- SGQ: Kicking butt at work today and not letting myself get too distracted.
- Sushi for lunch.
- I slept really deeply last night.
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- i’m grateful i made someone laugh and was able to help someone with directions today. (lots of people asking me for directions recently. weird.)
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i managed to do some language learning again this morning.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i managed to return the uni library books today.
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- It’s about to be the weekend!
- The air conditioner. I’m still glad we invested in one.
- Leftover pizza.
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- i’m grateful i did language practice again this morning, despite waking up feeling not great (i think my head laid wrong on the pillow or something).
- i’m grateful i picked up the phone at work tonight, after office hours. it was a short and easy phone call.
- i’m grateful i’ve been pretty good about making notes of gratitudes during the day so that i only have to do the final phrasing when i write these and not necessarily think of 3 whole gratitudes at the end of the day. perk of a really bad memory: you get to relive a tiny moment of your day that you might have otherwise forgotten
:)
- i’m grateful i did at least some offline leisure activity tonight.
(these are all self-gratitudes i think :o
)
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- SGQ: Knocked out some really unpleasant phone calls today — with surprisingly good results!
- These delicious chocolate orange kitkats I found at an asian grocery.
- A really solid tennis practice with my wife this morning.
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- SGQ: While doing a task that I loathe, I set alerts to go off every two minutes so that I knew I was making progress and there wasn’t too long left.
- I slept well last night for the first time in a week!
- Jeremy and I went to the local school’s fete. CW
CW food
There was fudge, and ice creams, and fresh-cooked doughnuts with a variety of flavoured sugars, and sausages inna bun, and fairy floss on a stick, which is the ONLY way to eat fairy floss.
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- A friend sent me a couple of books to prove he was thinking about me after a run of bad news. It worked.
- The air conditioner! I know I keep saying this, but the rest of the house is like soup. My office remains pleasant.
- Hung out with some folks in a voice chat ad hoc today and it was nice.
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- i’m grateful i found the newspapers my mother wanted me to buy today in the first shop i was looking for them.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i bought the train tickets for tomorrow already.
- i’m grateful for tomorrow’s fun plans.
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- Orange-chocolate fudge.
- I found some papers that had been missing and which I need for a tax return.
- SGQ: I did a large block of time on a dreaded task.
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- The amazing cloud-to-cloud lightning display we had this evening
- Working on migrating one of my websites to a static site
- The cool room (yes, it’s still the coolest room in the house
And actually, it does have a chandelier - two, in fact!)
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- Wales managed to win our first match of the Rugby World Cup.
- Thunderstorm!
- Pleasantly tired.
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i walked home today.
- i’m grateful my beemergencies didn’t take a lot of time to deal with today.
- i’m grateful my monday work days start late.
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- SGQ: A tremendous amount of housework yesterday, making excellent progress on the list.
- The hinge pin removal tool I picked up made fixing a seized hinge possible, and will be very useful for routine oiling.
- A nice afternoon playing Jackbox with some friends who all live far apart from each other.
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- Discovered a couple of folk artists I think are amazing actually did a project together, so listening to that today.
- Made myself do something scary, and I got a bit more comfortable with it.
- It’s cooler today.
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- Turkish delight.
- I’ve set the icons on my phone to a pretty golden colour.
- “The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul” by Douglas Adams.
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- SGQ: I did a reasonably good job managing my time last night, saving enough time to water the lawn and get beemos dispatched.
- I found a leftover serving of coffee beans hiding behind my empty tubes (i pre measure out a single espresso shot’s worth of beans).
- The weather is finally ever so barely starting to cool down, with every high this week forecasted below 100°F!
- Bonus: my new rotary cutting mat says it’ll arrive today instead of Thursday.
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- self-gratitude: i’m grateful to myself for not waiting until the last possible moment to take a shower before leaving for work today.
- self-gratitude: i’m grateful i ended up going on a long walk tonight, despite initially not being at all motivated to.
- i’m grateful i didn’t feel as “slumpy” today.
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- Sales of two games I was interested in (Serial Cleaners and Assemble With Care) on Steam.
- Nice cool rainy day.
- Got everything wrapped up on time today.
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- self-gratitude: early bedtime
- i’m grateful for my friends.
- i’m grateful that, even if the flat hasn’t yet cooled down tonight, it’s not as hot as it was a few weeks ago.
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- SGQ: I use this one a lot but I’m very grateful for it - having just enough focus and willpower to be doing good at dispatching beemos!
- DnD night!! We skipped last week since most of the group was on vacation and I sorely missed it.
- My sewing machine—my grandmother’s Singer Featherweight. Such a delight to use!
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