Just one thing: 26 August 2020

[lilysea]

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

[lilysea]

Put home delivered food away in freezer [so many trips between the front door and the freezer];

Listed a new thing on Buy Nothing;

Messaged people re Buy Nothing collection;

Ordered a new bed [My old bed was 9 years old and a spring had broken and punctured through the outside mattress surface eg only the mattress protector and the fitted sheet was protecting me/my partner from being punctured by a broken mattress spring.]

Gave instructions to my friend so she could help me sort out my garage without any face to face contact [I was inside house with all doors shut, she was in garage, we talked on phone];

Tackled a pile of doom in the spare room and sorted it into
a) keep or rehome
b) laundry
c) recycling
d) deal with later
there's still quite a lot of work to do, but it's at least 30 litres smaller than it was...

sorted some recycling into the recycling bin

ordered some groceries online for home delivery

[nanila]

[Thank you for posting; I had a manic morning and missed the reminder on my phone]

YAY new bed! Also wow for all the stuff accomplished, particularly tackling the pile of doom. Those things always seem so daunting before you start.

[nou]

Weeded my chives. (I Do Not Do gardening usually, but I did this while walking round the garden for my daily exercise.)

[silveradept]

Neat, chives, and done on a walk is perfectly good gardening.

[nou]

I prefer to think of it as Not Gardening, since I have no intention of getting back into the time-and-effort-sink that gardening is for me!

[nanila]

Worked on my lectures. Did a bunch of caption editing.

Met with my boss.

[silveradept]

Huzzah for being ready when the time comes. Or very close to ready, anyway.

[nanila]

Heh, well, at least I'll be materially ready. Emotionally, possibly not. I'm properly scared!

[silveradept]

I think you will do well as a lecturer. I hope you have eager and dedicated students to match that.

[jazzyjj]

Hung out again w/neighbor across the hall for most of the day. The meditation is going well, and I think I'm getting the hang of it. Now the question for me is what negative thoughts do I have about the past? Or perhaps recurring negative thoughts? Perhaps I can make stuff up as we go?





Cookout out back to welcome a potential new neighbor and get to know him. I like him, and I think so does everyone else in my building.

[silveradept]

Hooray for communication.

Most meditation modes I've encountered are the kinds that say "thoughts happen, and the better you are at noticing them without chasing them, the better you are at understanding them and working with them." Is this a different kind of meditation mode?

[azurelunatic]

Screening phone interview. A bit relieved I didn't get it.

Read.

Made bubble tea again. Learned some fun lessons about mixing quick-cooking and regular tapioca shapes.

[nou]

Ooh bubble tea. For some reason I never thought of it as something you can make at home.

[azurelunatic]

I used instant tapioca pearls and sugar, chai spice tea, and half-and-half. I got the instant boba at the local Asian grocery.

[nou]

I’m shielding so am restricted to online shopping (or the kindness of neighbours, but bubble tea doesn’t really seem important enough for that), but wow there’s a lot of bubble tea bits and pieces on Amazon!

Also just discovered that the new Taiwanese bubble tea place near my house is now on Deliveroo, so there’s that.

[silveradept]

Got caught up on some professional development I had been meaning to get through.

[nou]

Very good!