Posts from 2024-01.
31 January 2024
#3GoodThings that I started writing last night…
🛒 I didn’t throw myself to the floor in the supermarket and have a toddler tantrum (but thinking about it was kind of therapeutic!)
🍻 Good game of Brass Birmingham this evening, a good pub board game as there are mini beer barrels on the board.
🍽️ I fell asleep before getting to the third good thing but morning-me thinks it’s good that evening-me did the washing up already.
28 January 2024
#3GoodThings
🚲 Took a long Sunday morning bike ride to a coffee shop for the first time in ages.
😴 My afternoon nap was a better sleep than I’ve had on many nights (though actually I’ve been sleeping pretty well generally lately.)
🐱 The endless entertainment value of a cat who never catches on that the strange cat outside the glass patio doors after dark is her own reflection.
26 January 2024
#3GoodThings
⚖️I’ve made a good job of the work/life balance thing this week.
🚮Went through a kitchen cupboard and disposed of all the horribly out of date foods.
🗑️We eventually managed to locate our wheelie bin that had migrated rather a long way down the street while being emptied.
22 January 2024
#3GoodThings is always a more valuable exercise on the tedious rubbish days.
☁️I left the house and got some fresh air while there was still some daylight left.
☕️ We have a new coffee machine and the first cups from it have been pretty good.
📄I got one lot of legal paperwork sorted for myself and helped someone else with their financial paperwork.
19 January 2024
#3GoodThings
👅 The amazing time travelling ability of taste buds - fresh mint sends me straight to the sandpit at the end of my grandparents’ garden.
🧀 Scraping the crispy baked on cheese off the lasagne dish.
🚲 Cycling on frosty ground which makes me feel like some kind of balancing champion.
17 January 2024
Yesterday’s #3GoodThings from a day where a zillion tiny things seemed to be going wrong
🗃️ I kept the small things in their boxes, ie didn’t let them build up to be a bigger thing and have everything turn into a bad day.
❄️ It snowed a bit and I very much appreciated no longer living up a hill where it was easy to get snowed in.
🎲 I got my first board game of the year played!
14 January 2024
#3GoodThings
🛌 Even more catch up sleep! I think I might actually be about caught up now, but🤞that I keep on sleeping well.
📑Filled in a stack of boring, badly formatted, ill worded paperwork. An “at least it’s done now” sort of a good thing.
🥤A bottle of vanilla milkshake all to myself.
13 January 2024
#3GoodThings
📖 I’d got to page 150 before I checked the book out and left the library.
🪫Got home safely (carefully!) when my front bike light failed on me.
🍕 We threw a load of toppings on a reduced-because-it was-almost-out-of-date pizza base and it was fabulously tasty.
12 January 2024
#3GoodThings
😴 I got a ton of catch up sleep last night, I woke up thinking it would be 2am yet again but it was almost 7!
🏡 House purchase is a-go-go and I pretended to be a grown up and talked to solicitors and surveyors.
🏊🏻♀️ First swim of the year, I cut it short as I still don’t feel 100% but it was good to be more or less back to normal.
10 January 2024
#3GoodThings
🥱 Post-covid fatigue has been kicking my arse good and proper but I think I’m finally winning.
🏡 I think we might have found a house to buy and it’s been minimal trouble (for me, my partner’s done most of the work).
3️⃣I’ve been so shattered I’ve barely read anyone else’s three good things posts lately and I’m looking forward to binge-reading them.
3 January 2024
#3GoodThings
🌲 I packed up the Christmas decorations, leaving the house for my partner to clean & tidy while I’m out tomorrow. I think I got the easy job.
✍️ Some instructions I’d written for myself a few weeks ago came in handy when I needed to do the same thing again today. Good to know I hadn’t missed a step.
🪙 Feeling like I’d won a mini lottery when the cafe till flashed up a 75p discount on my £1.25 cookie.
2 January 2024
#3GoodThings
🎄My fast dwindling marzipan supply has been restocked courtesy of a late Christmas present from the in laws.
🌧️ Managed to find an hour of the day without heavy rain in order to take a walk.
🍽️I’ve done the washing up this evening, I usually leave it until morning but that keeps annoying me lately so trying to change habits.
1 January 2024
After a fairly lousy Covid infested Christmas let’s get back to #3GoodThings
🤞It looks like I managed to avoid passing Covid on to anyone else.
🥳 So I didn’t ruin the teen’s new year trip to see their friends.
📝I started a new journal of memories and am enjoying writing it.