• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
    21·
    1 year ago

    Exercise. I went from 0-1 days per week to 30 minutes every day for the past 6 weeks, only skipping two days over that time.

  • Alenalda@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t ate meat in 6/7 days, broke down and had a BLT yesterday. Tough to give up the bacon completely but I’m working on it.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
      5·
      1 year ago

      This was going to be my answer, so I’m replying to your comment in solidarity.

      I wish I could say I believe things will get better for me if I just persevere, but I don’t think I do. As long as I’m here though, there is a non-zero hope that someday, I’ll be able to live and not just survive. I hope the same for you too.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m teaching myself French. J’ai étudié le français pendant quatre ans when I was younger, but it’s been years. Maintenant, mes enfants want to learn French, so I’m re-learning with them. And just in the last week, we started making plans for a trip to France! Je suis content!

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year ago

      Rules for visiting France -

      If you want to visit a city, it’s Lyon or Bordeaux

      If you want to visit the countryside, it’s Provence and Haute Savoie

      Huge généralisation btw but just… don’t go to Paris

      • kescusay@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Lol! My wife and I have actually been to Paris before and liked it a lot, but we stayed away from the regular tourist stuff and stuck to the weirder, off-the-beaten-path things you can do in Paris (the catacombs, poking around Roman ruins, etc).

        We’re actually considering Versailles because we’ve heard it’s like being in a more relaxed and easy-going Paris, and the gardens appeal to my wife - as in, she’s thiiiiiiis close to simply insisting on it.

        But neither of us had considered Lyon or Bordeaux, and I’ll add them to my list. What are they like?

  • Cellblend@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    After picking up the guitar 3 years ago, I recorded a song yesterday for the first time. Feels good, man.

      • musicmind333@mastodon.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        @Tini @Stoney_Logica1 wait is that how that works? If you get first you stay in diamond? I’ve been bouncing around obsidian and diamond these past few weeks based on my level of motivation (and the number of 2x boosts I get)

        • BeepStreet@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I tried just barely staying up in diamond for some weeks and I think (purely anecdotal) I then got paired with similarly slacking people. I also did the first lesson of the week as late as I could on the first day because then you enter a league with people that do that too, ie not the super competitive folks that rush into getting XP right away.

          I ended up placing first in diamond with a very low score compared to what I’ve heard ppl need to get.

        • Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          You get an achievement for getting 1st. You can keep defending and stay at Diamond level if you care but there’s not really an incentive to do so unless you want the gems/Lingots for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.

          There is also a Diamond Tournament but I’m on Android and don’t have access to that yet.

  • Modva@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Exercise. I’ve now done it 8 weeks straight, and I think I have it locked in as a long term habit.

    Never had that before in my life and I’m 48 now. It’s never too late to get going folks.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Got an open source offline text to speech AI that can read me any text of any length, another that can convert my speech into text, and finally got another working directly on the command line using python.

  • UsernameLost@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Bought a nice Sawstop table saw that I’ve been eyeing for years. I make good money, but have issues spending anything on myself. According to my therapist, it’s from a fear of catastrophe. Even though I’m extremely frugal, make good money, and am in a better position than the vast majority of people my age, there’s a constant voice in the back of my head telling me that I don’t need whatever it is that I want to get for myself.

    In moderation, that’s a good thing, but I’ve taken it to a pretty far extreme. It legitimately stresses me out to buy something for myself that costs more than $15-20, even if I can afford it. I talked to my therapist about it, mentioned the table saw, and he suggested that I buy it. I talked to my wife about it, and she talked me into it, and I finally bit the bullet and did it. Definitely a luxury, but it’s cheaper than a hospital visit to sew a finger back on.

    However, I do not recommend moving it solo to prove a point. 450lbs is not light

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Helping someone escape domestic abuse and care for her animals while her dangerous lunatic ex keeps wrecking her house and farm, actually risking to put the entire mountain on fire, and the police keeps typing a pile of documents about the ongoing case without actually doing anything. I’ll keep doing it even if I end up tearing the ‘Call us if you experience domestic violence’ posters off of the police station walls tomorrow to shove them up the arses of the smug bastard clowns in uniform who are supposed to guarantee the safety of vulnerable people. Been a long week and no end in sight.