- Everything worked out ok for our transition to new holiday cottage
- The new place is great!
- No WiFi or broadband here, but good phone signal, and I have plenty of data on my phone contract, so we can use it as a hotspot
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- i’m grateful for watching a funny play in the theatre tonight, apocalypse meow.
- i’m grateful that past-me uploaded three texts for our writing group tomorrow. they’re all short and i’m still very happy with them, and proud of them (two are even more artsy than literaturey, which is new for me), and i can’t wait to hear what the others will say!
- additional self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i’m once again deciding that today can end sooner than usual. i definitely need the sleep! it’s ironic, though, and i hate it, that i almost always feel this need to stay up longer when i have work the next day, and that i catch up on sleep on the weekends, when i could actually afford to stay up late and sleep in. (instead i guess i go to bed early and sleep in. it seems so weird. but i guess the bottom line is that i’m grateful i’ll get enough sleep tonight!)
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- I had brunch at my favourite cafe with a friend and splurged with TWO pots of tea!
- Jeremy bought me two new dragon figurines, from the same range as the previous ones, and also some diamond-like plastic beads to use as a hoard for them.
- I am grateful for a certain event’s good outcomes, such as this one:
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- Taking esomeprazole again to help regulate my stomach acid.
- Mum’s always so quick to reply when I have a medical question.
- Will see my childhood bestie tomorrow for a walk.
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- winter cozy feelings
- rediscovering music I liked a few months ago
- feeling blessed
what does 'feeling blessed' even mean?
It’s a warm, fuzzy feeling that starts in the abdomen and can be felt everywhere in the body by thinking about it.
I feel this super rarely, so when I get it, I take my time to enjoy it
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- That I can feel confident in my learning abilities to tackle the big goal/experiment for this year.
- Pleasantly surprised that standing overhead press strength went up by 10%. Not so much the acute performance, but that consistency and dedication is what matters for progress.
- That I start my coworking commitment on Satudays two hours later than most weekdays. At first it was just to accommodate tabletop gaming (probably my only actual social activity these days) but when there’s no session, I’ve been increasingly doing restful or healthy things.
- My players appreciate my choice of music for the campaign.
- Get to do writing and planning for next week’s session tonight!
- Lying in bed (or wherever I’m sleeping) until the morning playlist completes instead of it being all or nothing is a very workable compromise, and I usually get up feeling better than if I’d just gotten up right away, or given up and cancelled the alarm.
- Been getting to read a little bit of a philosophy book recently, and the ideas there are giving me feedback that I’m in a pretty good place overall.
- Even though I often feel my Japanese learning has really stagnated due to competing commitments, last night I happened to catch some livestreams and was surprised at how much I understood.
- That I allowed myself to enjoy things last night instead of chasing goals until bedtime. Maybe I’m okay with Fridays being like that if nothing is specifically due.
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- i’m grateful that i found the paper that my mother asked me to get on my way home today! all shops were already closed, but there’s these things on the streets where they put some papers in, and you can throw the coins into the little box and take out a paper if there’s any left. we went a long way home by foot tonight, and i wasn’t sure if i’d find the correct paper, or if there’d be any left (because it was so late), but i found it and there were still so many left! really grateful that a) i got it and b) now i don’t have to try and chase it down tomorrow at one of the shops that might be open on a sunday.
- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i vacuumed today! came home later than assumed/planned, and wasn’t really motivated to do it, but i reminded myself that it doesn’t take that long, and since i was in a well enough headspace i actually didn’t mind doing it; yay!
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i’m grateful we took the long way home tonight, by foot. we walked a little over an hour. it’s not as cold anymore as it was last week, and it’s great to take walks, and we had fun reminiscing about the past.
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- The sunshine on the trees outside my window as I write this.
- Decades ago, when Brisbane replaced metal household rubbish bins with plastic ones, my mother saved several bins from the neighbourhood and they are useful for storing things under the house. They’ve just been stacked inside each other all this time and I’m finally using them. I’m grateful that my mother didn’t let them go to waste.
- The rectangular sides cut from a plastic milk bottle make good labels for the bins, tied to the handles.
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- Supportive friends.
- Sunday morning walk!
- Flexibility so that some days I can just decide “nope! no chores today”.
