1. Hit 10,000 steps this morning without it feeling like a chore! !
2. The chocolate cake I was making yesterday seems to have turned out OK
3. Can't wait to see my friends this evening!
Yesterday in the suburbs, we had some hail, and the tornado sirens went off south of us. After the rainstorm, we got a beautiful .
In the morning, we awoke to snow on the ground, because... well, it's in Springtime.
my social security check arrived on time this month, and for the correct amount.
I hope everyone else has the same experience
Today a kid rage-quit my lesson.
We were playing a Kahoot and he got a couple of answers wrong by mistyping. After one too many he just slammed his laptop closed, stood up and started packing up his bag.
Me: Dude! You can't rage quit a lesson.
Him, still packing: I'm too far into the bit to stop now, Miss!
Cue me and the class collapsing with laughter while he calmly finished packing and left.
Be patient.
Good things come to those who wait.
Just got home from a wonderful evening out! Local high school drama club was performing Sondheim's "Into the Woods". I love love love that musical, plus my manager's kid was in the show and several co-workers were going, plus it's the same high school where I was in drama club 50 years ago. So lots of good reasons to go.
But the best reason turned out to be the one I discovered after I was there, and that's what it did for my spirits. It "spoke to me" right where I am in these days. So many echoes of real life, with words that went to my mind and heart, lifted me up, said what I needed to hear. We are beset by wolves these days, we have to stick together, be brave, take action, not throw each other to the giants to save ourselves. And "sometimes people leave us halfway through the woods". Honestly, "No One is Alone" had me in tears in the dark auditorium, but in a good way. "Hard to see the light now, just don't let it go. ... Someone is on our side ... No one is alone, you are not alone."
I'm so glad I went! Did my heart good!
(And yes, the kids did a brilliant job!)
Was having kind of an out of sorts morning and then I went to the post office and all my seeds had come.
While i was on my way into the post office I put my hand in the pocket of my raincoat and found some beautiful little bumblebee earrings in my pocket that I bought last year at Pride and completely forgot about. It was such a surprise.
So I got home and planted some heirloom sweet peas from the 1600s that are supposed to be the nicest smelling variety of sweet pea on earth. I didn't even mind that it was pouring with rain while i did.
Feeling like a rather serendipitous day. Gardening is hope.
Recruiter discusses if bad things resonate longer than good things and they do, why, on episode 10 of :
Wow, this week has wiped me out. We're short staffed at work (as predicted) so it's just been go, go, go all week. Tomorrow is a public holiday for WA but I work to the NSW public holiday schedule, so it's back to work for me while everyone else gets to laze about at home around me. Meh.
However, I did get to go to the community garden yesterday, which was fun. We harvested hops flowers (they smell delightfully herby and fresh) and dandelion root. I've chopped up the root and will roast it tomorrow to enjoy my very own cup of locally grown 'coffee'. Kind of excited about that. The hops flowers are in the freezer to be used in a relaxing tea when needed.
The long-range forecast for the current and next season, Bunuru and Djeran (autum, or roughly March -- May) is warmer than usual and also dry. I am trying to see how we can budget in a rainwater tank or two for next summer. I'm looking forward to the rain, as always at this time of year.
Failing the rain, here are the good things:
- found a ripe strawberry while watering the garden and ate it
- descaled both the washing machine and the dishwasher and cleaned the seals. That might sound very proactive of me, but I can't remember the last time I did either, so they were well overdue. However, I did feel very accomplished
- there were no eggs at the shop the other day and we were completely out and then Kid2 went hunting and found four! Woohoo!
for
1: Had a chance to download some preview songs from a cherished friend's upcoming new album... JR Richards is, as always, just... WOW.
2: Was able to cross off 8 of the 14 must-do entries on my weekend list.
3: Read that today's subzero temps are supposed to give way to 30ish by Monday.
Today I managed to dig a little hole for a little hazelnut that lived in a pot in the drive of our old rented place for nearly five years. Through heat domes and wildfires and deaths and everything else that came down the line. Today I let it put it's little feet in the dirt, and told it that it won't always be a little hazelnut. Perseverance is everything and planting it was everything I could manage today, and that's okay. Now I'm going to rest aggressively.
So this amazing little moment happened today.
I've worked with a particular guide in Bhutan for about a decade now. He's a gentle fellow and simply the best guide I've ever had. And I've had some really great guides.
Rinzi saw my project to make a TV series in Nepal, and saw my fundraising page. He offered to shout us a brekky (one of the donation options) so he could contribute.
Today is Buddhist New Year by the way. Losar Tashi Delek!
about today.
The living room is habitable again, and now boasts LED TV backlighting.
Fried mushroom sandwiches.
Sometimes travel brings you these good experiences.
