What brought me joy today

​What brought me joy today 

• Reading… about joy in fact!
• Hanging out with Sean and Peter and briefly Nora
• Texas sheetcake
• Lemon drop martini
• Our van
• My cat
• Peter reading to me something he found delightful 
• Sunset and fresh air 

What brought me joy today

​What brought me joy today: 

1. Exploring books
2. Being around book people
3. Being amused by people’s opinions on books
4. A good video appointment with my cardiologist who has seemed uncaring and clinical in past, and somehow I felt more connected with him and confident in his care, and hopeful
5. My cat asking for love and also being cat-like in her refusal to accept love
6. Half a banana from Sean 
7. Appreciating the quality of Cadbury chocolate vs the cheap stuff 
8. Rhinoceros stickers — the sheer variety of them, and letting people choose them for their Book Crawl passports 
9. A book about joy inspiring me to write down my joys lately because apparently I spend a lot of time being grateful and appreciating whimsy than most people so I should document it
10. Doing exercises in front of my little gold-framed Rembrandt postcard in the bathroom 
11. Tidying my 50-year plus stuffed animals and telling Sean I’ve manifested space for him to go to Costco for a TV.  

Make fabric envelopes, houses

​fabric envelopes

Second tutorial

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling

​Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling 

1. Talked blinds and shades 
2. Tidied the house
3. Repaired a 17 year old red penguin 
4. Signed up for a library class
5. Met a bunch of ladies and drank wine
6. Watched Survivor 50 

What made you happy this week

What made me happy this week:

• ​Peter having conversations with me
  
• Kate Bowler's new book about ache and joy 
• The backyard
  
• Bingo with Sean 
  
• Talking taxes with Heidi 
  
• Being tipsy on white wine
  
• Good sleep
  
• Potential of new blinds 
  

Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling:

​Things I did today instead of Doom Scrolling:

1. Made cinnamon rolls

2. Worked on 3 gift tax returns

3. Increased my withholding

4. Got a Pap smear

5. Tried on new dresses

6. Danced to Johnny Cash & June Carter

7. Drank lemon drop martinis

8. Played Bingo

9. Admired the stars & moon

Give myself a writing prompt

​You know what I did today?

Dusted a really grody dust-covered ceiling fan in Peter’s condo.

Then vacuumed *cough cough*

Then also changed the AC filter.

Paid for the ambulance ride I took back in March when I wasn’t breathing right.

Then did my breathing exercises.

Looked for and failed to find a flower press kit at Aldi that some Insta Aldi influencer said would be there.

Then researched flower press kits on Etsy. Haven’t bought anything yet. Would I walk more if I looked for flowers to press? Hmmm. 

Noted Mike & Nadine are organizing a thing in July.

Then researched bike trails in Minnesota. 

Remembered Mary McDonald is in Duluth and the weather is glorious there in July. 

Took a walk in the unusually glorious mid-April weather we’re having here. 

Then called Sean to discuss the weather, the condo, Minnesota, and his bum knee.

Then I stretched my hamstrings. 

What I didn’t do?

Work much. Or give a mouse a cookie.