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Week 94, Day 651.

I hate to say it, but this is going to be yet another short ‘I have no energy or time’ sort of post. However, my ‘to do’ list has decreased from 36 items to 29, so I count that as a major improvement on last week. Our house move and all tasks related to it are also almost fully complete, so that’s another huge relief! 🌟

I am currently away with my doctorate centre, STREAM on our annual challenge week, which is jam-packed with tasks, activities, and well, challenges... For example, today one of our group challenges was to engineer a water filtration system good enough to purify astronaut urine. My team came second, which I was super stoked about as none of us knew anything about filtration, whereas the team that came first had their own water filtration expert! 💧

Tomorrow, we have our annual STREAM conference; this year it is held at my old workplace, Severn Trent. It is weird enough me staying in Coventry (where I used to live) for the week, let alone going back to my old company, with a completely different perspective on the water sector and life in general. I am definitely looking forward to it. 🌾

Aside from the conference, we have a crazy week ahead, so I’m going to go to bed now. But before I go...

A little on minimalism and sustainability...

I have finally started turning off my phone at work and by Jove it has been the most productive decision I have ever made; it gives me so much more clarity and focus. 11/10 recommend. 📴

I have decided to set myself a new minimalism challenge: I have counted all of my clothes, shoes, accessories, jewellery, etc. and am not allowed to buy any of these types of items until January 2020. Alongside my backwards hanger challenge, I am hoping to decrease the number of at least some of these items by April 2020 (the end date of the hanger challenge).📿 👗👠

And on that note, have an awesome week you beautiful people!

Photo: Me with our hand-made filtration system. Source: Someone else’s camera.

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Week 95, Day 659.

Things haven’t gotten any easier or any less manic. I came home last night and told my bf that I am one more trigger away from a breakdown. Then I watched the last episode of Stranger Things 3 and just like that *BOOM* had a full blown mental breakdown. I guess it was kind of overdue. Regardless, I had to get out of bed this morning and head into work as I have a long important meeting today with my supervisors before our big steering group meeting tomorrow and my travelling up to Scotland straight after as I have two days worth of site visits on Thursday and Friday. There’s no room for weakness right now.  However, I had an awesome time at the STREAM challenge week, enjoying it a lot more than I did last year! The challenges and activities were a lot of fun, except sailing, during which I re-opened my horrible knee wound that I had from a bike accident back in Colorado. :D ⛵ Having our own rooms was also a huge relief as I found I could at least somewhat recuperate my energy levels. Below is a photo from one of our team challenges last week... 

Photo: When you’re really committed to a challenge... they did say we’d be working with water... Source: Someone’s camera.

Yesterday was my first day out with Panton McLeod at one of their cleans in Nottingham. I learned more about service reservoirs in those 5 hours than I have done in the last 6 months. Therefore, I am really eager to continue my time with this company, even if it does mean that I have to carry out confined space training... 😨

That is all I have the time and energy for this week as both of those need to be fully directed at my work right now.  Have a prosperous week! And make sure you get what you need to get done, done. ✨

Photo: On-site Monday. Source: My camera.