- Big progress on project that has been dragging far too long today (on multiple fronts, actually).
- A talk today gave me an interesting idea for another project. Not that I have time for it. Eventually!
- …I reread the classic today and it still brings me great joy.
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- Family travel finally going to plan after many false starts.
- Cheese straws from a local bakery. Not as good as the ones my wife makes (the secret is a little mustard, IIRC).
- Mum reframed one of Grandma’s paintings for me, so it’s ready to hang in the new house.
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- Getting a good pedicure treatment
- Sushi for dinner yesterday
- My ebike
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- Life is starting to settle down into a routine again for me; though there will be much unpacking to do, that can happen at our own pace.
- Noticing that I am doing stuff I’ve wanted to do for a while, and fitting more “me time” into my days.
- Although the British Heart Foundation wouldn’t take our fridge after all, we managed to arrange the removal.
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- My wife, who is such a great partner in every way.
- The AeroSpace window manager, for making window management on my Mac so much more fun and easy.
- Though my sons, like me, hate to do anything out of the routine, they have started advanced swimming lessons and they actually seem to be enjoying it!
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- Things are somewhat going wrong, but since multiple things went wrong, they kind of provided their own solutions (e.g. cleaners are taking way too long to clean the house, but the landlord can’t meet us today to get the keys back).
- We have planned for a full cessation of work and a do-what-you-want weekend for everybody involved in the moving efforts.
- At the very least, we did successfully empty the flat by the end of yesterday.
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- Despite being awake for two hours at night, I still managed to get a solid 7 hours sleep
- No one at home, which enabled me to record a song for my choir
- Cool summer mornings
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- Had a really interesting discussion about research with the person who gave the talk I mentioned in my last post! (Grateful also to the slightly-more-senior person who arranged the meeting for me without me even asking.)
- I am planning to cook a couple really delicious dishes tonight! (A vaguely hunanese tofu skin (well, more specifically 腐竹) stir fry, and kung pao king oyster mushrooms!)
- Had a really good night’s sleep last night!
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Thank you for sharing! It’s a very well polished tool.
- apple sauce
- being able to eat at the restaurant once in a while
- working on something that I’m really interested in
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- Cooler today. This weekend was so warm, ugh.
- Cute thank you card from my step-nephews (well, step-nephews-to-be, but I’ll probably just say nephews from now on).
- After some wrangling, our new furniture is ordered including the recliner for my reading nook. (It’ll fit under the high-sleeper we’ve got as a spare bed, so I anticipate being very cosy.)
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- Dad made lunch for me before going out for the day. He really is determined to keep my lunch goal going up!
- Made some progress in the raid we’re currently learning in FFXIV yesterday.
- I actually had to close the window, the breeze is a little cold! Lovely.
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- My resilience score on Oura has been going up! It’s nice not to be at rock-bottom all the time, ahaha. The last time it was this high was late October.
- Things are slowly but surely coming together for me to move into the new house too.
- It has so far been relatively easy to sort out the problem of the previous owner or previous tenant of the house owing a great deal of money. Mostly, we just ring the companies up and explain we’re new tenants, and they apologise and stop threatening to repossess our stuff. Hopefully that really is the end of it.
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- Had a nice chat with my mom
- Got an unexpected gift
- Got some really good food that took almost no time to turn into a nice dinner
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- Found a lovely new Qigong sequence - Eight Brocades - which ends in a fabulous move called “Bouncing the heels to cure diseases”.
- New clip-in pedals for my bike
- Weather not so madly hot
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- Came across a useful idea which may eventually lead to progress on one of my pet projects.
- Had a great night out with friends tonight!
- Have a few plans with friends I haven’t hung out with in a while over the next few weeks!
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- Back to having Friday afternoons off from the inbox.
- I might get two extra bookcases! We knew I’d definitely get one extra, but I think it’ll be two.
- In the mood to read! I know, I put this as a gratitude quite often, but it always is something I’m grateful for.
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- Mattress successfully ordered, custom made to be a reasonable height for a high sleeper/bunk type bed, and it should arrive on Tuesday! So I guess I will move into the new house properly on Wednesday/Thursday. It’s taken long enough to get here but…
- …I also appreciate my parents letting us take our time and not stress out, and make sure I didn’t have to move in without a spare place to sleep.
- Aaand the fact that given I’ve had some weird glitches with my payment cards lately, Mum paid for the mattress to avoid any silliness, and I’ll just pay her back later.
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- Had a good dinner and a delicious cocktail tonight!
- Saw a great talk today!
- A friend kindly invited me to something in the afternoon (…although I was too busy to go).
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Visiting my parents
Public transport going smoothly
My mom made a tasty dinner
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- Lovely rain yesterday, was very cosy to be inside reading and listening to it.
- Read four books over the weekend.
- Got my FC members a clear of the Suzaku Unreal fight I’d been promising I’d help them clear.
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