3 Good Things 💖

[Fitato]

I scored a "3lb" bag of onions, on sale, from my local grocery store, that actually contains 4lbs. of onions

As an onion lover, I am very happy for you

 

[Dyneti]

Yesterdays good things
cooked a meal with rice and beans and there are even some leftovers for today! Should cook with these ingredients more often, since it made me really happy!
went to a birthdayparty and met many lovely friends, some of which i hadnt seen for a while
wore some jewelery, which I hardly ever do, and did not develop the urge to take it of during the evening!

 

[Dyneti]

As an onion lover, I am very happy for you

I realized that I really share that feeling! I appreciate both onions and tea a lot and I'm happy for both of you

 

[Numbat]

1. Finally caught up with friends and exchanged xmas gifts
2. Fixed noisy whirly-bird
3. Baby magpie stood up to bully baby crow , then sang in patio

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Saturday's Good Things:

• got lots of good work done on the secret project
• lots of people coming together to help with the secret project
• a good visit with our octogenarian friend (who is also helping with the secret project)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• Quirkle with @'rin and @sleep_twitch
• still fairly nice (for January) weather
• I got lots of work done this day and even did laundry

Monday's Good Things:

• a fun Aikido class
• a friend gave me a ride to class (it's 5K from where I live, and it was super cold here today)
• after class the wind died down within about 2 minutes of my stepping outside, and I had a pleasant walk home, including walking through my city's central park, which is lit up this time of year with coloured lights

 

[Fitato]

1. Got some groceries, and a great deal on pop. My beloved dr pepper strawberries n cream is mine once again
2. Found some good emojis
3. My throat is less itchy today

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Tuesday's Good Things:

• I discovered Shelby will actually eat her regular kibble softened into mush (a totally unappetizing concept to me, but it's less icky for me to deal with than canned food, way less expensive, and Shelby actually likes it)
• a quiet day with just me and Shelby (we like the dog who sometimes visits us, but between the ridiculous amount of clothing we all need to wear to go outside at the moment, plus needing to keep the two dogs' food separate on account of Shelby's special diet, it was a bit much to have him here this week)
• I completed a significant stage in the special project and am happy with the results

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• we received a one day reprieve from the brutal cold, and we made good use of it to visit a friend, fetch groceries, and pick up a prescription refill for Shelby
• my favourite apples were on sale at the grocery store for 1/3 their usual price! I got 12 lbs. of them! My favourite cheese was also on sale for 30% off the regular price, and the cheese I cook with was on sale for 39% off the regular price. An excellent score!
• Shelby's vet team pulled together to make sure I could pick up medicine she needed, so she did not have to wait another night to get back on it

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Thursday's Good Things:

• Friends brought me pie. Homemade cheese pie!
• I soloed a game of Unconscious Mind. (Messed up my sleep schedule to do it. But it was fun!)
• I discovered that all of the content on Alo Wellness is now free to access. (Not that I needed any more yoga classes! But new shiny and all that. )

Friday's Good Things:

• Shelby aced her post-op dental check-up. And she got praised for being such an amazing patient. "No other dog" would be so good, I was told.
• Now that Shelby is cleared to eat crunchy food again, it is harder to hide her pills in it. So we went to the pet store to purchase pill pockets. Said pet store is wont to keep very tasty treats, unwrapped, in open baskets that are conveniently located at Shelby head height. I had to make an extra purchase of an item Shelby helped herself to while I was assessing which pill pockets to buy. (Shelby assures me this was a very good thing!)
• My friend's pie was most excellent.

Saturday's Good Things:

• Shelby and I are inside. (It is very cold out there!)
• Long underwear. (Gotta layer up in this weather!)
• The DAREBEE Battleground is open now!

 

[vulture1930]

It's flu season over here, so my good things are mostly related to that these days:
- Warm tea
- Family
- Looking forward to getting back into exercising once I feel better again.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep
• HCR's Politics Chats
• What the Heck Just Happened?

I very much appreciate these ladies' work to bring perspective and hope to dark times.