Just after scolding myself in public for not taking a selfie with Iga witek, i approached a chocolate stand in the Brussels airport, where a chocolatier was offering tiny freshly-made chocolates. I asked him what he is doing I expected to hear that he made these great chocolates that I was welcome to taste.
Instead he responded: 'I live my dream. I make chocolates. Be my guest.'
With all the chaos going on, it's important to make time to embrace the things that make life worth living
Make lists of to improve your mental health.
Good things about my toenail fungus:
1. Has not spread
Good things about Donald Trump:
1. Saw my sister and nephew today, had tasty soup, and laughed!
2. 48 days in a row of starting the day with a short story instead of my phone.
3. Sci fi, just generally really glad sci fi exists!
Fabulous things for a Fabulous Planet.We strive for happiness and yet it always feels like the bad things resonate longer than the good things. Why is that Or perhaps it's just me. Regardless, this question - which I aked Michaela Morgan in season 1 - i posed to Creative Director Anthony Giaccone on episode 27 in season 2:
You know you have a friend at your local Tim Horton's when the Iced Cap is *always* filled to the top of the bubble plastic cap!
Looking forward to saying hi to them again today.
Three days into my week+ long visit in . So far, Uber driver returned my left-behind Handy, connected with and (frolleagues), saw a wonderful performance, enjoyed a dinner (schmeckt lecker!) with a lively conversation about love of , battled jet lag and won (I think), revised my talk slides (again), and immersed myself in the first day of the conference. So many more yet to come!
Chaat lunch with husband! Moong dosa & fish curry - mmmmmmmmm!!!
Good tree. Good sunrise. Good dog.
Yesterday I took the afternoon off to get a haircut and have lunch with a friend. We had a tasty lunch at Della Fattoria in Petaluma, and as we were finishing, a staffer came by and offered each of us a free loaf of bread. My breakfast this morning was toasted slices of this bread along with some strawberries.
Good Time Cafe In Chiang Mai Thailand
for Friday...
1. The last minute 8:30am meeting with my employer's VP was very not good news, but -- speaking very selfishly -- it did not involve me getting laid off
2. Payday
3. The general sense that I've managed to survive capitalism as long as I have. It's a game very much rigged against everyone who isn't super wealthy, and that after over 5 decades it hasn't absolutely destroyed me yet is my ongoing defiant middle finger towards a heartless system
I've been asking this question every day for several years. Today I'm asking you, too: What's the best thing you saw today
1) Had a nice private exchange with someone I admire on a forum that I frequent
2) Good checkup at dentist yesterday (I know that this is only supposed to be a win if you are under the age of 10)
3) Agility today
Bonus: leftovers of home made split pea soup in the fridge
-was taken out for pancakes
-got out of my neighbourhood for the first time in a while, on the bus. (Sometimes I quite like the energy on a busy bus.)
-discovered while at a store that I had missed an email from months ago giving me the chance to renew a warranty. The grace period had long since expired but I happened to be talking to someone with the authority to override that and the warranty is now renewed. Phew! (Also, even before that, I was really enjoying talking to the guy. I wish him all the best in life.)
I am agnostic to the bones but on this darkest day of the year I feel the need to say thank you.
Thank you to the tree that fell in my friend's garden without hurting anyone and which provided us with free firewood.
Thank you to the guys* who install solar panels on roofs so people get free energy from the sun.
Thank you to all the people in the world who don't give up hope, who keep going against the odds and spread kindness instead of hate.
I hope that just like the sun becomes more powerful and brighter with every day from now on, that humanity becomes stronger, brighter, and more powerful, bringing light back into these dark times.
* And with "guys" I mean all those skilled, handy people of all genders who do this job.
#2024
December flowers brightened my day!
my nails are atrocious but my tiny win this week was making a (tiny) amount of time doing something "analog" & building this tiny Japanese fruit box
New YouTube video from Bea and her Business:
Good things is SO FUN to play live
The tent at the festival in is a manifold with genus 6.
today:
- I finally started to work on the knit sweater I started before last winter again. (It's my first sweater. I started with the arms, and today did the bit to the right of the neck diip in the back. Then the left part, and then the front, and if it fits, then follow the thingies. round the wrist and neck.)
- I found my junior purrgrammer, tinycat, and my phone charging cable (and charger) again. They were in a compartment in my backpack
- One I was too tired wo remember yesterday evening: There was a thing at work I had been trying and failing to figure out for two days. On the weekend I had an idea for a different angle to go at it, and I had found the problem and fixed it within the first hour of being at work on Monday!
- Today the weather was sunny and I saw pretty clouds from the office window
- I doodled in my A6 sketchbook today, so I'm up to a 7 day streak! :D
today
- Happy chats with
- Particularly yummie food in the cafeteria at work.
- I got more done after work than I thought I would
...yesterday XD
- I had made a plan of things I wanted to get done, and I actually went through with it!
- Surprise gift of flower(photo) from which just hit me right in the feels