I started doing this about a year ago. Every time I see a baby lizard (there are a lot where I live) I just pretend it’s the same one I saw last time. This has devolved into me pretending I have a baby lizard shadowing me wherever I go. I tell them to go away but I hope they never go away. I will continue this game until I am an old man. Thank you for your time.

I called the pharmacy and asked if my medicine could be refilled early. They explained the details in a very clear way and now I have a refill in progress.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

I just finished Exit 8 by Genki Kawamura.

I used to be a voracious reader, but these days I can barely read a sentence without getting distracted. This book is only 101 pages, but it was quite enjoyable and it's the first book I've managed to finish this year, so I'm quite happy 😊

I don’t even have to touch him, just a small glance and it begins. So adorable :)

My retired neighbour has been working on his roof (with some help) this week. The first day, he shouted the furthest buildings he could see from that height.

Every morning now, when he first sees me in my yard, he shouts "Hey, OP!" and waves hello to me. We can't really converse from that distance, but it's a cute little ritual I've enjoyed. Reminds me of a little kid on the merry-go-round waving every time they pass their parents.

The roof is almost finished, I'm just hoping to get one more rooftop wave!

For years i had dreaded going to the dentist. Not because i am afraid but because i just don't like it.

As a child i always had cavities, once i had like 7. I hated hearing i needed to brush better, floss every day, use an electric toothbrush. But with my adhd i just couldn't get it into my daily rhythm. I always brush them once a day. Im happy with being able to do that.

Now as an adult i had to schedule my own appointments. Which i didn't. Until recently when my boyfriend motivated me into making one. The dreaded day came. And I wasn't even on that chair for 5 minutes before I could walk out again being told I had great teeth with nothing amiss.

So 8 years of not going the results were positive. I might visit them sooner in the future. Still. Im glad I went because now I have a worry less.

About an hour ago I popped the broad beans I harvested a couple of days ago into the air fryer to dry roast them.

I have eaten all the beans 😁

Our rainy season has finally truly started up and it's time to put away my Spring/Summer jacket. I thrifted a new hoodie for the season the other day, it's wonderfully warm and comfy.

With the jacket going away, I can switch back to my cat messenger bag; the jacket is covered in beads and sequins that the bag would just catch on and pull off, so I use tote bags for the warmer months. I transferred some pins/buttons from the jacket to the bag.

I've also made sure the bag has everything I need in it: Some change, a lighter, reading glasses and a lens cleaning cloth, a paper bus schedule [I use an app, but it's good to have a back-up!], my keys, mints, a few hygiene things, a naloxone kit, a notepad, my inhaler... Sometimes a book or bottle of water gets crammed in there when I'm out on errands. And I always choose one stuffed animal to tag along in the bag when I leave home.

It's also hat season again! I've removed the cat ears from my headphones, can't get my hats on top of the ears, so they'll come back next Spring when the hats get too warm for me.

First post on this subreddit, but I had thought / feeling while grocery shopping today that I thought would fit this subreddit. It’s a very interesting mental switch that goes unnoticed to go from your community (family, college, etc) being responsible for your groceries and nutrient intake to yourself deciding all of this for yourself. It often manifests in a lot of easy food without much planned thought (heck, after all most people these days have trouble cooking from scratch), but it’s an interesting feeling to notice it mid-store and look at your haul and think what it says about you since these are all your decisions: your choice of meat or vegetables, or lack thereof, what you plan to make with these ingredients or how far you plan out (based on volume). It’s also funny to look at other’s carts and try to guess what they may have planned for the week too.

This thought all came from a deeper look into a pang of pride I felt from looking at my own cart of food: a weeks worth of chicken and a myriad of vegis that I’ll be slow cooking tonight to make jambalaya with, then use the leftover chicken and vegis for quesadillas throughout the rest of the week.

Just a fleeting thought and feeling I found interesting, I hope you do too.

It’s me, I’m stoop kid. Hopefully I can explain this clearly.

