope-skipping again.

Some 25 years ago, I was a competition level skipper but those days are long gone. Although, I still got the moves.
It was a colleague of mine (with whom I've become quite good friends) who pushed me to find a sport I would love to do (and chess didn't count). She kept pushing until I finally wanted her to stop nagging so I joined a local rope-skipping group. She got her way. :p

There's maybe one resolution I would like to make and that would be that I would try to post here again. I've been absent, I know (don't tell me), and I thought it had maybe been too long to come back and say "Hey, still alive!". However, someone recently told me it's never too late to come back in and go "Hey guys, I'm still alive. How are you?"

So here I am... again...

And I will try to post at least once a week -- even if it's just to say "hi".

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I knew there were rope-skipping groups around but had no idea whether they had any groups which were purely recreational. I don't quite think I will ever get back to competition level, especially not when I see what the young ones bring out. There's some acrobatics there that I'm simply no longer cut out for doing. =P

Found one. Then went to their first lesson and had to sit down halfway through, and I thank every deity in the universe that the teacher of that day wasn't actually the teacher of the group cause she overdid it somewhat. I don't think I would have stayed if she had been our coach the rest of the year.

But the group is an interesting mix of moms of skippers to a couple who skipped before, then stopped and started again (like myself). And the best part of it, around Halloween and Christmas we still get to play fun games during the last class before the holidays. Therefore around Halloween, we were turned into witches, and right before the christmas holiday we had to solve riddles before finally getting to our presents which was a christmas ball with our faces in**. =D

** The group makes a calendar each year and our little band was set to cover December so they wanted to do something with a christmas theme. I kinda volunteered to create a tree with our faces photoshopped in as christmas balls. Our coach then used my creation to print our faces and stuck them in a see-through ball. =D