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Things To Make Me Smile (and a few things that annoy me)

Category: Mental health

  • Embracing the Small Wins

    Well it’s almost the end of the month and as the title would suggest, the month of endeavours wasn’t the resounding overall success I was hoping for but to be honest, I’ll take what I managed ’cause it’s something to keep moving forward with. The DIET – well that fell face first into the dirt…

  • I’ve decided to set myself a challenge for the month and it’s only for the month – July can look after itself.  I want to lose a bit of weigh, get a bit more active, and become more aware of my surroundings in the apartment (tidy up) Coming into 2026, I decided I needed to…

  • Over the last few days I’ve been catching glimpses of myself in the mirror and to say unappealing and disappointing is putting it mildly.  Is this the moment that the change happens  – no, not that change – the mindset change.   I saw a reel on Insta and it was Joanne Donnelly and she…

  • This is just a small follow up from the post on the 25th of Jan – It’s time to nuke my X/Twitter accounts – I’ve two – one where I’m me and one where I’m not me and therefore a little bit more me. Yes I know that makes no sense whatsoever!  So a quick…

  • Why did I let my neighbour erode my joy? Ok – scene – my apartment faces out to a carpark – that’s a spot of exaggeration – my apartment is built behind a row of houses and all the houses have their parking spaces at the back – so the view from one side of…

  • Slow Sunday Morning

    It’s been a relaxing morning I woke up had a look at the weather forecast and decided that comfort was going to be the order of the day. I eventually got out of the bed and went to the kitchen and blended stuff to make a smoothie type thing.  I’d previously bought a smoothie thing…

  • The past evening or two I’ve been going through the list of folk I follow on X and looking to see if they have made the jump to BlueSky. Some have and some haven’t, some even got skipped, and that it possibly the part that made me happy. Looking at the list and the batches of…

  • I want to blog or write or whatever this is – but I don’t do anything – I’m not joking – I really don’t do anything at all!  It’s like I’m still living in lockdown. I occasionally have an opinion on things but it’s never fully formed enough to even try to coax into words…

  • I’ve been trying to unpick this for a while and I’m not really getting anywhere, so I think I can say this is going to be a rambling. I went on holiday recently and although I brought my camera but I didn’t take photos – well I took 4 or 5 but it was more…

  • The other day I was reading a substack.  The author was saying how in general she doesn’t compare herself with others – and yes I can identify with that notion – I’m happily playing away at being me, because although we are all the same, we are different.  The author also decided that this steadfast…