Gratitude journaling together

Life
2023
  1. My company is burning, but my day-job is not
  2. I’ve randomly stumbled upon someone who is passionate about the same thing as me, and I’m meeting their friends soon!
  3. I’m doing pretty great, even though I didn’t rest this weekend
  4. Productivity nerds
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2024
  1. Post 2022!
  2. @alys, for all her kindnesses over the years, and for being a supportive friend.
  3. I will soon have more free time and less interruptions to daily life, due to choosing to give something up. The circumstances aren’t entirely happy, but there will be good outcomes.
2025
  1. Some responsibilities that had become mostly burdensome have ended.
  2. An opportunity to get something off my chest that’s been on my mind for a while.
  3. shanaqui for being supportive when I needed it. :slight_smile:
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2026
  1. I learnt how to add garlic and rosemary to a lamb roast. (I’m naive at cooking, this was a fun lesson.)
  2. The smell through the house as the roast was cooking.
  3. Thinking of a fun script I would like to make for myself and realising that I have the free time to do it.
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2027
  1. So much support from so many old and new friends for an issue that would otherwise have been depressing.
  2. I greatly enjoyed writing my Advent post today about gratitude.
  3. A little cake icon on my name here tells me it’s my anniversary! I joined this forum on 2 December 2014.
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2028
  1. A friend group shared with @alys.
  2. A text from my dad telling me he thinks I did the right thing in a certain situation, and that he thinks I was brave.
  3. Pizza and cookie dough and ice cream with my sister and Lisa last night.
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2029
  1. I had some free time today and tried some Christmas shopping with a startlingly large degree of success.
  2. I found the perfect book for a hard-to-buy-for person.
  3. Peppermint chocolate. Not a present. For me. Yis!
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2030
  1. Inspired by @alys’s advent post, decided to try this!
  2. My lovely new keyboard from Keyboardio - a joy both visually and tactilely (if that’s a even a word…)
  3. Christmas trees are up and decorated
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2031
  1. Jeremy has finished painting the pantry (except for some tiny touchups) and has put up some lovely rows of hooks!
  2. The pantry window is now much easier to open, and it gives a calming view of the trees in the back garden.
  3. Butcherbirds singing outside the back steps, for the first time in months.
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2032
  1. Lisa’s enjoying their “advent” gifts. Today’s: a drop spindle starter kit!
  2. Siny and Thaumiel teamed up with me and Lisa yesterday to distract me, and it really helped in a lasting way. I needed the giggles and the reminder there’s life outside of my anxious thoughts.
  3. My dad got me a retro sweets advent calendar, and today’s was a little roll of Love Hearts, a favourite of mine. And yesterday was a Fruit Salad.
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2033
  1. Booked a lovely hotel in Brighton for a couple of nights
  2. The Plushies (our two newest cats) were extremely playful and affectionate
  3. Tasty cake from C.
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2034
  1. Random euphoria when waking up this morning
  2. Cool friends who stuck with me
  3. productivity nerds being a thing
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2035
  1. My trackpad stopped working yesterday but the Vimium C browser extension that I started using a while back is a life saver for following links and selecting text on websites.
  2. My trackpad started working again this morning.
  3. A new book by KJ Charles.
2036
  1. A new book by K.J. Charles! With thanks to @alys for my copy. :blue_heart:
  2. Listening to Lisa work through their first session with their present for advent calendar day 1: a subscription to Say Something in Welsh. I’m enjoying their enjoyment of their gifts so much. (The drop spindle hasn’t been tried yet, but they’ve already finished the book they got on day 2!)
  3. The seven other non-staff members of the Habitica moderation team circa 2022. Their solidarity and support for each other and for me has been lovely. I hope we never lose touch.
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2037
  1. A critical experience at work that helped me notice how I’ve become more emotionally intelligent compared to a past me
  2. Supportive colleagues and work environment that supported me in my growth as a person
  3. Advent calendar of @alys that already has led to minutes happiness as I wrote this (and I committed to at least 1/day)
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2038
  1. Managed to take a bunch of stuff to the municipal recycling
  2. Butternut squash lasagne for dinner - one of my all-time favourites!
  3. Enjoying my current book very much
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2039
  1. Good sleep!
  2. An old friend reaching out to me via all possible communications channels because my reply text didn’t go through
  3. Listening to music from my youth.

I’d like to find all my playlists and mp3 players and save everything before internet collapses and my room burns.

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2040
  1. Lots of nice messages from friends.
  2. A friend’s medical issue is not serious.
  3. Jeremy made a mince and vegetable mix for lunch.
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2041
  1. Lots of nice supportive messages.
  2. Lisa will get an ADHD diagnosis if the medication continues to help for 3 more months.
  3. I will get my hair cut today. It got far too long.
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2042
  1. Got a chance to help a co-worker who was stuck
  2. Unexpected stickers arrived from a podcast I follow
  3. Making progress on clearing out the shed
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