I’m a mom in my 30s, and when I was a kid, I was never allowed to play outside with other kids. There’s a mom in my community I often see outside with her kids, and I pushed myself to go make friends so our kids could play together. She inspired me to be that kind of mom.

This past week, some older kids were outside, and they were the absolute sweetest. They’re the kind of teens who are kind and look out for the little ones. They’re respectful and supportive, and it made me so happy to see them include the younger kids.

Well… two days this week, I stayed outside with all of them until the sun went down. I played soccer with them, and my son and this squad of boys kept encouraging me, saying I was the best goalie of all time. These kids have no idea that they helped heal my inner child.

My apologies for the amount of times I said “kids”.

not to still act like a 13 year old but me and my best friend are regular mall window shoppers. our fav spot being lush where we very occasionally get stuff that we usually split since their stuff is really expensive.

well my friend has been looking for a part time job for the holidays and she has officially been given an offer at our lush!! meaning she will be getting a 50% employee discount, which she explicitly mentioned she would be willing to get me things with as long as i pay her back 🥳🥳

it feels weird to be soo excited for my friend getting a job somewhere but i am actually so excited lol.

On the drive to school with my son, we take a narrow road where people jog and bike along the shoulder. There’s an older man I see almost every morning. He wears a neon vest and a sun hat, and when we pass, he gives us a little wave.
I always smile and wave back. It’s such a small thing, but it makes my day.

I just woke up a little while ago and went out to have coffee on the front porch. There was a loud rustling on my right side, then all of a sudden a racoon appeared and climbed on the front railing (about 5 ft. away). He looked at me and I said 'hi dude'. we looked at each other for about 45 seconds then he slowly climbed down and walked away... I love living in the country! 😃

And when he wants ear massages, he lies down on the pillow next to me, hooks his claws in, and sticks his head towards me to tell me to get to work.

… but instead of being upset at me, she gave me the brand. style and size so I could get her a new pair 🥰

New pair has been acquired, and she’s actually excited to turn her old pair into patchwork jeans. We’re going to look at cute fall fabrics and fun thread colours next time we’re out.

I'm more of a night owl, my partner is up before dawn most days. We dont get to spend much time together during the week because of our schedules, so I like to lay beside him at night while he sleeps. I'll scroll reddit or read or listen to a podcast.

Tonight I have the greatest love of my lifetime and a truly good human snoring beside me on my right. My soul cat, who i tell "i love you more than anything in the entire world" every single day, snoring beside me on my left.

What joy it is to be surrounded by my sleepy boys.

We pulled down our 31 year old front fence last week, and we've made a nice big raised bed out of it for extra veggie growing room.

Just now we pulled down the sugar snap pea vines, and harvested the first of the broad beans (two extremely easy to grow plants, I must say!)

Today at a supermarket, of all places, we found three specimens of a plant we used to have but haven't been able to find for over a decade, and a pineapple with the top still on it (very rare sight here these days) so we can plant that next to our existing pineapple plant.

Small things bring big smiles 😊

It was the evening. 10 PM or so. I was finishing the dishes and the bin needed to be taken out.

On the way to the collecting point, I had music in my headphones, from a movie I love, "A Beautiful Mind. It was a quiet and quite happy tune, not one from the saddest moments that feel like your heart is getting torn apart.

My cat was playfully strolling along. She's one of these cats that stay young and gracious somehow.

The housework was done, everybody had been taken care of. Beautiful times had been had all through the day.

I felt like I had accomplished something and made some dancesteps in the already dark and peaceful neighbourhood. And I felt so quietly, plainly happy.

I did go there last month, but didn't do any people-watching [and so no post]. A friend and her parents from the US were visiting my neck of the woods in Canada and we all went to the buffet for lunch together!

Today was payday and a full day of errands running around town. I feel great getting all of that done but was ravenous and excited for the buffet by the time dinner came around.

I had one of my favorite seats again, they have a line of mini booths right up beside the buffet and it's prime people-watching territory. As usual, staff recognized me and had my regular drinks on my table before I got back with my first plate without me even asking. Root beer and an ice water.

