The little things in life:
Popping out for a couple of minutes, on return I am hit by the smell of the fresh baked bread I'd just taken out of the oven.
Before the nightmare that is coming!
And now for something completely different.
Yesterday I was so touched by a video that it brought tears to my eyes. See and hear for yourself:
Lots of good things today.
In no particular order.
A nephew thats barely speaking to me - win!
Chips, cheese and spicy mayo.
F1 and F2 races, absolutely thrilled with the result.
Plenty of stitching time before and after the race.
A Christmas SAL and supplies have been ordered. Thanks to the encouragement of certain people on here who shall remain nameless.
Another book added to the wishlist, this one was pointed out to me by someone else on here who is a wonderfully bad example.
Watched the film Maudie, that was a rather lovely film and I ended up reading all about the artist.
A little bit of time playing WoW.
I think I can say I checked the self care box today!
New YouTube video from Bea and her Business:
Eeee my new EP Me Vs. Me out now u should go listen
Aww... my trainer said she thinks I am losing weight. She knows how to motivate me! (I'm not, but I am getting stronger. They've been working on the muscles around my knees so my arthritic knee is supported, and today I could do lunges around the garage without a problem!)
Citizenship ceremony breakfast!
Excited! I just bought a ticket for the Good Things festival in Melbourne
I just stumbled across this account on IG. Have you all heard about this guy Made me tear up, there are still good people out there. Heres an example, but seriously check out his other videos too.
10 Good Things for Oral Hygiene
Its been a good day despite waking up in absolute agony and wishing the grim reaper was coming to call.
A trip to town, just because I could. Bought a new board game, played it a few times and laughed my ass off, the child loves the game. The Game of Death - dark humour, for the grown ups, buy it!
Had a phone call with the benefits guy from yesterday, good call, the guy is a legend.
A little bit of time in the garden, appreciating the butterflies.
A friend phoned me, I actually answered. A good giggle and more ideas of what night we have a catch up at the weekend.
A chat with a neighbour that I adore, even if she did give me a row for not having on high enough sun screen, apparently the side of my face and neck were rather red.
Now I'm getting tempted by theatre tickets for Blood Brothers, but it would mean nearly 4 weeks in a row of trips to the theatre, physically its a lot, we won't mention the financial side of it.
My mood has been seriously stable for the past week, probably for the first time in my life, right now I'm saying its the HRT, there is no other explanation for it. Okay, people have annoyed me, but I haven't went into a downward spiral from it. I feel more confident in myself, I feel like I am making sense and not going off on tangents (shush, we don't mention all my random toots).
I'm going to keep celebrating my good days. Tomorrow though, I am definitely stitching, definitely!
Look at the absolutely wonderful friends so very kindly sent me all the way from the USA! I am so delighted with Edna and Puck ( as they shall now be named) and so very touched by her generosity.
I have a task on my list that I'm very uninterested in doing. It's even worse than usual because it's a volunteer thing. Here are some delights of the day: a breeze (I LOVE a breeze), riding with the top down, chatting with my kids via text while we all work, TRX (I caught myself audibly grunting during some of the exercises LOL), knowing I have a call scheduled later with a friend. Do you have any Or even just today
Kennt Ihr das Man unterhlt sich mit jemandem im RL ber eine Sache und kurze Zeit spter, sieht man die passende Werbung dazu auf FB oder Insta Ich hatte jetzt mal den umgekehrten Fall. Liege mit einer fiesen Erkltung flach, scrolle durch FB und sehe, dass dort jemand einen Eiskaffee vor sich stehen hat. "Dafr wrde ich jetzt morden", denke ich. Kurze Zeit spter kommt meine Mutter vorbei und was bringt sie mir mit Jaaa, einen Eiskaffee. Wie groartig ist das bitte!
Its ok that he was on his phone the whole time. He wanted to come out and sit next to the fire with me. It is nice just to share the same space sometimes.
Just had some of my Christmas cake - made in October last year - and it is just as moist and delicious as back then.
Saturday hugs, love, and light being sent out into the universe
Also, here are some books, flowers, and cookies
My s is today. She is not on here but she makes my life so much better so I wanted to share.
Ive been in this house five years now, but it took until last week for me to realize I could put a folding chair on my front porch & work outside in the shade.
In my defense, it is not a large porch. Thats why it has to be a folding chair.
I found something nice, but I couldn't decide whether to buy it or not, so I left it alone, forgot about it, and left the store
Ufff hoy la seleccin automtica de msica est muy buena: come to those who wait
"I hope something good happens to you today!"
