Real life happy

junipersky

Husband and I have a year long bet going.

Goal: I read 100 new-to-me books this year.
Reward if I win: I choose where we take our next vacation and husband has to plan 100% of it. No mental load for me.
Reward if I lose: Husband chooses and I help plan.

We have added some tweaks for my sanity sake:

Two books previously read count as 1 (so I can still use them as anxiety control but not hold back the challenge)
Audio books over 8 hours count as 1, under 8 doesn’t count.
Books all have to be 100+ pages long.

My happy: we are halfway through the year, and I just hit 50!!!

Testament

Watching Twitter implode has been hilarious. It’s not ‘bot scraping’ as Elon had implied. Their cloud storage contract with Google expired, and this is the result.

Rumor is that Meta had been working real hard in the background to make a Twitter like program that will also carry over your IG contacts.

Gonna be real interesting to see what happens. But also? Fuck Elon, I’m not paying for Twitter Blue from that overgrown manchild.

Raeras

@Testament NGL I thought that said Twitch and I was like ‘woah what?’ but then I realized it was Twitter and was like ‘Oh I care less about this’ xD

KarmaBum

I randomly decided not to take a certain freeway home today from an event downtown, which meant I was only two blocks from Dogg in tha Box.

Which is how I wound up with a Snoopalicious shake today.

Testament

@Raeras Well, if we’re being honest, Twitch is burning itself down in plenty of other ways. They’re potentially not long for this world either if so many big name streamers are taking contracts with Kick.

Solstice

Things have been stressful lately with work and househunting on top of my usual spate of health issues, but one thing that I do every year is go to a local anime convention, because it sparks joy.

This year, the hotel that made it easy to attend because it’s incredibly close by and I can dash back to it if I start feeling overwhelmed or under the weather (which I do nearly half the times I’ve gone), was entirely booked up within minutes of going live. Much disappointment. Thought I wasn’t going to get to go at all, because the idea of having to slog a mile through the summer heat and humidity doesn’t have quite the same comfort associated with it.

I noticed when I was searching something entirely random that the con has a subreddit. And the very first post was someone wanting to hand off their room at that hotel rather than cancelling it. Immediately DMed. Wasn’t a scam. ‘Geeky’ communities have their own problems, but I continue to be blown away by the generosity that exists within them - I’ve seen it here several times over, in fact!

Anyhow. Can now attend, and have something to look forward to during this stressy time. Really is the simple rituals in life, sometimes.

Testament

Ever since I broke the 300 pound barrier in deadlifting, I’ve felt like I hit a plateau with strength training and fitness. I had been stuck on 305 for deadlift for some time now.

I finally broke through and lifted to 315. Which isn’t the biggest jump in the world, but I’m really proud of that.

Gashlycrumb

I wear a glittery enamel pin-badge that says ‘MAKE IT GAY YOU COWARDS’ on my hat.

Today a stranger started some sort of right-wing rant at me, assuming I’d agree, but then spotted this delightful bit of flair, shut her mouth, turned around and walked briskly away from me.

What joy!

Coin

@Gashlycrumb said in Real life happy:

I wear a glittery enamel pin-badge that says ‘MAKE IT GAY YOU COWARDS’ on my hat.

Today a stranger started some sort of right-wing rant at me, assuming I’d agree, but then spotted this delightful bit of flair, shut her mouth, turned around and walked briskly away from me.

What joy!

Exactly the reason I’d often answer the door to jehova’s witnesses or evangelists in one of many heavy metal t-shirts.

junipersky

I changed my volunteer hours at the shelter to avoid some of the frustrations I had over the summer. It has been great.

One of the best is that since everyone knew we were understaffed today for a full clean, the volunteers who were able to come all showed up an hour early. There was no coordination at all. The cats needed their area clean so gdi, they were going to get it done.

ten

Ya’ll. After a year of grief-fueled burnout I have a job that pays milkbones, but is a gentle balm on my soul: bathing dogs.

Floof

@moth Hurray! If you ever wanna talk shop or have questions about the industry, feel free to hit me up. I’ve been a dog groomer for 20ish years.

Cobalt

After months of fighting to get into a specialist, I am scheduled for a nerve block on my back. I cannot express how excited and relieved I am. There is no repairing the damage to it but I can prevent further damage once I can actually use my back again to exercise and stuff.

Wuff

@Cobalt said in Real life happy:

After months of fighting to get into a specialist, I am scheduled for a nerve block on my back. I cannot express how excited and relieved I am. There is no repairing the damage to it but I can prevent further damage once I can actually use my back again to exercise and stuff.

As someone getting foot surgery week after next. Right there with ya!

preach

Wizz

I was intensely worried about this school year given the difficult history the kiddo and I have had with his school re: zero enforcement around bullying policies and a few incredibly bizarre teachers (Satanic Saiyan Panic, I’ll never forget ye), but so far everything has been very smooth sailing. the weight this has taken off my mind is hard to even describe.

BloodAngel

Met with a therapist and we clicked. First time using one in a long time, working on being the better me. I miss mushing, but need to focus on myself for a bit. Might see ya’ll in the future might not, but I hope everyone is doing well out there in the land of MU!