Monday's Good Things:

• The snow was just the right consistency of crystalline during Shelby's and my early morning walk today that it sparkled like diamonds under the light of the street lamps.
• The weather wasn't as cold today. (Yeah, it's weird to look at a weather report and thing: Oh, the windchill's only -20. That's not too bad. But I'll take the win!)
• My Aikido club. It is a true blessing to be surrounded by good people.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Tuesday's Good Things:

• sleep
• I packed up Tapestry and reclaimed my writing work space. (I enjoy Tapestry and other board games. But when one ignores the rule designed to prevent infinite loops, and stacks the deck so as to allow one game to last two full days, it's a bit much!)
• I updated my fitness log. (A small thing, maybe. But it really helps me to stay on track.)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• epic workouts for DAREBEE's Battleground
• I have space enough inside my home to workout (for which I am very grateful this time of year!)
• another night walk on sparkly snow

Thursday's Good Things:

• cheesecake for breakfast
• the weather was mild enough Shelby and I managed to get in our full neighbourhood walk twice (and Shelby got treats from her realtor friends, and her friend Kevin)
• a chilly but good visit with our octogenarian friend

Friday's Good Things:

• protest songs
• homemade pizza
• I made it to A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep live tonight.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Saturday's Good Things:

• The days are getting longer (in the Northern hemisphere). The earlier sunrises and later sunsets are both quite noticeable where I live now and very welcome.
• I got a good amount of work done on the secret project.
• I made it to bed almost on time!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• early morning Qwirkle with @'rin and @sleep_twitch
• I got a fair amount of food prep done today: whole wheat apple pancakes, chickpea blondies, chocolate orange cranberry scones, tuna salad, and prepped a grapefruit (I love grapefruit but eat it infrequently due to the amount of work involved in accessing the flesh.)
• I also fetched groceries, did a load of laundry, and washed most of my dishes. A productive day overall!

 

[HellYeah]

Sunday's Good Things:

• early morning Qwirkle with @'rin and @sleep_twitch

Oh, please send greetings. The Hive misses them. I hope they are doing well.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Oh, please sent greetings.

Done!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

@HellYeah they say thank you.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Monday's Good Things:

• I have good people in my life
• Shelby is amazing
• Monday night Aikido

Tuesday's Good Things:

• visiting with our friend in her shed
• seeing more people out and about, with smiles on their faces, enjoying the warmer weather
• Shelby getting treats from her friends (she pretty much thinks of walk time as snack time now!)

Wednesday's Good Things:

• my friends brought me more pie, and liver treats for Shelby
• the light pollution didn't turn on this night (I've no idea why. I'm not questioning it. Just enjoying the win.)
• we've had multiple days this week in which the temperature got up into single digits! (Still felt mid-to-high teens with the windchill. But a welcome change from last month's deeper cold nonetheless.)

Thursday's Good Things:

• many holiday lights still up in my neighbourhood, adding a bit of light and colour to cold dark nights
• saw a raccoon on our evening hike tonight
• managed to get largely caught up on last night's missed sleep

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Friday's Good Things:

• we made it out to visit with our friend
• we made it home from visiting with our friend before the weather turned too nasty
• progress on the secret project is really coming along and looking great!

Saturday's Good Things:

• a fun and useful DreamCasters meeting
• Shelby and I have been managing to avoid being outside during the coldest hours of the day
• ZOOM meetings. I strongly prefer seeing people in person. But technology that allows us to have meaningful communication with people in far away places is pretty sweet. (And I was thankful to have a meet up I didn't need to hike in the bitter cold to get to this day, not gonna lie.)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• the realtors were having a Super Bowl party, so Shelby got all the treats from everyone!
• I made good progress on the secret project
• celebration of culture and love

Monday's Good Things:

• Aikido
• my friends gave me homemade garlic and chive potato cakes
• they also gave me a big bag of whole wheat flour--this is a nice thing to not have to fetch myself this time of year when the mess on the roads and sidewalks here makes pulling my little wagon a challenge

Tuesday's Good Things:

• visiting with a friend
• the temperature actually rose above freezing for a couple of hours!
• my wrist that got injured in Aikido Monday night was largely healed by this morning

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• the potato cakes are very yummy!
• my wrist was healed enough to do push-ups this day
• continuing mild (for February) weather

Thursday's Good Things:

• Shelby and I have been together for 12 years!
• Shelby got special anniversary treats from our realtor friends
• then we had a good visit with another friend

 

[graoumia]

Happy anniversary to both of you

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Thank you @graoumia

 

[NightWolf714]

Happy anniversary to you two. <3

 

[Dyneti]

Todays good things:
- that the sun came out around noon
- silence
- sitting on the sofa with a big pot of tee and a sweet treat, enjoying sun, silence and rest

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Friday's Good Things:

• so many happy people and puppies out enjoying the sunshine and mild weather today
• we met up with some of the same puppy friends again on our evening walk
• Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and Leader of the Official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, holding hands in Tumbler Ridge.

