What made YOU happy recently?

I needed to do a thing last night, but I fell asleep instead. Woke up this morning in a panic, checked my email, and discovered that the meeting the thing was for is cancelled and I don't have to have the thing done until Friday. Thank you, world. :)

 

my sibling is going into an interview for therapy today. They finally listened to my advice from forever ago and I'm just
so relieved.

 

double bergamot tea :3

edit: actually double bergamot earl grey tea, not just. solid bergamot lol

 

That sounds fake. I mean that in a pleasant way - it sounds like something one would make up on the spot if one liked Earl Grey and had been asked what they liked more than Earl Grey.

What made me happy today...I guess having the time/energy/resources to make the matcha pound cake I'm about to make.

 

I reconnected with an old friend! I mean, we hadn't lost contact completely but we used to chat and hadn't in ... I don't know, eight years or something ridiculous like that? And part of it was that I just stopped talking to people at one point. I was feeling guilty about it and that was making it harder for me to initiate contact again, and apparently friend felt bad about having not talked in a while too ... and then we talked! It's great, I love talking to my friends, why don't I do this more often?

(It's because my ability to be social is the first thing to go when I'm stressed or tired, but whatever, I'm enjoying this. Well, actually I'm going to sleep. But happy, enjoyable sleep!)

 

I GOT INTO BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK WHAAAAAAAAAAAT

 

sunny out, bright, warm concrete and low-rubber and grease and earth smells, a thing i've been putting off now done, about to eat my favorite soup; being outside feels like a constant summer hug. <3333333

(i get maudlin when i'm hungry shhhhh)

@ectoBiologist BRUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HIGH FIVE :DDD

 

::high five!::

 

ARTICULATORY PHONETICS.

 

Saw TMBG with @Kishona and we met Danny Weinkauf (the bassist)! He was super nice and we even got a selfie with him. :D



The concert itself was super rad too! THEY PLAYED THE END OF THE TOUR OKAY. That song is my fave and I love it. <3 And Britt loved it! Was so happy to take her TMBGinity. :3

 

I made a cake for no particular reason, other than that baking is enjoyable and satisfying. Dark chocolate with coffee, raspberry layer in the middle, dark chocolate ganache on top and a sprinkling of cacao nibs.

 

It's warm n rainy an there's a big old rumble rollin in c: summer storms starting early this year!

 

had a really good talk with my...friend? ex-partner? whatever we currently are...yesterday. things got straightened out and it was good.

 

I talked to Fireman Brother on the phone for almost an hour, I think, and he sounded pretty upbeat and I got him to laugh two or three times. This is pleasing considering he's seemed tired/down the past few times we've talked.

 

Got an iPod Classic docking station/speaker thing at the thrift store, and it works a dream! <3

 

Happy sobbing about the Fair Folk. They're their own entire species and they don't need us but some of them like some of us that they move with us. So like family. Family in the magical mafia. When we're all dead and gone they'll go and keep on keeping on with their lives and doing stuff. Like they did before us. But while we're here we've formed relationships with them and can keep doing so.

There is a sense of kinship with the gaelpol thing. This makes me very happy.

 

I have made me happy recently. Don't often do that, but sometimes it's nice to treat yourself to some joy. :) And, nope! that's not a euphemism for anything, see below.

Also, after literally a decade of wanting to teach someone how to use their emotions like muscles, I finally got around to posting this topic somewhere.

 

I made a shield! I had a lot of help, but I did about half the work, I think. I will be even happier if I manage to make it to any of the classes the shield is meant to be used in.

Spoiler: Photos

The holes around the edges are for lacing which will be used to tie on padding so that the edges are less likely to do any serious damage.

 

I found this Eridan thing I did in 2012 and I still think it's o ne of the coolest things I made, even if it's very basic. I haven't evolved a lot since then artistically but i'm still feeling pretty great about it for some reason...

Spoiler

 

Went to a local con over the weekend with a friend, got way too many cute buttons and also finally found dice in the color combo I've wanted for two years.

Also also, re-found a fic I was starting to think was a hallucination. Taste level questionable, but it's still decently written and it fucking exists I knew it--