Fourth of January... Is it late to say now Happy New Year? I guess, a little belated wish, however, there was one small inconvenience due to which I could not write a nice Goodbye 2021 - Welcome 2022 post. I could call that inconvenience names, nasty ones they would be... but it is just my beloved migraine that at the same time is my most faithful life companion. It is so constant that even wanted to spend the first three days of this year with me. Yesterday it showed so much of her powerful love to me that I was just a tiny shadow of me. It is still giving significant signs today, but I am trying to ignore it, even I will write a confusing post: there are parts from last year, this year, and maybe plans for the future.
Let me go by logic and start with the last day of 2021. I had a gig at the place I am playing Sunday mornings. It was just a one-hour playing, during the cocktail part of the whole night program that the hotel prepared for the guests. It was ok, but I was surrounded by too many people at one moment. Nothing wrong with that, but it also supposes too much talk, so I had the feeling the music was suppressed by that noise. However, I had a group of people that came closer. They were singing the songs I was playing and had a good time. That was nice :) Well, later others were coming also to say they liked it and all in all it was good feedback. The only confusing thing is why they put in the hall some ballons stating SOS? Was my music too much for them so they were calling for help? If you dont believe it, take a look at the next photo. Clearly, it says all. {Ok, it could represent swans too, or 5025.. but we are still not there, right? SOS stays as the best option!}
Luckily, everyone could ease the pain caused by the piano music with some liquids that were there. Oh, just not me. I had to drive back home and logic was in charge: It is foggy outside, you have to drive some 20 minutes on a road with serpentines, stay away! Ok, I listened to the inner voice and had half of a glass of champagne when I arrived home. I think I didnt have to take it. Maybe it was the call for my migraine that started the next day.
Well, all is connected. Migraines, piano playing, hive, people, experiments, and liquids. Although I dont usually make new year resolutions, one decision, better to say a promise is done. A very loved and tasty, and yummy drink called coffee, will be avoided for some time, to see if it has some connection with my migraines. The next step will be to add some additional physical activity to my routine. Ok, this mi electric scooter doesn't count, and anyway it's not mine. My son bought it for himself a few days ago but gave me to try it out. I dont really like them, as one can go on foot or bike and make more benefits for its health with that, but an electric scooter??? No way I would try it... Ok, I tried ;D It is funny.
More of future plans for this post? Yes, music, I almost forgot it. A few days ago I saw a hive member playing a game called Pianista. It was so funny to see that classical pieces are "played" through a game, but it was inspiring. There is a list of works that appears in that game, so some of them I will pick and play on my instrument, but that in some of the future posts. Today is still not that day I could enjoy playing, but music will come these days. And hopefully some more positive version of me. Maybe even some surprises that my son wants to get me involved in, but that is the mystery of the future.
Hahah
Your migraine took all the attention!
Happy new year, its not late at all.. You know if you have the same timing as everybody.. You would of found yourself in a happy-wishes traffic jam!!
About your migraine, did you try breathing like WiM Hoff teaches? Its magic. Just oxygen.
Excess of coffee is baaad, so bad! I'm trying to regulate my weekly dose too.
I tell you my biggest plan for 2022..
Becoming a father!! We are expecting our baby for August..
Because of this reason.. Also we are moving back to Uruguay soon, after 3 years out.
Also I'm gonna catch up with a musical project that I call "Tango Pop". My idea is to adapt tango to current times.. Actualizing its way of playing, and arranging other genres to play it in the ukulele, and actualizing the lyrics too. I want to spread tango playing in the ukulele to new generations!!
2022 is gonna be awsome!
Cheers 🍷
WOW!! This is the best news this post could receive!!! You and Espe are going to have a baby!!!
Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations!!!
Also, the tango project is cool, I wish you a lot of success with that! ukulele man!!
My things are not important here, after your announcement, but yes I heard of Wim Hoff, a few weeks ago my husband showed me some videos of his breathing techniques and what he achieved with them but I seem to completely forget all the good things that are offered and shown to me...
Happy New year! Sorry to hear that you had a migraine the past few days. My wife gets them regularly as well so I know they can be a real discomfort. Glad you're feeling better now. The scooter would be fun but like you pointed out, it might almost be - too convenient. A person might never want to walk again or get exercise. 😆
Happy one to you too :))
Oh, greetings to your wife and wishing her as less as possible migraine episodes this year. Actually, no real cure for it, and there is no magic pill that can help when it hits hard. We can just try to find out the triggers and reduce them, and always searching for additional alternative help. Almost a life long battle. The scooter 🛴 thing is indeed too convenient 😂 I see more and more of people using it, but maybe it will not be interesting anymore in some years.
