Ten good things

[kaberett]

1. My peas are germinating! All of them! I am ridiculously excited about this.

2. I have a lab coat of my very own. It only took five months!

3. My enormous stash of Misc Dried Stuff arrived in the post, such that I have an Adequate supply of dried apricots, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, misc raisins, etc. (Couscous salad! Toasted cashews! Raspberry-hazelnut brownies! Trail mix to keep at work! Dundee cake!)

4. Sunshine.

5. I didn't kill myself during routine lab work! (And I got the routine lab work done, which I wasn't certain I'd manage for a little while.)

6. The household's enormous pile of daylight bulbs arrived in the post, too, so the place will soon be brighter.

7. Ridiculous raspberry moisturiser I keep on my desk at work [context: it is not uncommon for me to wash my hands upwards of ten times a day when I'm doing any even-slightly-involved lab work. Moisturiser kept at work is a necessity.]

8. Seanan McGuire & her music.

9. Mia's latest art update. [Mia's Patreon.]

10. The book!presents I asked the Internet to send to my tinycousin have been dispatched. Hopefully she will enjoy them.

(More, because that is how this lists thing works: tasty dinner planned for tonight. Cuddles with housemate yesterday. Getting to make myself pots of tea. The lecturer who threatened to take away my meteorite hasn't, yet, and therefore has probably forgotten about it. The e-reader that means I can finish one book and swap seamlessly to the next. Brilliant conversations with liv. All-supervisor meeting yesterday went not-terribly. On Sunday I get to attend an S Bear Bergman talk (and maybe manage More Outing). Tomorrow is a Captain Awkward meet-up, and also I get to perform at a friend's birthday party. I have more-or-less worked out the shape of the next two weeks, including probably managing to see TOL & TOG twice *during* next week, and then again at the weekend. Things. :-) )

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

Where do you order the nuts & dried stuff from? They seem to generally be a lot more expensive than I was used to at home, so I am always looking for new possible places to buy from.

[kaberett]

Natural Choice - still a bit wince-y, but cheaper than supermarkets.

[littlebutfierce]

Thank you! I can get almonds cheaper at the Turkish market near me, but some of the dried fruit definitely looks cheaper, hmmmmm...

[jelazakazone]

Oooh, so many great things on your list! <3

[ceb]

I forget if your peas are outside, but get nets for them ASAP if they are, I've had an entire set of plants stripped by birds in <24 hours and they're not very happy after that...

[kaberett]

They are indoors until I think they stand a chance of looking out for themselves outside! :-)

[calissa]

Oh, my word! Mia's artwork is stunning! Thank you for sharing the link.

So many good things here! I am very pleased to hear that your peas are germinating. Also, I was wondering where the sunshine went. Not that I want it back, mind--I am quite happy with the cloud cover we have at the moment and am glad that the sunshine is with someone who appreciates it. And an especial yay for making yourself pots of tea!

[calissa]

Oh, while I think of it, a friend of mine retweeted something of yours and so I have followed you on Twitter. My icon there is the same as this one. I just wanted to let you know to explain the random person addressing you.

[kaberett]

Sure thing! :-)

[kaberett]

Isn't Mia amazing.

Glad for your cloud cover :-)

[silveradept]

These are all lovely things to hear about. Congratulations on the lab coat.

[quirkytizzy]

I am totally going to have do one of these posts soon.

What kind of labwork do you do? I always thought sciency stuff looked badass, but teh mathz scares the ever loving shit out of me. As do caustic chemicals. I trip in tennis shoes. Clumsiness does not a good scientist make.

YOU ARE GOING TO A CAPTAIN AWKWARD MEET UP?! WANT. DETAILS!

Also very glad that I'm not the only one who does lists! (They are so useful, aren't there?)

Would also love to read your thoughts on acquiring mobility devices. I have never used one, so I have no idea about any of that stuff.

[kaberett]

I started doing ten-good-things lists several years ago after my first voluntary counselling suggested focussing on gratitude at least some of the time; I find them really helpful :-)

Lab work: I'm an isotope geochemist. What this means in practice is that about once a month I spend three days interacting with hydrofluoric acid; that shit will fuck you up (like, it is really, really easy to kill yourself with if you don't watch where *every single drop* goes).

Captain Awkward meetup - they happen once a month in London (and there's a whole bunch of others around the world!). I have... so far staggeringly failed to get dressed so might not actually make it out of the house for that much social today (I am trying to not feel guilty about this).

Mobility devices has been on the to-write list foreverrrrr. Maybe I will manage it some month soon? The thing currently most jumping up & down to be written is some ridiculous Elementary fic, followed shortly afterwards by a post on negotiating care needs in relationships...

[inoru_no_hoshi]

Lots of awesome! (Ooo a meteorite!) \o/ <3

Also, raspberry-hazelnut brownies sound amazing. :D

[untonuggan]

*dances at good things*

*has mental picture of you cackling in a mad scientist manner in your new lab coat*