Gratitude journaling together

Life
1203
  1. Being reminded of the taste sensation that is chocolate & coconut
  2. I’ve been thinking of buying a bottle of scotch for the first time in a while and my friends ended up giving me one
  3. Weather worked out well for outdoor lunch today
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1204
  1. Beeminder, this thread, and @alys & @shanaqui & co. regularly posting in here.
  2. Reading this thread and encountering many things I know and like and even more things I don’t know and probably would like.
  3. Getting an extra hour of sleep, waking early and feeling hopeful.
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1205
  1. Although we lost the Wales v New Zealand game (not surprisingly), it was fun watching it with my mum, dad and sister as well as my wife, for once! And I’m very grateful that after the dreadful double no arms/high tackle on Ross Moriarty, he doesn’t seem to have had a neck/head injury (though he’s got an AC joint issue that’s very painful, according to the head coach, that’s not life-threatening).
  2. Lisa’s team did a good job at work and got takeout vouchers to treat themselves. So we had a nommy dinner and dessert, for a bit of a change.
  3. Lisa got me two desserts because I couldn’t decide, so I have cheesecake for tomorrow, too.
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1206
  1. Still enjoying the chocolate-dipped apricots I got as a gift
  2. A neighbor was willing to give me her door code so I could borrow some
    vermouth for a cocktail
  3. It’s Halloween!
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1207

Oh cool! Which scotch is it? My favourites are the peaty single malts.

  1. Catching up with workmates after a few days away.
  2. I proposed some changes to a document written by a manager and he said they were an improvement.
  3. A type of flower that possums love has come into season. There are several trees around here so I can pick some for hand feeding.
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1208
  1. The sound of rain against the windows while I’m working.
  2. My acquaintances on Twitter who are voting for me to have a slightly less frantic week. :joy: (Basically I’m thinking about dropping roughly an hour of work each day, to help me recover from getting overstressed by a schedule that was kicking my butt. The poll’s about to be over with 75% of votes going for “take an hour off each day”.)
  3. Lisa’s training course for their apprenticeship is over, so we can go back to our companionable working in the same room.
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1209
  1. The Discourse forum experience and its timed bookmarks feature.
  2. The Firefox extension Intention (shared upstream by @alys), which is just simple and fully-featured enough to lead me to believe it could work for me. Ask me again in a month, of course. Alys, are you still using this, over 1 year later?
  3. How relatively easy it was to put similar restrictions on my phone using the (iOS) Screen Time feature.
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1210

Yes! It’s still just as useful as it was back then. Has it really been more than a year?!
It’s been ages since I spent too long on a pointless website. Very occasionally I’ll browse imgur for 10 minutes or so and let the extension stop me after that.
For Twitter, I have the bookmarks page set up as an exception so I can keep it open for as long as I like, because I legitimately use Twitter’s bookmarks to record useful things (e.g., book recommendations). Whenever I click through a bookmark to the thread, the extension stops me going down a rabbit hole.

  1. Sweet smelling flowers on a tree that I walked under.
  2. I was on an interview panel at work today and there were two very promising candidates.
  3. Vegetable deliveries.
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1211

I am too! I’ve got a streak of 301 days on this computer. (Might be longer on my work computer, I’ve used it a bit longer there, I think. Don’t think I’ve ever failed.)

  1. I think the weird tingling in my hand has gone away. If it hasn’t entirely, at least it’s a lot less noticeable.
  2. My mood seems to be picking up.
  3. I solved some really stupid problems because the Hammertime club made me actually think about them.
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1212

Awesome to hear! It really seems to work great to head off that initial inclination to check a distracting site. What does the streak measure, exactly? Days where you spend less than your goal on distracting sites, probably?

  1. Waking early and feeling rested, even though I slept way less than what I thought was ideal for me.
  2. Visiting family today.
  3. Had a good day yesterday, prepared a nice pizza and had some laughs.
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1213

I like the peaty single malts too. This one’s a pretty straightforward Highland single malt from the Macduff distillery, though I think I detect some salt in the finish, which makes it at least a little interesting. It certainly made a fine scotch Negroni

  1. A good walk with a good friend
  2. My friend is getting a puppy, which means I’ll have a puppy-by-proxy
  3. I’m feeling pretty relaxed
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1214

Bonus gratitude: the Intention extension is also available for Chrome, and it looks like it’ll be a useful addition to my blocking tools.

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1215
  1. Rather than take down my giant spider Halloween decoration I found a turkey costume (meant for a small dog) that is the perfect size for her. She is now a Thanksgiving decoration.
  2. I got to take a walk last night before the rain started.
  3. Got the year’s first fire on the wood-burning stove out of the way with all the smoke that involves, so it should be smooth sailing and a warm house going forward.
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1216
  1. A quiet day at work.
  2. A meeting I was booked in for tomorrow has been cancelled.
  3. I avoided a video meeting today by sending one email with three sentences in it and getting a satisfactory one-sentence emailed reply.
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1217
  1. No work this week.
  2. Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™ is 50% off on a certain digital distribution platform. Which, for a 17-year-old game is still expensive. But since this is the one that got away for me, back when I was into gaming, I think I’ll pick this up. And I’ll probably make a goal to allow/force myself to play it.
  3. The warmth of the sun.
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1218
  1. Friends from our Free Company helping me and Lisa out to get the legendary horse mounts on FFXIV. It was nice to spend an hour doing something together with them.
  2. Lots of people being interested in/contributing to the challenges I run on Habitica to count down to the new year.
  3. Pleasantly tired/relaxed.
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1219
  1. Thought of a TAP to clean my desk (if I notice a piece of clutter on my desk, pick it up) and, almost without realizing it was happening, subsequently cleaned my whole desk. That’s of course what I hoped would happen, but I didn’t think the mental trick would work just seconds after “installing” it.
  2. I went 3 days without a nasty habit, which I have never gone more than a week without in the last 20 years, and even that just a handful of times. Otherwise it was multiple times daily.
  3. I cleaned the microwave.
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1220
  1. I’m starting to see the effect of some the changes I’m trying to implement.
  2. All my books are in boxes and I haven’t had shelves in ages, but I found a way to create a nice place for a couple of books.
  3. The book I’m reading, which I rescued from someone who didn’t really care for it and who got it for free themselves, is really good! It’s a glorified zine, actually: The Book Bindery by Sarah Royal. I went online to buy a copy to gift, but a seller came back to me with an offer that was way too high (not grateful for that last part). :slight_smile:
1221
  1. Lisa got us takeout from my family’s favourite restaurant as a Friday night treat.
  2. They also stripped the bed and found me a dry duvet and stuff last night after my hot water bottle burst all over the bed (and burned me).
  3. And since it’s Lisa appreciation day, apparently, they also went out to get me a new hot water bottle, knowing I sleep so much better with one.
1222
  1. This Animals Taking Seflies twitter thread, which is the cutest thing ever.
  2. Watching a dog swimming the river.
  3. A late afternoon walk, with enough light to see clearly but no heat or glare from the sun.
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