Recently in April '26

April is now coming to and end, and with it, a new blog post is born. Around 33% of the year has now gone by, and we're starting to head into the prime time of the spring. Looking back at this month, it's been quite quiet. I know I said the same thing last month, but now it's for real. Blooming Spring 🍄 Life There weren't any major events happening this month in my life. Well, there were, but I've already talked about them as they happened. This month, I got my first swimming diploma and I started working on conquering my driving anxiety after not driving for more than five years. On a completely different note, yesterday I hit a door and the left temple of my eyeglasses almost broke off. The optician managed to fix it a bit. They'll check if they can order another temple. Otherwise, I might need to get new glasses, which is a shame since I got new lenses back in August. On a brighter side: spring has started, and it's been quite sunny and warm. It's a nice feeling, but also not good for the Netherlands. Too dry. I'm also trying to get back on taking more photos again. I really enjoy it, but lately I haven't done it as much. I know have my camera on my desk, and I notice I take it much more often with me. 💪 Health Things are going well. I went to the physiotherapist again for my wrist, and I'm very happy with what she said: she also agrees that I should be able to do everything with no pain, including putting my whole body's weight on my hand. So we'll work on it! Until now, I felt like all other physiotherapists wanted me to just accept that I'd need to live with it forever. Swimming is going nicely. Haven't been this week and haven't had a lesson because of the school vacation, which means there's also no swimming lessons. I might go tomorrow. Maybe I'll check out the Tongelreep. Strength training at home is also going well. 🍿 Entertainment This month we went to two concerts: Sophia Stel and ROSALÍA. Sophia Stel is a quite small artist, and we saw her at the upstairs room in Paradiso. It's such a small room: capacity for around 250 people. It was a cosy concert. Never been there before. ROSALÍA, on the other hand, was a completely different scene: magnificent, phenomenal, enchanting. In the cinema, we watched three movies: Project Hail Mary, The Drama, and The History of Sound. They were all three very good. The Drama was a bit... dramatic and sometimes too predictable, so I didn't enjoy it as much. But the other two? I'd definitely recommend watching them! When it comes to series, we watched a lot. Not a lot of series, but we finished a lot of seasons. We finished all seasons of The Man in the High Castle, the latest season of Shrinking and of Knokke Off. All good, all different, all recommendations. Until next time!