- My static aren’t beating EX6 yet in FFXIV, buuuut my smaller practice group are, and now we’ve beaten it five times I have two new weapons! Since I’ll be using one of those new weapons on my healer during the static attempts, that should help us clear EX6 faster with the group. In theory.
- A friend has noticed and appreciated my efforts to keep in touch (thanks, Beeminder!).
- My British Library Crime Classics subscription book arrived today!
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- Came across a really cool old water pump by the side of a lane I was walking down
- Found a delicious new veggie takeaway for lunch in town
- A Beeminder goal is encouraging me to finish a book I’ve been reading. It’s about ethics, so not a fast read, but I’m really enjoying it.
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- i’m grateful that going to bed early yesterday meant waking up way earlier than usual today, which allowed me to get a lot of stuff done before noon.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful that i remembered to go to the pharmacy. they close at noon, so otherwise i wouldn’t have had allergy meds for the whole weekend, which i’d have survived, but my nose and throat probably wouldn’t have been too happy about. yay for random memory occurances!
- i’m grateful that i found the energy to work on one task the smallest amount in order not to derail just now. that meant switching up the order of doing things, which meant it took less time today and will take more time in the future, will surely will come back to haunt me in the future, but i guess that’s not today-me’s problem.
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- I found sunglasses that I had dropped in the park a couple of days ago.
- Jeremy made potato gems for breakfast.
- I slept in this morning.
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- Spacing out my study tasks with reading short stories makes the short stories even more appealing, and the studying tasks not too long.
- The homemade jam made by my aunt to my grandmother’s recipe, on toast this morning.
- Exams will be over soon.
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- It’s overcast today and I like the gentle filtered sunlight.
- Two handsome magpies were outside my window this morning.
- SGQ: I did some tidying and throwing away of rubbish in the mess that’s collected under our house.
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i made significant headway with my most dreaded goal today, bringing me from a beemergency to at least green amounts of buffer!
a bit of a rant about this goal
the goal is about making sure all my apps are in order before i can finally, exclusively use my “new” phone instead of the old one with the very broken screen. (“new” because it’s the exact same model.) i’ve had the new one laying around since around christmas, i think, if not before then? as long as the old, broken-screen-one still works i just couldn’t really be bothered to go through with this transfer. there’s so many apps! it’s super tedious, but at least finally having this goal (with a max safety buffer of $90, no less!) makes me progress in a significant way instead of just pretending to do something useful. i have a numbered list now that i’m working off of, and i also just now increased the goal total from 53 to 60, so that i can add a large chunk of numbers right at the very end for dealing with all the apps that i can’t have running on two devices while the transfer is still ongoing (like the bank app). so many apps!
i am also very annoyed with myself that after derailing once, i didn’t do anything in the post-derail-respite period. but i guess i am also proud of myself for not derailing again since then!
anyway, grateful i managed to get some good progress in today; we’ll see if i will be able to keep up at least a day of buffer in the future XP
- i’m grateful that i had a nice day with my mum today.
- i’m grateful that a friend sent me this cute video recently (“how dogs saved the world’s smallest penguin”), which i just watched. so much wholesome fluffines!!
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i walked home from uni by foot today.
- i’m grateful i picked up a package after work today.
- i’m grateful i’ve finished [what started as a decent netflix series but turned out to go into a horrible direction]. it was still decently entertaining, despite my strong dislike for what ended up happening. and i’m grateful that i now can maybe catch up on other things that give me real pleasure, not just “omg this is so stupid but it’s fun to make fun of” type pleasure XP
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- Something that I was sad about has not happened after all.
- Pizza for lunch.
- SGQ: I’ve been good about keeping my room tidy for a few days in a row.
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- SGQ: I went to sleep early last night and I feel much better today than yesterday! What a surprise~
- My pool is so clear and beautiful now that the pump situation is finally in a good place.
- We’re two days away from not having both an apartment and a house finally, and we’ve got only a tiny bit of cleaning left to do at the apartment before bidding it adieu.
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- Both the ughiest exam and the hardest exam are now done.
- Took an extra day off tomorrow to decompress. Much needed: today was kinda stressy as I felt kind of ill for a while.
- Lots of plans to read.
