Hab(b)its that make us happy.
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I like to put on my nightclothes about an hour before I retire so when tired I can just climb into bed. What habits have you acquired that give you satisfaction?
Edit: bracketing the second 'b' in the title - Arethosemyfeet, Heaven Host
Edit: bracketing the second 'b' in the title - Arethosemyfeet, Heaven Host
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This means when I get up I feel alert and not as if I need just 15 more mins.
That's the 'good habit'. The( bad) habit that makes me happy is the early morning biscuit!
BTW, am I the only one who looks at the thread title with its typo and reads “Hobbits that make us happy”?
That'll be a no!
I thought the same!
I googled 'Breaking Cat News' as it was new to me. Good stuff!!! It is obviouslt habit forming.
This hobbit also has a happy habit of morning coffee, a cafe latte made from freshly ground beans in an espresso machine. I drink it with Mochi the cat on my lap, having her happy habit of an after breakfast stroke and purr session.
Rabbits that make us happy could go to a whole new place… let’s not.
I could live happily as a hobbit though.
And such a literary link makes sense me, as the habit I find myself most motivated to build lately is the habit of reading. I know there are other more basic habits I need to acquire, basic self-care type stuff, tidying my home, but I realise that reading is something I really love, and hey, life is short, so why not prioritise what I love. I started using the Bookly app, you can use it to time your reading sessions, and it turns out that this helps me focus, along with the enjoyment of the statistics it generates.
Perhaps more likely because of the so-called "rule" of pronunciation that when there is a single consonant between two vowels then the first vowel is long. Often true, but not always.
That too, but we are normally alert to the exceptions. Habit is the one word I've observed where this alertness seems to often be overridden. And in my experience, often by fans of Tolkien!
Rise properly around 7.30 and organise breakfast cereal and a cup of tea, take those back to bed to consume. I don't mind rising early, but like a slow start to the day.
I am totally with you on this. I'm not sure where I'd even put dried but unfolded clothes.
In a washing basket on the bed of the child who owns the clothes, often under a cat.
I'll evict your dried clothes from the drier, because I need the drier to dry the next load, but you're old enough to fold your own laundry. And of course, any box with clean soft warm clothes in is just asking for a cat to come along.
That's my system which works well for me. I started it when I had very limited spare space in my previous house, where the two portable hanging rails I had fitted well in that space, as well as it working for the kind of clothes I wear most. I've just carried it on in this house as well as the main bedroom has a large walk in cupboard with a rail already in it for clothes hanging purposes!
I, um, also hang drying laundry up in the same order it will be put away. But that's a whole nother matter.
And this makes you happy? Need to get out more .....
At the moment, both Mrs RR and I being busy, we're appear to be heading for an 'ironing pile event horizon' situation. One habit that makes us happy is keeping the door of the airing cupboard closed!
A huge cypress appeals, as do other trees. With autumn in full swing here, me being here 2 months, and the city at around 920m [~3,018 ft], I'm looking forward to any changes in colour.
Your hab(b)it rang like a haiku when I read it:
morning walk, small park
sometimes I sit, sometimes pray
huge cypress appeals
"Morning walk, small park
Sometimes I sit, sometimes pray
Huge cypress appeals".
Just beautiful. Mrs RR can do just that on our way to Palm Sunday Eucharist. Thank you!
Having coffee and a cake mid morning when we’re out.
@Aravis, I always like to have two pegs the same colour when I am hanging stuff out. I have two new bags of pegs in the laundry, the ones outside are fit for the bin at presen.
We have the term gazebo too but I think of it is as only a temporary shelter -- like a big open tent. But I could be very confused and maybe it has multiple meanings here.
Carol Stream, it may interest you to know, was the daughter of builder Jay Stream, who founded the village. Wikipedia has a summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Stream,_Illinois
That's a band stand 🙂
Sometimes, other times, it holds food for chili contests, people give speeches, and it has dolls for the pretty doll contest. People call it the gebezo. I have indeed seen them called bandstands, usually bigger ones.
A bandstand is a covered place where musical groups can play outside, frequently round, and necessarily open on some of its sides, so it may also be a rotunda and a gazebo, but ISTM that it needs to be of a certain minimum size to qualify as a bandstand.