Posts from 2023-03.
31 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🤕Having the flexibility to go back to bed for a bit when your head kills.
💊Painkillers.
🏊♀️ Went swimming when I was feeling better, and felt like I could swim forever as my head was so light. It was a very pleasant change from the morning!
30 March 2023
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💬Felt good to get feedback on a work project that I’ve been soloing for way too long.
🍦Remembered that we restocked the freezer with ice creams. Ate one, obviously!
🇩🇪Managing to remember just about enough about German to assist the teen with their exam practice.
29 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🚙Car bump. But only broken bits of plastic resulted. Flesh & blood all fine. All fixable.
🗂️Database imports at work all running smoothly.
📺 New YouTube series from a creator I really enjoy.
25 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🌬️Yesterday (when I forgot to post) was the first line dried washing day of the year. A seasonal milestone worth celebrating.
🎭A nice evening at the theatre today.
🚙And a safe drive home in the rain.
23 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🧽”I’ll just wipe that sticky shelf” escalated wildly and took too much time but now my fridge is super clean and not full of lost liquified veg.
👩🏻💻When I finally got to my desk I got the database thing I’ve been trying to do all week figured out.
🌸There’s blossom appearing on trees.
21 March 2023
#3GoodThings
😑Holding onto my temper. Neither I, nor the person I want to lose my temper with, can do anything much about the actual thing. I get that being a third party is exhausting so I am trying not make anything worse.
🥇Regular board game opponents are ill so I beat the laminated cardboard ones instead.
☎️ Made a whole stack of phone calls and sorted out lots of things. Didn’t get the work I wanted done but my home-admin game has been top notch.
20 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🌓I’m pleased I thought to wonder exactly when the equinox was just now as the answer was “about now”.
⏳It feels like a long time since the solstice & on the whole I like it when time passes slowly.
🥘Dinner with my brother, lovely to catch up with him.
19 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🥐My partner got me breakfast in bed (ok, it was on the boat where the bed and the dining table are about the same distance from the kitchen, but I didn’t have to move so it still counts).
🌱Green grass is definitely trying to grow all over the muddy towpaths.
🪄The teen found some ancient Magic The Gathering decks and wanted to play them with me this evening. (It was more ‘beat me with them’ tbh, but it’s all good).
18 March 2023
🧥 I left my coat in the pub last night - very relieved it was there when they opened up today. It was one I sewed myself & the best waterproof I’ve ever had so I’d have been really upset to lose it.
↩️Winded the boat (ie turned it 180°) without the aid of the broken bow thruster.
✅Belatedly realised the bow thruster wasn’t broken but I’d just forgotten the magic incantation to switch it on (press the on switch twice 🙄). It’s not broken! A good thing!
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17 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🔥Managed to buy a Calor gas refill without any trouble today; everywhere was out of stock last time I tried.
🌈 Driving my boat towards the most glorious double rainbow. (Bonus: I hadn’t forgotten how to steer.)
📚 I’m already loving this book and I’m only on page 4.
15 March 2023
#3GoodThings
☀️ I went out to defrost the car but the sun had got there first
☑️ I’ve now collected (ie walked down) all the streets inside the ring road on CityStrides, it’s interesting seeing different bits of the town
😴 For the second day running I managed to get back to sleep again after the cat woke me up way too early
12 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🥞 We had pancakes for breakfast and even though the hotel had run out of maple syrup we made it work with yoghurt, berries and Nutella.
💎Some jewellery I thought I’d lost ages ago turned up hiding in a pocket of my travel bag.
🛌 Looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.
11 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🧒🏻Really nice having the teen to myself for the weekend.
🎲We’ve definitely got better at judging board games by the cover and haven’t picked any complete duds this year.
♦️And there will be more games tomorrow.
10 March 2023
#3GoodThings
❄️I quite enjoyed shovelling the snow today. Glad I don’t have to do it often!
🚙 Car journey was no trouble once we got off the drive.
🎲 Playing games with the teen and other friends, all good.
9 March 2023
#3GoodThings
📑I thought I was just procrastinating and playing with my notes, but it meant I had a good look through all the project files and it turned into an actual useful review.
⛄️ The snow is very pretty. And you know it won’t stay long at this time of year.
🤞So though it looks bad out there this evening I’m pretty certain we will get to our board game con tomorrow once the roads have cleared up a bit.
6 March 2023
#3GoodThings
👩🏻💻First thing Monday morning I coded something that was intractable on Friday afternoon. Brains work while you rest. Definitely a good thing to remember.
🗣️Talked through some worries and had my mind put at rest. Glad I mentioned it.
🏙️The Cities Skylines 2 game was announced. Yay!
5 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🚂The rail replacement bus that I saw saying “choo choo” on the display that made me laugh. Glad I had no need to catch the train though.
🚲 Went a completely different way than I intended on my bike but it was an interesting ride.
🐈 The cat trying to drink my bath water also made me laugh. She’s not quite sure what to make of baths.
4 March 2023
#3GoodThings
👉Discovered the FingerpostFriday hashtag just before going out for a walk where there are good fingerposts. (You’ll have to wait until Friday sorry!)
🪡 Finally getting up the courage to start quilting my quilt (or whatever you call a quilt that isn’t quilted yet.)
💭The teen reminiscing about primary school, quite fun.
3 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🙋🏻♀️Asking for help. I annoy myself by struggling through, even though I love helping others, so it’s good to remember that not being able to work out the answer by yourself all the time doesn’t make you an idiot.
🤞The teen finished their mock exams, and thinks they went ok. Though being mocks they are a learning experience either way, so it’s all good.
👍Everything feels under control at the moment. Hope that’s not a calm before the storm thing!
2 March 2023
#3GoodThings
👩🏻💻I did the work, the problem isn’t solved yet, but I have more ideas for tomorrow. Trying to judge myself by effort rather than results.
🧦I sorted out the odd sock mountain. And did data analysis on it because, well, that’s how I amuse myself.
🧘🏻♀️Bedtime yoga has calmed me down a lot.
1 March 2023
#3GoodThings
🪶The pheasant (I think) who ran down the road next to me before leaping off into a field and trying to take off.
🧅 Roasted red onions. I thought of this and then remembered I picked onion rings yesterday. Apparently I’m just smitten with onions at the moment. And now I want pickled onions to complete the trilogy but I don’t have any.
😴 But I do have new pyjamas.