+They had a new dish, prawn crackers. I was unreasonably excited for such a simple thing, I haven't seen them in almost 30 years since I was a kid on the mainland! Every Chinese place back then would include a bag of them with takeout orders and we ate a lot of Chinese food growing up. I ate a ridiculous amount of them tonight.

+In a back corner of the restaurant were two giant, gold balloons, a 6 and a 0. Clearly for someone's birthday, but I'm unsure if they were leftover from earlier in the day or were preparation for later tonight.

+I heard someone invoke the 5 Second Rule. Not sure I'd chance that at a buffet, myself...

+At the server's station near the buffet line, they have some condiments: Packets of soy and plum sauces, sesame seeds [raw or toasted], vinegars, chili oil. Almost never see anyone avail themselves of those, but tonight a guy was drowning his plates in red vinegar. That inspired me to try it as a dip for my prawn crackers, it was very good.

+I heard a guy saying he hadn't been to a Chinese buffet in 10 years but had gone twice in the last week.

+One of my favorite dishes on the line is green beans and shrimp in black bean sauce. The shrimp had their tails on this time, that's a first. I don't eat the tails, but they're not hard to get the meat out of.

+A guy went to the dessert line and took a whole piece of cake in his bare hand and carried it back to his table.

+It was a pretty quiet night for disability/welfare/pension check day. The servers spent a lot of time rolling cutlery sets into napkins.

My fortune cookie says: You do not have to worry about your future.

I went to the sauna yesterday (yay) and got a head massage (yay) and then this morning I went to do my hair and it uhh... Got matted about 5cm from my head (nay!).

I'm so happy detangling products exist, we're all good half an hour later but I've learned my lesson. Curly hair and head massages are apparently not a match made in heaven.

No real accomplishment behind it, just a small, quiet kind of order that makes the rest of the day feel a little more settled.

I have been working for the state for 3 years after teaching/nannying for 26 years. While my new job pays more than twice my teaching salary with half the work, I no longer get the outside time and freedom to move and go places like I did when I was working with children.

When they hired me I requested a window and they said it was unlikely, as only heads of departments get a window. But that once some construction was done, they could maybe shuffle people around and see what they could do.

So my "temporatry office" was set up in basically a storage closet. I would cry coming home from trips, that I had to "go crawl back into my closet now." Last week, 3 years later, the shuffling is done and the corner office was finally available for me.

Now I sit by my own 5x5 window with the sunbeams shining in so hard it's almost blinding. I can have plants again! There's room to move around if I need to stretch etc. I look forward to going to work now. I just feel like I've made it, I used to be scared to say things like that, but everything feels lined up and balanced now.

I don't really have anyone else to share this good news with.
Guess I'm just a complicated houseplant myself.

anxious day. sitting in chair, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. i look at the time, grab my things, and briskly walk away. i dont notice how fast im walking until a guy to the side of me said "hey, you dropped something". it was a pin (of ice bear) that had fallen off my bag. i turned around, picked it up, showed it to him, said thank you so much, have a wonderful day. he was very sweet. i wish i gave it to him

Went to Starbucks the other day. On my way out caught sight of an elderly gentleman, on the shorter side, white hair, narrow brim fedora, uses a cane. He’s sitting and waiting outside and as I’m leaving, I see this older lady approach him, white hair, petite, walks a little better than he seems to. When he sees her, his eyes light up, he (slowly) jumps to his feet, spreads his arms wide, and makes a “Hey! You’re here!” kinda noise. She smiles and kinda blushes, looks at me, seems a little embarrassed at the attention, but inwardly very happy. Made me smile.

Today, as I left that same Starbucks, I saw him sitting outside, leaning forward with both hands on his cane, waiting.

I looked around but didn’t see anyone coming. But I thought, I know who he’s waiting for.

I’m happy for them.

We got a new toaster recently and it's the prettiest shade of orange! Orange has been my favorite color for years and years but not a ton of stuff is sold in that color. It makes me so happy using my orange toaster :-)