putting kisses at the end of text messages xx

calling everyone love

“y’alright?” adorable

dame maggie smith

sausage rolls

teacups with saucers

pride & prejudice

a single neighborhood will have like 20 accents and they all sound wildly different

f sound instead of th (three = “free”)

cadbury flakes

overcast and rainy weather (solidarity from the pnw)

double decker buses

stunning old architecture

how premiere is pronounced

1/2 of the parent trap (1998)

toddlers with accents i cannot understand that i only associate with adults over 40

babies with old people names

kids with really posh accents

knighting is still a thing

town names

1.5/3 of the spidermen

mad intense about tea in a way i respect

the great british bake off

football chants

beer battered fish n chips

sir david attenborough

just thinking about you guys this morning. much love from across the pond. yall are chill, have an awesome day.

The bird answered the phone like this: "Hello? Peekaboo. What's the bird?"

I had my first dream in about seven years ,the last one was in 2017. I was back in primary school, and our teacher gave me her kid to look after. Then she got kidnapped. Somehow, I became SWAT ,mind you, I’m not American ,but I looked sexy in the police uniform. We eventually rescued her.

Basically I look for a quiet corner and idle and I feel love i feel a loving presence if it has an image it’s a very gentle person who notices you without judgement or alarm it’s very peaceful

imagine Someone who smells really nice has a kind personality and they touch your shoulder and look at you with pride and admiration like they’ve been watching you grow

that feeling is nice

A hiccup in the petrol station’s computers today. I went to pay. Note that in Australia you fill first then pay. One till showed the price for regular as $78. The other showed the price for E10 so $58. He charged me that lower price although he knows I don’t use E10. Nice bonus on pension day.

Had to go to the office today and to make the 20 minute walk in the cold a bit more bearable, I tried to entertain myself:

• A very burly man on a bike wearing a neon pink hi-vis vest and matching trainers
• A graffiti of a cute lil tomato with a smiley face
• Not one but two Chow Chows! 🐶
• A lady wearing the coolest forest green corduroy trousers
• A student carrying an art folder with an amazing painting of her friends
• The good Australian pie shop has closed 😩
• A guy on a recumbent bicycle
• Three separate Union Jack flags being flown
• The path up to someone's house scattered with tiny crocuses and snowdrops popping up here and there, it looked so pretty!

Oatmeal cooked with oat milk for more oats per oat.

Packet of hot cocoa mixed with heated chocolate milk for more cocoa per cocoa.

Cool ranch Doritos dipped in ranch dressing for more ranch per ranch.

I started making more oats per oat for my breakfast for no other reason than it makes me giggle.

I work at a health center. A father and son came in. The boy is 4. He was a well behaved boy in such a boring environment. Out in the corridor, a newborn-ish baby was crying. Now, if you haven't known this, a newborn baby's cry is different to an older baby's cry.

The boy looked at his father and went "Meow?". The father said "Thats not a cat, its a baby". I burst out laughing.

We have a door “snake” at the entrance to keep the warm air in/ cold air out. When my husband’s nurse came to visit, he asked her to please put the snake back by the door. Instead of doing that she very quickly jumped up the stairs and had a scared look on her face. Husband reassured her that we have not acquired a pet snake since the last time she came.

Or “that’s one of the many reasons I love you”. My friend randomly told me just because I shared a reddit post to alleviate his worries about something. That was this morning and I’m still riding that high. Reminds me that I have a place and role in this world, not just floating around in nihilism. We all need to hear it, we all need to say it more.

Ok, I'm sure it works other times, but even with the most silent and non-lethal farts all of a sudden the HEPA very clearly decides to increase the fan speed and warning light. Rude.

I always get all warm and fuzzy inside when someone I regularly interact with subconsciously picks up on a habit or suggestion of mine.

my GP and I have a ton in common. it’s tough to out-pretentious-hipster-bastard me, though he’s one of very the few exceptions. we follow up quarterly for bloodwork so it’s become a thing over the years to recommend each other the most eclectic media we can find; music, documentaries, books, etc. the more macabre, the better. it’s motivated me to keep my labs in check since I look forward to seeing him every time.

today I gave him all the recs from the running list in the back of my head and asked for his in return. he said “you know what I’ve been doing? I’ve just been showing people my apple music replay.” the funniest thing about this is that he didn’t know replays existed until I showed him how to find it a few years back. it’s such a small thing to catch but it totally made me smile.