It is a terrible thing to try to find good things in the wake of what happened in Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday, to write of life going on as usual, knowing that opportunity was stolen from Abel, Emmett, Ezekiel, Kylie, Jennifer, Shannda, Ticaria, and Zoey, most of them so very young. But I do think Canada's political leaders coming together in the face of the tragedy is important, so I want to signal boost that.

It's always hard to know what to say/write in response to a great tragedy. (It feels obscene even to write that, to write of "hardship" when my own challenges are so trivial in comparison to those of others.) We say: "Canada is with you." And we mean it. But the reality is: I live over 3000km away from Tumbler Ridge, have never been there, and know no one in the community. And though I lost schoolmates when I was in junior high (to a MVC), and lost a beloved teacher (to another MVC) in high school, though I was a female undergraduate science student at a Canadian university during the horrific events at École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989 (~ 270km away from that massacre), I know I cannot comprehend what the community of Tumbler Ridge and the loved ones of the victims are experiencing now. I can only hold them in my heart, and hope for healing, knowing how woefully inadequate of a response that is.

But I want to avoid falling prey to the notion that, because my own actions are inadequate to address the horrors of our world, they are irrelevant. Of course my personal actions are inadequate! I am only one person. But inadequate does not equal irrelevant. Because I am only one person. But together we are many. Together, each of us contributing in our own tiny ways, amounts to a great force. When the night is darkest is the most important time of all to light even the tiniest of candles.

Thank you to @SevenDeadlyExes for starting this thread, and to everyone who participates in it. I think this work is important. Because there is good in our world, and it is worth fighting for.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Saturday's Good Things:

• early morning gaming with Rin and Twitchy
• Super Shelby is always ready for nap time
• we finally made it to bed before midnight

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• continued mild weather, even after dark
• the fog cast the street lights and holiday lights in a pleasant soft glow
• my bed is comfortable, and my bedroom is not too hot (this time of year)

 

[SevenDeadlyExes]

getting a little light cardio (and subsequent dopamine)
finally (hopefully - i don't physically have them yet) getting prescribed some ADHD meds
New Moon tomorrow, marking a new lunar year - and honestly *touch wood* I've got a pretty good feeling about this one (we're due, right?)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Monday's Good Things:

• I finally managed to reset my Extended Gaming Rules streak this day.
• We took advantage of the nice weather to visit a friend.
• I got largely caught up on missed sleep from the weekend, and even made it to bed before midnight!

Tuesday's Good Things:

• Another mild and even sunny day. Shelby and I were able to do a bit of a longer walk. We didn't get too far (due to a new construction closure blocking our access to the north branch of the TVP), but we did make it as far as the forks and saw some ducks and geese and a pair of mourning doves.
• Scored some good prices for staples (bread, bananas, eggs) and even a couple of treats (grapefruit and mangoes) at my neighbourhood grocery store today.
• The temperature was still so mild after dark, I did our evening walk wearing only one pair of pants and a sweater! (Probably a bit of cold hardiness happening there. In the fall I'd likely have worn a coat and gloves, maybe also a hat, and probably two pairs of pants to walk in the same temp. But after some of the bitter cold weather we've had recently, today's temperature felt nice.)

 

[SevenDeadlyExes]

sleep masks and podcasts
overnight oats
coffee and crosswords

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• Shelby and I met many human and puppy friends, both new and old, out on our walks today, and had a good visit with our octogenarian friend
• there was some messy weather out there today, but we managed to dodge it all and only walk during the dry spells
• Canada's government got one seat closer today to keeping us all safe from an early snap election call

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Thursday's Good Things:

• my bathtub (plus all the bath bombs I had in storage during the years when I didn't have access to a bathtub are now soft enough I can easily break them down to the perfect size)
• got caught up on missed sleep, and got some important work done and some food prep too!
• finally made it to bed on time!

