Happy habits: The daily gratitude & kindness challenge

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
Was I nice today? 🤔 I invited a colleague for a coffee break just the two of us. It's a little nice? 😅

Today's Gratitudes
1) I got a good lunch today - food I'd ordered for a meeting

2) Dinner was very nice. I love a good spaghetti.

3) I enjoyed my coffee break with my colleague 🙂

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I spent most of the day at work, also the evening. I talked at a meeting for people who we're basically forcing to connect to the city's wastewater line. I offered to stay for a while after the meeting for chats in case anyone wanted to discuss things. Some did.

Today's Gratitudes
1) I'm grateful it's friday tomorrow 😅

2) I've been a little sick, but that finally seems to have mostly cleared up.

3) I'm really enjoying Enter The Gungeon again and got to play it for two hours straight today as my wife was too tired to do or watch anything 😄

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I was too busy to be kind today, I think. I was very witty at lunch and always kind in the general sense, but.. I did carry my boy quite far on my shoulders after he asked me to. Maybe that's a little nice 🤔

Today's Gratitudes
1) We finally got started with a big project at work, so.. busy day, but feels good still 🙂

2) I got to play lots more Gungeon today 🙂 Am getting close to 100%ing it for the second time.

3) My wife did something sexy today. I don't wanna get into details 😄

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
Various things today, like our birthday present to my father and we played a silly song we'd made about him 🙂

Today's Gratitudes
1) I love the relaxed, liberal, fun atmosphere we have in our family 🙂 Everyone can be their silly selves.

2) I enjoyed my brothers 30 songs music quiz. Me and my wife beat all the opposition thoroughly.. and of course I would've won easily by myself 😄

3) I loved the tapas buffet dinner we got at the hotel where we celebrated my fathers 75th birthday 😊 I ended up eating way too much both for dinner and dessert

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
Bought some lottery tickets from the kids of a friend of mine 🙂 Also put aside some things for Elise's new baby that's on the way, but that would be future kindness, I guess.

Today's Gratitudes
1) I am thankful to my wife. We're trying to kink up our life a bit and it's fun.. and very satisfying.

2) Breakfast was awesome today. Lovely coffee, fresh buns. I made Ramsay style scrambled eggs.

3) I really enjoyed listening to podcasts today as I did chores 🙂

4) I also enjoy listening to music a lot these days.

[innerspaceboy]

Today's Kindness

I attended the first annual Frost Moon Festival, a convention of artisans, hippies, and new age spiritualists to support an artist friend who makes books by hand. I made the effort to engage the vendors and really praised and encouraged one young woman who was new to the world of self-marketing. I think I helped her confidence.

Today's Gratitudes

I also attended Center For Inquiry's Secular Sunday event and contributed much to the discussion. It always feels great to get together with fellow secular humanists.

And to finish off the evening I attended a monthly meetup of local musicians we call "Whiskey Sipper." At multiple points in the conversation I instantly chimed in with semi-obscure facts off the top of my head to answer questions, each time resulting in a throwing of hands and laughter for my consistency with this trait.

An example that stood out and made me laugh with them was when I mentioned seeing Roni Size perform "Brown Paper Bag" live. Another attendee said, "oh - wasn't that Soul Coughing's drummer doing the live percussion?" [and blanked on his name.] I broke the silence decidedly stating, "Yuval Gabay" much to the approval of the group.

The Frost Moon Festival was a hoot, too. There was a soundbath, dowsing rod demo, spell jars, crystal healing, and much more. Perhaps the most novel thing I spotted was "Theraphi" - a Tesla coil energy therapy guaranteed to "Transform Your Energy Levels" and "Unlock the Secrets to Enhanced Energy!" Here's a shot of the setup. (Note the copper pyramid!) 🙂



All in all a very satisfying day. Goodnight everyone.

[Guybrush]

I fell asleep yesterday before I got to this, so doing them now first thing in the morning 🙂

Yesterday's Kindness
I gifted the gift of coffee to one of my colleagues.

Yesterday's Gratitudes
1) I'm discovering a new side of myself. I've been a gentle creature for most of my life. I was only assertive when I was irritated. Now I've been tapping into this side of me more and it's very interesting 🙂

2) After all these years, I have found out that my favourite colour is turquoise.

3) I had a lovely sexy, intimate, romantic and cuddly time with my wife yesterday ❤️

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I invited a new colleague for coffee today and she told me about some of her problems with job insecurity (her contract is out just before New Years) and her health problems. I didn't offer any solutions, but I think she appreciated just being able to talk to someone.

Today's Gratitudes
1) I'm thankful for getting to know my new colleague better.

2) I am thankful for getting back to the gym for a bike session - and my wife who took care of bedtime si I could go.

