We woke up early in the morning, at 5 AM. My girlfriend woke me up and said that it had snowed again, about 6 inches. We then decided to get dressed and go out with the dog. It was quiet, dark and there was NOBODY out. Our dog goes absolutely crazy about snow. We walked to a dog park near our home and set Luna free. Her enthusiasm was so contagious that we started to run around and play in the snow. After 2 hours we came back home, gave Luna her food, took a shower and fixed breakfast for ourselves. Now Luna is sleeping, the sun is shining, we are working and drinking coffee. I took a short break to read this latest post and write this. Thinking about things that bring me happiness made me happy. This morning, Luna, coffee, girlfriend and music. That's for now.
Thank you Taryn for making me start my day thinking about things and those around me that make me happy.
krista. damn. your morning sounds like literal perfection. i love little mornings like that that seem so simple and then turn out to be the things you remember forever and ever. and imagine if you had said, "ew, it's gonna be too cold -- i'll stay in" instead. what a special morning you would've missed <3
I just got my results back now after reading your email. And i finally tested negative after 25 days of covid. Am happy that i will be able to get back to my clinic but am scared of long covid symp. I decided to not overthinking it and enjoy my recovery. Your words always make my day and today 2x. Hope u feel good by now we are all on period this week :p
P.S. post covid period has the worst cramp exceptionally painful:(
Oh nooooo. so sorry to hear about all this :( so insane that your periods are worse after it too -- it sounds like the weirdest aftermath is showing up for people who had covid. so happy you're covid free! hang in there!!
I woke up feeling super anxious and on the verge of tears today too (ha) but I reminded myself that I am getting my car fixed today and I have a job interview! I've been going through a break with my partner and have been trying to focus on myself. Which has resulted in a few days sprinkled in between of doordash of ice cream and pizzas, I don't drink but o'uid has been helping, and also just days and nights in bed.
I started working out again and for the past two days, I've really enjoyed it. I only do about 20 minutes a day but I'll be able to slowly build up to more time. I've learned to make realistic workout goals for myself to avoid any further injury (grew up playing sports so there are definite ankle and leg issues). I started therapy a month ago and although it is costly, I know it'll be worth it in the end.
So I feel the emotional ups and downs. But its a new month! New week, new day.
tess -- sounds like you're doing it all right. sometimes you just gotta love on yourself exactly like you wish other people did, and it really sounds like you're doing that. also -- small goals are the secret to big change!! you're crushing.
We’re in Lockdown 3.0 here in the UK and that is messing up my mental health so it’s sometimes hard to find the things that have made me happy. But both my grandparents have had their first shot of the vaccine and the fact that soon we’ll be able to have more normalcy when we got to see them is honestly what gets my family through. I’ve been sat thinking what else and whilst my brain is telling me different I’ve thought of a few more, my Wife is the best she’s been working throughout the whole pandemic we had our first date night in a year last weekend and we realised we need more us time a lot of our time is spent with our 2 year old and she demands a lot of attention so it was nice to send her to my parents and have time together. My daughter obviously I’m so grateful for even though we can get on each other’s nerves because we’re spending every day together in the house she never fails to make me laugh she’s so cheeky. I’ll give you one more, Tampa have got to the Super Bowl!!! I’m gutted we can’t be in a bar watching a long with my friends but that’s what we have zoom for, the zooms through the playoffs have given me life on the really bad days.
Thanks for making me think about what things are actually making me happy, I really needed it instead of focusing on the gloom.
aw, i loved the honesty in all that. happy you and your wife are getting some alone time :) it's so important and surprisingly hard to get, even in lockdown and especially with a kid i bet. hoping many more moments like that come your way <3
Hi Taryn!..Congratulations for your new house and also for always sharing with your readers the beauty of life in the midst of this hard times..Know that you are a blessing to me. God luck to your new endeavors and journey❤️
Tonight I thought about lights. I walked and talked with my God, and I pondered. I noticed all around me the beauty of the night, and specifically found majesty in the little strings of light I saw pinned in garages, tangled on trees, draped over walkways, and hanging from ceilings in apartments. I saw light, and I saw it everywhere. I thought about how much I love the world and how much I love humans. We all just want warmth, comfort, peace, love, and light. We hang little stings that glow all around us so that we can see and feel magic. There is something so special about being greeted and surrounded by the inviting luminescence of these sweet strands. It feels like opportunities to love and to be loved accompany the beauty of these little bright strings. I seem to associate them with special occasions and fun, happy times. I love light, and I am drawn to it, just like any other human. We are all so cute and fragile, and light is so secure and lovely.
I am thankful for the magic of light. I am thankful for love. Tonight I am thankful, and tonight, that is enough.