Happy New Year 🥳
And it is never to late to wish something good.
Sorry to hear about your migraines, I know them all to well.
For me alcohol is not related, but every person reacts to other things. It is worth trying to see for yourself.
Hey @littlebee4 Feliz año nuevo 😊 How your Spanish?
If I ever write a migraine related post (one that would focus especially on things I already tried and would like to investigate further), I will mention you so we can continue with some more detailed experience exchange or advice or anything like moral support hehehe. That's the most challenging, go through one episode of several days.
I wrote a confusing post hahah 😂, it's coffee that I will try to avoid now, but yes, I think I forgot to write it down. Now it is corrected 😅
Let’s say ok-ish. Never had lessons and learning myself in the last 6 years. Speaking is the hardest part for me, as I have trouble with my pronunciation. Due to speaking other languages. My first language was German, then Dutch at the age of 6 and English I only learned in 2011. These I am fluent in. I also speak a Dutch dialect. So 4 languages. Spanish will be my 5th.
I do understand about 90% of the spoken Spanish. 😊 (if it doesn’t go to fast 🤣) I always try to talk back. But now with the masks, in the last 2 years, people are having a hard time understanding my pronunciation. And I them… 😞
I am trying really hard. I do read new papers and articles in Spanish, and Watch tv in Spanish.Feliz año nuevo @mipiano 🥳
Ok, that sounds great. We talk then further and support each other. Give tips, compare etc.
Aaahhh coffee, I understand now. Coffee is bad for me. I can have 1 cappuccino in the morning but after that, about 60% of the time it creates a migraine. You should definitely try and see what it does for you.
Thanks for clarifying 😁😊
That is the most important part, yes, to talk back, and read, and write, and listen and talk and again all ;)
It also depends on the personality, I learned in all these ways + some lessons + I read a ton of books back in time, all in Spanish. After some months of moving to Spain, I started to work, in school, being already at a level to teach in Spanish. (it was not perfect, maybe still it is not - we will always have some foreign accent while talking). My husband went to lessons, years, but he is not so talkative as me so Spanish is not his favorite language to use. The number of languages, fluent in 4 very different languages in my case too, haha, so dont worry, all can be handled.
And yes, Spaniards can speak really fast, but Italian is even faster. Last year we met some nice people from hive, an Italian couple, and wow, that was fast speaking hahaha.
No coffee experiment time is ON, and I yawn all day. Each time I will see the coffee machine I will remember the person who made me try this no-coffee time 😅
Perfect! Thank you, the whole story will come separately.
Un abrazo - para practicar castellano :)
Well done you, sounds like you learned it faster. It is difficult to learn. My partner has trouble with it. But he works in Gibraltar and no people speak Spanish to him. So it is difficult for him to learn if he is not immersed in it.
What are your languages?
I know, Italian… we went a while back to Rome. I know what you mean when you say fast… hahaha
Ooo ooo lol 😂 Good…. Hope it helps a bit in the experiment.
Un abrazo y mucho animo. 😉
Yeah, I think that is the logical reason your partner is not improving Spanish, if he doesn't use it, it's normal.
My native language is Hungarian, a very specific language. Then my second language is Serbian, as I was born in former Yugoslavia, so went to school and have all friends talking in that language. Then I almost moved to New Zealand, but I am so happy it didn't happen so I learned English for the exams that were required to get the permanent visa. Finally landed in Spain as a place to live for some time after one summer of vacation spent here 😆
Those are difficult languages to start with. In my eyes that is. Hungarian is very specific indeed.
Interesting, I looked at New Zealand. It is such an beautiful country. It’s landscapes…. 🥰
It always start with a holiday in Spain. How long are you here now?
Have a nice evening further. 👋🏻
Talk soon 😊
Hi @mipiano Happy New Year, my best wish for you is that you get divorced soon from that faithful companion. If I did it you can too, for about 10 years it accompanied me in my 30's, it was a very nice time where I felt so safe and happy but from time to time I wanted to die when this terrible pain appeared.
Poor everything, take away my coffee or drink strong coffee. What is related to pain is chocolate and since I like it so much I was not going to give up my passion for chocolate because of migraine. So I kept looking until something worked for me and I always give the remedy for those who need it.
Put ice water on your head, for several minutes, attention: this should be done slowly, gradually cover areas of the head, you can use a wet towel with ice water, as soon as the pain starts. This will deflate the nerve and activate the blood circulation.
