2026 Happy Blog Challenge

 February 21st Intention for today:   After being awake for about four hours I was feeling like I was lacking all motivation.  Then I thought about how I had already done a few dishes, had breakfast, gotten dressed, and paced around enough to have over 3000 steps.  So what if I had fallen down some random internet research rabbit holes in the process.  It was still early in the day, things could get done.  Maybe I could set an intention for my day and that could help me be more productive in one way or another.   My goals and intentions for the day are to joyfully accomplish some of my todo list.  If the item is hard to do joyfully, find a way to rejoice or celebrate whatever progress was made toward that goal. Happy things from today: The freshly fallen snow was very pretty this morning.  The following pictures were taken close to the same time as yesterday's sunrise.  What a difference a day makes! A trip to DIY Craft & T...

  Monday February 16th  Intention for the day: To do my best to joyfully move through the day.  If things become stressful I intend to retreat somewhere and find something to do to relieve the stress that is not always my cell phone.  Here are some happy things from today: This morning I took ten minutes to use the Baoding balls I got yesterday as well as the hand message things that came with it.  They felt very nice on my hands.  I tend to spend a fair amount of time (at least it feels like a lot of time) massaging each hand with the other.  I like that I am able to use something other than one aching hand to massage the other aching hand.   Corvidae and I went shopping for dirt today.  Unfortunately, it was outside and frozen.  Tomorrow it will be thawed out and if I am not exhausted after work I might get some bulbs planted.  I'm hopeful that if I get them outside, at least some will grow. While we were out I picked up a c...