Just one thing: 18 May 2025

[jazzyjj]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[readera]

I've done a lot today. I ordered groceries, did some house cleaning, and took a nap!

[spiffikins]

yay!

[spiffikins]

I hung up my new curtain rod in the living room and my curtain - it's been sitting in the corner for a couple of weeks now :D

Also I filed a bunch of mail - statements etc that had been stacking up *and* spent an hour this evening deleting photos off my phone - mostly screenshots from IG reels of recipes that I know dang well, I'm *never* going to actually make :D

[neonpossibilities]

You're probably never to cook those dishes, but maybe one day! *also collects a ton of recipes and never tries them out*

[spiffikins]

My biggest thing is that I take screenshots, and realize I don't have a specific ingredient - so then I put that ingredient on my shopping list for next time. BUY the ingredient - and have NO IDEA what I wanted to use it for :D

I have SO MANY recipes saved to my online recipe box - and yet when I want to make something, I just google till I find a likely candidate and use that :D

[neonpossibilities]

Great minds think alike, I see we have similar issues xD I usually browse recipes when I'm hungry and my fridge is empty because I'm a masochist, save a ton of them... And never look at them again. I even have a file on my computer all pretty and organized with a bunch of them, I've probably cooked like 4 in total? *shakes head at self*

I just realized that I do that too! I wanted to cook some pita bread last week so I searched online, it's not like I have 4 separate recipes saved, right? *sweats*

I've also tried different systems for organizing my recipes through the years, so now I have some of them in the file I mentioned above, some are saved in my bookmarks, a few are stored over 3 different notes apps, plus there's the one I wrote down by hand when I bought a cool recipe journal.

[spiffikins]

I have a STACK of papers that I had to go through - maybe 10 papers were statements and stuff to file - which I did! A couple of owner's manuals for my blender and dishwasher.

But I have a MASSIVE pile of pages torn out of notebooks, scraps of paper where I printed on one side and used the back side for writing on - probably 50-75 random pages - of recipes that I have jotted down at some point. just...random recipes - many of them without even a *title* of what the recipe is for, LOL

I am honestly contemplating just chucking the whole batch - if I haven't used it - some of these are probably 8-10 years old - if not older - then I either made it once and didn't love it - or never made it an probably never will :D I am probably going to look through them and probably going to keep some, LOL - but I need to DEAL with this stack of paper that I just keep moving from place to place!

I use "copy me that" for my online recipes - it has a browser plugin, so if I'm on a page with a recipe, I can right click and say "add recipe" - it works 95% of the time on web pages. It does not work on instagram or tiktok reels though - hence the screenshots :D

[neonpossibilities]

I am honestly contemplating just chucking the whole batch
But, but, but, the hoard!! /joking Nah, I get it, at some point you just know that, even if you saved them thinking they were The Coolest Recipe, you're never gonna make them/make them again.

I used to do screenshots, the I realized that I never ever want to transcribe them and I'm too lazy for OCR software, so I deleted that entire folder. And I haven't felt the need for any of those recipes, not that I'm surprised :P

[spiffikins]

yes! The screenshots are SO EASY to do, and then they are useless unless I spend time transcribing them and...I am really NOT going to do that - so delete, delete, delete!

[silveradept]

I facilitated a program where kids for to have fun playing games. (And their grownups did, too.)