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- Talk with neighbor
- I made a hacker discovery
- I’m saying “no” to more social stuff I don’t really like to prioritize the ones I do
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- i’m grateful for the warm weather today. we had 10c during the day, perfect!
- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful i caught up with a webtoon today.
- i’m grateful for the fluffy comfy sweater i wore today.
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- SGQ: I’m glad I’ve been able to overcome the old school-age impulse to be detached and, instead, openly be enthusiastic about things I like, which helped contribute to:
- Met some lovely new people and made friends at a superbowl party tonight.
- I just recently got back from a snowboard trip (hence, no posts) and it was incredibly fun—and I got to spend so much time with my wife!
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- I have a ridiculously large fluffy wearable blanket and it is very cosy today.
- I’m glad past-me decided to write to my grandma. I’m not sure how much she really follows my long letters, but we used to have long conversations when I lived with her, and this feels a little like that.
- Long hot bath last night helped with some tightness/pain in my hip.
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- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i took a slightly longer way home today to reach my steps goal.
- i’m grateful for comfy self-care times. couch, blanket burrito, webtoon, warmth.
- i’m grateful my coworker replied to my question tonight. he won’t be in the office tomorrow, but asked me to do something specific tonight. i asked for clarification and he didn’t reply for a while, but after a few hours he replied, and luckily my assumption had been correct, so the thing i need to do won’t take long. and since i already have my answer, i don’t need to stress about uncertainty.
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- SGQ: I was very focused and productive at work today.
- My wife has the night off work and the weather isn’t bad so we took our dog on a long walk to the park.
- Our friends gave us hot pot leftovers to have for dinner today.
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- One part of my assignment is done, at least.
- After some interpersonal drama, during which FFXIV friends went “we have a static” “but wait, it’s totally not a static really” “nope, no static here”… now I have a static and we are officially calling ourselves that. Grateful especially to the person who poked around, ascertained everyone’s feelings, and realised that we did all want to be a static and made it happen. [A “static” is a set group who meet at specific times to do difficult game content together.]
- Having a gentler week, I hope, where I don’t necessarily work my full hours and take lots of breaks.
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- New, final, location is really nice, where we will spend the last 4 weeks on our peregrinations around the country while our new house is completed
- Re-united with our cats at last!
- Said cats have settled in really well here - even though we’re not allowing them outside
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- boss postponed call because I said that I’m super busy
- music sounds good today
- there is a
for my favourite song (I’ve started learning it) 
- side-business: numbers are positive for the first time in 2 years
- It’s Valentine’s Day (it’s my favorite day)
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- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful i decided to only do half of my ndu goal just now. i didn’t need a full 1 to keep from derailing, so doing 0,5 and then calling it a day because i need the sleep seems like the best decision.
- i’m grateful that my mother is doing better. her pulse was way too high today, but she called the ambulance and they gave her something and it’s calmed down.
- i’m so grateful for my flatmate / best friend again. after the mental health horror that was yesterday, and the stress and health scares (see above, lol) and draining, slightly triggering, much infuriating discussions that was today, talking to him and spending time with him was so lovely, especially since i didn’t know if he’d be still up when i got home.
(trying out bullet points instead of numbers, because numbers imply any ranking which i never have, lol. i don’t even think i’m consistent with these chronology-wise, which i guess would be a neutral ranking. but i always switch between “chronology of events” and “chronology of me remembering which events came first”, sometimes even within the same day. so bullet points seems way more appropriate. and three is a small enough number that i can always keep track without counting.)
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- Lisa is equally unconcerned about Valentine’s Day, and we simply renewed our usual type of agreement. (This year: they buy me one book of my choice per month; I agree to go with them to any dungeon, trial, raid or other content in Final Fantasy XIV, once per week, to help them get any item they want for any purpose – no matter how bored of it I might be! This was actually originally to get a piece of gear from a long raid called Aglaia, but then the first time I went with them the piece dropped and they were able to get it. Still, we’re sure there’ll be other pieces they want in future. Ongoing and idiosyncratic romance for the win!)
- Motivated myself to wash my hair even though I didn’t want to because it’s a pain.
- One of my FFXIV friends pointed out a way I can upgrade my gear faster, rather than just one piece a week.
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