- Found a great car cleaning service near where we are staying - all my stuff is in storage, and the car was really dirty from the winter weather and small muddy side roads
- Managed to change a doctor’s appointment to phone-in, after we couldn’t get there in person. Appointments are like gold-dust at the moment, so didn’t want to skip it.
- Went to see the new house, and all is going well!
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- i’m grateful i’ve always been lucky with my bosses so far, they always had my back. the first one literally fought with a client over the phone because the client was making outrageous complaints. the other one complimented me on a reply i wrote to a very impertinent message / complaint today. boss said it wouldn’t have deserved such a thoughtful and thorough answer, and that he’s gonna tell the complainant that such a tone is inappropriate. i don’t actually care if that conversation happens, i’m just proud of myself for handling that message well, and super grateful that all my bosses so far have been caring, thoughtful, and appreciative people!
- i’m grateful that i don’t need to go to any office tomorrow. it’ll be great to get a break! (even though i’ll still be quite busy, lol.)
- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i’ll be in bed by 1 a.m. and maybe fully asleep by that time also, if i don’t loiter too much until then
:P
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- SGQ: I’m doing a good job resting and taking care of my sick self today.
- I work a job where I can take as many sick days as I need and it’s never an issue.
- Relatedly, beeminder support is so wonderful and responsive and compassionate!
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- My other assignment is much more comprehensible and easy to complete than the one I’ve been struggling with.
- I’ve allowed myself to switch to the more comprehensible assignment while my brain does background work on the other.
- No work to do for one of my contracts today. I could make work, or I could lean into my week of relative relaxation, and just accept no work today. I’m doing the latter.
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- Worked a lot today so I’m less overwhelmed
- A friend reaching out to speak about life
- ChatGPT is cool
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- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful i made a lot of headway for one of my application projects! well, “a lot” is relative; it’s simply a lot compared to everything i’ve done so far! also, i really like how the draft came out in the end, here’s an image link for anyone interested. (i want to make a tile puzzle out of it, which is why the last square is left blank.)
- i’m grateful for today’s therapy session. a lot to mull over and contemplate and consider and think through.
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i’m grateful i managed to get my unread mails down to 9 again. currently i’m happy enough when i manage to get them below 10; that’ll have to do until i can motivate myself to make a beeminder goal out of it, and until i can afford whittle-down-goals
:P
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- Even when it feels like I’m really not making much progress on everything, I still get a lot of different things done almost every day that are important for long term growth and maintaining energy and mood.
- Making decent headway a rather insane rate jump I set for myself.
- Found a way to drastically reduce shipping costs on some things I wanted to order.
- Getting back to doing this gratitude post after a few days of having trouble finding a time to do it!
- Called the doctor’s office to confirm something, even though the prospect of making phone calls is one thing that still stresses me out…
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- Actually enjoying working on my assignment for my viral infections class.
- Today’s the day my static on FFXIV meet. Maybe this week we will be able to clear the current Unreal trial!
- I have a sekrit plan to make someone’s day a bit brighter, and I should be able to enact it today. I love having the means and opportunity to do this kind of thing – and the kind of brain that can think of it.
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- Got a session in at the gym we have found - it’s only a few minutes away from the holiday cottage, and I’m so grateful to be getting back to this after 6 weeks off
- Treacle tart for after dinner!
- Very funny voice messages from one of our friends
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- i’m super grateful that my flatmate worked from home today. i should have been in the office at 8 am, but i guess my alarms were too few too silent, so that i easily turned them off while i was still basically sleeping? anyway, my flatmate came into my room shortly before 8, waking me up and thus ensuring i wouldn’t be horribly late! (i only showered after the short work day, and i live really close to the office, so i was actually only 15 minutes late, and the thing i came in early for didn’t happen until an hour later, so all well in the end!)
- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful i’ve decided to go to sleep now. there’s a lot of things i could be doing just to keep myself awake for longer. but i realised that i’m not very hyped about any of them, and there’s no real reason to stay up late, anyway—i know it doesn’t make any sense, but, somehow, whenever i don’t have any plans / commitments for the next day, i have an easier time calling it a day and going to sleep early. when i know i should go to sleep because i need to be up early the next day, i frequently end up “revenge living,” as i call it. (i guess “revenge waking” would be more apt; “revenge browsing” definitely doesn’t cut it, because while i’m often on my laptop during these hours, that’s not always, and if i’m on the internet, i’m not always aimlessly browsing, either.)
- i’m grateful my mother canceled our plans for tomorrow. i already saw her last weekend, on tuesday, and today. hooray for a spontaneously empty saturday tomorrow, i’ll absolutely need it!
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- SGQ: I feel like I’m doing a much better than usual job, this illness, of doing enough things that I don’t feel bored, but few enough things that I get plenty of rest.
- My wife is so caring and loving and gentle and being around her makes me light up!
- I’m on the upswing and should be healthy again by Sunday or Monday if the current trend continues!
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- Finally have a copy of C.L. Polk’s Soulstar, which I’ve been wanting a while.
- My FFXIV static cleared the current Unreal trial for the first time, last night.
- Lazed around in bed a little this morning.
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- Meeting with long-time friends and had tons of fun with them
- I don’t need as much sleep as before to feel OK, so I have more time in the day!
- We are scaling our company and the benefits of Kubernetes are starting to show
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- SGQ: The goals I set up for my first seasonal goals post[forum] are working well and I’m still really glad I’m tracking them. Good work, Past Me!
- I have enough energy again today to actually be productive around the house, and don’t need to get another emergency-break added to my goals! (I’m counting this not as self-gratitude because the low energy was more viral than mental :P)
- My sister-in-law drove up to town to take my wife out to a “galentine’s brunch” so she gets to do something fun on her day off while i’m stuck at home getting over being sick.
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- i’m grateful for a fun movie time tonight with my flatmate.
- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i did enough steps today to keep my beeminder goal happy. most of them were done walking up and down the flat, but they were done, and that’s what’s counts!
- i’m grateful i’ll be in bed super early again. much tired, few words. looking forward to sleep. <3
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- C is at last feeling mostly better, having been sick last week
- Had a fascinating discussion with my uncle, who (even though he’s retired) still works with NASA on the x-ray telescope he designed for the ISS, and was doing some observations on his “favourite neutron star” (don’t we all have a favourite neutron star??)
- Managed to upgrade my phone to unlimited free data at a fairly nominal price: we don’t have wifi in this cottage, so I need it as a wifi hotspot for the next month, to enable all our usual 21st century stuff.
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- Listening to the FFXIV: Death Unto Dawn soundtrack has given me a new appreciation for certain characters – the amount of character/lore building that these songs can do is pretty amazing.
- The fact that sometimes I can just let a Beeminder goal derail to give myself a break!
- I bit my lip really badly on Thursday, and it’s mostly healed, even though it was raw and weeping on Friday. Bodies! Wow!
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I’m curious about why this specific start is his favourite instead of any other else. Aren’t they all white dots burning in the sky?
- SGQ: put new beeminder NFC tags & derailed on a few goals that have been making life a bit too rigid
- Saw family today
- Taking a real break today
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- self-gratitude-quota: i’m grateful that i made it to my appointment on time today.
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i’m grateful that i found some spoons to do laundry after i got home.
if nothing else… - a private personal gratitude that shall remain only in my head and only for as long as i can still remember it with my bad memory XD
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- My workplace doesn’t require me to start work early each day.
- The Night Manager TV series.
- My routines are helping me pull myself out of a slump.
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