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Second Year Work Anniversary Yahoo





 πŸŒŸ Celebrating two amazing years at my job, Yahoo! πŸŽ‰


Today, I treated Kim to dinner to mark this special anniversary with starting my job two years ago, and I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than at OPA! πŸ₯³ The food was incredible, and I think we may have found our new favorite spot! 


Cheers to new beginnings, great adventures, and delicious meals! πŸ₯‚❤️ 


In Swedish they say ja, jag Γ€r arbetar

This last week I’ve started slowing my reading since I readed my goal and I want to be close to accurate on estimating my year of book πŸ“• reading and so I’m trying to learn three languages on Duolingo for 2024 or til the end of year.



Spanish, Italian, and Swedish last week I got silver this week looks like I’ll get gold. I thought learning some languages instead of reading near πŸ’― books πŸ“š in a year is a bit better since the last decade I’ve read over a thousand books πŸ“šwith including the books I don’t catalog on 😊 Goodreads.

So after cataloging it for yup ten years I’ve decided I’d try and complete with XP points on Duolingo til the end of the year.  My goal is to be at 100,000 XP by the end of 2024 in December.  So that’s about 20 weeks approx at a 5,000 XP a week.  Which I’m way over at the beginning at about 10,000 XP but am expecting it to slow down as it gets more complicated 





Interview and start day blog


You can add me on Duolingo here if you want to see my progress or learn a language together 

Heres my profile- let’s be friendsπŸ˜€

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  1. Great pictures
    Congratulations Nigel
    Looking good πŸ˜€

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