A good day

[scripsi]

My Mum do genealogy, and I gave her a DNA test for her 70th birthday. Now the answer has arrived and yesterday she came over, as she felt she needed help to make sense of all the information. So now I know I belong to haplogroup H, and on my mother’s side I'm 100% European. To no big surprise she is 76% Scandinavian and 18% West/Central European. That should be all the Walloon ancestors who came to Sweden in the 17th century. But then there was 6% Finnish, which was a surprise. Mum’s theory is that comes from the Finnish soldiers Karl XI moved to the part of Sweden my Mum’s family comes from. Now I’m very tempted to purchase another kit and make my father do the test. There ought to be some East European and Jewish ancestry there.

This week I work sex days, so it was nice that my day off yesterday was so lovely. Though I’m not done with my sorting and decluttering, i have dones enough to really see a difference. Throughout March I have been consistent with doing 15 minutes of tidying every day, and you know what- it shows! Yesterday i woke up at 8, did the usual morning things and then did 15 minutes of tidying. Then I looked around to see if I need to do something more as my Mum, only to realise I didn’t need to do anything! I even had time to sew for 30 minutes before she arrived at 10. We had coffee, and checked the DNA analysis and chatted, and then I followed her to the bus station at 12.30 and then shopped. (I live a five minutes walk from the food store), and then had lunch. Took the dog’s on a long walk, sewed for another 30 minutes and then did pilates for another 30. Then I looked at the watch and realised it was only a little after 4 and I didn’t have anything to do until I was to start dinner at 6.

Such an odd sense of freedom! I’m so used to always feel I have a lot of household chores to do, but there was nothing! So I made myself a cup of tea and read until it was time to make dinner. After dinner husband and I spent some time together, and then I went to bed at 11.

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

It's great that you've freed yourself of the clutter!

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I didn't expect to notice it this way, but it's very nice!

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

A day with unexpected free time. You must've made everything right!

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

It sure seems like I did! :D

[liadt]

A good routine to stick to? Long may the extra free time continue!

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I'm definitly going to try! :D

[meathiel]

I'd love to do one of these DNA tests - it sounds really interesting. I'll have to investigate if something like that is available in Germany as well.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I think many (if not all) actually goes to the same lab in USA. I ordered mine through https://www.familytreedna.com/

[meathiel]

Ah ... thank you.

[denorios.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm haplogroup H too - does that mean we're (distantly) related?

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

It does, but we may have to go back some 20 000 years... I think something like 30% of all Europeans belong to that group. You can get it broken down into sub-groups to find people you are closer related to, but you had to pay extra for that, so we didn't.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I really wish I'd been able to have my dad do one of those DNA tests before he passed away... especially after I got the results back from mine. Mostly what I was expecting from the European ancestry (Scandinavian, British Isles (heavy on the Scottish and Irish), but the two big surprises were not nearly as much Native American as I'd expected (based on genealogy and the little bit of info we have about my dad's biological father) and... Asian. With the genealogy matching that Ancestry does (and they're the folks I had do the DNA test), I'm pretty convinced that Asian had to have come through my dad's biological father (none of the genetic matches that have shown up have any Asian and they're all people who are accounted for in other branches of my family tree). I'm now wondering if the story about his father being "part Indian" wasn't "part Native American" but was instead, well... part Indian (as in, from India). I'm thinking of doing the DNA test with 23 and Me to see if they can get me any more detailed info.

I started in on a 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge (the idea being to rid your house of one bag, any size, of stuff a day for 40 days), but fizzled out after Day 10. However, I've changed this over to doing a bag a week... setting aside one day a week when it needs to be done. So, not decluttering as quickly, but still decluttering! I'm convinced the smaller steps like that will be more effective in the long run.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

That must have been a bit surprising. :) One of my uncles by marriage who had very dark colouring, and so had his mother and aunt, claims they have an Indian (as in India) forefather, but no one knows how that happened. I think I’ll ask my cousins if they know about this test. :)


I started in on a 40 Bags in 40 Days challenge (the idea being to rid your house of one bag, any size, of stuff a day for 40 days), but fizzled out after Day 10.

I’m using KonMari, where you tackle one part of the clutter, wardrobe, books, stationery and so on. The thing is to remove everything in the section you are working on, and then put it back in one go. Well, my books took several days as I have so many, but still. I managed to get as far as sorting through sewing supplies before I got bronchitis, and I haven’t had the energy to start again. But I plan to! It has worked really well for me, which I guess is the key- you have to find the method which is right for you. :)

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

I love days like that. I'm looking forward to one tomorrow.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I hope it's a good one!

[siduri1959]

I do the same, keep things relatively tidy and do a chore here or there, leaves me more time when I actually HAVE time to do things I enjoy.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

It's so nice! But it's been a learning process for me- I'm not naturally tidy. :)

[perhonen.livejournal.com]

That whole DNA testing is so interesting, and I'd like to do one for myself, to find out some more about where I come from, since I don't know much about my families history.

Decluttering can be such a relief, but at the same time I'm pretty crap at getting rid of things. Even when I don't really need all that stuff anymore. :(

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

I find it very interesting! I ordered mine from Family Tree and we got an automatic list over everyone my Mum is related to who has made the test too. So chances are you'll find someone who has done some geneaology and can fill in your blanks. :)

I'm a collector at heart, so it had been a work in progree to learn to get rid of stuff. At least I'm quite good at getting rid of things I really don't need now. :)

[thisbluespirit]

The DNA thing sounds fascinating! And I'm glad you had a lovely day off.

This week I work sex days, so it was nice that my day off yesterday was so lovely.

*is childish enough to grin at your typo*

;-p

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

It is! And thank you!


*is childish enough to grin at your typo*

Hah! I didn't notice, probably because six in Swedish actually is "sex".

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a relaxing day off.

[scripsi.livejournal.com]

Thank you!