Author Topic: Happiness challenge (Read 166757 times)

oneday · « **Reply #1150 on:** February 24, 2022, 03:38:02 PM »

@cool7hand and @Serendip both those sound lovey in their own ways!

Yesterday made good progress on the current stage of my personal project, which moves to the next stage on Saturday...the progress was sorely needed and should provide motivation for the last two days.

cool7hand · « **Reply #1151 on:** February 25, 2022, 09:47:15 AM »

Spending the weekend celebrating the wedding of close friends

Lunasol · « **Reply #1152 on:** February 25, 2022, 11:32:58 AM »

My happy moment of the day is when DH agreed to go on an easy hike tomorrow.
I am not too much of a hiker but found myself needing new adventures since I work from home and I am alone all day every day, except when DH is back from work.

Quote from: Trifele on February 21, 2022, 05:30:14 AM

I went back to Duolingo today to resume some Spanish lessons after over a year's hiatus, and they gave me all my lingots back! That was unexpected and made me happy.

Duolingo is so good at keeping you hooked, I am on a 210ish days streak. It might be fun for you to try to keep a streak as a way to continue learning a little bit everyday :)

oneday · « **Reply #1153 on:** February 25, 2022, 10:11:47 PM »

Got the keys to my new place! Talking over moving weekend logistics with my partner also made me happy. We worked out the miscommunications and agreed on a flexible plan. Plus, he assumed he'd be pulling his weight on cleaning the old place! Win-win-win!

Freedomin5 · « **Reply #1154 on:** February 27, 2022, 01:04:37 AM »

It was warm and sunny this weekend. Spent time lounging by a window basking in the sun and went for two walks this weekend. Got my 10k steps in yesterday and today!

cool7hand · « **Reply #1155 on:** February 28, 2022, 07:10:27 AM »

My wife joined me in FIRE last summer and today we finalize our dream of going down to one car by selling our second car to friends!

oneday · « **Reply #1156 on:** February 28, 2022, 09:13:47 AM »

Went on a walk to explore the new area and met another new neighbor. Everyone is so friendly!

mspym · « **Reply #1157 on:** March 05, 2022, 01:54:37 PM »

A sunny day break in the endless rain.

oneday · « **Reply #1158 on:** March 05, 2022, 05:53:41 PM »

My sister called, with not so great (but not terrible) news. I'm not at all happy about the news. But I'm happy she finds me to be a source of comfort; I'm glad to have her lean on me. It's the last I can do from 2 time zones away.

nessness · « **Reply #1159 on:** March 05, 2022, 06:13:04 PM »

Quote from: mspym on March 05, 2022, 01:54:37 PM

A sunny day break in the endless rain.

We had a rainy day break in the endless sun, which was just as happiness-inducing.

And my other happiness today was that my 5-year-old got her second Covid shot! Only 2 weeks until the whole family is "fully vaccinated"!

Serendip · « **Reply #1160 on:** March 05, 2022, 06:47:41 PM »

Working extra shifts but feeling so good--it's as if my energy is at a really high level these days. I'll take it!

MarcherLady · « **Reply #1161 on:** March 06, 2022, 01:46:56 AM »

The evenings are getting lighter. I'm really noticing the bird-song at the moment. The lambs are starting to appear in the fields - in their adorable little plastic coats. SPRING!!!!

cool7hand · « **Reply #1162 on:** March 06, 2022, 06:41:33 AM »

Exploring an area we might want to spend a few years living in sometime in the future

oneday · « **Reply #1163 on:** March 07, 2022, 08:43:11 AM »

@MarcherLady yay Spring!

Yesterday I got to take steps towards developing an acquaintance into a friend.

Serendip · « **Reply #1164 on:** March 07, 2022, 01:42:45 PM »

Quote from: oneday on March 07, 2022, 08:43:11 AM

Yesterday I got to take steps towards developing an acquaintance into a friend.

Yesterday, I spent time with a friend who was an 'acquaintance that I really liked' who morphed into one of my closest friends during this past year or two. She was a co-worker who I stopped seeing when I left a certain place of employment...we started hiking together two years ago and now we have a weekly visit and mellow-adventure together. It's such a nice feeling when those relationships develop into something meaningful.

FIRE Artist · « **Reply #1165 on:** March 07, 2022, 03:04:56 PM »

I live in the middle of my city (1MM population), but there is a lot of urban wildlife in this city due to having an extensive river valley park system. I live near this park system. I woke up to fresh snow on the weekend, and a freshly trampled front yard from the deer who visited in the middle of the night to feast on the berries my mountain ash tree.

It always makes me happy to know that I had these silent visitors while I slept, and that this gorgeous tree in my yard provided sustenance for so many birds and critters. Fruit trees for the win.

oneday · « **Reply #1166 on:** March 07, 2022, 05:00:30 PM »

Quote from: Serendip on March 07, 2022, 01:42:45 PM

Quote from: oneday on March 07, 2022, 08:43:11 AM

Yesterday I got to take steps towards developing an acquaintance into a friend.