3) I'm thankful to my wife and daughter for making lovely pancakes 🙂

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I picked up litter on 3 occasions 😄 and I rang up a colleague who needed help with something.

Today's Gratitudes
1) I got a little closer with a colleague. We had a good takk walking to and from this place where we had a seminar.

2) Playfight with my kids today was great fun 😄 it's often the highlight of my day.

3) I got to leave early for work today, for which I'm grateful. Usually, I take our boy to kindergarten.

[innerspaceboy]

Today's Kindness

1) As I mentioned in Your Day thread, the last time I visited my mother, she said her Gmail account was telling her it was maxed out. She had over 32,000 emails in her inbox. I organized them into a structure of subfolders, unsubscribed from mailers en masse, and purged tens of thousands of junk messages.

This time I visited her and learned her Google One photos and videos hadn't been maintained since creating the account in 2015 and was maxed out at the free 15GB limit.

I performed a Google Takeout of all 17,000 photos and videos which auto populated them into folders by year on her laptop. Then I calculated the folder size of each to most efficiently copy them to DVDs and flash drives as backups. I bought blank DVDs and spent the rest of the visit burning and verifying them all for her before purging the content from her Google One account.

2) Unfortunately, just 5 minutes before we sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, my mother's sister died of cancer, so it was a sorrowful holiday. The family embraced her while she wept for the evening.

Today's Gratitudes

My new top hat arrived at last and I was able to use hat size reducers on the underside of the sweat band to make it a perfect fit. The adapters arrived literally minutes before a dinner outing so I was able to appear on time sporting my new accessory and an iridescent burgundy damask suit.

Pics here.
https://scd.community/index.php?topic=179.msg36042#msg36042

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I took time off work to get some stuff for me and my wife, tfen picked up everyone and made pizzas for dinner.

Today's gratitudes
1) Grateful to my wife for our newfound intimacy this last week 🙂

2) I got word yesterday that my colleague Elise gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday and they're alright 🙂❤️

3) I am thankful to myself for making some great tasting pizzas today 😊

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
Participated in a charity event with my crossfit gym and gave quite a bit as well. It was for (or rather against) cancer.

Today's gratitudes
1) I'm thankful for getting to know some of the other people in the crossfit gym a little bit more.

2) I'm thankful I stuck it out today. I hurt my back early on - I've now learned I cannot deadlift, not even light weights - but I kept going for another 35 minutes or so. Stuff and acting now 😄

3) My wife had made us a wonderful lunch when I got back.

4) I had an evening nap on the couch.

5) I beat the lich in Enter the Gungeon 🙂

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
Arranged a nice, sexy date night for myself and my wife 🙂

Today's Gratitudes
1) We went to a Christmas event at our daughter's school. Kids sang Christmas songs. There was coffee and cake. They turned the lights on the big tree.

2) I put up Christmas lights on the garden 🙂 it's so cozy.

3) My wife made a wonderful dinner today, delicious lye fish.

4) I enjoyed our date night 🙂

[innerspaceboy]

Today's Kindness

I provided verbal encouragement and support to the disabled man with pneumonia who was coughing all over the Friendsgiving turkey as he carved it before making my exit prior to the meal being served.

Today's Gratitudes

1) I'm grateful that I escaped the Friendsgiving event without catching pneumonia.

2) Last night I was spontaneous and drove to a Target store. (I've been in a modern store once in the past several years so this was novel.) I found a nice sized box with a snap-lock lid to protect my new top hat and keep it from getting dusty. Better yet it had a Black Friday discount so it was just $6.30.

3) My neighbor offered to show me how to craft a foam insert for the box to hold the hat securely in place without knocking around the interior of the box. We're going to tackle that task tomorrow. I appreciate her sharing her expertise.

4) I have a number of social outings lined up for the week and I hope they provide comfort. I've been calling the suicide hotline nightly this weekend and overdosed on all my prescriptions trying to lose consciousness. At least I can look forward to seeing compassionate friends.

[Guybrush]

Today's Kindness
I talked to my colleague who's a little sad and gave each other a long, warm hug. Its our weekly ritual now and very nice ❤️

Today's Gratitudes
1) It's decoratedfor Christmas now. People are wearing ugly, awesome Christmas sweaters. There are trees and lights. We got lights up in the garden. It's so dark this time of year, but this makes it cost 😊

2) Colleagues had brought Christmas cookies and also made gløgg (like mulled wine, but alcohol free) at work ❤️

3) My wife picked me up with our car after work 🙂

4) I got a nap on the couch. Man, I love daytime napping 😅

5) Dinner was a delight today. The kids couldn't sit still, but they were really funny. Our boy was talking about how he was going to get two pet rats and call them Spaghetti and Ground meat.