Asklemmy

Gardening

Lately, I've really been enjoying Lemmy and posts like this. All of it makes me feel like I'm still able to surf the web like I did 5-10+ years ago, interacting with other humans on the Internet in passing rather than a botnet like so many other popular sites.

I'm also a huge fan of cable management. I love the process of cleaning up my home/office to blend devices into the space.

Hear me out. Have you ever tried naps?

Making and eating pretzel bread.

It's a very temporary simple pleasure, because then I go to my doctor for a checkup and get sad because of all the pretzel bread lol

Finding some downtime to just lie down with my cats and cuddle them

Also coffee

Sitting on the porch in the middle of the night in October/November. With a blanket. Or any other cooler month.

People don't realize. That yes. You can bring a blanket outside. To your porch.

And no one is around at 3 am and it's so silent and eerie. And perfect. Even in the city, there is way less people. But outside the city it's dead silent. Like everyone disappeared.

It feels... Different than the rest of the time.

3-4 am is the most interesting hour of the day.

Try it next time you wake up with a full bladder in the middle of the night. Or have insomnia. Don't go back to bed. Instead Grab your blanket. Step outside.

Typing on a mechanical keyboard.

Coffee. Cliché, I know, and I’m not even talking about the watching-James-Hoffman-videos-before-prepping-my-4000-dollar-espresso-machine type of habit. Just the few minutes of preparing a cup the way I like it, and finding a quiet couple of minutes to drink it.

Having a clean living space

Painting my nails. Self-care and temporary, wearable art all in one go.

Opening the blinds in the morning. My cat and I both bask in the sun for a few seconds before continuing with our day.

I WFH, so once I get everyone else out the door I take 10 min to sit on the back porch to drink my coffee. I don’t bring my phone or anything else. Just my coffee.

Enjoying a slow morning with a cup of coffee, listening to the birds and doing a crossword.

Rolling and smoking a j alone late at night with no distraction, just the calm quiet ritual

Walking while the snow falls on a windless night, when all the sounds are muffled aside from the soft crunch crunch of your footsteps, you can feel the pinpricks of snow melting on your face, the night just feels so still and perfect.

Sitting on the verandah with a beer, watching the rain come down, listening to that sound.

Watching the garbage trucks do their thing, lever door handles instead of knobs, watching the sunset/sunrise and local wildlife, taking a nap

walking in a forest during fall with a little weed in my system

Fixing things. Doesn't matter what it is, but I find deep fulfillment and satisfaction in taking something that is seemingly beyond rescue and bringing it humming back to life with nothing but a wrench and a little hard work.

Using a wire continuity tester, and hearing that sweet beep.

A simple, but guilty pleasure of mine is reading HackerNews story titles (and titles only, most of the time), and tooting sarcastic reactions about them. It's very therapeutic. (And for easier browsing, I made a HN-like website (read-only) for said toots of mine).

breathing

Sitting by my computer working on a hobby coding project, on a Sunday morning with a fresh cup of coffee next to me

Bothering a cat. But in the loving way where they eye squish at you.

I also like homemade soft bread. So soft! So squishy! Delicious!

Doing Laundry

waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.

Hot showers in Winter. Cold showers in Summer.

Sour Dough Bread baking. I discovered it as a hobby beginning of the year and have baked a bread pretty much every weekend since. First of all it's really nice to eat a slice of your own bread. Slowly but surely realizing that you actually know what your doing is also really rewarding. From water absorption to gluten development and fermentation, not to mentioned the tons of different types of breads and flours and how they differ and the endless possibilities by throwing in seeds, herbs and spices or even chesses.

Doing boring things fast

Board games and card games, but nothing as complicated as Magic The Gathering.

When I say card games I mean games like "World Changers". I don't play card games with regular decks (jack queen, king, joker etc)

Watching and listening to the birds. Where I live, we have a super rich and diverse bird population. It's kind of ridiculous. Across seasons and times of day, every bird species get their time to shine.

Nightingales, nightowls, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits, black birds, whooping swans, woodpeckers, cormorants, herons, finches, robins, grey geese, buzzards, larks, falcons, pheasants and on and on and on.

It makes me so happy to be alive.

Eating one of those mini pecan pies

a thick warm slice of bread in summer spread with butter and peanutbutter both almost to the point of melting

Learning about the native environment around me

Putting on a brand new pair of socks

Playing music from the playlists I make for my ttrpg games I prepare, to get inspired and write down ideas for the next game. It is like having a mental trailer about an upcoming show that we'll see when we get together to play it.

I enjoy the simple pleasures of Daffy Duck