STOP. Do this NOW!

[Pi.R^2]

Today:
- not having to leave the house
- nice nap
- getting some stuff done
- it being K's turn to make dinner :)

[Pi.R^2]

Today:
- staying up until the early hours of today finishing a book - YA fiction is clearly where it’s at!
- talking to Finn
- loo updates from Lana
- feeling pleased with some work I did
- nice dinner with my parents
- winning at Codenames

[Pi.R^2]

Well, forgot to do this for a while! Let's see if I can do a fortnight's worth of positives with the help of my messages to Lio and others!

15th Jan
- children asking ridiculous questions
- surviving a super busy day!

16th Jan
- so much queer joy
- visiting a potential new place of employment and feeling so good about it

17th Jan
- absence meaning I got a free lunchtime without having to do extra work!
- getting to tell fun anecdotes about mathematicians

18th Jan
- being super proud of my partner for getting slated in the Daily Mail (means you're clearly doing something right if that happens!)
- Enjoying Taylor Swift a lot

19th Jan
- nice time with my parents
- outstanding vegan cuisine

Saturday
- meeting a famous Twitter person for breakfast
- an important motion getting prioritised for annual conference at our union district meeting
- Finn sending a very witty text
- excellent nap
- enjoying watching Silent Witness

Sunday
- talking to Lio!
- hanging out with C and also getting a hug from her!
- enjoying my trombone lesson even though I'd done almost no goddamn practice

Monday
- sending Lio some high quality parrot content
- Went to the tooth vet and it wasn't terrible at all!
- still being able to drink hot chocolate when half my mouth was numb

Tuesday
- more queer joy
- telling anyone who would listen how non-bad it was going to the tooth vet and that I was a brave brave girl
- a really lovely colleague listening to my work woes and being super validating and lovely

Wednesday
- hearing positive news
- chatting with a colleague I don't know super well
- giving out LGBT+ history month 2024 badges to my fellow members of the queer mafia :P

Thursday
- the adrenaline rush of not having my printing finished two minutes before the scary reprographics lady arrived
- luckily finishing the printing before I was required to interact with the scary reprographics lady
- lovely colleague being lovely again
- my crying at work chart looking very pretty with all its stickers from this week
- coming home to a nice clean and tidy house because the cleaner had been!

Yesterday
- getting to tell my favourite #cancelled mathematicians anecdote
- dealing with a #trigger warning as well as I could and calming myself down and also receiving reassuring messages from the people I reached out to
- having the best time visiting my parents as my sister was also there
- sister using the expression "have to write a corporate narrative" and us three public sector workings just being like "uhhhhh..."
- watching Shetland

Phew. Maybe will try not to get this behind again :P

[Pi.R^2]

Today:
- big lie in
- getting caught up on a few things
- lots of excellent TV viewing while ironing

[Moonlight Princess]

Planning to watch two films on my day off from work like a rebel!
Nice catch up on Jenkins life there! (Who's the famous Twitter person?)

[Pi.R^2]

Oh that sounds like fun Kiran! What films?

Ok so twitter person is not famous enough that anyone outside of mathsteachertwitter has heard of her :P

Today:
- managing to get up early and be productive
- talking to Finn
- having enough iron to give blood
- making exciting plans with Lio!

[Moonlight Princess]

The Holdovers and All of Us Strangers :)

Watching said films
Getting the ball rolling with my ergonomic equipment

[Pi.R^2]

Recently (not attempting to do a day-by-day one!)
- enjoying conference
- talking to people at conference and not needing to follow K around to prevent being an awkward loner
- vegan waffles!
- making significant progress in my battle with my workplace
- Silent Witness
- sleep
- excellent audiobook

[Pi.R^2]

Today:
- epic lie-in
- getting to tell the other members of the queer mafia that we made good progress with workplace fiasco
- trombone practice going well
- cake!

[Pi.R^2]

Yesterday:
- some chill vibes
- getting on top of various life things
- making a srs bsns poll about my mother’s life choices

Today:
- standing up for what’s right
- vegan truffles
- reminiscing about MOAR LESBIANZ
- feeling calmer later in the day

[Pi.R^2]

Tuesday:
- sharing queer joy
- enjoying running an orchestra rehearsal, which I did not think I would!
- T having my back

Wednesday:
- making some progress with a tricky work situ
- talking through my indecision about my job interview with someone I trust

Thursday:
- a colleague being helpful when I had a tiramisu-based crisis
- being part of running an amazing event

Yesterday:
- job interview going well??
- games night
- making amazing cookies

Today:
- so much sleep
- making social plans

[Pi.R^2]

I am slightly cryptic about my employment so work anecdotes are always vague I’m afraid!

Today:
- talking to Finn
- talking to Lio
- MEAN GIRLS OH MY DAYS IT WAS SO GOOD
- nice meal out

[Puck]

I'm trying this because I felt I need to acknowledge the positives I have and will have these coming weeks

1. After a tough appointment I had a proper long pamper bath by candlelight with a nice strong lavender smell, it's part of a gift set my mum bought me for my birthday last week which is special because it's thoughtful. I also had bath salts and fancy bubble bath. I was in their over an hour my dog keeping me company snoring by the radiator and the second grateful thing:
2. The audiobook I've been listening to and last hour of in the bath had a really lovely ending and that made me feel happy and even more relaxed.
3. Took my dog for a walk in the dark and the sky was clear with lots of stars he was a good boy and we.had the roads to ourselves not another person in sight. So peaceful and I chatted away to him and we were just with each other rather than me ranting away in my head that's been the case recently.

So despite a horrendous start self care and gratitude won

[Pi.R^2]

Oh well done on the epic self care! So glad you were able to find/create those positives on a tricky day.

Today:
- very enjoyable snoozing
- making my study look less like a warzone
- hopefully being helpful/supportive to some colleagues who I met up with to discuss their difficulties
- Silent witness
- ordering lots of exciting books!

[Pi.R^2]

- bashing out lots of things on the old to do list
- swearing in French in front of my mother and she didn't notice *takes a victory lap*
- my mum liking her birthday present
- not being defeated by a killer sudoku which rather tried to defeat me
- starting a new TV show (Broadchurch)

[Pi.R^2]

- greggs!
- fun banter in a whatsapp chat
- making excellent mac 'n' cheese
- Broadchurch
- nailing some nasty killer sudokus!

[Pi.R^2]

Yesterday:
- the arrival of a huge pile of books!
- actually enjoying lunch out with the gals, which isn't ordinarily my scene
- seeing someone from a long time ago who I didn't think I'd get to see again
- having a slight heart-to-heart with a friend who was making me stressed

[Pi.R^2]

Today:
- full consultation with the other two components of my moral compass :P
- being super-productive
- nice Friday evening with K

[Pi.R^2]

Technically yesterday I guess
- getting some stuff done
- listening to the Mean Girls soundtrack
- having my favourite lunch
- sufficiently pissing off Mr Problematic Cishet so that he might leave me alone for a bit...

[Ophiuchus]

Cackling over "pissing off Mr Problematic Cishet"

Over the last week:

EPIC Spring cleaning
Selling loads of books
Getting a massage (and having it actually help the trigger point knots)
Seeing P and giving her a hug (and hearing "you look so happy!!")
Being told by yet another person that they could see I'd been suppressed by the ex and they were glad I was free