Gratitude journaling together

Life
2923
  1. SQG: I’m making decisions I’ve been dreading to make
  2. I could lie down on the grass and listen to music while watching at the stars
  3. Things are going to get better
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2924
  1. SGQ: I made a bunch of the phone calls I’d been putting off!
  2. I have two friends who need their doors re-keyed, which means I actually get to use my pinning kit!
  3. One of those friends has a 3d printer setup and is bartering me some labor for some custom parts I need made—the other is helping me replace some toilets soon. I love a good community!
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2925
  1. We sorted a car, which is great
  2. More rain today, so I don’t have to water the new lawn again
  3. Cats are especially cute with the weather: they want to go out, but OMG my paw is wet - now the other one is wet - and now this one again! Look out, I’m coming back in at speed!
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2926
  1. There was a really impressive thunderstorm last night, which I loved.
  2. The powercut we had was very short.
  3. It was nice enough weather to go for my usual biweekly walk with my childhood bestie.
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2927
  1. SGQ: I got up early to finish shop-vaccing the attic.
  2. My dog loves snuggles as much as I do.
  3. The decorative notch in my patio’s posts that makes a perfect tie-on spot for a clothesline.
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2928
  • self-gratitude: i’m grateful i found the motivation for a quick second shower tonight, which i desperately needed.
  • i’m grateful i’ll be in bed early.
  • i’m grateful today was nice and full of surprises and new experiences, despite also being super exhausting and draining and cumbersome at times.
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2929
  1. A pink sunset.
  2. A pleasant walk with Jeremy to get Mexican takeaway for dinner.
  3. SGQ: I did some tidying in the garden that I’ve been putting off.
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2930
  1. SGQ: did my beeminder tasks in advance
  2. Minecraft music
  3. SGQ: taking a “vacation”
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2931
  1. SGQ: I continue to get up early and get stuff done. Today: errands and replacing the weather seal on the bottom of my garage door. I’ve been putting that off for weeks!
  2. I’m doing some handyman work for a friend this evening, and they thing they want happens to be the easiest class of that thing for me to do.
  3. Our little robot vacuum.
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2932
  • self-gratitude: i’m grateful to my past self for having enough foresight about my current vacation, especially regarding e-mail/online related things i knew i likely wouldn’t do and this don’t have to, because they’ve been planned accordingly and/or been partially handled already.
  • i’m grateful i made another boat tour today. it was a small boat and a short tour, but i had a lot of fun! water is great!
  • also self but mostly private gratitude: i’m grateful i made so many “grown-up” decisions today.
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2933

note: trying 5 gratitudes points from now on; more might be better?

  1. SGQ: starting a journal about becoming happy
  2. my secret plan slowly coming to reality even though it doesn’t really feel like it
  3. work was pretty satisfying and fulfilling this Monday
  4. mom making an awesome dinner
  5. watching an awesome series from the 2000s with my mom
  6. a very friendly dog, the other day
  7. being invited to a birthday party and meeting new people even though I’m in my hometown
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2934
  1. Hot buttered toast.
  2. A small tree on the footpath covered in flowers.
  3. Being able to stay home and wear my dressing gown all day when it’s cold.
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2935
  1. One of the contestants I didn’t really like went out in last week’s episode of the Great British Sewing Bee, which me and Lisa have finally finished watching.
  2. Nimona was fun and really cute.
  3. Reading an interesting book about animal senses.
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2936
  • self-gratitude: i’m grateful i only got a kid’s portion at dinner tonight. we went to the cinema before dinner and i had a small bag of popcorn, so a regular portion would have likely been too much.
  • i’m grateful we got to walk alongside the sea again today.
  • i’m grateful that we both greatly enjoyed the museum we visited today.
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2937
  1. Jeremy bought us some roasted macadamia nuts.
  2. A neighbour had to go into hospital briefly but is back home now.
  3. SGQ: At work, I wrote a script to be easily extensible and yesterday we discovered a need for a new feature in it, which was easy to add.
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2938
  1. SGQ: Continuing a theme, I’ve been keeping up a really good job at getting up early and going to bed reasonably, getting stuff done in the morning before it gets too too hot.
  2. Goodwill, and some nice finds there.
  3. Comfy (& dramatic, this week!) DnD! I love this group.
  4. Bonus: a coworker posted a pair of routers in my local buy-nothing channel that were exactly what I’d been looking for, and they’re working great!
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2939
  1. Hedgehog coming back tonight :hedgehog:
  2. Finding an amazing snack combo :cookie:
  3. Earplugs :sound:
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2940
  1. Every evening lately we’ve had a hedgehog visitor, and I keep seeing them stick their entire face into the water bowl we put out, get water up their nose, and sneeze. The sneeze is adorable, quite like a rabbit’s.
  2. Lisa and my sister combined have come up with some very good strategies for improving my elbow problems. (I have tennis and golfer’s elbow, simultaneously… probably from typing and gaming.) Buying an elbow brace, but also something to help lower my keyboard to get a more relaxed elbow position when typing!
  3. I have several friends that enjoy it when I regale them with the weird stuff I’m learning from books. (The book on animal senses is Ed Yong’s An Immense World, and I’m finding weird cool stuff every couple of pages! Like, the lenses in a scallop’s eyes are tiny little mirrors which are made of guanine. Yes, the nucleotide base in DNA, that same guanine. We don’t really understand how they shape the guanine crystals to become mirrors like that. I just. :exploding_head:)
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2941
  1. Finally sorted ourselves a new (to us) car - looks fabulous!
  2. The new turf is well established enough for me to mow it today
  3. We spontaneously stopped off for lunch on the way back from car buying - we don’t do this often enough, and it was really nice just to feel relaxed enough to do this.
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2942
  1. SGQ: Big lawn-mowing today and it looks soooo much better. Getting up early continues to pay off.
  2. Work started on replacing our ancient crumbling pool equipment today. Things are going well.
  3. My wife found some outdoor chairs we’ve been hunting for!
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