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- i’m grateful i tried out a very new hair style today. it’ll take a bit for me to get used to my mirror image now, but it looks good i think! excited to hear other people’s opinions. it’s gonna be difficult not to update profile pictures on all my chat services, but i want the closest friends to see it live at first and not have the surprise ruined XD
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i pushed myself to go on a walk today after work. i wasn’t really feeling it, but knew that i wouldn’t otherwise meet my steps goal (yay, beeminder!), and then ended up really enjoying it—went to a nearby park-ish area and had a mostly peaceful time with nice views. (at one point they started playing a weird alarm-like sound in the park-ish area, i assume to remind people that it’s closing soon? no idea; writing this down mostly so i can remember it tomorrow and ask my flatmate, who might have a more reasonable idea.)
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i’m grateful i found motivation after the much needed after-work-and-after-walk-relaxation, and sent off three emails and worked on two beeminder goals. i do feel myself getting a bit overwhelmed recently with the (amount of) goals i have (10). luckily, 3-4 of these should hopefully finally be completed by the end of the month, so i’ll be able to get more breathing room / have more time to create new goals
:P(also i’ll be on vacation anyway for the first-half-ish of july, so even more breathing room! gonna need that after the “finishing beeminder goals that should be completed plus also packing things for vacation” stress:)
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- My surgery date is planned.
- Probably going to meet up with an FFXIV friend in person this weekend.
- If so, there’ll be a bookshop trip!
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i’m grateful that my english skills are excellent enough to be able to participate in most of “the internet” without any problems (like here
:) - i’m grateful i wasn’t alone at the office today. things at this job are always a bit slower when the boss is there, but things still get done and it can be very productive. in any case it’s less lonely.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i’m keeping up with my sleep journal. i could probably cut down on the things i make note of and focus mainly on going-to-bed-time and waking-up-times, but as long as i keep up the habit every day i don’t feel that making note of more things is too much of a hindrance, so i probably won’t feel motivated enough to change the things i take notes of, and that’s probably fine.
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- I found my spare pair of eyeglasses, after not having them for months. They’d been pushed to the back of a shelf.
- Not a day after that, I left my case for my main pair of glasses on the train, which is good because it was the default ugly one from the optometrist and I am delighted that I have an excuse to buy another. The new one has a colourful flower design.
(It amuses me that in the same week I lost and found my sunglasses, found my old glasses, and lost a glasses case.) - A workmate asked my opinion about a book (Atomic Habits by James Clear, which is excellent) and I coincidentally have a spare copy to give him.
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- The people who built our new house have finally agreed to lay turf, as the seeded lawn had conspicuously failed.
- Cleared everything off my desk, and it feels so much better. Going to need a new goal to keep it this way, I think!
- It’s the time of year for lots of soft fruit, grown locally, and it’s gorgeous!
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- I have my gastroenterology appointment.
- I don’t have plans to meet the FFXIV this weekend… but I do for next weekend!
- Our portable air conditioning unit.
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- An interesting task at work yesterday, and I get to work on it more today.
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Trans and gender-diverse people in my state will soon be able to change gender on their birth certificates without undergoing surgery.
- SGQ: I have created a goal for brushing my teeth at night. I do it consistently every the morning but am NOT good at night time brushing! "S"GQ is both self gratitude and shanaqui gratitude
- their blog post prompted me to do it.
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this reminded me to go look for my sunglasses again! and i found them, in the depths of my suff-mountain on my desk! (where i had looked previously but apparently not well or deep enough.)
- related (not exclusively) to that: i’m grateful for @alys
- i’m grateful that i realised just 6 minutes before the deadline that i had forgotten to add data for a goal, so i could add the data point in time without having to call non-legit to support.
- i’m grateful that i live and work very close to my therapist’s office. mixed up the hours today but still ended up getting at least 20 minutes lol.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful that i wrote a message today. turned out well!
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- SGQ: I did a really good job getting the house together enough for guests yesterday, prioritizing tidying and cleaning well.
- My wife and I had a fantastic time playing doubles tennis with some friends of ours on Wednesday, and the weather was cooperatively cloudy so we didn’t bake.
- Our guests last night included two dogs and they got along with each other and with my dog better than everyone expected and all of them were so very good and got to go swimming in my pool!
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