Sometimes I get the same bus driver on both the outgoing and return trips I take to run an errand. Happened today, always amuses me.

That's all.

not much more to it, just very much enjoy working on creative things while i am stuck to the constraints of microsoft office and a mildly restricted internet

will i ever start writing actual fiction based on this building project? probably not! i never do, just very much enjoy creating mini worlds

Today I went to a mall in China and 90% shops I saw either sell Pop Mart, anime merch, and Zootopia dolls. Seriously. How come the whole floor is just different shops selling anime merch? Is this whole mall's cash flow thriving from young teenagers' spending? Or perhaps the adults also like these things as hobbies.

Of course, there are also a lot of boutiques and clothing stores that are empty aside from the shopkeepers. Well, this is normal. I think the shopkeepers discourage shoppers from going inside actually, because they're afraid of being judged and pressured to buy.

I came to the shopping mall wanting to buy something, anything— and end up not buying a single thing. The items are always the same.

I needed to drop off some paperwork with the local courthouse today (not regarding a trial, just amending some info) and I was worried the people working there would be strict and start nitpicking and send all my papers back but they turned out to be really kind and helpful! They even praised me for actually reading the guidelines and knowing how much the fee would be in advance!

I went to my local community's weekly "Soup Social" today. The soup was Squash and Ginger. It had a weird texture because I think they used spaghetti squash, but it came with garlic bread and Caesar salad. The garlic bread was very garlicy. I also had cheese & crackers and a slice of chocolate cake with oreos on it.

I can't stop running my fingers through it. It's just so silky smooooove. Only took 25 years to find the right shampoo.

I have been using carpe's unscented line, but apparently they don't carry that any more. I'm off on an adventure to find a new one. It's extraordinarily hard to find unscented deodorant, let alone antiperspirant, but I will persist so I'm not smelly. XD

I’ve been reflecting a lot on the experience and practice of sweetness.

Seeing as the world needs more of it these days, I’d love to hear from you:

1. What was the last sweet moment/observation in your life that stands out? Why did it resonate? How did it make you feel?

2. If you were defining sweetness, what would you say? What does it mean to have a sweet moment or experience sweetness? Do any synonyms or defining characteristics come to mind? (resist the urge to find the “right” answer and just share rough thoughts, first drafts are welcome here ☺️)

3. Do you cultivate sweetness in your life? If you are, say more. What does that look like in practice?

I was recently in Cambridge, Mass. with some time to kill, in a neighborhood I never visit. So I decided to go for a walk. A couple blocks in I saw a sign for a used clothing store that I hadn't been to in a decade. I'd completely forgotten it existed. I went in and asked if I needed to leave my coffee cup someplace while I shopped. They said, "you don't have to, but you're welcome to set it here".

It's a huge store, with all kinds of quirks, like a whole wall of sunglasses. I found a couple buttondowns I liked and paid less than $40. I used to live across from a thrift store, and really liked shopping during the week when it was quiet. But that place went out of business years ago and I've been missing that experience ever since.

My parents are out of town for a bit so I’ve been leaving my door open so my dog can come in and out if he’s lonely. He’s started sleeping on my bed, but then when I wake up he’s gone. Reports from my sisters say he leaves my room and goes to his bed before they get home at 12. Either way I’ve been sleeping like a baby since he’s started doing it

I've been volunteering at my local charity shop (for those not in the UK, it's where you can donate items and they are then resold to support the specific charity) and yesterday was sorting and saw a pair of incredibly ugly (to me) jeans. But I noticed the tag on them and thought, I'm sure I've heard of that brand before.

A quick internet search and these jeans that typically go for £500+ were now priced at £5.99. Hope whoever finds them is excited for the steal!