Hi! Hope you're having a great day! List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers <3
Hi!!! Apologies- this is yet another ask I am getting to incredibly late 😔 Stuff happened. Thank you so much for sending this in though, and I hope you're having a wonderful day too!
Here's my list:
My wonderful little kitty cat, Mina! I named her after the astronomer Williamina Fleming :> She is very annoying and refuses to leave me alone- I wouldn't have it any other way.
Perhaps a random addition, but angel food cake! ... Which I'm just now learning is apparently specific to the United States? If my followers from other lovely parts of the world could let me know if you've ever had angel food cake, I'd be incredibly grateful. And if you haven't, try it! It's definitely on the sweeter side but it's still quite a light and airy desert, being a sponge cake and all. It's on my mind since I just had some for dessert this past Sunday as part of a "going away" dinner for my PhD program (❁´◡`❁)
Scented candles! I had been having trouble regaining my productivity after graduating earlier this summer, and recently I went back to revisit some of my strategies that I've used in the past to see if they'd help. One of these was to light some specific scented candles I have whenever I wanted to get work done. Totally worked, and I'm a bit ashamed a didn't think of it earlier! It's much easier to relax and get work done when everything smells so nice （￣︶￣） So it's been on my mind how nice it is to live in a world with easily accessed scented candles and how happy they make me.
The people in my life. I know this is non-specific, but I have a lot of people that I'm grateful for and that make me happy! I love my family, I have good friends, and my fellow students and incoming cohort at the PhD program I'm heading into are really nice. It's lovely to be surrounded by such a talented and supportive group of people. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in what we feel like we don't have that we lose sight of all of the good people we do have in our life. No matter what, there's always somebody that cares that you're around- even if it doesn't feel like it.
I suppose now's a good time to reveal that I started using that StudyVerse service I've been seeing around in some studyblr spaces earlier this month, and although I wasn't... enthused to say the least by the generative AI features, the site itself is really great! It's been wonderful using it. The idea of "losing my streak" and having the accountability of other students has DEFINITELY kept me motivated to study every day, even if it's only for a little bit. It's a much healthier way to approach things than what I was doing! The fact that even just an under 10 minute session counts towards your streak is really reassuring- it's like a nice little reminder that life is a marathon, not a sprint. 20 days in and I haven't missed a day so far, it's definitely made me happy! And it's so fun seeing how all these different people from all over the world set up their study spaces (o゜▽゜)o☆