Yesterday, I spent time with a friend who was an 'acquaintance that I really liked' who morphed into one of my closest friends during this past year or two. She was a co-worker who I stopped seeing when I left a certain place of employment...we started hiking together two years ago and now we have a weekly visit and mellow-adventure together. It's such a nice feeling when those relationships develop into something meaningful.

@Serendip so awesome!

I don't know about her becoming a "closest" friend (can't force that), but certainly would like to be closER.

Today's happiness was getting Mr. Kitty to settle down & nap on a place that wasn't me. Some days he is just restless and I don't know how to calm him. Today was a success, though.

Serendip · « **Reply #1167 on:** March 09, 2022, 12:28:51 PM »

@oneday --closER is nice too!

I stayed home this morning and began emptying my closet of unnecessary clothing. Things I bought when I was younger and likely will never wear again, or aspirational buys for a person I will likely never be :)

This lightening brings that quiet happiness of having a few lovely (but highly loved) things. Simplicity doesn't come easily to me..my belongings expand and contract around it but allowing 'things' to slip into their next home brings me some satisfaction too.

mspym · « **Reply #1168 on:** March 09, 2022, 01:51:21 PM »

@oneday closER is also good!
@Serendip I recently shed some things that we hadn't used for a few years - better to have someone else use them and love them than let entropy have its way.

It wasn't raining yesterday! We ate dinner outside and stared at the blue blue sky in wonder and then went for a super long walk past sunset and into the gloaming. It was glorious.

oneday · « **Reply #1169 on:** March 09, 2022, 07:52:06 PM »

Watered the potted plants again today after moving house 1 1/2 weeks ago. I think most of them will survive! (Sorta forgot about them for a bit there...)

cool7hand · « **Reply #1170 on:** March 10, 2022, 06:12:53 AM »

Continuing to explore an area in which we might settle

oneday · « **Reply #1171 on:** March 10, 2022, 09:48:06 PM »

I made soup today, for a triple crown:

1. tried new recipe (after months of guilting myself for sticking to the same ol')
2. used aspirational ingredient in a timely manner
3. used purpose-bought produce before it went off

cool7hand · « **Reply #1172 on:** March 16, 2022, 03:07:04 PM »

We're exploring an area to which we might relocate!

Serendip · « **Reply #1173 on:** March 16, 2022, 03:36:34 PM »

Visiting my hometown (which used to trigger slightly neurotic feelings) but instead is bringing a feeling of restfulness as in ‘this is where I’m from but it’s not home anymore and that’s ok’.

oneday · « **Reply #1174 on:** March 16, 2022, 08:21:40 PM »

Another food-related happiness: purchased final ingredient for sweet & sour shrimp (that's not the happy part) so I can:

1. use up several aging-but-not-yet-bad items
2. try the recipe (should be good, but the jarred sauce is the wild card)

Bonus happiness: BF chopped the onion so I didn't have to cry :)

MarcherLady · « **Reply #1175 on:** March 17, 2022, 02:25:04 PM »

I've got a massage booked for tomorrow to try to sort out my mess of a neck. Hurrah.

oneday · « **Reply #1176 on:** March 17, 2022, 07:19:51 PM »

The time change and getting extra hours of sunlight in the evening is starting to sink it...I love it!

Had to come back and add: got the taxes done, woo!!!

nessness · « **Reply #1177 on:** March 17, 2022, 09:35:54 PM »

Quote from: oneday on March 17, 2022, 07:19:51 PM

The time change and getting extra hours of sunlight in the evening is starting to sink it...I love it!

Agreed!

nessness · « **Reply #1178 on:** March 17, 2022, 09:38:46 PM »

I moved into a new house last fall, and it's been fun seeing all the flowers bloom for the first time. The other day the vine growing on my fence was suddenly covered with hundreds of white flowers. The yard smells really fragrant, and it's fun to see all the little birds hopping around.

Freedomin5 · « **Reply #1179 on:** March 18, 2022, 06:17:13 AM »

All the schools in the city are shut down, and all the kids in the city are doing online learning. It gives me joy to see the neighborhood kids congregating at the local playground and playing together as soon as school lets out in the afternoon.

MarcherLady · « **Reply #1180 on:** March 18, 2022, 06:32:20 AM »

I switched to my Spring walking jacket this morning. Then I took it off and carried it for most of our walk. It's a lovely day!

oneday · « **Reply #1181 on:** March 18, 2022, 11:43:38 PM »

I bought some individually sized cans of fizzy juice, but got bored of the flavors quickly. Can't share at my workplace as I WFH. At a regularly scheduled friend meetup, only 2 were taken. Yesterday afternoon, I put the final 8 cans on my patio railing (right by the sidewalk) with a sign: help yourself. Nobody did :( But today, 4 cans are gone, woo hoo! I hope they enjoy their treat.

