Happy Days
A therapy exercise I found a lot of benefit in was the deliberate cultivation of notice for at least one positive thing a day- and barring that, a neutral observance. It had a pretty noticeable impact over the years of purposefully searching to document happier things in life- and so I thought it'd be nice to continue the habit on my blog.
Monday, September 23, 2024
Settling into things quite contentedly. Figured out how to customize the links on here to be pink, which involved plinking a bit of rust off of the ol' HTML searching skills for a second, and it's nice to beautify my personal spaces. Friends have been quite lovely about the new name. The sickness is easing, and I can breathe a little easier.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
I could just about cry with how beautiful the weather is- cool, greyish sunlight, with a heavy mist in the air and a gentleness to the light you only see in autumn: not quite the harsh clarity of winter, or the burning haze of August giving way to September. Really beautiful. The cough continues to lighten.
Also, found out that the word tracking website I uses doesn't just do streaks- cumulative days add up towards badges, which I'm pretty pleased about- it jives better with my workflow of switching between analog and digital. Looking forward to their alternative to Nano event this year.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Had an amount of sleep that feels like it can only be described as truly extravagant. Once more obsessed with looping a particular track in the background- The Gloaming's Casadh an tSúgáin remains a solid staple in my musical library. The cool air from my standing fan, and being snugly wrapped up in my blankets, is a fantastic combination for getting comfortable and cozy.
My bangs looked pretty cute today too, after a nice shower and fluffing- they hit the perfect length to perch above my glasses and cover my forehead, without being too long and sticking me in the eyes. Got some good writing done today in my notebook, and quietly admired the subtle beauty of flecks of shimmer in the fountain pen's chamber after a spirited ink mixing session ages back: the glitter really never does leave you.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Woke up to a tray of freshly baked brownies, which were incredible. Super delicious. Spent a great deal of time hacking and dicing up a whole vat of vegetables, which was satisfying, in a visceral sense of being able to concretely see progress being made. Spent most of today writing with a friend, which was just lovely. Always a treat to stretch genre-wise and with character archetypes.
Friday, September 27, 2024
Got some free October monthly printables from a mailing list I'm on, and it was taco night for dinner- lots of sour cream and cheese, delicious. Finally had the spoons to clean my nails off of chipped polish from before I was sick. Spent some time writing with a friend- it's been awhile since I wrote a modern mafia with supernatural overtones setting. Contemplating what to repaint my nails with.
Friday, October 4, 2024
Handful of happy things in the days since. Blue raspberry creamsicle. Chocolate swiss roll cake. Roasted pumpkin seeds, salted. Finally getting back into painting. Figuring out a good enough solution for coding in Ren'py- it's imperfect, but it gets the job done, more or less. Haunted with thoughts of vampires. Nails painted in alternating shades of pink. My beaded, vintage necklace: purple glass and rolled pearls: fits perfectly, and the clasp is manageable. Golden foil butterfly stickers on the card to put onto my writing notebook.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Had fun continuing the TTRPG session from last week- investigations in a graveyard, after a pizza party with the main cast: ghosts a plenty. Got three Sanrio t-shirts as a gift- a pink one with silver sparkly stars and My Melody and Kuromi, a team one in laurels in similar pink, and a black one with Kuromi and a pair of cherries. Fantastic.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
The clasp on my vintage choker is slightly annoying, but I haven't had any reactions thus far- quite pleased about that, since it can be hit or miss sometimes with metal alloys. Good coffee. Finally have a desk set up in my study, and it's satisfying to finally be able to exercise good posture, and have a surface that's at the correct height to comfortably type on for hours on end- and a nice, smooth, flat top to write by hand. A frankly luxurious amount of surface area to prop up all sorts of things and still have the room to sprawl out and stretch with my personal effects and arms propped up on the table.
Also figured out the best angle for putting my small, entirely too bright desk lamp, to gently light it enough to write by, but not burn out my retinas at night.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Refound my missing lipstick- it's a color changing balm, really- it goes on clear, tints to a sweet pink: has a little rose embed inside of it. I haven't worn it down to the rose, yet, but it was a nice little gift from the Korean shop nearby, where I also was given adorable Creme Shop x Sanrio lipbalms in adorable macaron packaging- which I also had eaten some ridiculously fancy ones recently: more pretty to look at, than tasty to eat, but still a cool novelty to bite into something that smelled and tasted violently of rose potpourri. The box is very sweet, and I want to keep it for my fountain pen ink.
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Found a solo journalling game that I've really gotten into lately. It satisfies that itch for a bit of spontaneous, random element outside of your control that makes roleplaying so appealing to me, with needing to adapt to whatever's presented to you, and also is easy and light enough on the mechanics that it isn't a grind to get through: it focuses primarily on the writing aspect, which is my favourite part. Really lovely, tender setting, with the potential to make things as dark or as light as you'd like- dabbling around with magic is always fun in stories, too. It's kept me from focusing too much on rumination, which is also great.
The weather is finally cold enough that I've taken to wearing socks and a sweater while inside of my study. The increased warmth meant that I slept like a rock. It's good passive motivation to keep writing, as well, since otherwise my fingers are frigid.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Finally figured out a configuration of my vintage rings- one from an American maker in the 1970's, the other from the USSR sometime near the late 1950's (with an emerald cut sapphire!) that I find most comfortable to wear- the sapphire on my right ring finger, the solitaire on the left- it looks like a very pretty traditional wedding and slightly unconventional engagement set.
Also tore out some used pages from an old notebook- a gift from someone who loved me, the contents making allusion to an ex partner. It was a little sad, skimming briefly over having made mention of recording myself saying that I loved them for them to keep close at hand- but in a distant, remote sense, rather than a wash of overwhelming grief. It'll be good to finally put the book to good use- it's a nice, fluffy covered one with a cute ribbon tie, and Nota paper has always been lovely to me- it'll be a nice treat to upgrade to when I outgrow my current solo TTRPG notebook.
Also finally got around to updating my 4theWords thread again... that sure sat around for a bit. Tinkered about with the word goal settings to reflect my current shift in focus. Tidied up and consolidated my website's pages, as well.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Finally got around to updating my projects page with the second solo TTRPG playthrough I've been journalling, and got around to setting up a Tumblr account, yippee. Kind of nostalgic for how a theme resource I used as a teenager to set up roleplay accounts is still active, and has a great tagging system- picking out a simple page that was mostly pink, low on frills, was super easy. Transcribed some of day 2 play. Decided to put my pretty notebook nearby- I might use my mildliners on it after all. Took a fantastic picture of a squirrel today.