There's that thought again

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My slow little pocket of time hasn't felt slow. I forget whether I told y'all that the bug and I are reading the classic ACT book The Happiness Trap, but we are, and tonight I managed to implement something from there. Like this: oh, I'm again noticing that thought about not having been productive enough.

Yes, voice in head, perhaps. But I had a delightful drinks-and-fries friend-date with my pen pal, a long evening at Blue-Green Street with the bug and all the squirrel family watching Oppenheimer together, a brief checkin with another coworker who had been feeling bad, a good run of taking down old artwork (complete with wall washing and spackling) to make way for new, a few good workouts, and some cooking.

Oh and also:

• Got my tattoo touched up


• Bought a pair of earrings I almost loved, brought them home and reconfigured them with pliers; now I truly love them and also feel clever


• Wrote my retrospective for 2023, and made a solid start on my annual video of training clips


• Started my teeth whitening at last

No matter. It's time to wrap it all up; while I am indeed taking my work laptop with me for the plane, we're heading to see friends in Berkeley for New Year's Eve. As an extra bonus, I'm going to get to see Birdie on Saturday night. The squirrel gave me some art supplies and I promised to do some sketching and send pictures -- goodness, what a sweet creature it is.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

making adjustments to something purchased that i almost love is one of my FAVORITE things. my mom did this all the time when i was growing up - everything considered at a store had an added element of imagined adjustment/improvement.

what kind of tooth whitening are you doing? i'm so impatient i hate doing it. i have trays and whitening gel that are a couple years old now... i don't even know if it still works, and the process is so slow it's hard to tell.

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I guess I've got Opalescence.. the kind that only takes 30 minutes. I could really see a difference after the first day (I did 4 days before my trip) so I'm pretty psyched to keep going! I think my teeth were really yellow though. And the half hour doesn't seem too long if I have something to do.

I sympathize though, because it did feel daunting to start, and mine sat around for a couple of months also for that reason.