 

[Dyneti]

3 good things of today:
listening to music while working
beans!
clean sheets

 

[SevenDeadlyExes]

a long-lie
a big fry
a wee cry

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Friday's Good Things:

• Shelby and I are together
• we have a roof over our heads (in Wortley Village, no less!)
• we live a peaceful life in which we have positive interactions with other humans every day (and almost never negative ones)

I was looking back through a journal last night and remembering how often and how deeply I feared, for several years, that we could never have these things. Yet here we are: living the dream!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Saturday's Good Things:

• finally did a decent workout this day
• saw a skunk on our evening walk (2nd time this week seeing this one)
• had a lovely late night walk in gently falling snow. I love that our neighbourhood is active during the day but quiet and peaceful at night.

Sunday's Good Things:

• we saw two Eastern Cottontails on our night walk. (Both were boldly unafraid of us. For which I was grateful, because we had to walk past one that was quite close to the road when there was an oncoming vehicle. That rabbit smartly deduced that a moving vehicle was a greater threat than Shelby and stood its ground as we walked past.)
• I made it to my reward day for my new Extended Gaming Rules and soloed an absolutely ridiculous but fun game Sunday afternoon
• everything is coming together wonderfully for the secret project--which will be announced soon!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Monday's Good Things:

• 12 years ago today Shelby and I officially became family!
• Monday night Aikido
• the Girl Power Week event page is now live!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Tuesday's Good Things:

• I made it out to the grocery store. I have fresh spinach and fresh pineapple again!
• We saw lots of people and puppies out and about in the Village during our daytime walk. Shelby got treats from her favourite village people, and we had a good visit with a friend.
• We made it to bed on time!

 

[Dyneti]

3 good things that I noticed today:
its great when the sun shines and it gets al spring-like
its good to have a little basket on the front of ones bike, because one can put the hat and other too warm clothes in the basket when it gets too warm while cycling!
its lovely to take a little walk around noon and enjoy the birdsong with know-it-al collegues (who actually know a thing or two about birds)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• a productive day on the writing front
• I got my blog post for Fit Is a Feminist Issue written
• we saw a rabbit that needed help on our night walk, and Shelby was incredibly good about giving the rabbit some space and not stressing it out while I was helping it

Thursday's Good Things:

• the sun is shining, everyone out and about in the village had smiles on their faces
• my newest blog post on Fit Is a Feminist Issue is live
• I found a pair of reading glasses that are the right strength for reading my computer screen that aren't broken and also a pair of reading sunglasses that aren't broken. Yeah!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Friday's Good Things:

• I got caught up on some much-needed sleep
• We had glorious weather this day: sunny and above freezing in temperature!
• We visited with our friend with the wild garden outside in her garden! (Our first outside visit since the fall.)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Saturday's Good Things:

• My plan to cut off Miss Shelby's food after 8PM Friday night worked. (She was mad last night. But we both got to sleep through the night!)
• Qwirkle with @'rin and @sleep_twitch
• We saw Shelby's realtor friends on a Saturday! (They'd been hosting an event this morning, and we got there as they were packing up afterward--perfect timing for Miss Shelby to get her treats!)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Sunday's Good Things:

• I got a good amount of food prep done this weekend
• Girl Power Week launched flawlessly
• Shelby slept through the night (in spite of my accidentally having left her food down too late)

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Monday's Good Things:

• Girl Power Week is here!
• Shelby decided she is done with wimpy winter walks and insisted we do our full mileage this day. It was a good call.
• We made it to bed on time!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Tuesday's Good Things:

• visiting with a friend
• other friends are heading out of town for a trip and gifted me with the perishables from their fridge
• feeling the good kind of burn doing Star Power on Level III.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wednesday's Good Things:

• today was spring jacket weather (it got up to 9°C!) and Shelby and I enjoyed another great walk
• so many birds out today! Black-capped Chickadees, Northern Cardinals, Canada Geese, Mallards, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Mourning Doves, Common Mergansers, a Northern Flicker, I'm pretty sure a Brown Creeper, some smaller ducks too far away for me to ID to species, a Scaup
• I was able to lift both feet in pendant pose with only a 3" assist

Shelby's Good Things for Wednesday:

• I got treats from my friends at the Mylie Group
• I got treats from my crossing guard friend
• I got treats from my friend Kevin
• I got treats from my friends at the vet's
• that's four good things! I win!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Thursday's Good Things:

• it was standing balances day for Girl Power Week - The Power of Breath. Standing balances are my jam.
• it was a rainy day, but Shelby and I managed to dodge the worst of the weather and still hike 7.4 km
• we saw a raccoon and a rabbit on our night walk