Each time the pain appeared, I did the same thing and the episode and the frequency with which it appeared disappeared. Try it and let me know.
I guess the noise of so many conversations overwhelmed you and that also causes migraine. You made me laugh with the sos, I hope that electric skateboard gets you to your rides.
I use to make my decrees at the beginning of the year, but this year I didn't, let's say it's a good sign to fulfill what is not written. Greetings and a happy new year.
My dear @soyunasantacruz 🤗
Happy New Year to you, I saw your family and how happy you were, oh and your grandma is for being loved 😍 the doggy was there too hehehe.
Hahah, getting divorced from my migraine!! Oh, I wish, I wish!!! That would be my life wish hahaha. But, she loves me soooo much 😆 from the time I was about 16 or 17 years old and never ever wanted to leave me alone. I have hopes when I get into my third stage of my life (when I get really old 😅) that it will take it more easily with me. I will become less interesting to be bothered by miss migraine.
Ok, so let's see your technique. So it helped even in the worse episodes? Oh, how familiar sounds that wanting to die :( Yesterday, when I didn't react to any pill I took, I had just a horrible nausea and pain, pain, pain... no normal breathing, just pure survival.
Ice water. Do you mean frozen, like ice indeed? You put ice in a towel and use that? Haha, so funny, you are a fighter!!! You didn't want to give up on chocolate but then developed a technique to combat the migraine! Cool 😎
Look, as I also announced to @littlebee4 , I will maybe put together the facts about the migraine, possible triggers, techniques of survival :) and possible help, medicine and alternative ways. You and your technique will be mentioned too, but of course I will also have to try it out.
Hm, a new community is on the horizon, moral support for those suffering this thing 😆 We will combat it all together, girls 🤗
hahaha one for all and all for one.
Yes to ice in towel, or thawed ice and that very cold cold water put slowly over the head.
Thanks, that's my family including my doggy, it was a very funny day because my dad wanted Duke (my dog) to be in all the pictures and that was mission impossible, he is the good grandpa. hahahaha.
Greetings and get well soon
THIS !! It would be our motto 🙌
Ok, so I have to keep always some ice cubes in the freezer. Thanks, I hope I would not have to try it out for at least some days, but knowing the rhythm I have them, I will let you know soon about the results.
Duke is photogenic, but the dog of my parents, the same breed of dog as your Duke, is black, so every attempt to have a photo of him is fail as a black huge "something" appears on the photo 😂
They have to stick their tongue out with a throat squeeze for it to show in the picture, I say this from experience hahaha.
That breed is very restless, they never mature they are eternal puppies. @mipiano 😋
Yes, I agree with that ;)
I made a goal to invest more in hive and it games, build my stake and have a stronger community of Hivers in my school.
About hive games, I am already working the path and saving up some money to invest in them.
Also made plans on how to do some regular power ups and converting some of my earned HBD to Hive then I power them up.
Well thought plans! Although I am totally out of all the games, I know from first hand, (another hiver in the house who came to this platform actually through a game) that it can be a good investment too, but all is a question of doing your own research and measure where and how much to invest.
Stronger community of hivers in your school. You see, that is what I am talking about, you are building something bigger and stronger, and that counts for being a big personality :)
no, not at all! 😊 😉
same to you. and a !PIZZA
Thank you for the pizza :)) 🥂
I just have to sit down and read it to the end. My 2022 I have some plan and goal I want to achieve and the first one is that I want to buy a plot of land this year so I can start something before I even finish school in few years time.
And also I want to connect with some big personalities on hive and I will be glad if I can communicate with you once on video chat.
Planning to get over 3k hp
Those are some nice goals and plans. Of course, it would require a lot of, lot of work, but knowing you are studying and also much around hive, well, young people can do a lot of things if motivation is there!
Big personalities on hive? well, you already have one, a very hardworking and special one, @starstrings01. Follow his advice and example and all will be great! :))
Smiles, big personalities. Thank you very much.. 🤗🤗🤗
Never saw myself big though, but I appreciate the nice words 🤗
It is actually the thing, the real thing, when one goes around and helps and onboards, and gives advice, and all that you do, so no discussion hahaha! you are a great example, accept it or not :D
🤗🤗🤗🤗... Thank you so much.
I have been editing a video since 7 hours ago, it contains some advices to newbies on tips they need to know for a better 2022 on hive.
Hopefully I would be done in an hour time.
