April 2025 calendar page

Raise your hand if you are glad to give the month of March the boot!

Like every year, this month has been exhausting and it threw me a few curve balls I didn't particularly care for (more on that shortly).

So this morning it's with a lot of happiness that I removed the March calendar page from my fridge and replaced it with the April 2025 calendar page.

As hot and humid as this month get, April is usually a month I find my groove back and get productive again and this year I'll get a busy second half of the month as I volunteered to be teaching the basics of pattern making in Photoshop at a nearby school for a month.

But let's go back to the month that was shall we? The month started strong with out 10 years old washing machine making god awful noises during the spin cycles on March 1st. We got a repair guy to look at it immediately and the verdict was that the whole drum assembly and bearings wear breaking bit by bit. He told us that while he could replace the whole drum, it would be a lot wiser to put the money toward buying a new machine as there was no guarantee something else wouldn't break a few months later. So the night before hubby was due to go on a weeklong business trip, we bought a new machine. Then the week went on fairly uneventful at the exception of relentless ongoing heat wave straight from the hottest pit of hell. Hubby came back from his trip with a cold, and a few days later I got it too, leaving me out of comission for almost 15 days! But WAIT! There is more! Just at the same time I got sick our BRAND NEW AC unit which the landlord bought and got installed to replace our old one decided to break. Thankfully being only 3 weeks old it was still under warranty but it ended up being an endless protocol with the manufacturer to get it addressed, one that left me without AC in the bedroom for 5 days. While having a cold, in the middle of a heatwave. Don't worry I made do with sleeping on the sofa bed in our home office, but still. March was also a slow month on the sale front, but less slow than January or February and thanks to my big cold, there hasn't been new YouTube videos going live, at the exception of one short one.

The month did end on a positive note though. I had entered the Golden Coil planner cover contest and on March 31st it was announced that mine made it to the top 10 out of over 1600 covers! The voting for the number 1 spot is going on until April 4th so if you haven't yet, go vote for mine on this post, simply comment with the letter C to place your vote. I'm pretty stoked to have made it to the top 10 this year, last year my entry wasn't selected for the voting phase.