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.
@Moobythegoldensock @ericbomb that’s amazing!!! I hope you keep it up :) starting a new habit like that and keeping it consistent ain’t easy - glad you’re nailing it so far.
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.
I am proud of you!
Avoided being hung over, which I guess I could attribute to not drinking.
Survived another week
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.
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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!
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
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?
After picking up the guitar 3 years ago, I recorded a song yesterday for the first time. Feels good, man.
1st in Diamond League in Duolingo. Now I can relax and just keep up my daily streak.
Me too! It’s so fulfilling!
@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)
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.
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.
@Stoney_Logica1 you get bonus gems for podium?!?!!
Put together a fun party with friends
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.
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.
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
@UsernameLost @ericbomb glad you were able to push past the doubts and treat yourself. Hopefully all the cool projects that come out of it will prove it’s worth even more for you :) (and don’t chop your finger off pls)
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@bob_wiley @ericbomb I think you just blew my mind a little. I’ve never thought of it that way before.
As someone who loves wrapping (my and anyone else’s who will let me) gifts around Christmastime, I think I’ll try doing just ribbons this year.
Any pictures of how it turned out?
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@bob_wiley genuinely just spent the last half hour watching this guy wrap presents - he gets so much joy out of it!
Reminds me of the start of every school year: my mom and I would sit and wrap my textbooks up in calendar paper, making sure the nice pictures ended up on the front cover.
Gotta step up my wrapping game now - I don’t know if I can commit to tossing all my dept store Christmas wrap yet, but I think it’s gonna be butcher paper or those awesome vintage posters for birthdays etc.
@bob_wiley also a bit click baitey, but I also found an article of why he left Hollywood :( https://www.today.com/popculture/movies/mean-girls-rajiv-surendra-reason-he-left-hollywood-rcna69448
Seems like he’s still doing what he loves though and enjoys it.
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.
First time at a personal trainer.
I am writing this from the grave.