I'm PMS-ing and I've been eating like half a chocolate bar per day. Coldstone was my first job ever!! I got the job by turning the song "I kissed a girl and I liked it" into "I tried a cone and I liked it". My fav was banana ice cream with Reese's cups. I watched In and of Itself over the weekend and I did not like it 😅 but I liked trying something new. Life has been super tough in this new year still but also today my boss gave me some pretty wild praise that I can't even fully wrap my head around. I am manifesting my own apartment in 2021. I am inspired by you and Cam and damn stoked to see new house adventures. My dog Lunar says hi. Ok bye ♥️
hi sienna and lunar !! eating only half a chocolate bar a day would be a BLESSING for me right now -- i'm going ham on this period. it's bad. thanks for taking the rec on the hulu movie and sorry you didn't love it! would love to hear what you didn't like about it: )
I do love live magic, but I'm also very logical so I think watching it on TV, I struggled to maintain my suspension of belief. The narrative interwoven throughout the show felt disjointed and hard to latch onto. Just wasn't my jam I guess! Also, I highly recommend Feel Good on Netflix if you haven't watched that !!
1) I recently moved into a share house with two older gentlemen and they are super lovely and the house is about 500m from the beach, where I will be spending a lot of my spare time.
2) I have just started reading again and boy did I miss it. I just finished this book called Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, an Aboriginal Australian author. I thought it was wholesome and funny but it also raised a few important issues in the Australian aboriginal community that are not really spoken about that often, for example, rape and violence against family members as well as sexuality.
For me, it is actually the first book I have ever read that has a queer aboriginal woman, so that made me feel proud! I am looking forward to reading more aboriginal Australian authors in the future.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your thoughts, always enjoy reading them!
wow, thanks for sharing! stoked on your new spot with the older homies -- that sounds lovely. and that book sound super interesting! i love when a book/piece of content can do a it all -- make you laugh and cry and think <3
While I’m also on the edge of being bloaty and crampy and ugggh... I’m happy with the fact that I got myself into habit tracking for at least the month of February! So I’m looking forward to reading a lot, getting strong (currently a little high off watching hot CrossFit girls while lifting), building my running base for when winter ends and I can take distance again, and remembering to attempt to journal or learn creative writing every day!
We woke up early in the morning, at 5 AM. My girlfriend woke me up and said that it had snowed again, about 6 inches. We then decided to get dressed and go out with the dog. It was quiet, dark and there was NOBODY out. Our dog goes absolutely crazy about snow. We walked to a dog park near our home and set Luna free. Her enthusiasm was so contagious that we started to run around and play in the snow. After 2 hours we came back home, gave Luna her food, took a shower and fixed breakfast for ourselves. Now Luna is sleeping, the sun is shining, we are working and drinking coffee. I took a short break to read this latest post and write this. Thinking about things that bring me happiness made me happy. This morning, Luna, coffee, girlfriend and music. That's for now.
Thank you Taryn for making me start my day thinking about things and those around me that make me happy.
krista. damn. your morning sounds like literal perfection. i love little mornings like that that seem so simple and then turn out to be the things you remember forever and ever. and imagine if you had said, "ew, it's gonna be too cold -- i'll stay in" instead. what a special morning you would've missed <3
yes that was exactly what i was thinking when i wrote this.
I just got my results back now after reading your email. And i finally tested negative after 25 days of covid. Am happy that i will be able to get back to my clinic but am scared of long covid symp. I decided to not overthinking it and enjoy my recovery. Your words always make my day and today 2x. Hope u feel good by now we are all on period this week :p
P.S. post covid period has the worst cramp exceptionally painful:(
Oh nooooo. so sorry to hear about all this :( so insane that your periods are worse after it too -- it sounds like the weirdest aftermath is showing up for people who had covid. so happy you're covid free! hang in there!!
Not a lot is making me happy lately, I’ve not been feeling so good mentally. But I came up with 2 things:
1. I’ve been learning how to play the ukelele for school and I love learning to play new songs.
2. Just passed an exam for school today, also pretty happy about that.
I hope you have a nice day today.
Mine is already over and it was a little bit better than yesterday, which is good.
nothing is permanent <3 good on you for digging to find some good things going on. proud of you!
I woke up feeling super anxious and on the verge of tears today too (ha) but I reminded myself that I am getting my car fixed today and I have a job interview! I've been going through a break with my partner and have been trying to focus on myself. Which has resulted in a few days sprinkled in between of doordash of ice cream and pizzas, I don't drink but o'uid has been helping, and also just days and nights in bed.
I started working out again and for the past two days, I've really enjoyed it. I only do about 20 minutes a day but I'll be able to slowly build up to more time. I've learned to make realistic workout goals for myself to avoid any further injury (grew up playing sports so there are definite ankle and leg issues). I started therapy a month ago and although it is costly, I know it'll be worth it in the end.
