How did you find JOY today?

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I received a note from one of my cousins containing some memories from when we were young. It made me smile. So I sent him back a note with my memory of him playing in his rock band in college. The only song I could remember was "Barbara Ann". I hope it made him smile too.

[easygoingfemme]

I was able to help our rowing club put in the docks today. That was exciting. I can't wait to get back on the river this spring. My job today was connecting pieces of the docks to the thingies hanging down from the crane so the crane could lower the pieces down into the water where other volunteers were there to connect them all. It was quite the process!

[Bèsame*]

Joy...having a chocolate frosty on the one year eve mark of losing my Mom. ....(we shared frosty's not knowing it was our last night) Brings joy in my heart, reminiscing.

Nothing replays more in your head than the last day you physically saw them.

[Bèsame*]

This memory

[easygoingfemme]

I have been really deep diving into the joys of living alone. I've raised my child. I've been married and divorced. I've purchased a sweet small home that I love every inch of. I'm learning new ways to make it mine.

It's a small house with a pretty small bathroom. Which is normally just fine. However, I find I'm often wired at night and have trouble settling down. Especially after I have crew practice or a work event. I'll be hyperactive tired.

I was thinking, it would be great if I could have a hot bath at night to help me settle in. But there's no tub in my bathroom.

I found a collapsible tub that fits in my shower. My shower is 45 inches wide and the tub is 40. I wasn't sure how it would work but I had to give it a try. I had recently put a shower speaker in my shower so I can listen to music in the morning while I get ready for work. I've been using shower steamers too. Just upping the bathing routine one step at a time. Tonight, after working all day and then going to my parents to help them with a bunch of stuff, I was hot and had a lot of energy. It was tubby time.

I tested out the tub. It set up like a dream. I put a new audio book on my shower speaker. I put essential oils in the bath water. I soaked and relaxed and listened to a story. Total energy shift to relaxed and calm. I was worried about it draining but I had hooked up the equipment correctly to go down the shower drain and it all worked fine.

I don't think there's anything else in the world that I need.

[Bèsame*]

It is joy and chuckles today. I have the day off so my indoor activities have been watching some TV along with some hand sewing. Some of the selections I've been choosing on Prime ask me to resume or start from the beginning. I know I didn't select some of these before. I realized these were my Mom's choices. We shared the account. Lol. So I get to see inside her picks and also know why she didn't finish some. Lol. I think we have the same tastes. And that is hidden joy!

[storyspinner70]

Hank Greene (science youtuber) has developed (with other people but I don't know them) a new helpful way to gently keep yourself in focus with an app. (Lord knows I need all the help I can get in that department.)

It's called Focus Friend. It's a literal cute lil bean. You set a number of minutes and your little friend (mine is named Beanington Frost) will knit socks for that amount of time. You can use those socks to purchase items to decorate your bean's room. If you interrupt your bean, any progress they've made on their current knitting will unravel and you won't get any socks. It keeps you from getting on your phone when you should be doing something else.

I don't use my phone all that much, but Beanington gives me joy and helps me work in blocks of time I create and take plenty of breaks to move around and shake out my carpal tunnel.