Anette · « **Reply #1182 on:** March 19, 2022, 03:09:35 AM »

Yesterday I came home to find my Husband had built a new raised flower bed for me. He used our old but very sturdy wooden outdoor dinner table and the last of the chairs that went with it to build. We were going to throw them out and I had mentioned it is to bad we don't have a project to upcycle them. Four years ago they were given to us by friends who bought a house the table and chairs came with. We got three years of use out of them but the table was to small and both table and chairs really bulky (and old) so we replaced the table last summer and only kept one of the chairs. My mother had bought new garden chairs at the time and passed on her -almost new- sorted out ones.
So anyway, raised beds at the garden store are pretty expensive and I am happy to not spend the money, have something unique and upcycled instead and most of all I love that my husband made this for me

cool7hand · « **Reply #1183 on:** March 19, 2022, 07:43:53 AM »

We scouted out a new lake to fish.

oneday · « **Reply #1184 on:** March 19, 2022, 09:36:03 PM »

@Anette that is a very creative re-use! Kudos to your husband.

Got a haircut (which is nice), and I may have found the hairdresser worth a repeat visit! Woo!

Anette · « **Reply #1185 on:** March 20, 2022, 03:40:11 AM »

@oneday Thank you!
Somehow the rest of my message where I expressed my happiness and how grateful I am to be sharing my life with this awesome man didn't make it into the post. When uploaded it got cut short.

Finding someone who cuts your hair how you really want it definitely is a happiness for me, too.

Today I am happy for the Sunday, for being off and enjoying time with my family.

GardenBaker · « **Reply #1186 on:** March 22, 2022, 02:25:32 PM »

Today I'm happy to have nice enough weather and enough daylight left to work outside in the garden after leaving the office.

oneday · « **Reply #1187 on:** March 22, 2022, 10:19:46 PM »

Starbucks inside the grocery store was closed*, so I was "forced" to make my own chai at home. It was *chef's kiss* way better than sbux, cheaper and likely a smidge healthier. Winning!

*go ahead and facepunch me for even thinking of getting sbux.

Serendip · « **Reply #1188 on:** March 24, 2022, 04:13:44 PM »

Returning home after being away (and being happy with the life we've built here!) :)

nessness · « **Reply #1189 on:** March 24, 2022, 07:26:38 PM »

I'm loving the longer days. I've been finding some time to garden, and the kids are spending lots of time playing in the yard in the evenings.

My dog went upstairs today for the first time since we moved into our house last fall. He has bad hips, but the fish oil I've been giving him is really helping.

oneday · « **Reply #1190 on:** March 24, 2022, 10:34:26 PM »

Living in walkable distance to a (scratch and dent) grocery, and actually walking there today to purchase some things. Woo! Living the mustachian dream :)

never give up · « **Reply #1191 on:** March 25, 2022, 03:24:57 AM »

Forcing myself to sit down outside, do nothing and clear my mind while all around me Spring was springing and birds were chirping. I need to stop rushing around and do this more often.

oneday · « **Reply #1192 on:** March 25, 2022, 11:10:17 PM »

Walking on the beach; seeing footprints the looked like peanuts :)

Serendip · « **Reply #1193 on:** March 26, 2022, 09:03:32 PM »

Quote from: oneday on March 25, 2022, 11:10:17 PM

Walking on the beach; seeing footprints the looked like peanuts :)

I was walking with my nephew in the sand and we thought my footprints looked like peanuts--too funny!

oneday · « **Reply #1194 on:** March 26, 2022, 10:01:09 PM »

Having the house to myself for most of the day; bliss :)

MarcherLady · « **Reply #1195 on:** March 27, 2022, 06:05:39 AM »

Quote from: oneday on March 26, 2022, 10:01:09 PM

Having the house to myself for most of the day; bliss :)

Snap! Me too.

I have 2200 steps to go to get me to 13000 per day for this week. The question is, should I use them to walk to the corner shop and buy chocolate?

OK, the real question is: why am I even asking that question? BRB.

Money Badger · « **Reply #1196 on:** March 27, 2022, 08:46:31 PM »

Yesterday was pure joy getting the sprinklers going on timers for our garden and doing some other prep work for the season. Just watching the perennials emerging from their slumbers makes me smile.

Today (Sunday), I had to work on the little square thing (my dog's words) in the home office. It was not so happy.

oneday · « **Reply #1197 on:** March 27, 2022, 10:52:20 PM »

Quote from: MarcherLady on March 27, 2022, 06:05:39 AM

I have 2200 steps to go to get me to 13000 per day for this week. The question is, should I use them to walk to the corner shop and buy chocolate?

OK, the real question is: why am I even asking that question? BRB.

lol

Learned that a friend struggling with severe medical symptoms has got a diagnosis, treatment has begun and they are feeling back to normal in only a few days!!! So happy for them 8D

cool7hand · « **Reply #1198 on:** March 29, 2022, 09:41:32 AM »

We're planning on seeing family from out-of-town in advance of a wedding next weekend.

Serendip · « **Reply #1199 on:** March 29, 2022, 02:09:28 PM »

A sunny day off with no set plans and my SO is out of town for a meeting. Somehow just feels bright...looking through seeds, bringing out the bicycle, doing some tidying and cooking, listening to new music..

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Author Topic: Happiness challenge (Read 166757 times)