Three Good Things
The idea here to be optimistic and cheer myself up each day by picking three good things, usually, but not always, vaguely related to what I've done that day.
It's loosely related to the concept of gratitude journalling and thankfulness but I find both of those terms can get a bit toxic, this is just intended to be nicely optimistic and counter my natural tendency to think of the three worst things that have happened recently when anyone asks me how I am.
This is an archived collection of stuff I've been posting on social media for a while. Initially I thought these were best kept ephemeral but then I realised I wanted to keep them because looking back through the entries really does cheer me up and why not lean into a happy feedback loop for a change?
8 July 2026
🧦 Sorted out my underwear drawer and threw out all the threadbare items.
🏖️Bought a new garden parasol, it’s not quite what I wanted but what I mostly want at the moment is extra shade!
I also now own a hoe with which to battle the weeds.
7 July 2026
🧼Cleaned my laptop screen.
🛒Got the supermarket shopping done.
💻Opened up a project I’d abandoned and had some ideas for what to do with it next.
6 July 2026
🧵 Arranged a day trip to sewing show with my mum.
👩🏻💻Did a software upgrade that’s been waiting months for me to get to it and all was ok.
🍓 Harvested (and ate) 7 strawberries from my hanging basket.
3 July 2026
📆 I started the day thinking it was Thursday so Friday evening has been an unexpected surprise. (I think I thought yesterday was Wednesday. I remember it being Tuesday for definite before that. I’ve no idea what happened to actual Wednesday.)
💾Caching.
🥃White chocolate liqueur, since it’s Friday after all!
2 July 2026
⚡️Lots of negatively priced electricity (because it’s windy).
🧺About a squillion loads of laundry done with the aid of that electricity.
⛲️ Azul: Queen’s Garden appeared on BoardGameArena so that’s my new distracting obsession.
1 July 2026
💡Disconnected the outside light that’s been stuck on for months and had started buzzing.
📺 Got the TV aerial taken down and removed by a lad we spotted doing a similar job for a neighbour.
🌱 Another wheelie bin worth of weeds removed from the garden. The bushes trying to encroach beyond our fence onto the pavement have almost been tamed.
29 June 2026
🧽Scrubbed all the grouting in the shower clean.
🚫I only soft-deleted the stuff I thought was wrong so I was able to restore it easily when I realised it wasn’t.
👩🏻💻Figured out how to upgrade some software that’s been spewing error messages each time I try.
28 June 2026
📖 My reading mojo has definitely returned in the last few days.
⛅️The weather is definitely feeling much more normal (for the north of England) today.
🛏️ Clean sheets on the bed for a (hopefully) cooler sleep tonight.
27 June 2026
🌅 Getting to watch the sunrise was a bonus that came along with the 4am airport drop off.
🗺️ The sat nav helping out when you realise it knows about the nighttime road closures that you don’t.
📦 The cat is enjoying the delivery box house in the garden.
26 June 2026
🩳The offspring, who is off to even hotter climes, managed to find some shorts they liked enough to buy them.
👩🏻💻Enjoying remembering/refiguring-out how “sed” works.
😥 It’s definitely cooler this evening.
25 June 2026
📖 The mini library they’ve opened inside the leisure centre is great. It’s easier to pick something to read when I only have a small choice.
🛒 Doing the shopping meant we got to hang out in the supermarket aircon for a bit.
🙂↕️Giving myself permission to just be completely unproductive whilst it’s so hot.
24 June 2026
🐦Sitting outside at 5am listening to the birdsong. Also it’s nice and cool at that time.
🍪 The ginger biscuit recipe came out really chewy this time but that’s fine, so long as there are biscuits it’ll always be fine!
🧊 Discovered that the freezer freezes ice cubes really quite quickly. Very handy.