🙌🙌
I mean like making friends with people who are not nigerian
@starstrings01 is always there anything need arise. I want to explore more in the blockchain and connect more
That can also grow my account
And you are doing it very well! You are probably already connected with many people from all around the globe, and just a place like this could allow us to do. All who are active here and appreciate this place could call themselves lucky ones, as these are extraordinary people, knowledge, and moments each of us can experience. Don't you agree? :)
I totally agree with you. Well said thanks for this boss
You're welcome 🎵🎵
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Oi, I am so sorry to hear of your migraines .... and such persistent one as well !! As an occasional migraine sufferer I understand what you are going through ... personally the only thing that works for me is IMMEDIATE sleep... I take a migraine pack (paracetamol, muscle relaxant and sleeping tablet) and go sleep. I wake up shaky and weak with my eye balls feeling like they have been punched by a heavyweight boxer. But I escape the blindness, puking, numbness and blinding headache.
Those balloons are definitely "2022" and methinks you know it and are making fun {smile} ...
I look forward to your music posts
I suppose it works differently for everyone, although we can try to help each other, but after all, each of us finds or is in constant searching for what can help. Also, not all episodes are the same, so sometimes there are things that can help and sometimes nothing. Thank you for the moral support, that is appreciated 😇
Hahha, ok, 2022 will stay :)
thanks, but will have to wait a few days... and you will find out why :D
@mipiano Happy new year beautiful princess 😃✨🤩
Gracias @yuli07 , igualmente Feliz año!! 🎇
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I have started NY working :/ and first goal that I want to achieve is getting new passport :D Old one expired in April but I was so hopeful about traveling abroad, that let it rotten somewhere in the closet :)
Ok, I missed responding to this comment!!!
Duboko izvinjenje!!!
Passports. Last summer I went to our common country with expired passports 😂 but having the other ones (I have double nationality) we could enter the country. The border guard was so kind so we didn't have to be in quarantine as foreign visitors had to do. Sorted out all the paper works we had to do, well, new tasks are waiting this year, renewing the driving license here as it will expire this year.
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No need for apology :) Beside, I became "little" miss late or better to say miss "little" late :D so who know how many replies I missed when back here after longer period and have no idea where I have already checked...even being to late to upvote some post :(
Driving license and personal card still have time, had to make them again when my wallet was stolen but internet card is next in the line...and you know how lines look like here :/
Yes, working, one of the favorite sentences of our ministers is vacation is for pupils ; it is less work but is all paperwork and always morning shift, which is combination that I just looove to hate...specially when Belgrade.s street cleaners are surprised with snow in the mid January...
For that you can check the replies you got and see have you responded already. Btw, which frontend do you use?
Oh, vacations are not just for pupils!! Haha, street cleaners surprised with snow ❄️, omg, so typical 😂 Hope you had some fun too, although paperwork is never too interesting :D
Just checked Re and found out that I did not reply here :kashljuc: :) Peakd
The only benefit was that in school were just few of us so I did not have to wear mask all the time. Tomorrow kids are back, with more than 15000 new cases daily, but hey, why prolonging vacations when omicron is easy-peasy, we will just sound very strict about measures and woohooo... the fact that in some schools there are not enough teachers to start, bcs are sick, weeeell...just pretend that does not exist.
Wishing you a lot of luck for tomorrow's start!!! Well, not luck is needed just, but powers! But you are a goddess, so no worries :)
Sorry about the migraines.. Its cool to have kept off coffee too.
I m not sure why tho, is it the migraines?
You were probably having caffeine withdrawal headaches..
??
I would love to see you on the e-scooter..😊
Looking forward to the post.
noooooooooooooooooooo 😂 it would be hilarious 😂
anyway, it was just then I tried it, I walk, ride a bike or drive a car :)
Ohh..
I Imagine hiking one to work one day, I live close to work lol.
But the roads in this part of the world is terrible, lol.. So I ll just stop dreaming.. Lol.
How about our song..
Guess what .. I got a keyboard
Thanks for being so inspiring 🌺
Now I m gonna have to start watching you closely😄😄😄
You got a keyboard????? COOL!!! 👏
Now I can retire from my pianistic career 😅
P.S.
Song, yes, song. I have already practiced the score, but still didn't record it to send you 😐
I have to get into that working mode! Soon!
Haha hahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't retire please... 😂😂😂
Ok.. I m glad you re back tho.. It was just a reminder .. Please take your time.
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I am taking too much time now for everything...must be the age hahaha 😂
No not like that.. Haha.
I m sure there are other things that take your time ..
You re a great person, age can only tell good things on you.
But comes with more responsibilities and more work.
I m glad you find time for hive and for me, your hive son😎.
Happy new year to you..
Thank you
You are welcome