Dear Diary, today is for rest. Fixed the mistakes I found in the project, took much longer than I thought, instead of 3-4 hours it was 3-4 days, lesson learned. The next few days I spent time with a few friends and their families. It was a nice and much needed change, a break from the project. We got to talk about different things, life in general, more creative ideas and I finally opened up about my plans for the future which requires me learning new skills that I am hoping they can teach me since they are years ahead of me in that regard. The response was heart-warming, they even gave me a few pointers to start with and whenever they have spare time, they can teach me the rest. I'm so grateful for this, also hoping I won't ruin it like I ruined other opportunities in the past, lessons learned indeed.
Relationship is also going well, things picked up for him at work, which is a nice change after last year which was quite a depressing time. It turned out he made the right decision to cut his losses and accepted one of the new opportunities which is now going well for him although he had a lot of doubts at first. I make sure to spend enough time together, I don't want life to be all work.
I don't talk much about relationship and family here, they don't like me share those things online. But they are part of my life so I don't think it's possible not to write about them at all. One day they may find this diary and know it's mine, that will be the day I know for sure how everyone will react to it and that's when I will decide to continue writing openly or not. For me this is all harmless, I don't expect people to like everything about me, to always have good opinion about me, that's not realistic at all - so I expect people to let me do what I want, be who I am, besides I can only be myself.