- i’m grateful i got to see a good movie tonight.
- i’m grateful i’m not as obsessed with something i was much more obsessed with a few days ago.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i’m doing a decent job keeping up with my language studies.
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- Saw a marvellous old movie of the ballet Don Quixote - didn’t anticipate I would necessarily like that kind of thing, so really glad to have pushed out of the comfort zone
- Weekend visitors
- Patio extension looks really smart
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- I have a new favoured author: Kim M. Watt. Cats! Magic! Mysteries!
- There are flowers on a tree in the park that I rescued from an invasive creeper.
- SGQ: I woke early today and got out of bed straight away, and enjoyed the dawn sky.
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- SGQ: I specifically set aside some time to play a game with my brother that he really enjoys yesterday.
- Lovely conversations with my wife.
- My wife found a good surprise vacation slot! We’re going to Cancún soon :3
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- My static on FFXIV are mostly going to be there tonight, after a bad week where very few of us could make it for a variety of reasons.
- Hulk keeps flopping luxuriously on top of her hay. She looks so comfy. Also, bunnies really do seem to be liquids.
- The babies (Biscuit and Eclair, who are not really babies anymore but still get called that) seem to be enjoying their “snuffle mat”. (Basically a mat which kind of badly hides treats and food, to make them work a bit for it. We weren’t sure if they’d cotton on.)
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i’m doing well with keeping on top of my goals and accumulating vacation-buffer. (in this case: buffer accumulated “on vacation,” not buffer accumulated before vacation.)
- i’m grateful i got to play the solo version of cascadia today. it’s pretty fun even alone, and the challenges are challenging as well!
:)(didn’t manage to complete one yet, because i started with the toughest one, but … one day!) - i’m grateful i got to grab a few things from home today that i’d forgotten to pack when i left.
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- I flipped through my music library and came across a lovely song I’d forgotten about.
- I somehow paid enough attention to the weather forecast to leave work early and narrowly avoid a huge storm.
- I finally seem to be managing to maintain “yellow is the new red”!
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- A set of large samples of five different cheeses.
- An excellent session with a health coach, talking through my problems with procrastination.
- SGQ: I made good progress on the suggestions that she and I came up with in our previous session.
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- i’m grateful i had a relatively chill day today.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i don’t feel the need to watch m/any episodes of [currently-constantly-binging-series] tonight.
- i’m grateful i won’t need to take the train on friday. clarification, because i feel the immediate need to defend myself (i do like trains!): some friends and i will be going on a trip to a place a few hours from here. two of them will be going by car and pick up the others. for a bit i’d thought i’d need to travel alone by train on friday morning, because everybody else would already be leaving thursday night, but now it turns out that one car can leave on friday after all, so i don’t have to travel alone by train! (which wouldn’t have been horrible, just slightly more tedious and definitely less fun.)
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- SGQ: A rather productive workday.
- The drive back from my parents’ house wasn’t too bad!
- I get to sleep in my own (very comfy) bed tonight! It’s fun to visit people but it’s also fun to come home.
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- Jeremy loves some mead that I gave him for his birthday.
- Jeremy’s sister gave me some tea as a late birthday present, including a tin of one of my favourites.
- SGQ: I sent two important emails to clients today, instead of putting them off until they became more urgent.
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- Habitica’s guilds are gone. I know, that sucks for everyone in many ways, and I’m not glad about it for their sake… but it’s good for me because now there’s absolutely no chance of being sucked back in.
- I have money set aside nice and safe ready to go and see Grandma in a hurry, if it should be necessary.
- I feel like reading! None of the books I have on the go or meant to read this week, which is annoying, but at least I’m feeling like reading something. Bad news 'sploded my brain a bit.
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- i’m grateful i got to play another game today.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i wrote another poem.
- i’m grateful the uni prof has finally gotten back to me about the one thing i still need to do so i can finish the semester.
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- It’s a sunny day.
- Jeremy is sharing his birthday chocolates with me.
- SGQ: I’m collecting fallen branches for mulching and I threw one small one in the general direction of a box. It somersaulted gracefully through the air and landed right IN the box. I am an athletic superstar!
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- SGQ: I cooked dinner today! It was very basic but I always find it tough to get back into the swing of it after some time away from home.
- A particularly delicious sake two days ago.
- Fruitful discussions around my side project.
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- Properly warm sunny day - first for a while
- Went for a long walk up around the hills
- Still sucking at chess, but still turning up and playing!
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i got to play another round of cascadia with myself tonight. didn’t succeed on the challenge, but that’s on me for being stubborn and starting with the most difficult one again
;)got closer than last time, though, and it was still fun of course! - i’m very grateful for a long streak of fight-free days with my mother. honestly at least as baffled by it as i am grateful for it, but that’s no reason to complain
:) - i’m grateful that packing today didn’t take too long, and confident that i didn’t forget any essentials this time … we’ll see how it turns out, of course, but the forgetfullnesses from the previous trip were eliminated, at least, i think ^^
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- The way butcherbirds chirrup to each other when they’re eating together. I don’t know what it means, but it sounds friendly and they don’t fight each other for food, so I don’t think it’s aggressive.
- Golden sunlight on the trees this morning. I went into the garden early to enjoy it.
- SGQ: I did 30 minutes of deep breathing while watching TV last night. I slept well all night, which I’m hoping was cause-effect because it’s a useful trick if so. I’ll be trying it again.
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- Biscuit hurt her back leg yesterday, but the vet gave her some painkillers and she seems to be doing better today.
- Dad’s here to cut our lawn.
- A bunch of acquaintances and friends from Habitica (the community, not the company!) have been sending me birthday presents, and I was allowed to open some last night to cheer me up re: the worry about Biscuit. I have a whole box of Reese’s Nutrageous bars and some new books!
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- i’m grateful my mother and i had fun with a reverse restaurant order yesterday. coffee, then desert, then soups. happened partially accidentally and made us laugh a lot.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i tried something new today.
- i’m grateful we got to see shooting stars tonight.
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