So I feel the emotional ups and downs. But its a new month! New week, new day.
tess -- sounds like you're doing it all right. sometimes you just gotta love on yourself exactly like you wish other people did, and it really sounds like you're doing that. also -- small goals are the secret to big change!! you're crushing.
We’re in Lockdown 3.0 here in the UK and that is messing up my mental health so it’s sometimes hard to find the things that have made me happy. But both my grandparents have had their first shot of the vaccine and the fact that soon we’ll be able to have more normalcy when we got to see them is honestly what gets my family through. I’ve been sat thinking what else and whilst my brain is telling me different I’ve thought of a few more, my Wife is the best she’s been working throughout the whole pandemic we had our first date night in a year last weekend and we realised we need more us time a lot of our time is spent with our 2 year old and she demands a lot of attention so it was nice to send her to my parents and have time together. My daughter obviously I’m so grateful for even though we can get on each other’s nerves because we’re spending every day together in the house she never fails to make me laugh she’s so cheeky. I’ll give you one more, Tampa have got to the Super Bowl!!! I’m gutted we can’t be in a bar watching a long with my friends but that’s what we have zoom for, the zooms through the playoffs have given me life on the really bad days.
Thanks for making me think about what things are actually making me happy, I really needed it instead of focusing on the gloom.
Congrats on the house too!! x
aw, i loved the honesty in all that. happy you and your wife are getting some alone time :) it's so important and surprisingly hard to get, even in lockdown and especially with a kid i bet. hoping many more moments like that come your way <3
Hi Taryn!..Congratulations for your new house and also for always sharing with your readers the beauty of life in the midst of this hard times..Know that you are a blessing to me. God luck to your new endeavors and journey❤️
thank you rhoda!!
Tonight I thought about lights. I walked and talked with my God, and I pondered. I noticed all around me the beauty of the night, and specifically found majesty in the little strings of light I saw pinned in garages, tangled on trees, draped over walkways, and hanging from ceilings in apartments. I saw light, and I saw it everywhere. I thought about how much I love the world and how much I love humans. We all just want warmth, comfort, peace, love, and light. We hang little stings that glow all around us so that we can see and feel magic. There is something so special about being greeted and surrounded by the inviting luminescence of these sweet strands. It feels like opportunities to love and to be loved accompany the beauty of these little bright strings. I seem to associate them with special occasions and fun, happy times. I love light, and I am drawn to it, just like any other human. We are all so cute and fragile, and light is so secure and lovely.
I am thankful for the magic of light. I am thankful for love. Tonight I am thankful, and tonight, that is enough.
what a little bright light you are <3
I'm PMS-ing and I've been eating like half a chocolate bar per day. Coldstone was my first job ever!! I got the job by turning the song "I kissed a girl and I liked it" into "I tried a cone and I liked it". My fav was banana ice cream with Reese's cups. I watched In and of Itself over the weekend and I did not like it 😅 but I liked trying something new. Life has been super tough in this new year still but also today my boss gave me some pretty wild praise that I can't even fully wrap my head around. I am manifesting my own apartment in 2021. I am inspired by you and Cam and damn stoked to see new house adventures. My dog Lunar says hi. Ok bye ♥️
hi sienna and lunar !! eating only half a chocolate bar a day would be a BLESSING for me right now -- i'm going ham on this period. it's bad. thanks for taking the rec on the hulu movie and sorry you didn't love it! would love to hear what you didn't like about it: )
I do love live magic, but I'm also very logical so I think watching it on TV, I struggled to maintain my suspension of belief. The narrative interwoven throughout the show felt disjointed and hard to latch onto. Just wasn't my jam I guess! Also, I highly recommend Feel Good on Netflix if you haven't watched that !!
Lots of things are making me happy!
1) I recently moved into a share house with two older gentlemen and they are super lovely and the house is about 500m from the beach, where I will be spending a lot of my spare time.
2) I have just started reading again and boy did I miss it. I just finished this book called Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko, an Aboriginal Australian author. I thought it was wholesome and funny but it also raised a few important issues in the Australian aboriginal community that are not really spoken about that often, for example, rape and violence against family members as well as sexuality.
For me, it is actually the first book I have ever read that has a queer aboriginal woman, so that made me feel proud! I am looking forward to reading more aboriginal Australian authors in the future.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your thoughts, always enjoy reading them!
wow, thanks for sharing! stoked on your new spot with the older homies -- that sounds lovely. and that book sound super interesting! i love when a book/piece of content can do a it all -- make you laugh and cry and think <3
While I’m also on the edge of being bloaty and crampy and ugggh... I’m happy with the fact that I got myself into habit tracking for at least the month of February! So I’m looking forward to reading a lot, getting strong (currently a little high off watching hot CrossFit girls while lifting), building my running base for when winter ends and I can take distance again, and remembering to attempt to journal or learn creative writing every day!
sounds totally lovely <3 you go knock out those habits girl