Read that earlier today on a bumper sticker and thought we should share good things when we find them. A recent good book I discovered and really have enjoyed is Indigenous Ingenuity by Deidre Havrelock & Edward Kay. A lot of great topics covered in a spirit that "celebrates traditional North American Indigenous innovation." Sharing perspectives to "embrace the mindset of reciprocity, environmental responsibility, and the interconnectedness of all life."
There's also an audio book version and might also be worth checking your local library because mine had it there too.
5 minutes of slow motion campfire. Watch a little, watch a lot, maybe it lights your fire, maybe it doesn't. It's all ok. Personally I hope someone needed just this for a second right now...
Trail running in box ironbark remnant, recovering woodlands. It's a landscape severely modified by artisan / goldrush mining, and over-zealous introduction of fire. Still, it's a great space to catch some quiet, reflect, heal, grow stronger. And share that process of healing and strength with the landscape. Kind of mutual support huh
Anyway, see you on the trails...
Apparently no one does laundry on Friday mornings around here. I have the whole place to myself. NGL, it's quite pleasant. Clean machines, great AC, comfortable task chair, grocery store with snack foods across the parking lot10/10 will be back.
We can call this Chapter on this day....
"Rainbow In The Dark"
(shout out to brotha buzzy for that one)
Brother
It's so much easier for me to focus on the positive earlier in the day, so that's what I'm doing right now.
- A tree I was worried about seems like maybe things will be ok, or in any case my worry is less than it was a couple of days ago.
- It's sunny but cool, my favorite kind of weather. These same temps are supposed to continue into next week.
- I have today, Wednesday, and Thursday to rest before I have to do anything stressful again.
- I'm able today to adhere to slowing things downas slow as I need them, in parts and pieces, whatever works for me.
- Two weeks without weed (this is the longest I've gone without it in almost 15 years) and my sleep is getting better. I can remember my dreams again
- I got all of my glasses adjusted yesterday so that when I wear them they no longer feel like they're sliding down my nose which helps me to better relax my face muscles (they're always so tense).
- The ability to be able to appreciate this stuff is not always an ability I have and that in itself is a good thing.
This is not so bad. I liketh it. I can taste the smokiness of the bourbon barrel.
"Riyaad Sampson, a Capetonian train driver, has been honoured for his efforts in saving a dog that was lost on his line, by stopping the train in its tracks."
The second thing is...have you ever tried the "Lotsa Mozza" brand of frozen pizza It's a discount brand at our grocery store, but damned if it doesn't have the best cheese and best sauce I've ever had on a frozen pie. The crust is merely good, but taken as a whole It's shockingly good.
*I won on a scratch ticket
*I listened to music while doing diamond art
*I lol'd while watching Whose Line Is It Anyways (U.K. version hosted by Clive Anderson) on YouTube
I'm going to share two good things today.
First, the YouTube channel Todd In The Shadows. Good music criticism is really, really hard. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Todd is the absolute best I've ever encountered in 40+ years. Even when I don't agree with him, his takes are solid and reasonable.
This is pretty cool. There's a restaurant in that's created a special menu for people.
The idea is that you can go in, order food from that menu, pay for it, and they'll set it aside. When a homeless person comes in, they can choose from the meals people have purchased for them.
The joys of living in a . Phoned a local electrician who sent someone round to look at my plug socket within 10 minutes. He needed a new facing for the socket so popped 6 miles up the road to get one at Screwfix and was back within 20 mins. Rewired the socket. All done. Also turned out that he was the son of a lady who has gone to school with Grant
went to contract on a book translation time to go have a happy hour (or two)!
What's on my mind Tea. How good tea is, specifically, is on my mind. Tea. All day. Every day. Everyone thinks I have too much tea. No. There's never enough tea and all teas are different.
Nettle tea, dandelion tea, ginger tea, Earl Grey tea (caffeinated and decaf), Chai, Rooibos, Orange Spice, Oolong, Tumeric, Licorice, Butterfly tea, matcha, peach, berry, Irish Breakfast
Yes, there's a lot of tea in my tea pile, but they're all different.
One of the kids calls it my "leaf water" because I don't drink it with sugar. I blame McDonalds for calling their affront against tea "sweat tea". It should really just be called "syrup".
Tea is good. Yes, I have probably 10-15 boxes of tea around at any given time, but that 'leaf water' is good for what ails you. So there.
Hey People!
Did you have a tough week I did!!
We made it to Friday!
Woot!!!1!
Best thing I did today was quitting my job.
I've worked as a school psychologist in a city and a small village, very far apart. I hated working at the village school, mainly because of the claustrophobic countryside culture that permeated the place.
I'm so relieved.
Bring it, 2024, bring it on ,,,,
Happy New Year and all the best for 2024!
May 2024 be a year full of good health, lots of happiness and beautiful experiences for all of you