Things You Have Been Better About This Year

Not wearing contact lenses every day, all day long
Drinking 70% less
Spending 70% less time on my phone/games

Fewer panic attacks, more going to shows

Reaching out to friends more. Tidying up. Doing the dishes.

liberal use of unfollow/killfile instead of pointlessly engaging

Time management. I find that if a typical day consists, for me, of morning = breakfast/tea/dog walk/goofing around online/maybe watch a movie if I'm up early enough; afternoon = work; evening = time with husband and dogs that I'm much happier and feel like I am accomplishing more in my work and life overall.

not watching twitch or other ephemeral livestream media

Accepting that my inability to answer this question isn't necessarily an indictment of my existence.

Reading more (one chapter of The Iliad every night before bed, going to the library at least once a month). Going out to at least one live music performance a month.

Less sterile second-guessing.

:/ all I can come up with is housework & that's debatable

vacuuming

not overspending on records

eating smarter & exercising

(Overspending on records more than ever though, but at least I'll be slightly healthier when I wind up in the poorhouse.)

vacuuming

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, August 6, 2019 11:31 AM (forty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh yeah I bought a fuckin Dyson stick vacuum and I love vacuuming now

I have been much better at my job, however my boss hates me and everything I say or do is automatically bad and wrong so tbh it's not really an improvement in practical terms

reciprocating love and affection.

Less sterile second-guessing.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 18:27 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

well put and yes

application at work, including constructive insistence

locating anxiety in my body, being aware of its distortion

Cooking more

xpost those Dyson stick things are awesome. I vacuum my friend's apt when I am over just so I can use one.

locating anxiety in my body, being aware of its distortion

― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:31 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, this. It's such a slow process and also frustrating inasmuch as recognizing it is not the same as overcoming it, but I guess I am making incremental progress nonetheless.